Rudolf Ising

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Title card from Bosko's Parlor Pranks , a Harman-Ising production for MGM from 1934

Rudolf Carl Ising (born August 7, 1903 in Kansas City , Missouri , † July 18, 1992 in Newport Beach , California ) was an American producer and director of animated films , who made numerous well-known cartoon films , particularly while working with Hugh Harman turned.

biography

Ising first began in the early 1920s as animators at a film version of Little Red Riding Hood as a cartoon - short film entitled Little Red Riding Hood (1922) and was in the mid-1920s not only signatory Another fairy tale cartoons, but cinematographer an animated series so-called Alice cartoons, which were made under the direction of Walt Disney between 1923 and 1927.

At the end of the 1920s, he became active as a director and producer of animated films and by the mid-1940s had created around 100 cartoons and short documentary films.

At the Academy Awards in 1936 , he and Hugh Harman were first nominated for the Oscar for best animated short film for In the Land of Stuffed Animals from 1935. He and Harman received the second Oscar nomination in this category in 1937 for The Old Mill Pond (1936).

The successful cooperation of the duo Harman-Ising in the Looney Tunes of Warner Bros. continued even after the departure of Warner Bros. in 1934 by another for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced cartoons continued. Other partners during this time were Leon Schlesinger from Warner Bros., for whom he created the cartoon character " Bosko " together with Harman , and Walter Lantz . The end of the 1930s, he also worked at the Silly-Simphonies films of Walt Disney Company with.

Other well-known films that were directed or produced by him were He caught me again (1932), the first film by the cartoon duo Tom and Jerry called Jerry's too colorful (1940), The Milky Way (1940) and Barney Bear as a Recruit (1941).

He was later awarded twice for his life's work: on the one hand in 1988 with the Winsor McCay Award , which is presented as part of the Annie Award ceremony , and on the other hand in 1988 with the Golden Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Award.

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SURNAME Ising, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ising, Rudolf Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American animator, film producer and director
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1992
Place of death Newport Beach , California