Tex Avery

Tex Avery

Born: February 26, 1908
Died: August 26, 1980
in Taylor, Texas, USA
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Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator and director, known for producing and directing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior, and Chilly Willy.

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King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
Title: King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
Character: Himself
Released: October 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Focuses on how the legend of animation, Tex Avery, revolutionized cartoons.
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Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5
Title: Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5
Character: Papa Bear (archive footage)
Released: October 30, 2007
Type: Movie
The Looney Tunes Guide to Fairy Tales: In a storybook setting, Looney Tunes characters share with kids the necessary ingredients for a proper fairy tale
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Tex Avery - Prestige Collection
Title: Tex Avery - Prestige Collection
Released: September 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery
Title: Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
An interview with 'Tex Avery'.
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Tex Avery: A Crazy World
Title: Tex Avery: A Crazy World
Character: Lui-même
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
French documentary of the life and work of pioneering animation director Tex Avery.
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The Compleat Tex Avery
Title: The Compleat Tex Avery
Released: January 13, 1993
Type: Movie
A box set of Tex Avery’s complete output of theatrical cartoon shorts for the MGM studios, from 1942 to 1956.
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Portrait of Tex Avery
Title: Portrait of Tex Avery
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary of American animation directory Tex Avery including interviews with his peers including Chuck Jones.
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Bugs Bunny: Superstar
Title: Bugs Bunny: Superstar
Character: Himself
Released: December 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Animator Robert Clampett presents a history of "Termite Terrace," the little shack on the Warner Brothers studio lot which in the 1930's and 1940's housed the animation unit which gave birth to Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Includes color and black-and-white home-movie-type footage shot at the time showing such animation greats as Clampett, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. Also featured are nine complete Warner cartoons.
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Deputy Droopy
Title: Deputy Droopy
Character: Short Robber (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Two outlaws are trying to steal a shipment of gold being guarded by Deputy Droopy, and have to keep quiet to avoid alerting the sheriff.
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The First Bad Man
Title: The First Bad Man
Character: Cavemen (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1955
Type: Movie
The first Texas bad man come running into town a million years B.C.
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The Legend of Rockabye Point
Title: The Legend of Rockabye Point
Character: Polar Bear's Sneezes / Polar Bear's Screams (uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1955
Type: Movie
The old fishing boat captain tells the story of Chilly Willy, a singing polar bear and a bulldog who quickly falls asleep when he hears a lullaby.
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Barney's Hungry Cousin
Title: Barney's Hungry Cousin
Character: Hungry Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1953
Type: Movie
Barney Bear heads to a national park for a vacation while another bear, native to the park, notices Barney's picnic lunch and makes various attempts to steal the food.
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Daredevil Droopy
Title: Daredevil Droopy
Character: Spike (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Droopy and Spike are applying for the job of Dare Devil Dog at the Circus, and the one who give the best performance in a variety of "feats of strength and daring" will get it.
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Garden Gopher
Title: Garden Gopher
Character: Spike (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1950
Type: Movie
When Spike tries to bury a bone he finds a belligerent gopher.
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Ventriloquist Cat
Title: Ventriloquist Cat
Character: Alley Cat / Spike (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A cat learns the art of ventriloquism in order to play a series of practical jokes on a slow-witted bulldog...
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Señor Droopy
Title: Señor Droopy
Character: Bull (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1949
Type: Movie
The wolf, the champion toreador, and Droopy, the challenger, are competing to see who is best in the bullring in the hopes of winning the hand of actress Lina Romay (who appears in a live action shot).
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Bad Luck Blackie
Title: Bad Luck Blackie
Character: Large Dog (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A kitten who is being tormented by a bulldog finds a savior in a black cat (from the "Black Cat Bad Luck Company") who merely has to cross the dog's path for something very unlucky to happen to the bully.
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What Price Fleadom
Title: What Price Fleadom
Character: Homer's Dog (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1948
Type: Movie
A dog lives in harmony with its flea Homer, until Homer spots a lady flea on a passing dog and relocates.
