Ben Hardaway
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Joseph Benson 'Ben' (a.k.a. 'Bugs') Hardaway (May 21, 1895 – February 5, 1957) was an American storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer and director for several American animation studios during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. While at the Leon Schlesinger / Warner Bros. studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway, in 1938, co-directed Porky's Hare Hunt, the first film to feature a rabbit. When this unnamed, embryonic rabbit was given a new model sheet for a later short, since, according to Chuck Jones, Hardaway "didn't draw it very well", designer Charlie Thorson inadverten…
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Joseph Benson Hardaway · Joseph B. Hardaway · Ben 'Bugs' Hardaway · Bugs Hardaway · B. Hardaway · Buggsy Hardaway
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Puppy Love
1932 · Movie
Fire! Fire!
1932 · Movie
Africa Squeaks
1931 · Movie
School Days
1932 · Movie
Springtime for Thomas
1946 · Movie
Woody Woodpecker and Friends
1982 · Movie
The Bully
1932 · Movie
Sioux Me
1939 · Movie
The Yankee Doodle Mouse
1943 · Movie
The Bear's Tale
1940 · Movie
Jack Frost
1934 · Movie
The Barber of Seville
1944 · Movie