Resume
Artist, Animator and Animation Director
Member of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences
Member of the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences
Employment History:
1940 - Hired as an in-betweener at Warner Bros. Studios
1941 - Assistant animator at Warner Bros. Studios
1942 -
Joined the US Army and assigned to the Signal Corps Motion Picture Unit
Worked on all phases of training films as well as on miniature set-ups for the Signal Corps Motion Picture division
1946 -
Animator at Warner Bros.
Looney Tunes publicity artist
1949 - For Scent-imental Reasons (Academy Award winning Short Film)
1953 - First screen credit as an animator: Duck, Rabbit, Duck!
1953-58 -
Animator for Chuck Jones on cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Coyote and Road Runner, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Pepé Le Pew
Character layout & story sketch artist for commercials
Animator for various industrial and commercial works
1958 - Joined UPA Pictures as animation director for 1001 Arabian Nights (Mr. Magoo)
1959 -
Returned to Warner Bros. to direct shorts & TV show The Bugs Bunny Show
As director or co-director: Baton Bunny (co-directed with Chuck Jones), Really Scent, Witch's Tangled Hare, Unnatural History, Lickety Splat (co-directed with Chuck Jones), Nelly's Folly (co-directed with Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble)
Rejoined UPA as supervising director
Director for Mr. Magoo shorts and many TV commercials
1960-61 - 130 Mr. Magoo TV shorts & 130 Dick Tracy TV shorts
1962 -
Director of one-hour TV special: Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
Director of full-length feature cartoon: Gay Purr-ee
1963 - Director for GE spots featuring Mr. Magoo
1964 - Supervising director for 26 TV shows: Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo
1965 -
Joined MGM Animation
Director of theatrical cartoons with Tom & Jerry
Produced and directed animation sequences for TV’s Off to See the Wizard
1966 - Producer/director for feature cartoon/live action: Adventures of Milo in the Phantom Tollbooth
1969-70 -
For UPA/N.B.C., the hour long TV special: Uncle Sam Magoo (Christopher Award)
For A.B.C., co-producer and supervising director of The Curiosity Shop
1971 - For Richard Williams Studio, London, guest artist for A Christmas Carol (Academy Award for Short Subject)
1972 - California Arts Commission Film
1973 - Started Levitow/Hanson Films doing commercials, Sesame Street, and BC: The First Thanksgiving
1974 - International Broadcasters’ Award for Where’s the ACTION? (PSA for the Peace Corps, VISTA & SCORE)
1975 - Died of multiple myeloma at age 52
Education:
Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles, California
Chouinard Art Institute, LA (4 years)
Art Center School, Pasadena
Los Angeles County Art Institute
Teaching:
Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers: weekly animation class
Los Angeles County Art Institute: advanced life drawing class