1931 in animation

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Years in animation: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934

Events in 1931 in animation.

Films released[]

  • 2 January – The Birthday Party (United States)
  • 6 January – Ace of Spades (United States)
  • 12 January – China (United States)
  • 19 January – Big Man from the North (United States)
  • 25 January – Club Sandwich (United States)
  • 28 January – College (United States)
  • February – Ain't Nature Grand! (United States)
  • 7 February – Teacher's Pest (United States)
  • 8 February – Razzberries (United States)
  • 9 February – Shipwreck (United States)
  • 10 February – Birds of a Feather (United States)
  • 13 February – Rodeo Dough (United States)
  • 21 February – Tree Saps (United States)
  • 7 March – Traffic Troubles (United States)
  • 14 March – The Cow's Husband (United States)
  • 22 March – The Explorer (United States)
  • 23 March – The Farmer (United States)
  • 27 March – The Castaway (United States)
  • 4 April
    • Swiss Movements (United States)
    • Ups 'n Downs (United States)
  • 6 April – The Bum Bandit (United States)
  • 8 April – The Fireman (United States)
  • 17 April – Mother Goose Melodies (United States)
  • 20 April – Sunny South (United States)
  • 26 April – The Male Man (United States)
  • 27 April – Disarmament Conference (United States)
  • 30 April
  • 5 May
    • Country School (United States)
    • Twenty Legs Under the Sea (United States)
  • 17 May – The Sultan's Cat (United States)
  • 18 May – The Bandmaster (United States)
  • 23 May – Silly Scandals (United States)
  • 25 May – The China Plate (United States)
  • 29 May – Soda Poppa (United States)
  • 30 May – Dumb Patrol (United States)
  • 6 June – The Delivery Boy (United States)
  • 13 June – Yodeling Yokels (United States)
  • 22 June – The Busy Beavers (United States)
  • 24 June – The Herring Murder Case (United States)
  • 29 June – Northwoods (United States)
  • 7 July – Mickey Steps Out (United States)
  • 11 July – Stork Market (United States)
  • 13 July – The Stone Age (United States)
  • 18 July – Bosko's Holiday (United States)
  • 24 July – Bimbo's Initiation (United States)
  • 25 July – The Tree's Knees (United States)
  • 27 July – Radio Rhythm (United States)
  • 28 July – The Cat's Out (United States)
  • 2 August – Lady, Play Your Mandolin! (United States)
  • 3 August – Svengarlic (United States)
  • 18 August – Blue Rhythm (United States)
  • 22 August – Bimbo's Express (United States)
  • 23 August – Canadian Capers (United States)
  • 27 August – Egyptian Melodies (United States)
  • 5 September – Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! (United States)
  • 7 September – Kentucky Belles (United States)
  • 14 September
    • Hot Feet (United States)
    • Weenie Roast (United States)
  • 18 September – Peludópolis (Argentina)
  • 19 September – Bosko Shipwrecked! (United States)
  • 20 September – The Champ (United States)
  • 25 September – Fishin' Around (United States)
  • 28 September – Minding the Baby (United States)
  • 30 September – The Clock Store (United States)
  • 3 October – One More Time (United States)
  • 10 October – The Barnyard Broadcast (United States)
  • 12 October – The Hunter (United States)
  • 15 October – Bars and Stripes (United States)
  • 17 October – Bosko the Doughboy (United States)
  • 19 October – (United States)
  • 21 October – You Don't Know What You're Doin'! (United States)
  • 23 October – The Spider and the Fly (United States)
  • 26 October – Wonderland (United States)
  • 2 November – Hash House Blues (United States)
  • 5 November – The Beach Party (United States)
  • 9 November – Mask-A-Raid (United States)
  • 10 November – The Fox Hunt (United States)
  • 14 November – Bosko's Soda Fountain (United States)
  • 22 November – Jack and the Beanstalk (United States)
  • 28 November – Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (United States)
  • 30 November
  • 1 December – The Restless Sax (United States)
  • 7 December – The Fisherman (United States)
  • 9 December – Mickey's Orphans (United States)
  • 12 December
  • 17 December – The Ugly Duckling (United States)
  • 21 December – The Clown (United States)
  • 26 December – Red-Headed Baby (United States)

Events[]

August[]

  • August 2: Harman and Ising's Lady, Play Your Mandolin!, the first Merrie Melodie cartoon is released and Foxy makes his debut.

