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Ben Hardaway (Joseph Benson Hardaway) was born on 21 May, 1895 in Belton, Missouri, U.S., is an American film director (1895–1957). Discover Ben Hardaway's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

Popular As Joseph Benson Hardaway
Occupation Storyboard artist animator voice actor gagman writer director
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 21 May, 1895
Birthday 21 May
Birthplace Belton, Missouri, U.S.
Date of death 5 February, 1957
Died Place Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1895

Joseph Benson Hardaway (May 21, 1895 – February 5, 1957) was an American storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer and director for several American animation studios during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation.

He was sometimes credited as J. B. Hardaway, Ben Hardaway, B. Hardaway and Bugs Hardaway.

1917

Hardaway enlisted in World War I on June 4, 1917, and was discharged on April 9, 1919, serving for 26 months in total.

1930

While at the Schlesinger/Warner Bros. studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway served as a storyman.

He co-directed several Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts with Cal Dalton during Friz Freleng's two-year exodus to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Producer Leon Schlesinger needed a replacement for Freleng, and Hardaway's previous experience in the job resulted in his promotion.

1937

He started receiving film credits in 1937.

His writing credits include Daffy Duck & Egghead and The Penguin Parade.

1938

In 1938, Hardaway co-directed Porky's Hare Hunt, the first film to feature a rabbit.

When this unnamed, embryonic rabbit was given a new model sheet for a later short, since, according to Chuck Jones, Hardaway "didn't draw it very well", designer Charlie Thorson inadvertently offered a permanent name by titling the model sheet "Bugs' Bunny" since it was meant for Hardaway's unit.

By the time the rabbit was redesigned and refined for the film A Wild Hare, the name was already being used in relation to the character in studio publicity materials.

1939

When Freleng left MGM to return to Warner Bros. in 1939, Hardaway was demoted back to storyman.

1940

In 1940, Hardaway joined the staff of Walter Lantz Productions, where he helped Walter Lantz in creating the studio's most famous character, Woody Woodpecker.

Hardaway wrote or co-wrote most of the stories for the Woody Woodpecker shorts between late 1940 and early 1951, as well as supplying Woody's voice between 1944 and 1949 (sources claiming that Hardaway was the first person to succeed Mel Blanc as Woody's voice after Blanc signed an exclusive contract with Warner Bros. are incorrect: Danny Webb, Kent Rogers, and Dick Nelson provided the voice of Woody between Blanc and Hardaway).

1943

The name Bugs' Bunny shows up in comics and merchandise as late as 1943.

1944

Shamus Culhane, the director of most of the Woody cartoons between 1944 and 1946, thought Hardaway's humor was crude and formulaic.

Nevertheless, the collaboration worked, and many consider this the golden era of Woody cartoons.

1949

He was led in the 129th Field Artillery Regiment by future President of the United States Harry S. Truman, in which he attended his reception planned by Forrest Smith at the Shoreham Hotel in 1949 and his inauguration, following him being re-elected.

Hardaway served the last 14 months of his service in France.

Hardaway started his career at the Kansas City Post as a cartoonist before eventually going into the animation business, working for the Kansas City Film Ad Service.

He later worked for the Walt Disney Animation Studios and the Ub Iwerks Studio, after which Hardaway was hired by the Leon Schlesinger studio as a gagman for the Friz Freleng unit.

He was promoted to director for seven Buddy animated shorts.

Afterwards he resumed working as a gagman and storyman.

During his second year at Lantz, he wrote the story for Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat; in February 1949, Universal withdrew it from reissue due to multiple complaints from the NAACP for its racist stereotypes of African-Americans.

1957

Hardaway died from cancer at the age of 61 on February 5, 1957, supposedly as a result of a long-term effect of exposure to chemical weapons during World War I. Most obituaries in newspapers misstated his age as 66, even though he was born in 1895; they noted his creations Bugs Bunny and Woody Woodpecker.

The last project he worked on was Adventures of Pow Wow, although he only wrote four episodes, which have lost audio.

2012

He fought in World War I in the 129th Field Artillery Regiment, Battery D.