Emery Hawkins
Emery Hawkins | |
|---|---|
| Born | Emery Otis Hawkins April 30, 1912 Jerome, Arizona, U.S. |
| Died | June 1, 1989 (aged 77) Taos, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Other names | Emory Hawkins |
| Occupation(s) | Animator, Director |
| Years active | 1930–1982 |
| Employer(s) | Walter Lantz Productions (1930, 1942–1945) Screen Gems (1932–1937, 1941–1942) MGM Cartoons (1937–1938) Walt Disney Animation Studios (1938–1941, 1945–1946) Warner Bros. Cartoons (1946–1950) John Sutherland Prodctions (1952–1959) Dibujos Animados (1954) Storyboard Inc. (1955[1]–1958, 1966) Richard Williams Productions (1975–1982) |
| Spouse(s) |
Mary Angeline Felton
(m. 1938; div. 1958)Odette Alice Flood (m. 1958) |
| Children | 3 |
Emery Otis Hawkins (April 30, 1912 – June 1, 1989) was an American animator, best known for his work during the Golden age of American animation, working in various studios in the industry.
Early life and career
Emery Otis Hawkins was born in Jerome, Arizona to Charles Thomas Hawkins, who was an all-round cowboy for two years and to Frances Elizabeth Bruce, who was a painter. He started drawing when he was two years old and his family had a lot of history with artistic careers, including his aunts. He went to North Hollywood High School but was a college dropout. Hawkins always animated on flipbooks. At the age of 16 in 1928, he did an animation of a clown walking and dancing, showed it to Disney, and they thought it was a copy of their animation.[2][3]
Hawkins begun his career in the animation industry as an inker at the Walter Lantz studio in 1930, although the job only lasted a few months due to him not liking how they animated, before moving to the Charles Mintz studio in 1932 as an assistant animator, where he would later be promoted to animator. He would then work at MGM in 1937 and then moved to The Walt Disney Company in 1938 due to him not being fond of Friz Freleng's directing style, but would leave in 1941 during the Disney animators' strike because his colleagues were doing it. Despite the staff saying they'll never talk to him again if he "goes past the picket line", Hawkins did it anyway, later admitting he didn't know why he went on strike. Initially going back to Mintz' Studio (now renamed Screen Gems), he would later move to Walter Lantz Productions, where he would co-redesign their flagship character Woody Woodpecker with Art Heinemann.[2][4][3][5]
Later in 1946 he would move to Warner Bros. Cartoons to animate for Arthur Davis, Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, and his old colleague Freleng up until 1950.[5] Hawkins later worked in John Sutherland Productions as well as working and directing the 1954 Mexican cartoon Manolin Torero with his former colleague Pat Matthews. He did commericals for various companies from the 1950s to the 1970s.[6][7][8][2]
Later Career and Death
Hawkins later years has him working in Richard Williams' animation studio in 1975. There he worked on the Greedy scene in Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure with assistant animator Dan Haskett (who disliked the job),[9] as well as animating The Thief and the Cobbler, that latter which he worked with other colleges he knew in the industry, such as Ken Harris and Grim Natwick. The film itself wouldn't see an official release until 1993, and Hawkins animation was cut from the film entirely.[1]
Hawkins developed Alzheimer's disease in his later years and was forced to retire.[1] He died in 1989 at the age of 77.
List of animated works
- The Captain and the Kids (1938–1939) (character animation)
- Count Screwloose (1939) (character animation)
- Donald Duck (1939–1948) (character animation)
- Woody Woodpecker (1940s) (character animation) (co-directed: Ration Bored) (character design: Ration Bored)
- Andy Panda (1940s) (character animation)
- Swing Symphony (1940s) (character animation) (co-direction: The Egg Cracker Suite) (character design: The Egg Cracker Suite)
- Mickey Mouse (1941) (character animation)
- Looney Tunes (1947–early 1950s) (character animation)
- Merrie Melodies (1946–early 1950s) (character animation)
- The Bugs Bunny Show (1960) (character animator)
- The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (1968) (character animation)
- Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971) (graphic blandishment)
- Snoopy Come Home (1972) (graphic blandishment)
- Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977) (animated The Greedy) [9]
- The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980) (character animation)
- Gnomes (film) (1980) (character animation)
- The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) (character animation)
- Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983) (character animation)
- The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986) (character animation)
- Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) (character animation)
- The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) (lead character animator)
References
- ^ a b c Baxter, Devon (2022-08-14). "Pegbar Profile: Emery Hawkins (Part 3)". Retrieved 2022-08-14.
- ^ a b c Emery Hawkins Interview
- ^ a b Baxter, Devon (2022-08-12). "Pegbar Profile: Emery Hawkins". Retrieved 2022-08-12.
- ^ Hollywood cartoons : American animation in its golden age (1999); pg. 376
- ^ a b Baxter, Devon (2022-08-13). "Pegbar Profile: Emery Hawkins (Part 2)". Retrieved 2022-08-13.
- ^ U.S. Information Agency. (8/24/1982 – 10/1/1999) (1982–1999). Manolin the Bullfighter (Manolin El Torero) – 1962. Series: Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities , 1900–2003.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Commercials Animated by Emery Hawkins and Herman Cohen
- ^ Porky and Daffy in “Boobs In The Woods” (1950)
- ^ a b Emery Hawkins Greedy animation from “Raggedy Ann and Andy”