"Frederick Avery" redirects here. For the Canadian politician, see Frederick Harold Avery.
Tex Avery
Avery c. 1940s
Born
Frederick Bean Avery
(1908-02-26)February 26, 1908
Taylor, Texas, U.S.
Died
August 26, 1980(1980-08-26) (aged 72)
Burbank, California, U.S.
Resting place
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills
Other names
Fred Avery Texas Avery
Occupation(s)
Animator, director
Years active
1928–1980
Employers
Winkler Pictures (1928–1929)
Walter Lantz Productions (1929–1935, 1953–1955)
Leon Schlesinger Productions (1935–1941)
MGM (1941–1953)
Cascade Studios (1955–1978)
Hanna-Barbera (1979–1980)
Spouse
Patricia Avery
(m. 1935; div. 1972)
Children
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Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (/ˈeɪvəri/; February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor. He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, The Wolf, Red Hot Riding Hood, and George and Junior.
He gained influence for his technical innovation, directorial style and brand of humor. Avery's attitude toward animation was opposite that of Walt Disney and other conventional family cartoons at the time. Avery's cartoons were known for their sarcastic, ironic, absurdist, irreverent, and sometimes sexual tone in nature. They focused on sight gags, surrealist humor, rapid pacing, racial stereotypes, and violent humor, with wacky characters who broke the fourth wall.
^"Tralfaz: Cartoons of 1950, Part 1". November 7, 2015.
Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (/ˈeɪvəri/; February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor. He was known...
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TexAvery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor, and director. He became famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden age of American...
1943 by TexAvery for theatrical cartoon shorts produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. Essentially the polar opposite of Avery's other MGM...
an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic squirrel created by TexAvery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Among some of the more outrageous cartoon characters...
Paul Smith for the Walter Lantz studio in 1953, and developed further by TexAvery in the two subsequent films following Smith's debut entry. The character...
and Otis. The naming of the Avery family pays homage to TexAvery as its patriarch and the film's protagonist, Tim Avery, wants to be a cartoonist. The...
Little Pigs told via a World War II perspective, the short was directed by TexAvery (in his first cartoon for MGM) and produced by Fred Quimby. It was nominated...
of Hanna-Barbera and TexAvery. The series halted abruptly again when MGM closed Lah and Blair's unit. Later in 1950, TexAvery briefly left MGM to take...
Red Hot Riding Hood is an animated cartoon short subject, directed by TexAvery and released with the movie Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case on May 8, 1943...
However, the shorts gained a higher profile upon the debuts of directors TexAvery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, and Bob Clampett and voice actor Mel Blanc...
primarily as a member of TexAvery's animation unit. He first worked on Tom and Jerry shorts before going to work on Droopy/TexAvery shorts. Lah was born...
anthropomorphic bears created by TexAvery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. All of the George and Junior shorts were directed by TexAvery in the 1940s. They appeared...
Blanc (MM, TexAvery) Little Red Walking Hood - voiced by Mel Blanc (MM, TexAvery) The Isle of Pingo Pongo - voiced by Mel Blanc (MM, TexAvery) Cinderella...
directed the largest number of cartoons on the list with four, followed by TexAvery with three, and Bob Clampett with only two. Rudolf Ising, like Jones,...
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