Robert McKimson animators
 

I was bored today. So I looked through all of the Robert McKimson entrys in Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald's book and found out who his animators were each year. The years are what year it was when the cartoons were released, not neccesiarily when the animators were there. It seems that McKimson's unit changed the most throughout all of WB history.

1946
(all from Tashlin's unit)
Cal Dalton (joined the Davis unit in 1947)
Don Williams (joined the Davis unit in 1947)
Richard Bickenback
Arthur Davis (became a director)

1947-1948
Manny Gould (from Clampett's unit, also works for Davis)
I. Ellis (from Clampett's unit, left the studio in 1948)
Charles McKimson (new to the studio)
John Carey (new to the studio)
Richard Bickenback (left in 1948)

1949
Manny Gould (left in 1950)
Charles McKimson
Phil DeLara (new to the studio)
John Carey
Pete Burness (new to the studio, worked for Freleng on "Wise Quackers")

1950-1951
Rod Scribner (recovers from Tuberculois)
Charles McKimson
Phil DeLara
Emery Hawkins (from the Davis unit, left in 1952)
J. C Melendez (from the Davis unit, left in 1951 for UPA)
John Carey
Manuel Perez (only on "Bushy Hare", joined Freleng's unit)

1952-1954
(all leave in 1955)
Rod Scribner
Charles McKimson
Herman Cohen (worked for Davis before in 1947 and 1948)
Phil DeLara

1955
Robert McKimson
Keith Darling (new to the studio)

1956-1957
Ted Bonnickson (from Freleng's unit)
George Grandpre (new to the studio)
Russ Dyson (new to the studio, left in 1957)
Keith Darling (new to the studio, left in 1957, but returns in 1961)

1958-1961
George Grandpre
Ted Bonnickson
Tom Ray (new to the studio, joined Jones' unit in 1961)
Warren Batchelder (new to the studio)

1962-1964
Warren Batchelder
George Grandpre (left the studio)
Ted Bonnickson (left the studio)
Keith Darling (left the studio)

1965-1966
(more people, but there was only one unit)
Manny Perez
Warren Batchelder
Bob Matz
La Verne Harding (used to work at Lantz studio)
Norm McCabe
Don Williams

1969
Ted Bonnickson
La Verne Harding
Jim Davis (not the creator of Garfield)
Ed Soloman
Norm McCabe

I hope you like my 'research'. :p :speedy:

Actually, both those men had previous experience at WB. Charles in Tex Avery's unit and John at Clampett's B&W unit.

Anyone know what happened to Scribner after he left WB?

You left out Emery Hawkins who was in MsKimson's unit in the late '40's

Rod is on the staff... :o)
 

Rod Scribner also worked for Jay Ward's studio throughout the '60's. I'm not sure of the time frame, but I've seen his handiwork here and there from Rocky & Bullwinkle to George of the Junge.

I remember asking about this on the old TTTP.

Are there any recognizable Burness handiwork in his WB cartoons that is similar to his Tom and Jerry work?

Emery Hawkins' work actually wasn't exclusive to any particular director at Warners (though it showed up the most in Davis and McKimson's cartoons). His animation shows up in some of the Jones ("Eight Ball Bunny") and Freleng ("All Abir-r-r-rd") films of 1950 too.

-Thad

Well, I think he may have done the axe scene in Wise Quackers... it looks kind of like his MGM style (the movement is similar, and there's that rapid blimking he seems to have been fond of doing)

Oh, and by the way...

It's Pete Burness, not Phil Burness
Phil De Lara was not entirely new to the studio also, his name appears on Jones' "Saddle Silly" from a few years before".
If the credits are to be believed Manuel Perez also worked on "Dog Collared".
You forgot to mention Bob Wickersham, who animated for McKimson after Emery Hawkins left but before Herman Cohen returned.
Richard Thompson worked on one Foghorn cartoon with Phil De Lara and Keith Darling... I can't remember the title.
It's probably worth mentioning that Keith Darling was also in and out of the Jones unit.