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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Looney Tunes
1929 · TV
The Yankee Doodle Mouse
1943 · Movie
Puppy Love
1932 · Movie
Hare-um Scare-um
1939 · Movie
Confederate Honey
1940 · Movie
The Bear's Tale
1940 · Movie
Springtime for Thomas
1946 · Movie
Chew-Chew Baby
1945 · Movie
Bars and Stripes Forever
1939 · Movie
Porky's Hare Hunt
1938 · Movie
Wild and Woody!
1948 · Movie
Woody Woodpecker and Friends
1982 · Movie