John Fredrick 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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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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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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Jack Hannah retired shortly thereafter and replaced by Sid Marcus, who co-directed the Woody Woodpecker short Greedy Gabby Gator, released in 1963 with Jack Hannah as co-director with Sid Marcus, who directed at Lantz until 1967.
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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.
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Jack Hannah is survived by his wife and two children.