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Ben Hardaway
Belton, Missouri, USA
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 Am…
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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 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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1982
Woody Woodpecker and Friends
Movie Various Voices
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1951
The Woody Woodpecker Polka
Movie Story
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1951
A Bone for a Bone
Movie Story
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1951
Rabbit Every Monday
Movie Story
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1949
Scrappy Birthday
Movie Writer
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1948
Wild and Woody!
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice)
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1948
Dog Tax Dodgers
Movie Writer
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1948
Playful Pelican
Movie Writer
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1948
Wet Blanket Policy
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice)
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1948
Wacky-Bye Baby
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
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1948
Kiddie Koncert
Movie Story
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1947
Woody the Giant Killer
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice)
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1947
The Overture to 'William Tell'
Movie Writer
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1947
The Coo Coo Bird
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
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1947
Smoked Hams
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice)
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1946
The Wacky Weed
Movie Writer
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1946
Fair Weather Fiends
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice)
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1946
The Reckless Driver
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice)
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1946
Bathing Buddies
Movie Story
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1946
Who's Cookin Who?
Movie Woody Woodpecker / Starvation (voice)
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1946
Mousie Come Home
Movie Writer
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1946
Apple Andy
Movie Writer
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1946
Springtime for Thomas
Movie Story
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1946
Reddy Made Magic
Movie Screenplay
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1945
The Loose Nut
Movie Woody Woodpecker / Bull Dozer (voice)
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1945
The Dippy Diplomat
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice)
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1945
Woody Dines Out
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice)
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1945
Chew-Chew Baby
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
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1945
The Pied Piper of Basin Street
Movie Story
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1944
Ski for Two
Movie Woody Woodpecker
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1944
The Beach Nut
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice)
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1944
Fish Fry
Movie Story
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1944
The Barber of Seville
Movie Woody Woodpecker (voice)
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1943
Ration Bored
Movie Story
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1943
The Yankee Doodle Mouse
Movie Story
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1943
The Dizzy Acrobat
Movie Story
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1943
The Egg Cracker Suite
Movie Director
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1943
The Screwball
Movie Story
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1942
Boogie Woogie Sioux
Movie Writer
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1942
The Loan Stranger
Movie Story
