Ben Hardaway
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]
Known For
Credits
- 1982 · Woody Woodpecker and Friends as Various Voices
- 1948 · Wild and Woody! as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1948 · Wet Blanket Policy as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1947 · Woody the Giant Killer as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1947 · The Coo Coo Bird as Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
- 1947 · Smoked Hams as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1946 · Fair Weather Fiends as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1946 · The Reckless Driver as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1946 · Who's Cookin Who? as Woody Woodpecker / Starvation (voice)
- 1945 · The Loose Nut as Woody Woodpecker / Bull Dozer (voice)
- 1945 · The Dippy Diplomat as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1945 · Woody Dines Out as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1945 · Chew-Chew Baby as Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
- 1944 · Ski for Two as Woody Woodpecker
- 1944 · The Beach Nut as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1944 · The Barber of Seville as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1942 · Ace in the Hole as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1942 · The Hollywood Matador as Woody Woodpecker
- 1941 · Pantry Panic as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
- 1939 · It's an Ill Wind as Dizzy Duck