1950 in animation
Events in 1950 in animation.
Events
January
- January 7: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Little Quacker premiers, produced by MGM. It marks the debut of Quacker the duckling.[1]
- January 20: Jack Hannah's Lion Around, a Donald Duck cartoon produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. It marks the debut of Louie the Mountain Lion.[2]
February
- February 11: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam short Mutiny on the Bunny premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[3]
- February 15: Cinderella, directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson and produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers.[4] The characters Gus and Jaq will later become popular comics characters.
March
- March 3:
- Jack Kinney's The Brave Engineer, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers.[5]
- In Isadore Sparber's Quack-A-Doodle-Doo, produced by the Famous Studios, Baby Huey makes his debut.[6]
- March 4: Chuck Jones' Daffy Duck cartoon The Scarlet Pumpernickel premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[7]
- March 11: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon Texas Tom premiers, produced by MGM.[8]
- March 23:
- 22nd Academy Awards: Chuck Jones' Pepe LePew cartoon For Scent-imental Reasons, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[9]
- Friz Freleng's Tweety & Sylvester short Canary Row premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It marks the debut of Tweety's owner, Granny.[10]
May
- May 27: Tex Avery's Ventriloquist Cat premiers, produced by MGM.[11]
June
- June 17: Bob McKimson's short What's Up Doc? premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.[12]
- June 30: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Motor Mania premiers, produced by Walt Disney Animation.
July
- July 1: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Safety Second premiers, produced by MGM.[13]
August
- August 5: Friz Freleng's Daffy Duck cartoon Golden Yeggs premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, in which Rocky the gangster makes his debut.[14]
- August 12: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny short Hillbilly Hare premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation.[15]
September
- September 2: Chuck Jones' The Ducksters premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, in which Daffy Duck presents a radio quiz show and torments Porky Pig.[16]
October
- October 11: Jiří Trnka's animated film Prince Bayaya premiers.[17]
- October 28: Bob McKimson's Sylvester the Cat cartoon Pop 'Im Pop! premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, which features Sylvester trying to impress his son by catching a giant mouse (which is actually the kangaroo Hippety Hopper).[18]
November
- November 2: John Hubley and Robert Cannon's Gerald McBoing-Boing, produced by UPA, premiers.[19]
- November 3: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Hold That Pose, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is first released. It marks the debut of Humphrey the Bear.[20]
- November 25: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry short Cue Ball Cat premiers, produced by MGM.[21]
December
- December 13: Jean Image's Jeannot l'intrépide (Johnny the Giant Killer) premiers.[22]
- December 16: Chuck Jones' Rabbit of Seville premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.[23]
Films released
Births
February
- February 12: Michael Ironside, Canadian actor (voice of Darkseid on Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and Harley Quinn, Dark Knight Returns Batman on The New Batman Adventures, Colonel Moss/Dr. Brooks on Wolverine and the X-Men, Ultra Magnus on Transformers: Prime).
- February 17: Alan Burnett, American television writer and producer (Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera, Disney Television Animation).
March
- March 31: Yoshifumi Kondō, Japanese animator (Studio Ghibli) and director (Whisper of the Heart), (d. 1998).[24]
April
- April 12: David Cassidy, American actor and singer (voice of Roland Pond in the Kim Possible episode Oh Boyz), (d. 2017).[25]
- April 12: Ron Perlman, American actor (voice of Slade on Teen Titans, Clayface, Jax-Ur, and Orion in The DC Animated Universe, Killer Croc on The Batman, Warhawk on Kim Possible, Firelord Sozin on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Hellboy in Sword of Storms, and Blood and Iron, The Lich on Adventure Time, The Stabbington Brothers in Tangled, and Tangled: The Series).
May
- May 17: Howard Ashman, American playwright and lyricist (wrote songs for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin), (d. 1991).[26]
June
- June 11: Pedro Bell, American illustrator, animator and comics artist (once made an animated short starring his character Larry Lazer), (d. 2019).[27]
- June 15: Dale Baer, American animator, animation director, layout artist and character animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 2021).[28]
July
- July 19: Simon Cadell, British actor (voice of Blackberry in Watership Down), (d. 1996).[29]
August
- August 30: Robert Sahakyants, Armenian animator and animated film director (The Lesson), (d. 2009).[30]
September
- September 7: Julie Kavner, American voice actress (voice of Marge Simpson and Patty and Selma in The Simpsons).[31]
October
- October 22: Patricia Parris, American actress (Hanna-Barbera, voice of Daisy Duck in Mickey's Christmas Carol).
