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Tex Avery

Feb 26, 1908 - Taylor, Texas, USA

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Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator and director, known for producing and directing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior, and Chilly Willy.

Known For Credits

Credits

Cast

Media
Movie	1939	Fresh Fish	Prof. Mackerel Fishsticks (voice)
Movie	1938	The Penguin Parade	Walrus (voice)
Movie	1937	Uncle Tom's Bungalow	Uncle Tom (voice)
Movie	1938	Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas	The Chief (voice)
Movie	1939	Believe It or Else	Old Man in Jail (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1940	Ghost Wanted	Laughing Ghost (voice)
Movie	1949	Bad Luck Blackie	Large Dog (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1934	Toyland Premiere	Santa Claus (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1946	Lonesome Lenny	Lenny (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1941	The Heckling Hare	Willoughby (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1939	Thugs with Dirty Mugs	Ed. G. Robemsome as Killer Diller
Movie	1955	The First Bad Man	Cavemen (uncredited)
Movie	1936	The Village Smithy	Blacksmith (voice)
Movie	1938	The Sneezing Weasel	Weasel (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1938	Count Me Out	Fight Referee (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1937	Egghead Rides Again	Red (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1940	The Bear's Tale	Poppa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1938	A Feud There Was	Weaver Dude / Weaver Guy with Gun (voice)
Movie	1945	Jerky Turkey	Hunting Pilgrim / Turkey Call (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1936	Don't Look Now	Preacher (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1950	Garden Gopher	Spike (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1955	Deputy Droopy	Short Robber (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1993	The Compleat Tex Avery
Movie	1951	Daredevil Droopy	Spike (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1943	Who Killed Who?	Santa Claus (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1955	The Legend of Rockabye Point	Polar Bear's Sneezes / Polar Bear's Screams (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1940	Circus Today	Circus Bandmaster (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1939	A Day at the Zoo	Other Elk Named Bill (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1941	The Crackpot Quail	Willoughby (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1947	Hound Hunters	Junior (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1940	Of Fox and Hounds	Willoughby (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1947	Red Hot Rangers	Junior (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1948	What Price Fleadom	Homer's Dog (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	2007	Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5	Papa Bear (archive footage)
Movie	1939	Dangerous Dan McFoo	Fight Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1937	Porky the Wrestler	Champion Wrestler Man Mountain (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1988	Portrait of Tex Avery
Movie	2003	Tex Avery: A Crazy World	Lui-même
Movie	1938	Porky's Phoney Express	Porky's Boss's laugh (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1942	Hold the Lion, Please	Hippo (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1949	Señor Droopy	Bull (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1946	Henpecked Hoboes	Junior (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1975	Bugs Bunny Superstar	Himself
Movie	1953	Barney's Hungry Cousin	Hungry Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1937	A Sunbonnet Blue	Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	1950	Ventriloquist Cat	Alley Cat / Spike (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	2004	Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery	Self
Movie	1954	The Farm of Tomorrow	Small Baby Chicken (voice) (uncredited)
Movie	2012	King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution	Self (archive footage)

