- BIRTH 21/05/1895
- DEATH 05/02/1957
- Country United States
- MOVIES 18
- DIRECTOR 16
- SCRIPT 43
Ben Hardaway
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]
Movies (18)
Director (16)
Porky's Hare Hunt
Gold Rush Daze
Busy Bakers
Hobo Gadget Band
Count Me Out
Porky the Gob
Porky and Teabiscuit
Bars and Stripes Forever
Hare-um Scare-um
Sioux Me
Fagin's Freshman
Rhythm in the Bow
Love and Curses
It's an Ill Wind
Porky the Giant Killer
Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
Script (43)
Wild and Woody!
Rabbit Every Monday
Playful Pelican
Woody the Giant Killer
Fish Fry
The Loose Nut
The Reckless Driver
Fair Weather Fiends
Wet Blanket Policy
Scrappy Birthday
The Beach Nut
Jack and the Beanstalk
Ration Bored
The Headless Horseman
Jack Frost
Old Mother Hubbard
Who's Cookin Who?
The Wacky Weed
Dog Tax Dodgers
Milk and Money
Woody Dines Out
The Dizzy Acrobat
The Barber of Seville
Daffy Duck & Egghead
The Woody Woodpecker Polka
Chew-Chew Baby
Apple Andy
Ski for Two
A Bone for a Bone
Confederate Honey
The Bear's Tale
The Penguin Parade
Knock Knock
Woody Woodpecker
Porky's Baseball Broadcast
Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
The Screwdriver
Pantry Panic
The Hollywood Matador
Ace in the Hole
The Loan Stranger
The Screwball
The Coo Coo Bird
