Ray Patterson (animator)
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Ray Patterson | |
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| Born | Raymond Patterson November 23, 1911 Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Died | December 30, 2001 (aged 90) Encino, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, writer |
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| Spouse | June Walker Patterson[1] |
| Children | four daughters[2] |
Raymond Patterson (November 23, 1911 – December 30, 2001) was an American animator, producer, and director. He was born in Hollywood, California, and was the younger brother of animator Don Patterson.
Career
[edit]Patterson's earliest works in animation were for Charles B. Mintz's Krazy Kat/Screen Gems studio, where he started as an inker in 1929. He remained at Mintz for eleven years.[3] In 1940, he moved to Walt Disney Productions, where he animated on Fantasia and Dumbo, as well as several Pluto shorts (Bone Trouble and Pluto's Playmate). By 1942, he mostly worked on Donald Duck shorts such as Donald Gets Drafted.
Patterson left Disney in 1941 during an animation strike. He would briefly reunite with Screen Gems, now creatively supervised by Frank Tashlin, before moving to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in 1943, with his first short for them being War Dogs, followed by Baby Puss, his debut on the Tom and Jerry series. While he mostly worked in the studio's Hanna-Barbera unit, he occasionally provided animation for Tex Avery's unit in the 1950s (as well as Avery's substitute director Dick Lundy). He worked on several Academy Award-winning animation shorts: Mouse Trouble (1944), Quiet Please! (1945), The Little Orphan (1948), and Johann Mouse (1952). Patterson (along with his colleague Irven Spence) would briefly leave MGM in the mid 40's. During this period, he would help organize and educate animators from David Hand's Gaumount British Animation Studio.[4] He and Spence would later move back to MGM in the late 40's.
Patterson left MGM permanently in 1953 and was briefly hired by Walter Lantz. He (alongside former Tex Avery animator Grant Simmons) would direct two shorts, Broadways Bow Wows and Dig that Dog.[4] Months afterwards, Patterson and Simmons left Walter Lantz Productions and co-founded their own studio, Grantray-Lawrence Animation, which he operated until 1967. GrantRay-Lawrence's early work was providing animation for television commercials, including the original "Winston Tastes Good" campaign. The company later moved on to producing such animated television series as Spider-Man and The Marvel Superheroes.[3]
After GrantRay-Lawrence folded in 1967, Patterson joined his former bosses at Hanna-Barbera, where he worked as a supervising director on several animated television series. Patterson was eventually promoted to vice president in charge of animation direction, a position he held until his retirement in 1993.
Patterson was awarded the 1999 Winsor McCay Award by the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood for his lifetime of contributions to the animation field.[2]
Personal life and death
[edit]Ray was married to June Walker Patterson. June worked at Disney as a cel painter.[5] They had four daughters.[2]
Patterson died of natural causes in Encino, California on December 30, 2001, a month after his 90th birthday.[3][2]
Filmography
[edit]Short films
[edit]| Year | Series | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Tom and Jerry | Baby Puss | animator |
| 1944 | The Zoot Cat | ||
| The Million Dollar Cat | |||
| The Bodyguard | |||
| Puttin' on the Dog | |||
| Mouse Trouble | |||
| 1945 | The Mouse Comes to Dinner | ||
| Mouse in Manhattan | |||
| Tee for Two | |||
| Flirty Birdy | |||
| Quiet Please! | |||
| 1946 | Springtime for Thomas | ||
| Solid Serenade | |||
| 1947 | Salt Water Tabby | ||
| 1948 | The Truce Hurts | ||
| Old Rockin' Chair Tom | |||
| Professor Tom | |||
| Mouse Cleaning | |||
| 1949 | Polka Dot Puss | ||
| The Little Orphan | |||
| Hatch Up Your Troubles | |||
| Heavenly Puss | |||
| The Cat and the Mermouse | |||
| Love That Pup | |||
| Tennis Chumps | |||
| 1950 | Little Quacker | ||
| Saturday Evening Puss | |||
| Texas Tom | |||
| Jerry and the Lion | |||
| Safety Second | |||
| Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl | |||
| The Framed Cat | |||
| Cueball Cat | |||
| 1951 | Casanova Cat | ||
| Jerry and the Goldfish | |||
| Jerry's Cousin | |||
| Sleepy-Time Tom | |||
| His Mouse Friday | |||
| Slicked-Up Pup | |||
| Nit-Witty Kitty | |||
| Cat Napping | |||
| 1952 | The Flying Cat | ||
| The Duck Doctor | |||
| Triplet Trouble | |||
| Little Runaway | |||
| Fit to Be Tied | |||
| Droopy | Caballero Droopy | ||
| Tom and Jerry | Cruise Cat | ||
| Barney Bear | The Little Wise Quacker | ||
| Tom and Jerry | The Dog House | ||
| 1953 | The Missing Mouse | ||
| Barney Bear | Barney's Hungry Cousin | ||
| Tom and Jerry | Johann Mouse | ||
| Little Johnny Jet | |||
| Tom and Jerry | That's My Pup! | ||
| T.V. of Tomorrow | |||
| Barney Bear | Wee-Willie Wildcat | ||
| Tom and Jerry | Just Ducky | ||
| Two Little Indians | |||
| Droopy | Three Little Pups | ||
| 1954 | Tom and Jerry | Posse Cat | |
| Droopy | Drag-A-Long Droopy | ||
| Tom and Jerry | Hic-cup Pup | ||
| Billy Boy | |||
| Tom and Jerry | Mice Follies | ||
| Neapolitan Mouse | |||
| Downhearted Duckling | |||
| 1955 | Pup on a Picnic | ||
| Mouse for Sale | |||
| The First Bad Man | |||
| Droopy | Deputy Droopy | ||
| Tom and Jerry | Pecos Pest | ||
| 1956 | The Egg and Jerry | ||
| 1957 | Tops with Pops | ||
| Feedin' the Kiddie |
Feature films
[edit]| Year | Title | Credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Fantasia | Animator - Segment "Dance of the Hours" | |
| 1941 | Dumbo | Animator | |
| 1946 | Holiday in Mexico | ||
| 1962 | Gay Purr-ee | ||
| 1964 | Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! | ||
| 1973 | Charlotte's Web | ||
| 1975 | Coonskin | ||
| 1986 | GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords | Director |
Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone | director | TV special |
| Scooby Goes Hollywood | TV movie | ||
| 1980 | The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling | TV special | |
| Yogi's First Christmas | TV movie | ||
| 1981 | The Flintstones: Jogging Fever | TV special | |
| 1982 | Christmas Comes to Pac-Land | TV special | |
| 1987 | Tis The Season to Be Smurfy | TV movie | |
| 1988 | Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf | TV movie | |
| 1993 | A Flintstone Family Christmas | TV movie |
References
[edit]- ^ Amidi, Amid (March 17, 2013). "93-Year-Old Cel Painter June Patterson Talks About the Disney Classics". Cartoon Brew.
- ^ a b c d Mallory, Michael (January 6, 2002). "Ray Patterson". Variety.
- ^ a b c "Ray Patterson, 90; Cartoon Animator of Tom and Jerry, Pluto". Los Angeles Times. January 9, 2002. pp. B–11.
- ^ a b "Irv Spence's "Rugged Rangers" |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
- ^ Zohn, Patricia (February 5, 2010). "The Women Animators and Inkers Behind Disney's Golden Age". Vanity Fair.
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- 2001 deaths
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- American animated film producers
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- Hanna-Barbera people
- People from Hollywood, Los Angeles
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