Crew

Media
Movie	1943	Red Hot Riding Hood	Director	Directing
Movie	1936	I Love to Singa	Director	Directing
Movie	1941	Aviation Vacation	Director	Directing
Movie	1949	Bad Luck Blackie	Director	Directing
Movie	1944	Big Heel-Watha	Director	Directing
Movie	1951	Car of Tomorrow	Director	Directing
Movie	1942	Blitz Wolf	Director	Directing
Movie	1944	Batty Baseball	Director	Directing
Movie	1954	Billy Boy	Director	Directing
Movie	1955	Cellbound	Director	Directing
Movie	1951	Cock-a-Doodle Dog	Director	Directing
Movie	1939	Dangerous Dan McFoo	Director	Directing
Movie	1955	Deputy Droopy	Director	Directing
Movie	1954	Dixieland Droopy	Director	Directing
Movie	1943	Dumb-Hounded	Director	Directing
Movie	1954	The Farm of Tomorrow	Director	Directing
Movie	1949	Doggone Tired	Director	Directing
Movie	1951	Droopy's Good Deed	Director	Directing
Movie	1951	Daredevil Droopy	Director	Directing
Movie	1954	Drag-A-Long Droopy	Director	Directing
Movie	1951	Droopy's Double Trouble	Director	Directing
Movie	1955	Field and Scream	Director	Directing
Movie	1954	Homesteader Droopy	Director	Directing
Movie	1950	Garden Gopher	Director	Directing
Movie	1947	Hound Hunters	Director	Directing
Movie	1948	Half-Pint Pygmy	Director	Directing
Movie	1944	Happy-Go-Nutty	Director	Directing
Movie	1946	Henpecked Hoboes	Director	Directing
Movie	1947	King-Size Canary	Director	Directing
Movie	1948	Little 'Tinker	Director	Directing
Movie	1945	Jerky Turkey	Director	Directing
Movie	1953	Little Johnny Jet	Director	Directing
Movie	1943	What's Buzzin' Buzzard?	Director	Directing
Movie	1947	Slap Happy Lion	Director	Directing
Movie	1951	Symphony in Slang	Director	Directing
Movie	1952	Rock-a-Bye Bear	Director	Directing
Movie	1944	Screwball Squirrel	Director	Directing
Movie	1945	The Screwy Truant	Director	Directing
Movie	1950	The Cuckoo Clock	Director	Directing
Movie	1950	The Peachy Cobbler	Director	Directing
Movie	1945	Swing Shift Cinderella	Director	Directing
Movie	1948	What Price Fleadom	Director	Directing
Movie	1953	T.V. of Tomorrow	Director	Directing
Movie	1950	The Chump Champ	Director	Directing
Movie	1942	The Early Bird Dood It!	Director	Directing
Movie	1948	The Cat That Hated People	Director	Directing
Movie	1954	The Flea Circus	Director	Directing
Movie	1955	The First Bad Man	Director	Directing
Movie	1946	The Hick Chick	Director	Directing
Movie	1949	The House of Tomorrow	Director	Directing
Movie	1949	Señor Droopy	Director	Directing
Movie	1947	Uncle Tom's Cabana	Director	Directing
Movie	1945	Wild and Woolfy	Director	Directing
Movie	1949	Wags to Riches	Director	Directing
Movie	1953	The Three Little Pups	Director	Directing
Movie	1950	Ventriloquist Cat	Director	Directing
Movie	1945	The Shooting of Dan McGoo	Director	Directing
Movie	1943	Who Killed Who?	Director	Directing
Movie	1933	Confidence	Animation	Visual Effects
Movie	1932	Grandma's Pet	Animation	Visual Effects
Movie	1941	Hollywood Steps Out	Director	Directing
Movie	1941	The Heckling Hare	Director	Directing
Movie	1941	Tortoise Beats Hare	Director	Directing
Movie	1939	Thugs with Dirty Mugs	Director	Directing
Movie	1946	Lonesome Lenny	Director	Directing
Movie	1949	Little Rural Riding Hood	Director	Directing
Movie	1952	Magical Maestro	Director	Directing
Movie	1948	Lucky Ducky	Director	Directing
Movie	1943	One Ham's Family	Director	Directing
Movie	1946	Northwest Hounded Police	Director	Directing
Movie	1952	One Cab's Family	Director	Directing
Movie	1940	Of Fox and Hounds	Director	Directing
Movie	1949	Out-Foxed	Director	Directing
Movie	1947	Red Hot Rangers	Director	Directing
Movie	1938	Daffy Duck & Egghead	Director	Directing
Movie	1938	Daffy Duck in Hollywood	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	Egghead Rides Again	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	I Wanna Be a Sailor	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	I Only Have Eyes for You	Director	Directing
Movie	1956	Millionaire Droopy	Director	Directing
Movie	1940	A Wild Hare	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	Uncle Tom's Bungalow	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	Porky's Garden	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	Porky's Duck Hunt	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	A Sunbonnet Blue	Director	Directing
Movie	1954	I'm Cold	Director	Directing
Movie	1955	The Legend of Rockabye Point	Director	Directing
Movie	1940	A Gander at Mother Goose	Director	Directing
Movie	1955	Crazy Mixed Up Pup	Director	Directing
