Louie Haskall Lilly (February 26, 1909 – August 9, 1999) was an American

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and

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best known for his work on the ''

Looney Tunes ''Looney Tunes'' is an American Animated cartoon, animated comedy short film series produced by Warner Bros. starting from 1930 to 1969, concurrently with its partner series ''Merrie Melodies'', during the golden age of American animation.

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Merrie Melodies ''Merrie Melodies'' is an American animation, animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. starting in 1931, during the golden age of American animation, and ending in 1969. Then some new cartoons were produced from the late 197 ...

'' series of

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s from

Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. D ...

Awards

*1985 Golden Award

Filmography

*1947

Doctor Jim Doctor Jim is a 1947 American drama film directed by Lew Landers and starring Stuart Erwin. Oscar P. Yerg served as the art director for the film. Ben Winkler served as the sound engineer for the film. Cast *Stuart Erwin as Dr. James Gateson *B ...

*1945 Draftee Daffy *1944 Angel Puss *1942 The Wild and Woozy West *1942 Horton Hatches the Egg *1941 The Merry Mouse Cafe *1941 Dumb Like a Fox *1941 Kitty Gets the Bird *1941 It Happened to Crusoe *1940 Mouse Meets Lion *1940 Farmer Tom Thumb *1940 A Peep in the Deep *1940 The Pooch Parade *1939 Park Your Baby *1939 The Little Lost Sheep *1939 Golf Chumps *1938 The Lone Mountie *1938 Hot Dogs on Ice

Writer

*1951

Front Page Detective ''Front Page Detective'' is an American crime drama series which aired on the DuMont Television Network on Fridays at 9:30 p.m. ET from July 6, 1951, to September 19, 1952, and in October and November 1953. The program was then in broadcast ...

*1947

*1946 Speaking of Animals No. Y6-1: Stork Crazy *1946

The Lonesome Stranger The following list is a filmography of all animated short subjects distributed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) motion picture studio through Loew's Incorporated between 1930 and 1958 and between 1961 and 1967. Between 1937 and 1957, MGM ran an ...

*1945

Draftee Daffy ''Draftee Daffy'' is a 1945 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. The cartoon was released on January 27, 1945, and stars Daffy Duck. Plot Having read about the U.S. fighting forces pushing the Nazi German troops back du ...

*1944 Buckaroo Bugs *1944

Hare Ribbin' ''Hare Ribbin is a 1944 animated short film in the ''Merrie Melodies'' series, directed by Robert Clampett and featuring Bugs Bunny. The plot features Bugs' conflict with a red-haired hound dog, whom the rabbit sets out to evade and make a fool of ...

*1944

Angel Puss ''Angel Puss'' is a 1944 Warner Bros. '' Looney Tunes'' cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The short was released on June 3, 1944. The protagonist is a " Li'l Sambo" type blackface character who exhibited common racial stereotypes in speech, inte ...

(One of the

Censored Eleven The Censored Eleven is a group of '' Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' cartoons originally produced and released by Warner Bros. that were withheld from syndication in the United States by United Artists (UA) since 1968. UA owned the dis ...

) *1944 Russian Rhapsody

Director

*1946 Speaking of Animals No. Y6-1: Stork Crazy *1946

*1944

Who's Who in Animal Land ''Who's Who in Animal Land'' is a 1944 American short comedy film directed by Lou Lilly. In 1945, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel) at the 17th Academy Awards The 17th Academy Awards were held on March 15, 1945 at Grauman ...

*1942 The Wild and Woozy West *1941

Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm ''Down on the Farm'' is a 1941 American short animated film directed by Tex Avery as the first entry in the ''Speaking of Animals'' short film series which Avery created for Paramount Pictures. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 14th ...

*1941 Playing the Pied Piper

References

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* 1909 births 1999 deaths American animators American animated film directors Warner Bros. Cartoons people {{US-animator-stub