Ben Hardaway
Writing
Born May 21, 1895 in Belton, Missouri, USA
Joseph Benson 'Ben' (a.k.a. 'Bugs') 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. While at the Leon Schlesinger / Warner Bros. studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway, in 1938, 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.
Filmography
Woody Woodpecker and Friends
Various Voices
The Woody Woodpecker Polka
A Bone for a Bone
Rabbit Every Monday
Scrappy Birthday
Wild and Woody!
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Dog Tax Dodgers
Wet Blanket Policy
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Wacky-Bye Baby
Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
Woody the Giant Killer
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
The Overture to 'William Tell'
The Coo Coo Bird
Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
Smoked Hams
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
The Wacky Weed
Fair Weather Fiends
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
The Reckless Driver
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Bathing Buddies
Who's Cookin Who?
Woody Woodpecker / Starvation (voice)
Mousie Come Home
Apple Andy
Springtime for Thomas
Reddy Made Magic
The Loose Nut
Woody Woodpecker / Bull Dozer (voice)
The Dippy Diplomat
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Woody Dines Out
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Chew-Chew Baby
Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
The Pied Piper of Basin Street
Ski for Two
Woody Woodpecker
The Beach Nut
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Fish Fry
The Barber of Seville
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Ration Bored
The Yankee Doodle Mouse
The Dizzy Acrobat
The Egg Cracker Suite
The Screwball
Boogie Woogie Sioux
The Loan Stranger
Yankee Doodle Swing Shift
Juke Box Jamboree
Ace in the Hole
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Nutty Pine Cabin
The Hollywood Matador
Woody Woodpecker
Pantry Panic
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company "B"
The Screwdriver
Woody Woodpecker
Hysterical Highspots in American History
Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
Knock Knock
Porky's Baseball Broadcast
The Bear's Tale
Confederate Honey
Busy Bakers
Breakdowns of 1939
Fagin's Freshman
Porky the Giant Killer
Sioux Me
Hare-um Scare-um
Hobo Gadget Band
Porky and Teabiscuit
Bars And Stripes Forever
Gold Rush Daze
It's an Ill Wind
Dizzy Duck
Count Me Out
Porky the Gob
Love and Curses
Porky's Hare Hunt
The Penguin Parade
Daffy Duck & Egghead
Milk and Money
The Merry Old Soul
Buddy in Africa
Buddy of the Legion
Old Mother Hubbard
Buddy's Pony Express
Buddy's Theatre
Jack Frost
Buddy the Dentist
Buddy's Adventures
Rhythm in the Bow
The Headless Horseman
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Buddy of the Apes
Buddy's Trolley Troubles
Buddy and Towser
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Bully
School Days
Puppy Love
What a Life
Fire! Fire!
The Milkman
Africa Squeaks