Peak Years of the WB Directors

[Leviathan]

Exactly when do you think the major WB directors did their best work for the WB studio?

Here's mine

Chuck Jones: 1942-1958
Friz Freleng: 1941-1954
Bob Clampett: 1937-1939, then 1942-1946
Tex Avery: 1936-1938 then 1940-1942
Frank Tashlin: 1937-1938 then 1943-1946
Robert McKimson: 1946-1951
Art Davis: 1947-1948
Norm McCabe: 1941-1942

[oceansoul]

Chuck Jones: 1953
Bob Clampett: 1946
Tex Avery: 1940
Frank Tashlin: 1943
Friz Freleng: dunno
Robert McKimson: 1950
Art Davis: 1948

[J. J. Hunsecker]

I pretty much agree with your assessment, with only minor changes...

Chuck Jones: 1942, then 1948-1955
Friz Freleng: 1939-1945
Bob Clampett: 1938, then 1942-1946
Tex Avery: 1936-1937, then 1939-1941
Frank Tashlin: 1937, then 1943-1946
Robert McKimson: 1946-1951
Art Davis: 1946-1949
Norm McCabe: 1941-1942 *EDIT* (After reevaluating the situation, I have to agree with others that McCabe really didn't have a peak year directing.)

[Fibber Fox]

Norm McCabe had a "peak"?

F. Fox

[Nick]

Chuck Jones: 1942 - 1956

Friz Freleng: 1943 - 1956

Robert McKimson: 1946 - 1952

Bob Clampett: 1938 and 1942 - 1946

Frank Tashlin: 1937 and 1943 - 1946

Tex Avery: 1938 - 1941

Granted these are very generalistic, there are still cartoons from each director that I love before and after these time periods.

[Bugsy-Kun]

Chuck Jones 1942-1962
Friz Freleng 1940-1958
Bob Clampett 1938-1939, then 1942-1946
Robert McKimson 1948-1951
Frank Tashlin 1943-1945
Arthur Davis 1948-1949

[J. J. Hunsecker]

Norm McCabe had a "peak"?

F. Fox
Yeah, you're right. He wasn't a director long enough to have a peak or decline. I would guess, if hard pressed, that his "peak" was The Ducktators -- that being the only cartoon that I think is a great McCabe directorial effort.

[Mr. Semaj]

Chuck Jones: 1942-1963
Tex Avery: 1937-1941
Bob Clampett: 1937-1938; 1942-1946
Robert McKimson: 1946-1955
Friz Freleng: 1944-1955
Frank Tashlin: 1938; 1944-1945
Art Davis: 1948
Norm McCabe: 1942

[Speedy Boris]

I'm going to do something different here.

Bob Clampett= 1946 (Great Piggy Bank Robbery, Bacall to Arms, Kitty Kornered, Baby Bottleneck, The Big Snooze)

Frank Tashlin= 1944 (Brother Brat, Plane Daffy, Swooner Crooner, The Stupid Cupid)

Chuck Jones= 1949 (Fast and Furry-Ous, Often an Orphan, Mississippi Hare, Long-Haired Hare, Rabbit Hood)

Tex Avery= 1941 (Tortoise Beats Hare, Porky's Preview, Hollywood Steps Out, The Cagey Canary)

Art Davis= 1948 (Riff Raffy Daffy, Odor of the Day, A Hick a Slick and a Chick, The Stupor Salesman)

Robert McKimson= 1949 (Rebel Rabbit, Swallow the Leader, A Ham in a Role, Daffy Duck Hunt, The Grey Hounded Hare)

Friz Freleng= 1951 (Ballot Box Bunny, The Fair-Hared Hare, Room and Bird, Canned Feud, Putty Tat Trouble)

Norm McCabe= 1942 (Daffy's Southern Exposure, The Impatient Patient)