Births[]

January[]

  • January 13:
    • Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (voice of Killer in All Dogs Go to Heaven, Hunch in Rock-A-Doodle, King Llort in A Troll in Central Park, The Dirty Bubble in SpongeBob SquarePants), (d. 2007).[1]
    • Chris Wiggins, English born Canadian actor (voice of Donald Blake/Thor in The Marvel Super Heroes, Mysterio in Spider-Man, B.L. Zebub/Satan/the devil in The Devil and Daniel Mouse, Mr. Sun in the Strawberry Shortcake franchise, No Heart in The Care Bears Family, Narrator in the first episode of the DIC dub of Sailor Moon, Cornelius in the Babar franchise), (d. 2017).
    • Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (voice of The Grump in Here Comes The Grump, Gene the Genie in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family), (d. 2019).
    • Scott Beach, American actor (voice roles in Peanuts productions, original voice of Garfield), (d. 1996).
  • January 17: James Earl Jones, American actor (voice of Mufasa in The Lion King franchise, Darth Vader, in "The Faithful Wookiee" segment of The Star Wars Holiday Special, and Star Wars Rebels, Maggie Simpson in The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror V, Ommadon in The Flight of Dragons, The Emperor of The Night in Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, Kibosh in Casper: A Spirited Beginning, Santa Claus in Recess, Martin Luther King Sr. in Our Friend, Martin).
  • January 29: Richard Bakalyan, Armenian-American actor (voice of Dinky in The Fox and the Hound), (d. 2015).[2]

February[]

  • February 7:
    • José Luis Beltrán Coscojuela, aka Tran, Beltrán, Koski and Tranis, Spanish comics artist and animator, (d. 2013).[3]
    • Serge Danot, French animator, animated film director and producer (Le Manège Enchanté, known in English as The Magic Roundabout), (d. 1990).[4]
  • February 13: Isaac Bardavid, Brazilian actor and voice actor (Brazilian dub voice of Skeletor in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Tigger in Winnie the Pooh), (d. 2022).[5]
  • February 26: Jacques Rouxel, French animator (Les Shadoks), (d. 2004).
  • February 28: Gavin MacLeod, American actor (voice of Captain Gumble in the Pound Puppies episode Bone Voyage), (d. 2021).[6]

March[]

  • March 8: Gerald Potterton, British-Canadian director, writer, producer and animator (Yellow Submarine, Heavy Metal).
  • March 22: William Shatner, Canadian actor (voice of Captain Kirk in Star Trek: The Animated Series, Jason of the Argonauts in the Hercules episode Hercules and the Argonauts, Mayor Phlegmming in Osmosis Jones, Betty's Grandfather in the Atomic Betty episode The No-L Nine, Kazar in The Wild, Ozzie in Over the Hedge, Santa Claus in Gotta Catch Santa Claus, General Shanker in Escape from Planet Earth, Grand Pear in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic episode The Perfect Pear, Harvey Dent/Two-Face in Batman vs. Two-Face, voiced himself in the Futurama episode Where No Fan Has Gone Before).
  • March 26: Leonard Nimoy, American actor (voiced Spock in Star Trek: The Animated Series, Galvatron in The Transformers: The Movie, Mr. Moundshroud in The Halloween Tree, King Kashekim Nedakh in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, voiced himself in The Simpsons episodes Marge vs. the Monorail and The Springfield Files, and the Futurama episodes Space Pilot 3000 and Where No Fan Has Gone Before), (d. 2015).

April[]

May[]

  • May 5: Greg, Belgian comics artist, writer and screenplay writer (wrote the script for the animated feature films Tintin and the Temple of the Sun and Tintin and the Lake of Sharks), (d. 1999).[8]
  • May 10: Ichiro Nagai, Japanese voice actor (d. 2014).
  • May 12: Art Seidel, American production manager (assistant director for the live action sequence in The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror VI), (d. 1998).[9]
  • May 18: Robert Morse, American actor and singer (voice of the title character in Jack Frost, Moncho in Monchhichis, Howler in Pound Puppies, Goopy Geer in Tiny Toon Adventures, DeSaad in Superman: The Animated Series, Santa Claus in Teen Titans Go!, and Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans).

