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.
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 inadvertently offered a permanent name by titling the model sheet "Bugs' Bunny" since it was meant for Hardaway's unit. By the time the rabbit was redesigned and refined for the film A Wild Hare, the name was already being used in relation to the character in studio publicity materials.
In 1940, Hardaway joined the staff of Walter Lantz Productions, where he helped Walter Lantz in creating the studio's most famous character, Woody Woodpecker. Hardaway wrote or co-wrote most of the stories for the 1940–1950 Woody Woodpecker shorts, as well as supplying Woody's voice between 1944 and 1949.
[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
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Filmography (Movies)
Woody Woodpecker and Friends
Character:Various Voices
Release Date:02/01/1982
Wild and Woody!
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:31/12/1948
Wet Blanket Policy
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:27/08/1948
Woody the Giant Killer
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:15/12/1947
The Coo Coo Bird
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:09/06/1947
Smoked Hams
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:27/04/1947
Fair Weather Fiends
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:18/11/1946
The Reckless Driver
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:26/08/1946
Who's Cookin Who?
Character:Woody Woodpecker / Starvation (voice)
Release Date:23/06/1946
The Loose Nut
Character:Woody Woodpecker / Bull Dozer (voice)
Release Date:17/12/1945
The Dippy Diplomat
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:26/08/1945
Woody Dines Out
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:31/03/1945
Chew-Chew Baby
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:04/02/1945
Ski for Two
Character:Woody Woodpecker
Release Date:12/11/1944
The Beach Nut
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:15/10/1944
The Barber of Seville
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:21/04/1944
Ace in the Hole
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:21/06/1942
The Hollywood Matador
Character:Woody Woodpecker
Release Date:08/02/1942
Pantry Panic
Character:Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Release Date:23/11/1941
It's an Ill Wind
Character:Dizzy Duck
Release Date:27/01/1939
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