HAZELTON, Gene

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Birth/Death

Birth: June 3 1919
Death: April 6, 2005

Occupation/Title

Cartoonist/animator/Teacher

Bio Summary

Early Life/Family

Education/Training

Assistant to Cartoonist, Jimmy Halto on the syndicated newspaper panel "THEY’LL DO IT EVERY TIME"


Career Outline

-Fantasia
-Pinocchio
-Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs
-Tom & Jerry
-“Sindbad The Sailor” sequence for "Invitation to the Dance"
-Original animated intro-"I Love Lucy"
-Designed Pebbles and Bamm Bamm of the Flinstones cartoons
-Yogi Bear (newspaper)
-The Flintstones (newspaper)
-daily newspaper panel, "Angel Face"
-gag cartoons in magazines-"Colliers", "Esquire" and "The Saturday Evening Post"
-"Kid Carrots" comics

Comments On Style

Influences

Jimmy Hatlo-"They'll do it Every Time"
Harvey Eisenberg
Iwao Takamoto
Jerry Eisenberg
Willie Ito
Al Wiseman-"Dennis the Menace"

Personality

Anecdotes

Gene says, “Nobody wants to look at an ugly character.”

Miscellaneous

co-owner (with William Hanna) of his own ad agency, Trend Productions


Filmography

-Fantasia
-Pinocchio
-Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs
-Tom & Jerry
-“Sindbad The Sailor” sequence for "Invitation to the Dance"
-Original animated intro-"I Love Lucy"

Honors

Annie Award: Winsor McCay Award 2002


Related Links

Bibliographic References

-http://www.comicbookresources.com/
columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2003-07-08
-http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/
2005_04_09.html#009781

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