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Joseph Barbera
Joseph Roland Barbera was an American animator and cartoonist. He co-founded the animation studio Hanna-Barbera alongside William Hanna.
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entertainment · American animator and cartoonist (1911–2006) · film producer · film director · animator · executive producer · bank teller · television producer · comics artist · also Joseph Barbera, Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera, Barbera
Born 24 March 1911 · Died 18 December 2006 · Q190373
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2026· 7 entries
“We understood each other perfectly, and each of us had a deep respect for the other”
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“I was, quite honestly, not in the least disappointed. I had proven to myself that I could do a storyboard, and that I had gained the experience of presenting it. For now, that was enough.”
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IMDb: Venice Chief Alberto Barbera Defends Selection of Russian Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s ‘Dau’ After Backlash: It’s ‘Not Pro-Putin Propaganda’
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La Gazzetta dello Sport: Palermo knock out Lecce at Barbera as Pisa, Sassuolo, and Cremonese also progress
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Artnet: "Hanna-Barbera Friends Sing-A-Long!" RARE Original Color Composition Art for VHS and VHS Cover Sample
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U.S. News & World Report: Joseph Barbera
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2016· 2 entries
Chicago Tribune: Joseph Barbera OBITUARY
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Released album “Jonny Quest”.
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2006· 4 entries
The Village Voice: In Memoriam: Joseph Barbera
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LAist: Joseph Barbera, Legendary Animator, Dies
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Died 2006-12-18.
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Barbera died of natural causes at his home in Studio City, Los Angeles, California aged 95, ending a seventy-year career in animation
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Boomerang”.
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The Mansion Cat, Barbera voiced the house owner
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “The Best of Hanna-Barbera: Tunes from the Toons”.
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Turner merged with Time Warner, owners of Warner Bros
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Released album “Hanna-Barbera's Pic-A-Nic Basket of Cartoon Classics”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Hanna-Barbera Classics, Volume 1”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Sound Fx”.
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1992· 2 entries
Barbera met with pop musician Michael Jackson, an avid cartoon fan, in an unsuccessful attempt to arrange for Jackson to sing in Tom and Jerry: The Movie
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And by the mid-1990s, Hanna-Barbera was producing several original series for Cartoon Network, among them Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls
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1991· 1 entry
The studio was sold to Turner Broadcasting System, which merged with Time Warner, owners of Warner Bros
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Winsor McCay Award (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1976).
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1967· 1 entry
Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting for $12 million, but Hanna and Barbera remained heads of the company
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1957· 4 entries
“I found myself in a position to go out and sell, and sell the new cartoons we were creating.”
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After MGM dissolved its animation department, they co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful television animation studio in the business, producing programs such as The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo
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MGM ordered Barbera and Hanna's business manager to close the cartoon division and lay off everyone by phone
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Barbera reteamed with his former partner Hanna to produce cartoon films for television and theatrical release
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1940· 1 entry
Hanna and Barbera jointly directed Puss Gets the Boot, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best (Cartoon) Short Subject
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1937· 1 entry
Moved to California, and while working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Barbera met Hanna
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1936· 1 entry
Barbera moved to Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio
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1935· 2 entries
Barbera married his high school sweetheart, Dorothy Earl
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Barbera created his first solo-effort storyboard, a prospective eleventh film featuring Kiko the Kangaroo
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1932· 1 entry
Joined the Van Beuren Studios as an animator and storyboard artist
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1929· 1 entry
Became interested in animation after watching a screening of Walt Disney's The Skeleton Dance
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-03-24.
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