Joseph Barbera
Joseph Roland Barbera (born March 24, 1911 in New York City , † December 18, 2006 in Los Angeles ) was an American animator and producer. His parents came from Sicily .
Barbera initially sold cartoons to various magazines as a part-time job in the 1920s . He then worked as a gag writer for an animation studio. He began his first work as an animator in 1931.
In 1937 he went to MGM . Here he met William Hanna . Together they created the adventures of Tom and Jerry as well as the Flintstones family , The Jetsons , Scooby Doo , Hucky and his friends , Yogi Bear , The Crazy Holidays , the Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series (consisting of Wally Gator, Touché Turtle & Dum Dum, Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har) and the Atom Ant / Secret Squirrel Show , a compilation of different cartoon series (Atom Ant, Secret Squirrel, Squiddly Diddly, Precious Pupp, The Hillbilly Bears and Winsome Witch). In 1955 he founded the Hanna-Barbera-Studios with Hanna .
Joseph Barbera died in Los Angeles on December 18, 2006, at the age of 95, five years after his colleague William Hanna .
Fonts
- My Life in 'toons. From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century. Turner Pub, Nashville 1995, ISBN 978-1-57036-042-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Barbera in the catalog of the German National Library
- Joseph Barbera in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hanna Barbera website (part of the Warner Bros. website)
- Obituaries
- Dave Itzkoff: Joseph Barbera, Half of Cartoon Duo, Dies at 95 . New York Times , December 19, 2006 (English)
- Andreas Platthaus : Joseph Barbera is dead: the strong are most powerful in pairs. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 19, 2006, archived from the original on February 2, 2012 ; Retrieved July 10, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dennis Wepman: Barbera, Joseph . American National Biography , accessed July 10, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barbera, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barbera, Joseph Roland (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American animator and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 2006 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |