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]
Woody Woodpecker and Friends
(Various Voices)
Who's Cookin Who?
(Woody Woodpecker / Starvation (voice))
The Loose Nut
(Woody Woodpecker / Bull Dozer (voice))
The Reckless Driver
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
Fair Weather Fiends
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
Wild and Woody!
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
Wet Blanket Policy
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
Ace in the Hole
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
Chew-Chew Baby
(Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited))
The Barber of Seville
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
The Beach Nut
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
The Hollywood Matador
(Woody Woodpecker)
Woody Dines Out
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
Ski for Two
(Woody Woodpecker)
Pantry Panic
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
It's an Ill Wind
(Dizzy Duck)
The Coo Coo Bird
(Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited))
Woody the Giant Killer
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
Smoked Hams
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
The Dippy Diplomat
(Woody Woodpecker (voice))
Knock Knock
(Story)
The Loan Stranger
(Story)
Ace in the Hole
(Writer)
Chew-Chew Baby
(Story)
The Barber of Seville
(Writer)
The Dizzy Acrobat
(Story)
The Beach Nut
(Writer)
Woody Woodpecker
(Story)
Woody Dines Out
(Story)
Porky and Teabiscuit
(Director)
Pantry Panic
(Story)
Ration Bored
(Story)
The Screwball
(Story)
Woody's Jalopy
(Story)
Ski for Two
(Story)
The Hollywood Matador
(Story)
Hysterical Highspots in American History
(Story)
Apple Andy
(Writer)
The Wacky Weed
(Writer)
Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
(Director)
Count Me Out
(Director)
Bars and Stripes Forever
(Director)
Hare-um Scare-um
(Director)
Buddy of the Apes
(Director)
Rhythm in the Bow
(Director)
Buddy's Adventures
(Director)
Buddy the Dentist
(Director)
Busy Bakers
(Director)
Buddy in Africa
(Director)
Buddy of the Legion
(Director)
Buddy's Pony Express
(Director)
Buddy's Theatre
(Director)
Gold Rush Daze
(Director)
Porky's Hare Hunt
(Director)
The Egg Cracker Suite
(Director)
Porky the Gob
(Director)
Love and Curses
(Director)
It's an Ill Wind
(Director)
Hobo Gadget Band
(Director)
Porky the Giant Killer
(Director)
Fagin's Freshman
(Director)
Sioux Me
(Director)
Smoked Hams
(Writer)
Woody the Giant Killer
(Writer)
The Dippy Diplomat
(Story)
Kiddie Koncert
(Story)
Juke Box Jamboree
(Story)
Boogie Woogie Sioux
(Writer)
Milk and Money
(Story)
The Loose Nut
(Story)
The Reckless Driver
(Story)
Fair Weather Fiends
(Story)
Wet Blanket Policy
(Story)
Wild and Woody!
(Writer)
The Woody Woodpecker Polka
(Story)
The Overture to 'William Tell'
(Writer)
Mousie Come Home
(Writer)
Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
(Story)
Under the Spreading Blacksmith Shop
(Writer)
A Bone for a Bone
(Story)
Playful Pelican
(Writer)
Dog Tax Dodgers
(Writer)
Scrappy Birthday
(Writer)
Confederate Honey
(Story)
Yankee Doodle Swing Shift
(Writer)
Who's Cookin Who?
(Writer)
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
(Story)
Old Mother Hubbard
(Story)
The Headless Horseman
(Story)
Jack Frost
(Story)
Jack and the Beanstalk
(Story)
Breakdowns of 1939
(Director)
The Merry Old Soul
(Script)
Porky's Baseball Broadcast
(Story)
The Penguin Parade
(Story)
Daffy Duck & Egghead
(Story)
The Coo Coo Bird
(Story)
The Bear's Tale
(Story)
Fish Fry
(Story)
Bathing Buddies
(Story)
The Pied Piper of Basin Street
(Story)
Rabbit Every Monday
(Story)