Ben Hardaway
Writing
Born 1895-05-21
Died 1957-02-05
Belton, Missouri, USA
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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.
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Filmography
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Writing
48 credits
Fire! Fire!
Confederate Honey
Africa Squeaks
Chew-Chew Baby
Puppy Love
Bathing Buddies
Woody Woodpecker
School Days
The Yankee Doodle Mouse
Playful Pelican
The Bully
Daffy Duck & Egghead
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Springtime for Thomas
Wild and Woody!
A Bone for a Bone
What a Life
The Screwdriver
Knock Knock
Jack Frost
Milk and Money
Kiddie Koncert
Dog Tax Dodgers
Pantry Panic
The Headless Horseman
Who's Cookin Who?
Ace in the Hole
The Reckless Driver
Ration Bored
Scrappy Birthday
Fish Fry
Fair Weather Fiends
The Bear's Tale
Woody Dines Out
The Penguin Parade
The Loose Nut
The Milkman
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Barber of Seville
The Woody Woodpecker Polka
Rabbit Every Monday
The Dizzy Acrobat
Mousie Come Home
Ski for Two
Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
Buddy and Towser
Buddy's Trolley Troubles
The Dippy Diplomat
Acting
14 credits
Chew-Chew Baby
Wild and Woody!
Pantry Panic
Who's Cookin Who?
Woody Woodpecker and Friends
Ace in the Hole
The Reckless Driver
Fair Weather Fiends
Wacky-Bye Baby
Woody Dines Out
The Loose Nut
The Barber of Seville
Ski for Two
The Dippy Diplomat
Directing
10 credits
Busy Bakers
Sioux Me
Breakdowns of 1939
Count Me Out
The Egg Cracker Suite
Hare-um Scare-um
Porky the Gob
Buddy in Africa
Fagin's Freshman
Buddy of the Legion
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