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Red Hot Rangers
Title: Red Hot Rangers
Character: Junior (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1947
Type: Movie
Forest rangers George and Junior try to snuff out a frisky flame with a sparky personality that threatens to set the forest alight.
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Hound Hunters
Title: Hound Hunters
Character: Junior (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1947
Type: Movie
George and Junior get a job as dog catchers and spend the picture trying to catch one measly little dog.
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Henpecked Hoboes
Title: Henpecked Hoboes
Character: Junior (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1946
Type: Movie
George and Junior are two hungry bears who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken.
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Lonesome Lenny
Title: Lonesome Lenny
Character: Lenny (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Screwy Squirrel becomes the playmate of Lenny, a lonesome, dopey, but strong dog, in this broad parody of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".
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Jerky Turkey
Title: Jerky Turkey
Character: Hunting Pilgrim / Turkey Call (voice)
Released: April 7, 1945
Type: Movie
A dopey Pilgrim goes hunting a turkey who speaks in a Jimmy Durante impersonation and runs the local black market. War and rationing gags abound (Pilgrims line up behind a sign reading "Ye Cigarettes Today"), as well as a running gag featuring a bear wearing an "Eat at Joe's" sandwich sign. The turkey harnesses the power of gags to save himself.
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Who Killed Who?
Title: Who Killed Who?
Character: Santa Claus (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to deal with some suspicious suspects and a haunted house.
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Hold the Lion, Please
Title: Hold the Lion, Please
Character: Hippo (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A lion wants to prove he's still "King of the Jungle" and, to prove it, he hunts rabbit.
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The Heckling Hare
Title: The Heckling Hare
Character: Willoughby (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Bugs is being chased by hunting dog Willoughby, and outsmarts him at every turn, until the end, where they outsmart the audience together.
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The Crackpot Quail
Title: The Crackpot Quail
Character: Willoughby (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A dog chasing a quail keeps getting outsmarted.
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Of Fox and Hounds
Title: Of Fox and Hounds
Character: Willoughby (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Willoughby, a big dumb hound, is repeatedly tricked by George, the fox, into jumping off cliffs, among other things.
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Ghost Wanted
Title: Ghost Wanted
Character: Laughing Ghost (voice)
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
An inexperienced little ghost tries out for a house-haunting job, but winds up getting terrorized by the fat ghost interviewing him for the position.
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Circus Today
Title: Circus Today
Character: Circus Bandmaster (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the Flying Cadenzas, literally fly; the lion puts his head in the tamer's mouth; and the human cannonball flies around the world.
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The Bear's Tale
Title: The Bear's Tale
Character: Poppa Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1940
Type: Movie
The Three Bears meets Little Red Riding Hood, told in the style of Tex Avery.
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Fresh Fish
Title: Fresh Fish
Character: Prof. Mackerel Fishsticks (voice)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse race, and many other puns. Among the running gags, a two-headed fish who keeps asking for directions to Mr. Ripley and a professor in a diving sphere looking for a rare wim-wam whistling shark.
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Dangerous Dan McFoo
Title: Dangerous Dan McFoo
Character: Fight Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1939
Type: Movie
An arctic saloon. The tiny dog, Dan McFoo, is playing a pinball-like marble game in the back. His girlfriend, Sue, sounding like Katharine Hepburn, stands by. A stranger comes in with eyes for Sue; he begins a boxing match with Dan. After Dan gets knocked down, he accuses the stranger of having something in the glove; the ref finds four horseshoes and a horse. After the fight goes on a while with no conclusion, the narrator tosses a couple of guns, the lights go out, and Dan is shot or is he?
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Believe It or Else
Title: Believe It or Else
Character: Old Man in Jail (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1939
Type: Movie
In this Ripley's Believe It or Not! parody, some of the supposed curiosities we are shown are a man who daily drinks fifty quarts of milk, the world's loudest hog caller, a human basketball, a new giant telescope showing life on Mars, and a man who saws people in half.
