John Frederick Hannah was an American animator, writer and director of animated shorts.
10 Facts About Jack Hannah
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Jack Hannah was born on January 5,1913, in Nogales, Arizona.
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Jack Hannah moved to Los Angeles in 1931 to study at the Art Guild Academy.
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In 1933, during the Great Depression, Jack Hannah dropped off his portfolio at Walt Disney Studios, and soon afterward was hired as an in-between and clean-up artist, working on Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Silly Symphony cartoons.
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Jack Hannah received writing credit on 21 Disney cartoon shorts.
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Jack Hannah then went to Walter Lantz Productions and directed a number of films featuring Woody Woodpecker and some minor characters.
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Besides directing shorts, Jack Hannah was assistant director for the television series The Woody Woodpecker Show, which began airing on October 3,1957.
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In 1975, Hannah was one of the co-founders, along with T Hee, of the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Jack Hannah is often credited with developing, if not creating, the personality of the animated version of Donald Duck.
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Jack Hannah died from cancer in Burbank, California on June 11,1994, at age 81.