Jack Hannah
Animator, Film director
1913 – 1994
Who was Jack Hannah?
Jack Hannah was an animator, writer and director of animated shorts.
Hannah was born January 2, 1913, in Nogales, Arizona. He moved to Los Angeles in 1931 to study at the Art Guild Academy. One of his first jobs was designing movie posters for Hollywood theaters. In 1933, during the Great Depression, 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.
Hannah's career as an animator commenced with the short Modern Inventions. After thirteen films in that capacity, he was assigned to the story department writing cartoon short continuities, beginning with Donald's Nephews. He received writing credit on 21 Disney cartoon shorts.
In 1942 he collaborated with Carl Barks on the first two comic books Barks worked on, Pluto Saves the Ship and Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold. Hannah in subsequent years did a handful of other Donald Duck comic book stories but, unlike Barks, he stayed at the studio and eventually was given a chance to be a director. The short Donald's Off Day was the first of 94 films he would direct. These include most of the shorts featuring Donald Duck in the post-war era along with all starring Chip 'n Dale and Humphrey the Bear; he also directed some shorts starring Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Pluto and some minor Walt Disney characters.
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- Born
- Jan 2, 1913
Nogales - Also known as
- John F. Hannah
- John Frederick Hannah
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 11, 1994
Burbank
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on July 23, 2013
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