Joseph Benson 'Ben' (a.k.a. 'Bugs') Hardaway (May 21, 1895 – February 5, 1957) was an American storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer and director for several American animation studios during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation.
While at the Leon Schlesinger / Warner Bros. studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway, in 1938, co-directed Porky's Hare Hunt, the first film to feature a rabbit. When this unnamed, embryonic rabbit was given a new model sheet for a later short, since...
Joseph Benson 'Ben' (a.k.a. 'Bugs') Hardaway (May 21, 1895 – February 5, 1957) was an American storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer and director for several American animation studios during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation.
While at the Leon Schlesinger / Warner Bros. studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway, in 1938, co-directed Porky's Hare Hunt, the first film to feature a rabbit. When this unnamed, embryonic rabbit was given a new model sheet for a later short, since, according to Chuck Jones, Hardaway "didn't draw it very well", designer Charlie Thorson inadvertently offered a permanent name by titling the model sheet "Bugs' Bunny" since it was meant for Hardaway's unit. By the time the rabbit was redesigned and refined for the film A Wild Hare, the name was already being used in relation to the character in studio publicity materials.
In 1940, Hardaway joined the staff of Walter Lantz Productions, where he helped Walter Lantz in creating the studio's most famous character, Woody Woodpecker. Hardaway wrote or co-wrote most of the stories for the 1940–1950 Woody Woodpecker shorts, as well as supplying Woody's voice between 1944 and 1949.
[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Movies (Cast)
Pantry Panic
Smoked Hams
The Barber of Seville
The Hollywood Matador
Fair Weather Fiends
Ski for Two
The Reckless Driver
Ace in the Hole
Wet Blanket Policy
The Loose Nut
The Beach Nut
Chew-Chew Baby
Woody Dines Out
Woody Woodpecker and Friends
The Dippy Diplomat
Wild and Woody!
It's an Ill Wind
Woody the Giant Killer
Who's Cookin Who?
The Coo Coo Bird
Series (Cast)
Directed
Porky and Teabiscuit
Count Me Out
Bars And Stripes Forever
Hare-um Scare-um
Buddy of the Apes
Rhythm in the Bow
Buddy's Adventures
Buddy the Dentist
Busy Bakers
Buddy in Africa
Buddy of the Legion
Buddy's Pony Express
Buddy's Theatre
Gold Rush Daze
Porky's Hare Hunt
The Egg Cracker Suite
Porky the Gob
Love and Curses
It's an Ill Wind
Hobo Gadget Band
Porky the Giant Killer
Fagin's Freshman
Sioux Me
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