1912 in animation

Events in 1912 in animation.

• January – How a Mosquito Operates (United States)
• 27 October – The Cameraman's Revenge (Russia)

• January 12: Sara Berner, American actress (original voice of Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, Red in Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood and Swing Shift Cinderella , the canary in King-Size Canary and the mother of WB's Beaky Buzzard, Nancy in the Tom & Jerry cartoon Baby Puss , Toots in Tom and Jerry , The Zoot Cat and The Mouse Comes to Dinner , Jerry Mouse in Anchors Aweigh , did celebrity voice impressions in several Disney and Warner Bros. Cartoons), (d. 1969).^[1]

• February 24: Jiří Trnka, Czech puppeteer, illustrator, animator and film director (The Czech Year , The Emperor's Nightingale , Prince Bayaya , Old Czech Legends , The Good Soldier Schweik , A Midsummer Night's Dream , The Cybernetic Grandma ), (d. 1969).

• April 5: John Le Mesurier, English actor (narrator of Bod ), (d. 1983).^[2]
• April 7: Jack Lawrence, American songwriter (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 2009).^[3]
• April 12: Lillian Friedman Astor, American animator (Fleischer Brothers), (d. 1989).^[4]
• April 15: Libico Maraja, Italian illustrator, animator and comics artist (IMA Film), (d. 1983).^[5]
• April 16: John Halas, Hungarian-British animator, film producer and director (Halas & Batchelor , Animal Farm , music video of Love Is All by Roger Glover), (d. 1995).^[6]
• April 17: Arthur Humberstone, English animator and film director (Halas & Batchelor, worked on Animal Farm , Yellow Submarine , Watership Down , The Plague Dogs and The BFG ), (d. 1999).
• April 30: Emery Hawkins, American animator (Walt Disney Company, Screen Gems, Walter Lantz, Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM, UPA), (d. 1989).^[7]

• May 2: Marten Toonder, Dutch comics author and animator (Toonder Animation, Als Je Begrijpt WatIk Bedeol (The Dragon That Wasn't Or Was He?) ), (d. 2005).^[8]
• May 11: Don Towsley, American animator (Walt Disney Company, Hanna-Barbera, Chuck Jones, Filmation), (d. 1986).^[9]

• June 11: James Algar, American film director, screenwriter, and producer (The Walt Disney Company), (d. 1998).^{[10] [11]}
• June 15: Ernie Nordli, American animator, animation designer and lay-out artist (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1968).^{[12] [13] [14]}
• June 23: Gerry Chiniquy, American animator and film director (Warner Bros. Cartoons, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises), (d. 1989).
• June 24: Brad Case, American animator (Walt Disney Animation, Walter Lantz, Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng, Marvel Productions,...), (d. 2006).^[15]

• July 5:
  • Bob Matz, American animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, DePatie-Freleng, Peanuts specials), (d. 2003).^[16]
  • Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter (co-writer of songs for Cinderella , Alice in Wonderland and the theme song to The Bugs Bunny Show ), (d. 1993).^[17]
• July 15: Al Bertino, American animator (Charles Mintz, Walt Disney Company, UPA, Grantray-Lawrence Animation, Walter Lantz), (d. 1996).^[18]
• July 17: Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television personality (portrayed himself in the prologue of The Snow Queen ), (d. 2010).^[19]
• July 23: Jackson Beck, American actor (voice of Perry White in The New Adventures of Superman , the fox in Baby Huey cartoons, the father in Little Lulu , Buzzy the Crow in Herman and Katnip , continued voice of Bluto in the Popeye cartoons produced by Famous Studios, Brutus the Cat in Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown , narrator in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero ), (d. 2004).^[20]
• July 26: Buddy Clark, American singer (singer and narrator in Melody Time ), (d. 1949).^[21]

• August 23:
  • Ed Benedict, American animator, character designer and lay-out artist (Walt Disney Studios, Walter Lantz, Tex Avery, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 2006).^{[22] [23]}
  • Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, dancer, film director, producer and choreographer (danced with Jerry Mouse in Anchors Aweigh , choreographer consultant for Cats Don't Dance ), (d. 1996).^[24]
• August 25: Ted Key, American animator/screenwriter (Peabody's Improbable History in Rocky & Bullwinkle ) and comics artist, (d. 2008).^[25]
• August 27: Sam Singer, American film director and producer (The Adventures of Pow Wow , The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican , Bucky and Pepito ), (d. 2001).^[26]

• September 1: Michael Lah, American animator and film director (Walt Disney Company, worked for Tex Avery), (d. 1995).
• September 5:
  • Frank Thomas, American animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 2004).^[27]
  • Ray Gilbert, American lyricist (Song of the South , The Three Caballeros ), (d. 1976).
• September 12: Henry Wilson Allen, aka Heck Allen, American novelist and animation writer (Barney Bear , worked for Tex Avery), (d. 1991).
• September 21: Chuck Jones, American animator, director and painter (Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM Animation/Visual Arts, directed the animated scenes in Stay Tuned and Mrs. Doubtfire , creator of Timber Wolf), (d. 2002).^[28]

• October 5: Riley Thomson, American comics artist and animator (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Walt Disney Company), (d. 1960).^[29]
• October 6: Irving Dressler, American animator and comics artist (Fleischer Studios, Famous Studios, Hal Seeger), (d. 2003).^[30]
• October 11: Betty Noyes, American actress and singer (sang "Baby Mine" in Dumbo , voice of Lady Fish in The Incredible Mr. Limpet ), (d. 1987).
• October 15: Bonnie Poe, American actress (continued voice of Betty Boop), (d. 1993).^[31]
• October 31: Ollie Johnston, American animator (Walt Disney Animation Studios), (d. 2008).^{[32] [33] [34] [35]}

• November 11: Grant Simmons, American animator (Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Cartoons, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, UPA) and director (Mr. Magoo ), (d. 1970).^[36]
• November 17: Jack Lescoulie, American actor (voice of Casper Caveman in Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur , Jack Bunny in Slap-Happy Pappy and Goofy Groceries ), (d. 1987).^[37]
• November 23: George O'Hanlon, American actor (voice of George Jetson in The Jetsons ), (d. 1989).^{[38] [39]}

• Lenn Redman, American caricaturist, animator, novelist, poet, illustrator, comics artist, cartoonist and activist (Warner Bros. Cartoons, Walt Disney Company, Filmation, Hanna-Barbera), (d. 1987).^[40]
• Storm de Hirsch, American poet, film director and animator (Peyote Queen ), (d. 2000).^[41]

• May 13: Agnes Deans Cameron, Canadian adventurer, educator, and travel writer, (the first white woman to reach the Arctic Ocean, Cameron then traveled extensively as a lecturer, showing magic lantern slides of her photographic images from her journey to the Arctic), dies at age 48.^{[42] [43] [44]}

• Animated works of the year, listed in the IMDb

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