Ben Hardaway Net Worth is
$9 Million

Mini Biography

Animator, gag article writer, storyboard designer and movie director Ben Hardaway is fondly remembered for his important efforts to Warner Brothers cartoons so that as co-creator (with Walter Lantz) and tone of voice (1941-49) of Woody Woodpecker. Hardaway began like a cartoonist for the Kansas Town Celebrity in 1910. He noticed military support as an artillery sergeant beneath the control of Captain Harry S. Truman during Globe War I. During this time period he obtained the nickname ‘Insects’. After demobilisation, he resumed doing work for numerous mid-West papers. In 1922, Hardaway was employed from the Kansas Town Film Ad Organization and became carefully familiar with the popular pioneer animator Ub Iwerks. Iwerks ultimately relocated to Hollywood, and, in 1931, used Hardaway as a tale writer. He remained on for just two years, after that had a short spell with Disney. Ultimately, he resolved at Leon Schlesinger’s computer animation manufacturing plant at Warner Brothers, a studio room which permitted performers substantially greater creative freedom. The superb humour and satirical quality of his writing (for instance, Confederate Honey (1940), a hilarious send-up of Eliminated with the Blowing wind (1939), featuring Elmer Fudd as ‘Nett Cutler’ romancing ‘Crimson O’Hairoil’) ensured Hardaway’s rapid advancement to head from the story department. He also stuffed in as co-director of many Looney Music/Merrie Melodies shows during Friz Freleng’s three-year lengthy stint at MGM. Several highlighted Porky Pig. One of these, Porky’s Hare Hunt (1938), got as key protagonist an unnamed white rabbit developed by Robert Clampett. It appeared nothing like Pests Bunny and sounded and acted rather like Daffy Duck. In a short time, the rabbit reappeared in Hare-um Scare-um (1939) — today in familiar colors, but with fairly brief ears, wide buck tooth (but still sounding suspiciously like Daffy). On the corner from the model sheet with the initial sketching by Charles Thorson, Hardaway had written the name ‘Pests’. It stuck ,and therefore the well-known rabbit got its name — albeit officially just after the discharge of A Crazy Hare (1940). Hardaway discovered himself demoted after Freleng’s come back from MGM and departed Warner Brothers to mind up the tale section for Walter Lantz focusing on Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker cartoons.

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