“We knew we needed two characters. We thought we needed conflict, and chase and action. And a cat after a mouse seemed like a good, basic thought.”
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William Hanna
William Denby Hanna was an American animator, voice actor, and musician. Hanna and Joseph Barbera co-created Tom and Jerry and founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera, with Hanna providing the vocal effects for Tom and Jerry's title characters.
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culture · American animator (1910–2001) · film producer · film director · animator · writer · painter · screenwriter · structural engineer · voice actor · executive producer · actor · also William Hanna, William Denby Hanna, William Denby "Bill" Hanna, Bill Hanna, Hanna
Born 14 July 1910 · Died 22 March 2001 · Q263324
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2026· 2 entries
“s employment, the studio partnered with Pacific Title and Art”
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Jonny Quest”.
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2001· 1 entry
Died 2001-03-22.
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Boomerang”.
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1996· 3 entries
Hanna, with assistance from Los Angeles writer Tom Ito, published his autobiography
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Released album “The Best of Hanna-Barbera: Tunes from the Toons”.
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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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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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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Daytime Emmy Award (1974).
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1967· 1 entry
Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting for $12 million (equivalent to about $116 million today) but Hanna and Barbera remained heads of the company until 1991
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1966· 1 entry
Hanna-Barbera Productions was sold to Taft Broadcasting (renamed Great American Communications in 1987) for $12 million
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1957· 3 entries
Hanna reteamed with Joseph Barbera to produce cartoons for television and theatrical release
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Co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful television animation studio in the business, creating or producing programs such as The Flintstones, The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Th
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MGM ordered Hanna and Barbera's business manager to close the cartoon division and lay off everyone by a phone call
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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
While working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Hanna met Barbera and formed a working relationship
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1936· 1 entry
Hanna married Violet Blanch Wogatzke, and they had a marriage lasting over 64 years, until his death
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1933· 1 entry
Hanna was one of the employees who followed them
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1930· 2 entries
Joined the Harman and Ising animation studio, which had created the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series
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And steadily gained skill and prominence while working on cartoons such as Captain and the Kids
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1928· 1 entry
Studied at Compton High School (1928).
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1922· 1 entry
While living in Watts, he joined the Boy Scouts
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1910· 1 entry
Born 1910-07-14.
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