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• Avery, Tex    b. February 26, 1908  d. August 26, 1980
  Cartoon Animator, Director. Primarily worked for the Walter Lantz Studios. Created the memorable cartoon characters "Daffy Duck", "Droopy", "Screwy Squirrel", and "Chilly Willy". He is also credited with creating the personality of "Bugs Bunny", and was the one who coined the phrase "What's up, doc?" (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Gentleness, L-833
   
• Blanc (Blank), Mel (Melvin Jerome)    b. May 30, 1908  d. July 10, 1989
  Voice Actor. His career spanned radio, movies and television starting in the early 1930's and even continued after his death into 2000. A television commercial for American Express charge card was revived after his death. His birth and death years appeared on the bottom of the screen at the end of the commercial, both to promote their card, and pay tribute to Mel Blanc. The rarely seen voice innovator even did sound effects. He literally performed in over a thousand shows. Some of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Hollywood Forever, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Garden of the Exodus (formerly Pineland, Section 13), L-149, next to the road
   
• Clampett, Bob    b. May 8, 1913  d. May 2, 1984
  Renowned American animator of the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. Well-known for his innovative and influencial drawing style and animation directing. Worked for Warner Bros. for many years until producing the popular "Beany and Cecil" series of cartoons for television. (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Murmuring Trees, L-6891
  GPS coordinates: 34.1457710, -118.3229065 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Freleng, Isadore 'Friz'    b. August 21, 1906  d. May 26, 1995
  Cartoon Animator. He worked for Warner Brothers Animation Department for thirty years. He won five academy awards for his animated work. His work includes 'The Pink Panther,' 'Tweety Bird,' and 'Yosemite Sam.'
  Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Canaan Section E-249
   
• Hardaway, Ben 'Bugs'    b. May 21, 1895  d. February 5, 1957
  Classic animation director, writer, and voice actor. He supplied the voice of Woody Woodpecker in many cartoon shorts. Nicknamed "Bugs," he was instrumental in naming the character "Bugs Bunny" when, while working on the film short "Hare-um, Scare-um," an animator handed him a model sheet of the rabbit character. On the top of the paper, the animator had written the words "Bugs' bunny." The name instantly stuck and a legend was begun. (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Enduring Faith, L-4093, G-1
  GPS coordinates: 34.1472206, -118.3252029 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Jones, Chuck   b. September 21, 1912  d. February 22, 2002
  Influential Animator. Born Charles Martin Jones in Spokane, Washington, his family moved to California while he was still an infant. As a boy, he found occasional work as a child extra in Mack Sennett comedies. At fifteen, he enrolled in the Chouinard Art Institute before he got his first job in animation as a cel washer for Ubbe Iwerks in 1932. Four years later, he was promoted to an animator working for Leon Schlesinger Studio, where his animation unit, nicknamed Termite Terrace, made the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
  Cremated, Ashes scattered at sea
   
• Maltese, Michael    b. February 6, 1908  d. February 22, 1981
  Renowned cartoon writer for Warner Brothers Looney Toons Classic Animation and Hanna-Barbera Animation. He worked for famed cartoon directors Isadore "Friz" Freleng and Tex Avery, but he did his most memorable work with legendary animator Chuck Jones. With Jones, Maltese...[Read More] (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
  San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Section F, Tier 49, Grave 51
   
• McKimson, Robert    b. October 13, 1910  d. September 27, 1977
  Motion picture and television director of the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Brother of animator Charles McKimson. (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Whispering Pines, L-1234, space 4
   
• Schlesinger, Leon    b. May 20, 1884  d. December 25, 1949
  Motion Picture Producer. The man behind Warner Bros. cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s, he oversaw the creation of such iconic characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Schlesinger was born in Philadelphia. He started out in show business as a theatre usher and worked his way up to head of Pacific Art and Title, which crafted title cards for silent films. Talkies put a dent in his business and in 1930 he made a deal with animators Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising to produce...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Hollywood Forever, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
  Plot: Beth Olam Mausoleum, T-5-2, #1275
   

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