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Bob Kuwahara
Tokyo, Japan
From Wikipedia: Japanese-born American animator best known for his work with Walt Disney and Terrytoons between the 1930s and 1960s. Kuwahara was born in Tokyo on August 12, 190…
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From Wikipedia: Japanese-born American animator best known for his work with Walt Disney and Terrytoons between the 1930s and 1960s. Kuwahara was born in Tokyo on August 12, 1901, and his family moved to the United States in 1910, where he graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School in 1921. After high school he attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles until 1928. In 1929 Kuwahara moved to New York City to work as a commercial artist, but the stock market crash later that year forced him to return to Los Angeles. In 1932 Kuwahara began working as an animator and writer for Walt Disney, where he had a hand in shorts like Thru the Mirror and the Academy Award-nominated Who Killed Cock Robin?, as well as the feature-length film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In 1937 Kuwahara went to work for MGM, but later spent three years in the Heart Mountain internment camp during World War II. In 1945 Kuwahara and his family moved to Larchmont, New York where he wrote and drew a comic strip called Miki for five years before low circulation forced him to drop the strip. In 1950 Kuwahara returned to animation, signing on with Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio, and stayed with the studio following CBS' purchase of the studio in 1955. In 1959 Kuwahara wrote and directed the first of 14 Hashimoto-san theatrical shorts, for which he is probably best remembered today. Production of these shorts continued until 1963, after which time they were incorporated into CBS' The Hector Heathcote Show. During the same period Kuwahara was also a director for the popular Deputy Dawg series. Kuwahara's final TV series was 1965's syndicated The Astronut Show.
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1971
Oscar's Birthday Present
Movie Director
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1970
Martian Moochers
Movie Director
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1966
The Cowardly Watchdog
Movie Director
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1966
Champion Chump
Movie Director
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1965
The Invisibeam
Movie Director
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1964
Hokey Home Movies
Movie Director
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1964
Search For Misery
Movie Director
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1963
Spooky-Yaki
Movie Director
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1963
A Bell for Philadelphia
Movie Director
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1963
Cherry Blossom Festival
Movie Director
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1963
Obnoxious Obie
Movie Director
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1963
Pearl Crazy
Movie Director
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1963
Tea House Mouse
Movie Director
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1963
The Square Planet
Movie Director
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1962
Big Chief No Treaty
Movie Director
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1962
Honorable Paint in the Neck
Movie Director
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1962
Loyal Royalty
Movie Director
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1962
Honorable Family Problem
Movie Director
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1962
Where There's Smoke
Movie Director
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1961
Sappy New Year
Movie Story
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1959
Hashimoto-San
Movie Writer
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1959
Foofle's Train Ride
Movie Animation
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1958
Gaston, Go Home
Movie Writer
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1958
Gaston's Baby
Movie Writer
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1957
It's a Living
Movie Story
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1957
Gag Buster
Movie Writer
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1957
Topsy TV
Movie Story
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1957
Gaston Is Here
Movie Writer
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1950
The Fox Hunt
Movie Writer
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1939
Jitterbug Follies
Movie Background Designer
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1936
More Kittens
Movie Story
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1936
Toby Tortoise Returns
Movie Storyboard
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1936
Thru the Mirror
Movie Story
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1936
Three Little Wolves
Movie Storyboard
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1934
Mickey's Steam Roller
Movie Animation
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1934
The Hot Choc-late Soldiers
Movie Animation
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1933
Lullaby Land
Movie Animation
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1933
Father Noah's Ark
Movie Animation
