1952 in animation
| Years in animation: | 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Years: | 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 |
Events in 1952 in animation.
Events[]
January[]
- January 1: Norm McLaren releases Voisins (Neighbours).[1]
February[]
- February 5: Chuck Jones' Feed the Kitty premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation .[2]
- February 8: Jack Hannah's Lambert the Sheepish Lion, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is released.[3]
- February 9: Tex Avery's Magical Maestro premiers, produced by MGM, starring Spike.[4]
March[]
- March 15: Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry cartoon The Two Mouseketeers is first released, produced by MGM. This is the first of several shorts in which the characters appear as musketeers.[5]
- March 20: 24th Academy Awards: The Tom and Jerry cartoon The Two Mouseketeers, produced by MGM, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.[6]
September[]
- September 20: Chuck Jones' Rabbit Seasoning is released, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the second hunting season cartoon starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd.[7]
October[]
- October 10: Jack Hannah's Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat premiers, produced by the Walt Disney Company. It features the debut of Witch Hazel, who would become a recurring character in Disney comics.[8]
- October 31: Jack Kinney's Goofy cartoon Two Weeks Vacation, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premiers.[9]
November[]
- November 15: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny short Rabbit's Kin premiers, produced by Warner Bros. Animation, which marks the debut of Pete Puma.[10]
Specific date unknown[]
- Lev Atamanov's film The Scarlet Flower is first released.[11]
- Ivan Ivanov-Vano and Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya's The Snow Maiden is first released.[12]
- Colin Low's The Romance of Transportation in Canada is first released.[13]
- Norman McLaren's Neighbours premiers.[14]
Films released[]
Television series[]
Births[]
February[]
- February 5: Yoshinori Kanada, Japanese animator (Birth, worked for Hayao Miyazaki), (d. 2009).[15]
March[]
- March 2: Mark Evanier, American television writer (Garfield and Friends).
April[]
- April 15: Glenn Shadix, American actor (voice of the Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Brain and Monsieur Mallah in Teen Titans), (d. 2010).[16]
- April 16: Billy West, American voice actor (Ren Höek and Stimpy in The Ren & Stimpy Show, Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz in Doug, Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan in Futurama).[17]
- April 17: Joe Alaskey, American voice actor (voice replacement for Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, Grandpa Lou in Rugrats, Uncle Stinkie in Casper) (d. 2016).[18]
May[]
- May 6: Fred Newman, American actor (voice of Porkchop, Skeeter Valentine, and Mr. Dink on Doug, Stupid in Who Framed Roger Rabbit).
- May 28: Denis Akiyama, Japanese-Canadian voice actor (voice of Iceman/Bobby Drake, Silver Samurai/Kenuichio Harada and Sunfire in X-Men and Malachite in the original English dub of Sailor Moon), (d. 2018).[19]
- May 31: David Anthony Kraft, American comics writer, critic, publisher and animation screenwriter (G.I. Joe Extreme), (d. 2021).[20][21]
June[]
- June 20: John Goodman, American actor (voice of Sully in the Monsters, Inc. franchise, Frosty the Snowman in Frosty Returns, Pacha in The Emperor's New Groove franchise, Robot Santa in the Futurama episode "Xmas Story", Baloo in The Jungle Book 2, Larry on Father of the Pride, Eli "Big Daddy" La Bouff in The Princess and the Frog).
July[]
- July 12: Stephen R. Johnson, American animator, painter, television director and music video director (the music video of Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel), (d. 2015).[22][23][24]
- July 20: David Anderson, British animator (Dreamland Express, worked on the music video Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel), (d. 2015).[25]
August[]
- August 12: Keith Dinicol, Canadian actor (voice of Willow 1 in Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series), (d. 2021).[26]
September[]
- September 29: Gabor Csupo, Hungarian-American animator (co-founder of Klasky Csupo).
October[]
- October 16: Ron Taylor, American actor, singer and writer (voice of Bleeding Gums Murphy in The Simpsons), (d. 2002).
November[]
- November 3: Jim Cummings, American voice actor (voice of Winnie-the-Pooh & Tigger since 1988, Pete since 1992, The Tasmanian Devil, in Taz-Mania, The Title character and NegaDuck, in Darkwing Duck, Fat Cat and Monterey Jack on Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Don Karnage and Louie on TaleSpin, Cat on CatDog, Dr. Robotnik on Sonic the Hedgehog, Fuzzy Lumpkins on The Powerpuff Girls, Hondo Ohnaka on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Star Wars: Rebels, Ed in The Lion King, Ray in The Princess and the Frog).