Movie	1941	Porky's Preview	Director	Directing
Movie	1941	The Haunted Mouse	Director	Directing
Movie	1941	All This and Rabbit Stew	Director	Directing
Movie	1938	The Isle of Pingo Pongo	Director	Directing
Movie	1949	The Counterfeit Cat	Director	Directing
Movie	1939	Detouring America	Director	Directing
Movie	1936	Milk and Money	Director	Directing
Movie	1936	The Village Smithy	Director	Directing
Movie	1936	The Blow Out	Director	Directing
Movie	1936	I'd Love to Take Orders from You	Director	Directing
Movie	1936	Porky the Rain-Maker	Director	Directing
Movie	1936	Don't Look Now	Director	Directing
Movie	1936	Plane Dippy	Director	Directing
Movie	1935	Gold Diggers of '49	Director	Directing
Movie	1942	Crazy Cruise	Director	Directing
Movie	1940	The Bear's Tale	Director	Directing
Movie	1939	A Day at the Zoo	Director	Directing
Movie	1936	Page Miss Glory	Director	Directing
Movie	1957	Cat's Meow	Director	Directing
Movie	1955	Sh-h-h-h-h-h	Director	Directing
Movie	1939	Hamateur Night	Director	Directing
Movie	1939	Land of the Midnight Fun	Director	Directing
Movie	1938	A Feud There Was	Director	Directing
Movie	1938	The Sneezing Weasel	Director	Directing
Movie	1938	Cinderella Meets Fella	Director	Directing
Movie	1938	The Mice Will Play	Director	Directing
Movie	1938	Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas	Director	Directing
Movie	1938	The Penguin Parade	Director	Directing
Movie	1939	Believe It or Else	Director	Directing
Movie	1939	Fresh Fish	Director	Directing
Movie	1939	Screwball Football	Director	Directing
Movie	1940	The Early Worm Gets the Bird	Director	Directing
Movie	1940	Circus Today	Director	Directing
Movie	1941	The Cagey Canary	Director	Directing
Movie	1940	Cross Country Detours	Director	Directing
Movie	1941	The Bug Parade	Director	Directing
Movie	1940	Ceiling Hero	Director	Directing
Movie	1940	Holiday Highlights	Director	Directing
Movie	1940	Wacky Wildlife	Director	Directing
Movie	1941	The Crackpot Quail	Director	Directing
Movie	1942	Aloha Hooey	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	Picador Porky	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	Ain't We Got Fun	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	Porky the Wrestler	Director	Directing
Movie	1937	Little Red Walking Hood	Director	Directing
Movie	1938	Movie Phoney News	Director	Directing
Movie	1951	Symphony in Slang	Producer	Production
Movie	1953	T.V. of Tomorrow	Producer	Production
Movie	2005	The very best of Tweety	Director	Directing
Movie	N/A	Wolf! Wolf!	Writer	Writing
Movie	1933	The Zoo	Story	Writing
Movie	2004	Tex Avery MGM Collection	Producer	Production
Movie	1979	Casper's First Christmas	Animation Director	Visual Effects
Movie	1950	Garden Gopher	Producer	Production
Movie	2007	Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5	Director	Directing
Movie	2004	Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Vol:2	Director	Directing
Movie	1955	Crazy Mixed Up Pup	Writer	Writing
Movie	1955	Sh-h-h-h-h-h	Writer	Writing
Movie	2004	Tex Avery MGM Collection	Director	Directing
Movie	2004	Tex Avery MGM Collection	Scenario Writer	Writing
Movie	1941	Wabbit Twouble	Director	Directing
Movie	1991	The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame	Director	Directing
Movie	1941	Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm	Director	Directing
Movie	1993	The Compleat Tex Avery	Animation	Visual Effects
Movie	2011	Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One	Director	Directing
Movie	1931	The Hunter	Writer	Writing
Movie	N/A	Tex Avery MGM Collection - Vol. 3	Director	Directing
Movie	N/A	Tex Avery MGM Collection - Vol. 4	Director	Directing
Movie	N/A	Tex Avery MGM Collection - Vol. 2	Director	Directing
Movie	N/A	Tex Avery MGM Collection - Vol. 1	Director	Directing
Movie	1930	The Fowl Ball	Animation	Visual Effects
Movie	1946	A Bird in the Head	Animation	Visual Effects
Movie	1937	Porky's Duck Hunt	Writer	Writing
Movie	1946	A Feather in His Collar	Animation	Visual Effects
Movie	1936	I Love to Singa	Story	Writing
Movie	1930	Africa	Animation	Visual Effects
Movie	2010	The Essential Bugs Bunny	Director	Directing
Movie	1935	Towne Hall Follies	Animation	Visual Effects
Movie	1995	George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular	Original Concept	Writing
Movie	N/A	Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1	Director	Directing
TV Show	1995	What a Cartoon!	Characters	Writing
TV Show	1993	Droopy, Master Detective	Characters	Writing
TV Show	1981	The Kwicky Koala Show	Creator	Creator