hawley, pratt, hawley, pratt, june, 1911, march, 1999, american, film, director, animator, illustrator, best, known, work, warner, bros, cartoons, right, hand, director, friz, freleng, layout, artist, later, director, pratt, also, worked, walt, disney, studios. Hawley B Pratt June 9 1911 March 4 1999 was an American film director animator and illustrator He is best known for his work for Warner Bros Cartoons and as the right hand man of director Friz Freleng as a layout artist and later as a director Pratt also worked for Walt Disney Studios Filmation and DePatie Freleng Enterprises where he co created The Pink Panther Hawley PrattBorn 1911 06 09 June 9 1911Seattle WashingtonU S DiedMarch 4 1999 1999 03 04 aged 87 Thousand Oaks CaliforniaU S Years active1933 1990SpouseCecelia Pratt m 1933 died 1990 wbr 1 Contents 1 Life and career 2 Awards 3 References 4 External linksLife and career EditBorn in Seattle and raised in the Bronx by his widowed mother Mabel 2 Pratt graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn He became an artist at Walt Disney Studios in 1933 before joining Warner Bros Cartoons along with fellow animators Bill Melendez Maurice Noble Cornett Wood and Jack Bradbury after the Disney animators strike in 1941 1 At Warners he served as a layout artist providing background layouts and character poses from 1945 to the early 1960s Working closely with director Friz Freleng Pratt s Warner Bros resume includes the Oscar winning cartoons Tweetie Pie which introduced the duo of Sylvester and Tweety Speedy Gonzales where Freleng and Pratt redesigned the character into his modern incarnation and Birds Anonymous Pratt directed Senorella and the Glass Huarache a Looney Tune released in 1964 after the studio closed its animation division 3 Pratt briefly worked at the Hanna Barbera studio with Freleng before the two moved to DePatie Freleng Enterprises They created the Pink Panther character for the animated title sequence of the 1963 feature film of the same name though Pratt is often solely credited for the character s creation 4 3 While there he directed or co directed all episodes of The Pink Panther Show Pratt made his directorial effort in the 1966 short The Pink Blueprint which received an Oscar nomination for Best Short Subject Cartoon His other directorial works also include three Roland and Rattfink shorts The Super 6 and three Dr Seuss television specials The Cat in the Hat and Dr Seuss on the Loose and The Lorax 3 Pratt also served as an associate director as well as animator of the 1964 Warner Bros film The Incredible Mr Limpet Pratt later worked with former Warner Bros colleague Bill Melendez on CBS Saturday morning series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show His final design credit would come in 1990 on Hanna Barbera s Jetsons The Movie 1 Pratt s amazing animation skills also encouraged him to illustrate several Little Golden Books and Big Golden Books Pratt died on March 4 1999 5 Awards EditGolden Award 1992References Edit a b c Hawley B Pratt Retired Animator Los Angeles Times 1999 03 07 Retrieved 18 September 2022 U S Census 1920 a b c Baxter Devon January 4 2017 Comics by Hawley Pratt Cartoon Research Baxter Devon August 3 2016 The Pink Panther In The Pink 1967 Cartoon Research Animation World News In Passing 2002 03 28 Archived from the original on 2002 03 28 Retrieved 2019 08 23 External links EditHawley Pratt at IMDb The Man Behind the Pencil Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hawley Pratt amp oldid 1133378684, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