- November 14: Bill Farmer, American voice actor (voice of Goofy since 1987 continued voice of Pluto and Horace Horsecollar Foghorn Leghorn, Sylvester, and Yosemite Sam in Space Jam, Doc on The 7D, Hop-Pop Planter on Amphibia).
- November 15: Randy Savage, American professional wrestler and actor (voice of Rasslor on Dexter's Laboratory, Leonard the Grey Ghost Ghostal on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Thug actor in Bolt), (d. 2011).
- November 16: Peter Keefe, American animated TV series producer (Voltron, Denver the Last Dinosaur, Widget) and co-founder of Zodiac Entertainment), (d. 2010).[27][28]
- November 30: Henry Selick, American stop motion director, producer, and writer. (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Coraline).
December[]
- December 9: Michael Dorn, American voice actor (voice of I.M. Weasel on I Am Weasel, Coldstone on Gargoyles, Kalibak and John Henry Irons/Steel on Superman: The Animated Series, The Martian Centurion Robots on Duck Dodgers).
- December 29: Efron Etkin, Israeli actor (Hebrew dub voice of Piglet in Winnie the Pooh and Dolf in Alfred J. Kwak), (d. 2012).[29]
Specific date unknown[]
- John P. McCann, American television writer, actor and producer (Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and The Brain, Freakazoid!, Dave the Barbarian).
Deaths[]
March[]
- March 1: Gregory La Cava, American animator and film director (Raoul Barré, International Film Service), dies at age 59.
- March 25: Egon von Tresckow, aka Tres, German animator, illustrator, comics artist and caricaturist (worked for UFA and the films of Hans Fischerkoesen), dies at age 45.[30]
June[]
- June 25: Fred Brunish, American painter and animator (Walter Lantz), dies at age 49 or 50.[31]
November[]
- November 23: Fred Moore, American animator (Walt Disney Company), passes away in a traffic accident at age 41.[32]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Voisins".
- ^ "Feed the Kitty". 2 February 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Lambert the Sheepish Lion". 8 February 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Magical Maestro". 9 February 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Two Mouseketeers". 15 March 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
- ^ "Rabbit Seasoning". 20 September 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Trick or Treat". 10 October 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Two Weeks Vacation". 31 October 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Rabbit's Kin". 15 November 1952. Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Scarlet Flower". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Snow Maiden". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Romance of Transportation in Canada". Retrieved May 19, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ McLaughlin, Dan (2001). "A rather incomplete but still fascinating history of animation". Archived from the original on 2006-08-12. Retrieved 2006-08-30.
- ^ "Animator Yoshinori Kanada Reportedly Passes Away". Anime News Network. July 22, 2009. Archived from the original on July 23, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
- ^ "Glenn Shadix, Actor in 'Beetlejuice,' Dies at 58 (Published 2010)". The New York Times. Associated Press. September 9, 2010. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
- ^ "Billy West • Welcome". www.billywest.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
- ^ Leovy, Jill (February 4, 2016). "Joe Alaskey dies at 63; impersonator was a later voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ Bartlett, Rhett (July 3, 2018). "The Toronto native was prolific across film, television, stage and anime for four decades". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
- ^ Fassett, Ryan (2021-05-20). "Writer and Publisher David Anthony Kraft Has Passed Away". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
- ^ "David A. Kraft, Iconic Defenders Writer, Comics Journalist, Has Passed Away". CBR. 2021-05-20. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
- ^ "The Dead Rock Stars Club - January to June 2015". Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ^ "Obituary for Stephen Russell Johnson". Cheney-Witt Funeral Chapel. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
- ^ "Stephen R. Johnson's Obituary on New York Times". New York Times. 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
- ^ "In Memoriam: David Anderson (1952-2015)". May 13, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
- ^ "Chesapeake Shores Actor Keith Dinicol Has Died". cheatsheet.com. November 22, 2021. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
- ^ Koppel, Niko (June 10, 2010). "Peter Keefe, Creator of Cartoon 'Voltron,' Dies at 57". The New York Times. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ^ Barnes, Mike. "'Voltron' producer Peter Keefe dies", The Hollywood Reporter, May 28, 2010. Accessed June 11, 2010.
- ^ עפרון אטקין (in Hebrew)
- ^ "Egon von Tresckow".
- ^ Ask Art The Artists' Bluebook. "Fred W. Brunish". Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ "Animators' Hall of Fame". www.agni-animation.com. Retrieved May 19, 2020.[permanent dead link]
External links[]
- Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb
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