June[]

  • June 20: Olympia Dukakis, American actress (voice of Zelda in The Simpsons episode The Old Man and the Key) (d. 2021).[10][11]
  • June 21: Zlatko Grgić, Croatian animator and animation director (Professor Balthazar, ), (d. 1988).[12]
  • June 29: Ed Gilbert, American actor (voice of Baloo in TaleSpin, Thrust and Blitzwing in The Transformers, Pugsy and Daddy Sterling in Tom and Jerry: The Movie), (d. 1999).[13]

July[]

August[]

  • August 10: Giuliano Cenci, Italian animated film director (The Adventures of Pinocchio), (d. 2018).[15]
  • August 25: Regis Philbin, American TV presenter (voice of Typhon on an episode of Disney's Hercules, Mabel in Shrek the Third), (d. 2020).[16]
  • August 26: Ram Mohan, Indian animator (You Said It, Fire Games), director (co-director of Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama, Meena) and animation producer (Ram Mohan Biographics), (d. 2019).[17]
  • August 30: Jōji Yanami, Japanese voice actor (Inuyasha, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z) and narrator (Dragon Ball), (d. 2021).[18]
  • August 31: Sergio Matteucci, Italian voice actor and radio presenter (Italian dub voice of Saiyan B in Dragon Ball Z, narrator in Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines), (d. 2020).[19][20]

October[]

  • October 2: Enzo Facciolo, Italian comics artist and animator (worked for Toni Pagot), (d. 2021).[21]
  • October 27: Vinnie Bell, American animator (Terrytoons, Schoolhouse Rock!, The Berenstain Bears, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law), (d. 2021).[22]
  • October 30: Dick Gautier, American actor, comedian, singer and caricaturist (voice of Rodimus Prime in The Transformers, Serpentor in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero), (d. 2017).[23]

November[]

  • November 1: Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer (Doraemon, Dragon Ball, Dr. Slump, Getter Robo, Tiger Mask), (d. 2021).
  • November 19: Lester Pourier, American animator and layout artist (Hanna-Barbera, Garfield and Friends, Tom and Jerry: The Movie), (d. 2020).[24]
  • November 28: Tomi Ungerer, French novelist, illustrator, cartoonist and poster designer (provided the narration to the animated adaptations of his own novels The Three Robbers and The Moon Man), (d. 2019).[25]
  • November 30: Jack Sheldon, American singer (Schoolhouse Rock!), (d. 2019).

December[]

  • December 9: Paddi Edwards, British actress (voice of Flotsam and Jetsam in The Little Mermaid, Atropos in Hercules, Vera in Pepper Ann), (d. 1999).
  • December 11: Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-born American actress and singer (voice of Tanya Trunk in Bonkers, Ella Salvator in the Captain Planet and the Planeteers episode Disoriented Express, Carmen Sandiego in Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, Dr. Camrina Skeledon in The Magic School Bus episode The Busasaurus, Dona Dolores in Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico, Abuela in the Special Agent Oso episode For Tamales with Love/Pinata Royale, Mimi in Rio 2, Abuelita in Nina's World, Queen Camilla in Elena of Avalor, Cookie Booker in Carmen Sandiego, Gertrude St. John in Curious George: Cape Ahoy, Ah Puch in Maya and the Three).
  • December 15: Ernest Pintoff, American animator and film director (The Violinist, The Critic), (d. 2002).
  • December 23: Ronnie Schell, American actor and stand-up comedian (voice of Jason in Battle of the Planets, Gilly in Goober and the Ghost Chasers, Rick the Racoon in Shirt Tales, Colonel Callaway in Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Master Fezzick in The Legend of Prince Valiant, Mayor Fitzhugh in Recess).
  • December 24: Robert Ridgely, American voice actor (voice of The Purple Pie Man in Strawberry Shortcake, the title character in Thundarr the Barbarian, The Commander in Dexter's Laboratory), (d. 1997).

Specific date unknown[]

References[]

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