Alex Lovy | |
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| Born | Alexander Lovy (1913-09-02)September 2, 1913[1] |
| Died | February 14, 1992(1992-02-14) (aged 78) Valencia, California, United States |
| Occupation | Animator |
| Years active | 1933–1992 |
| Employer(s) | The Van Beuren Corporation (1933–1936)[2] Walter Lantz Productions (1937–1942; 1955–1959)[3] Screen Gems (1947–1948) Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. (1959–1967; 1968–1992) Warner Bros. (1967–1968) |
| Known for | director atWalter Lantz Productions Producer atHanna-Barbera supervised atWarner Bros. |
Alexander Lovy (September 2, 1913 – February 14, 1992) was an Americananimator. He spent the majority of his career as an animator anddirector atWalter Lantz Productions. He was later a producer atHanna-Barbera, and also supervised the cartoon unit atWarner Bros. during its final days.
Born inPassaic, New Jersey,[4] Lovy's early career was spent as a comic artist atDC Comics.[5] Later, he became an animator at the Lantz studio in the late 1930s. His first credit as a director was forFeed the Kitty in 1938. Studio headWalter Lantz was taking a hiatus from directing at this time, this gave Lovy an opportunity to direct many of the studio's shorts in the 1938–1940 period. He stepped down to become an animator in 1940 after Lantz reverted to being director. However, he continued to play an important role in the production of the shorts, and stepped up to being the studio's lead director ofWoody Woodpecker shorts when Lantz retired from directing in 1942. The following year, however, Lovy wasdrafted into the US Navy and left the studio;Shamus Culhane in the meantime replaced Lovy.
After the end ofWorld War II, Lovy worked briefly forColumbia Pictures' cartoon unit,Screen Gems, directing five shorts before it was closed down, and in 1955 made his return to the Lantz studio, initially to finish some cartoons thatTex Avery had produced during a brief stint as director there.[6] He carried on directing at the Lantz studio until the end of the decade, at which point he moved over to Hanna-Barbera. There, he worked mainly as a producer and storyboard artist, and often supervised the studio's voice recording sessions. In 1967, Lovy moved to the newly re-opened Warner Bros. cartoon studio, where he created the charactersCool Cat[7] andMerlin the Magic Mouse,[8] in addition to directing cartoons with classic charactersDaffy Duck andSpeedy Gonzales. After just over a year at Warner Bros., Lovy returned to Hanna-Barbera, and worked there in various capacities until shortly before his death on Valentine's Day, 1992.
According toWalter Lantz, Lovy wasambidextrous, and could draw two storyboards at the same time, one with each hand.
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