1956 in animation
Events in 1956 in animation.
Events
February
- February 25: Chuck Jones' Broom-Stick Bunny is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel.[1]
March
- March 10: Chuck Jones' Rocket Squad premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.[2]
- March 21: 28th Academy Awards: Speedy Gonzales, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[3]
April
- Gene Deitch becomes head of animation at Terrytoons until August 1958.[4]
May
- May 5: Chuck Jones' Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation .[5]
- May 25: Peter Foldes and Joan Foldes' A Short Vision airs during an episode of The Ed Sullivan Show and causes controversy over its anti-atomic power message.[6]
July
- July 26: Pete Burness' Mr. Magoo cartoon Magoo's Puddle Jumper, produced by UPA, premiers.[7]
September
- September 29: Chuck Jones' Deduce, You Say! premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.[8]
November
- November 16: The Tom & Jerry cartoon Blue Cat Blues is first released, produced by MGM. It features a controversial ending in which the duo commit suicide by waiting on a railroad track for the train to come.[9] Contrary to urban legend, though, this isn't the final episode of the series.[10][11] The final short produced at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was Tot Watchers in 1958, and the final short overall was Purr-Chance to Dream, produced by Chuck Jones at Sib Tower 12 in 1967.[12][13][14]
December
- December 8: Bob McKimson's The Honey-Mousers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, is the first animated cartoon in which actors voice the same characters they play on a TV series, in this case The Honeymooners.[15]
- December 16: The first episode of The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show airs on TV.
Specific date unknown
- Ivan Ivanov-Vano's The Twelve Months is released.[16]
- Te Wei's The Proud General is released.[17]
Films released
Television series
Births
January
- January 3:Mel Gibson, American actor (voice of John Smith in Pocahontas, Rocky in Chicken Run).
- January 21: Robby Benson, American actor and singer (voice of The Beast in the Beauty and the Beast franchise, House of Mouse).
March
- March 11: Rob Paulsen, American voice actor and comedian. (voice of Yakko Warner, Pinky, & Dr. Otto Scratchansniff on Animaniacs, Raphael & Donatello in The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Franchise Carl Wheezer in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, PJ on Goof Troop, The title character on The Mask: Animated Series, Fowlmouth on Tiny Toon Adventures, Major Glory on Dexter's Laboratory, and The Powerpuff Girls).
- March 16: Stephen Sustarsic, American writer and producer (The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Dilbert, Xiaolin Showdown, World of Quest, co-created The Wild Thornberrys), (d. 2018).
May
- May 21: Paige O'Hara, American actress and singer (voice of Belle in The Beauty and the Beast franchise Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse, Ralph Breaks the Internet).
- May 30: Charles M. Howell IV, American television writer, producer and animator (Snorks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, WordGirl, The 7D).
June
- June 4: Keith David, American actor (voice of Goliath on Gargoyles, Spawn/Al Simmons on Todd McFarlane's Spawn, Despero on Justice League, The Cat in Coraline, Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog, The Flame King on Adventure Time, King Andrias on Amphibia).
- June 25: Anthony Bourdain, American cook, journalist and writer (voiced himself in The Simpsons episode The Food Wife and in the Sanjay and Craig episode Snake Parts Unknown), (d. 2018).[18]
- June 27: Philippe Adamov, French illustrator, animator and comics artist (worked for René Laloux on the film Gandahar), (d. 2020).[19]
July
- July 9: Tom Hanks, American actor (voice of Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story franchise, Multiple roles in The Polar Express, Himself in The Simpson Movie, and Big City Greens).
August
- August 13: Jacques Muller, French animator (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Animation, Amblin, ILM), (d. 2018).[20]
October
- October 2: Charlie Adler, American voice actor (voice of Ed Bighead & Bev Bighead, Mr. Dupette and Gladys the Hippo Lady in Rocko's Modern Life, Buster Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures, Spike on My Little Pony and Friends, Eric Raymond on Jem, The Title characters The Red Guy and I.R. Baboon on Cow & Chicken, Ickis on Aaahh!!! Real Monsters), and voice director.
- October 21: Carrie Fisher, American actress, (voice of Princess Leia in "The Faithful Wookiee" Segment of The Star Wars Holiday Special and Angela in Family Guy), (d. 2016).
- October 31: Swinton O. Scott III, American animator and director (The Simpsons, Futurama, What's New, Scooby Doo?, Camp Lazlo!).
December
- December 3: Michael Gough, American voice actor (voice of Gopher in the Winnie the Pooh franchise Colonel Spigot on TaleSpin, Raphael in the final season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tim Scam on Totally Spies).
Deaths
February
- February 24: Marian Richman, American actress (voice of Melissa Duck in The Scarlet Pumpernickel, Ralph Phillips' teacher in From A to Z-Z-Z-Z), commits suicide at age 33.[21]
April
- April 14: Christian Rub, Austrian-American actor (voice of Geppetto in Pinocchio), dies at age 70.
September
- September 5: William Pennell, American bariton singer and voice actor (original voice of Bluto in Popeye), dies at age 67.[22]
- September 19: Cecil Surry, American animator (Walt Disney Company, Walter Lantz, Warner Brothers Animation, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, UPA) and comics artist, dies at age 49.[23]
November
- November 10: Erdman Penner, Canadian screenwriter and producer (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp), dies at age 51.
References
- "Broom-Stick Bunny (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "Rocket Squad (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "The 28th Academy Awards (1956) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
- "Gene Deitch". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "Gee Whiz-z-z-z (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "A SHORT VISION: Ed Sullivan's Atomic Show Stopper". conelrad.blogspot.co.uk. 26 June 2011. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- "Magoo's Puddle Jumper". July 26, 1956. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- "Deduce, You Say (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.)".
- "Blue Cat Blues (MGM)".
- Gupta, Abir (July 2, 2016). "Do You Know What Happens To Your Favorite Tom and Jerry In The End?". Storypick. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- Pall, Vincent; Koski, Dustin; Ciscell, Jim (August 16, 2012). "5 Old Children's Cartoons Way Darker Than Most Horror Movies". Cracked. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- Boone, Brian (March 25, 2020). "The untold truth or Tom and Jerry". Looper. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- Evon, Dan (December 2, 2016). "Did Tom and Jerry 'Commit Suicide'?". Snopes. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- "False: Tom and Jerry did not commit suicide in the final episode of the cartoon series". Pesa Check. November 28, 2018. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
- "Bob McKimson". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- "12 Mesyatsev (Soyuzmultfilm)".
- Toon Zone. "Toon Zone Archived 2006-12-09 at the Wayback Machine." "The Conceited General." Retrieved on 2007-01-11.
- Smith, Rob (June 8, 2018). "How Rock Music Shaped 'Bad Boy' Chef Anthony Bourdain". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
- "Philippe Adamov". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- Jacques Muller Memorial page at Facebook Retrieved 13 November 2018
- "Marian Richman". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
- Tim Lawson, Alisa Persons (2004-12-09). The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors. University Press of Mississippi. p. 26. ISBN 1-578-06696-4. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
- "Cecil Surry". lambiek.net. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
External links
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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