Harry Love (animator)
Harry Love (1 April 1911 – 27 February 1997) was an American animator.
Early life
Harry Love was born in 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, with a poor working-class family and his talent of drawing was showing at a young age. At the age of 14 he won the first of several gold prizes from local department stores. He graduated from school at the age of 16 and received a medal from Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. [1]
Career
Love began his career at the Ben Harrison and Manny Gould studio in 1927. At the time, he was so young (16 years old), that he could not legally sign his contract. He then worked at the Charles Mintz Studio in 1929. In 1932, he would move with Mintz to Los Angeles, which the studio would later become Screen Gems. Mintz acquired the rights to Krazy Kat, from William Randolph Hearst, which he wrote and directed 20 Krazy cartoons.[1][2][3] By 1950, he was receiving credit in Warner Bros. Cartoons, usually as an effects animator.[2] In 1954, he was involved in a car accident, which he lived shortly after it, and he said he was lucky to be alive. On February 1956, he had to have additional surgery for his injured leg, which took 2 days.[4] The naturalistic flash-and-smoke explosions in Warner's cartoons and many of the later DePatie-Freleng releases are his creations. In the 1970s, he worked mostly in film production up to his retirement after The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat. He was widely respected in the animation industry for his friendly personality plus his drafting, management and writing skills.[2]
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown - Production Coordinator
