Events in 1907 in animation .
February 12 : Joseph Kearns , American actor (voice of the Doorknob in Alice in Wonderland 1962 ).February 18 : Billy De Wolfe , American actor (voice of Professor Hinkle in Frosty the Snowman 1974 ).[ 7] February 22 : Sheldon Leonard , American actor (voice of Dodsworth in Kiddin' the Kitten A Peck o' Trouble Sock-a-Doodle-Do Linus the Lionhearted 1997 ).[ 8] [ 9] February 26 : Dub Taylor , American actor (voice of Digger in The Rescuers 1994 ).[ 10] February 27 : Egon von Tresckow, German animator, illustrator, comics artist and caricaturist (worked for UFA and the films of Hans Fischerkoesen ), (d. 1952 ).[ 11] March 4 : Patrick McGeehan , American actor (voice of the Jimmy Durante buzzard in What's Buzzin' Buzzard Bad Luck Blackie Rock-a-Bye Bear ), (d. 1988 ).[ 12] March 5 : Thomas McKimson , American animator and cartoonist, designed Tweety (Warner Bros. Cartoons , Walt Disney Animation Studios ) (d. 1998 ).[ 13] [ 14] March 11 : Robert Bentley , American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons , Fleischer Studios , the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio , Walter Lantz Productions , UPA , Hanna-Barbera , Filmation ) (d. 2000 ).[ 15] [ 16] March 26 : Leigh Harline , American songwriter and composer (The Goddess of Spring Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pinocchio Mr. Bug Goes to Town 1969 ).March 31 : Dorothy Jones, American screenwriter and wife of Chuck Jones (Gay Purr-ee 1978 ).April 12 : Hardie Gramatky , American children's writer, illustrator, animator, and watercolorist, creator of Little Toot Walt Disney Animation Studios ), (d. 1979 ).[ 17] [ 18] [ 19] April 19 : Cecil Surry , American animator and cartoonist (Walt Disney Animation Studios , Walter Lantz Productions , Warner Bros. Cartoons , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio , UPA ) (d. 1956 ).[ 20] [ 21] [ 22] [ 23] August 8 : Virgil Walter Ross , American animator and cartoonist (Warner Bros. Cartoons , A Wild Hare 1996 ).[ 35] [ 36] [ 37] [ 38] [ 39] August 9 : Richard Bickenbach , American animator, layout artist, character designer, and cartoonist (Warner Bros. Cartoons , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio , Hanna-Barbera ), (d. 1994 ).[ 40] [ 41] August 12 : Joe Besser , American actor, comedian, and musician (voice of Babu in Jeannie Yogi's Space Race Galaxy Goof-Ups The Houndcats Shirt Tales The Smurfs 1988 ).[ 42] August 14 : Dick Lundy , American animator and film director and producer (Walt Disney Company , MGM , Walter Lantz , Hanna-Barbera , co-creator of Donald Duck ), (d. 1990 ).[ 43] [ 44] [ 45] [ 46] August 20 : Alan Reed , American voice actor (voice of Fred Flintstone in The Flintstones Touche Turtle and Dum Dum Lady and the Tramp 1977 ).[ 47] November 4 : Bennie Benjamin , Virgin Islands-born American songwriter (Fun and Fancy Free Melody Time 1989 ).[ 59] November 14 : Astrid Lindgren , Swedish children's book author and writer (creator of Pippi Longstocking 2002 ).[ 60] November 16 : Burgess Meredith , American actor (voice of Puff the Magic Dragon in a series of TV specials, Golobulus in G.I. Joe: The Movie 1997 ).[ 61] [ 62] November 17 : Les Clark , American animator and film director (Disney Studios ), (d. 1979 ).[ 63] [ 64] Specific date unknown [ edit ]
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