- October 26: Dan Gilvezan, American actor (voice of Peter Parker|Spider-Man on Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Bumblebee on The Transformers).
- October 31: John Candy, Canadian comedian and voice actor (voice of Den, Dan, Desk Sergeant and Robot in Heavy Metal, voice of Wilbur in The Rescuers Down Under), (d. 1994).[32][33]
November
- November 4: Boyd Kirkland, American television director (Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men: Evolution, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes), (d. 2011).
December
- December 11: Alexander Tatarsky, Russian animated film director, animator, producer (Plasticine Cow, Good Night, Little Ones!, Investigation Held by Kolobki, Turn off the Light!), (d. 2007).[34] He was buried at the Miusskoe cemetery in Moscow.[35]
- December 13: Wendie Malick, American actress (voice of Chica in The Emperor's New Groove franchise, Principal Folsom on Fillmore, Beautiful Gorgeous on The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Burdine Maxwell on season 1 of Bratz, Beatrice Horseman on BoJack Horseman, Eda Clawthorne on The Owl House).
Deaths
March
- March 26: Dink Trout, American radio actor (voice of Bootle Beetle in Bootle Beetle, Old Bootle Beetle & Balsam in Morris the Midget Moose and the King of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland), dies at age 51.[36]
September
- September 2: Frank Graham, American radio presenter and voice actor (the Wolf in Tex Avery's Droopy, the Mouse in Slap Happy Lion and King-Size Canary, the Fox and the Crow in The Fox and the Crow, the Lion in the Tom & Jerry short Jerry and the Lion, the narrator in Disney's Chicken Little and The Three Caballeros), dies at age 35 by suicide.[37][38]
References
- "Little Quacker (MGM)".
- "Lion Around". IMDb. 20 January 1950.
- Borowiec, Piotr (1998). Animated Short Films: A Critical Index to Theatrical Cartoons. ISBN 9780810835030.
- "Cinderella: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 13, 2014.
- "The Brave Engineer". 3 March 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Quack-A-Doodle-Doo (Famous Studios)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Texas Tom (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "The 22nd Academy Awards (1950) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
- "Canary Row". 7 October 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Ventriloquist Cat". 27 May 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "What's Up Doc? (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Safety Second (MGM)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Golden Yeggs (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Hillbilly Hare". 12 August 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "The Ducksters". 2 September 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Bajaja". 26 January 1951. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Pop 'im Pop!". 28 October 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Gerald McBoing-Boing". 2 November 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Hold That Pose". 3 November 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Cue Ball Cat". 25 November 1950. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ""Johnny The Giant Killer" (1950) |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Rabbit Of Seville (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- Collin, Robbie. "Goodbye Studio Ghibli, your genius will endure", "The Telegraph", 4 August 2014. Retrieved on 20 February 2019.
- Fortin, Jacey (November 21, 2017). "David Cassidy, Heartthrob and 'Partridge Family' Star, Dies at 67". The New York Times.
- Blau, Eleanor. "Howard Ashman Is Dead at 40; Writer of 'Little Shop of Horrors'", New York Times, March 15, 1991
- "Pedro Bell". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- Limpabandh, Danielle (January 16, 2021). "Dale Baer, Disney Animator for The Emperor's New Groove, Winnie the Pooh, and The Lion King, Has Passed Away at 70". Walt Disney World News Today. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
- "Simon Cadell". IMDb. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
- http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_person&pid=887
- "Julie Kavner". IMDb. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "No drugs were involved in Candy's death". New Straits Times. Reuters. March 6, 1994.
- Collins, Glenn (November 20, 1994). "John Candy, Comedic Film Star, Is Dead of a heart attack at 44". The New York Times. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- "Alexander Tatarsky, 56, animator". 6 August 2007.
- Aleksander Tatarskiy's tomb
- "Trout, Radio Player, Dies After Operation". North Dakota, Bismarck. The Bismarck Tribune. March 28, 1950. p. 2. Retrieved February 5, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- Erickson, Hal (23 May 2014). From Radio to the Big Screen: Hollywood Films Featuring Broadcast Personalities and Programs. ISBN 9781476615585.
- Tucker, David C. (27 May 2018). Gale Storm: A Biography and Career Record. ISBN 9781476632469.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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