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Thugs with Dirty Mugs
Title: Thugs with Dirty Mugs
Character: Ed. G. Robemsome as Killer Diller
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Killer Diller and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order (except the 13th National Bank, which they skip out of superstition). Despite their predictable actions, the police are unable to catch them...until they get a tip from an unlikely source.
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A Day at the Zoo
Title: A Day at the Zoo
Character: Other Elk Named Bill (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Egghead teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.
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Count Me Out
Title: Count Me Out
Character: Fight Referee
Released: December 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Egghead decides his road to riches is through a boxing correspondence course. When he graduates, he takes on champion Biff Stew. Biff pummels him mercilessly (the correspondence course record continues to coach him during the match), but by accident, he knocks Biff out until we see it was all in Egghead's head, after being knocked out by the practice equipment.
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Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas
Title: Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas
Character: The Chief (voice)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Johnny Smith enters an America where the Indians behave like 1930s average Americans. When he is arrested, the girl Poker Huntas rescues and elopes with him.
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A Feud There Was
Title: A Feud There Was
Character: Weaver Dude / Weaver Guy with Gun (voice)
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
The McCoys and the Weavers are two feuding hillbilly clans. Elmer Fudd, Peacemaker, attempts to end the fighting; but violence and zaniness win out.
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The Penguin Parade
Title: The Penguin Parade
Character: Walrus (voice)
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
An evening at a night club for penguins, (and a walrus or two). The stage show includes an appearance by a penguin incarnation of Bing Crosby, who sings a jazzy version of, "When my dreamboat comes home". The band's three singers do a scat version as well. This is followed by a full swing band instrumental of the song which works the band into a "Hot Jazz" frenzy, literaly melting some of the instruments.
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Porky's Phoney Express
Title: Porky's Phoney Express
Character: Porky's Boss's laugh (voice)
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A pony express office. Porky's only allowed to clean up and lick envelopes. When a rider comes back...
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The Sneezing Weasel
Title: The Sneezing Weasel
Character: Weasel (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
When Mama hen takes her chicks out to get breakfast, little Wilbur is soaked in a sudden rainstorm and comes down with a head cold. Mama puts him to bed, then goes back out to get the doctor. A conniving weasel, seeing Mama leave, disguises himself as a doctor and comes calling on the unattended chicks.
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A Sunbonnet Blue
Title: A Sunbonnet Blue
Character: Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A rat comes between two mice in love.
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Egghead Rides Again
Title: Egghead Rides Again
Character: Red (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1937
Type: Movie
City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly what he dreamed of.
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Uncle Tom's Bungalow
Title: Uncle Tom's Bungalow
Character: Uncle Tom (voice)
Released: June 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Warner Bros. cartoon parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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The Village Smithy
Title: The Village Smithy
Character: Blacksmith (voice)
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
The narrator sets the scene for a warped version of the classic poem, and the hijinks when assistant Porky gives the blacksmith a rubber horseshoe, then a hot horseshoe on the horse's backside by accident.
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Don't Look Now
Title: Don't Look Now
Character: Preacher (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1936
Type: Movie
It's St. Valentine's Day. Cupid is having fun arranging, while a young devil is making mischief sabotaging, love affairs.
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Toyland Premiere
Title: Toyland Premiere
Character: Santa Claus
Released: December 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Santa Claus gets a telegram from Oswald the Rabbit, telling him the city is ready for his Toyland Parade and that there will be a reception in the big department store. Santa is a jolly elf indeed until he discovers that moths have eaten every last shred of his Santa suit. The day is saved when quick thinking on the part of an old elf, armed with red paint and popcorn, turns Santa's ordinary light-blue outfit into a real Santa suit. The parade is a big success, and the reception promises to be even better. Frankenstein's monster, Tarzan, Lupe Velez, Shirley Temple, Al Jolson and Bing Crosby are all there to greet Santa. Laurel and Hardy nearly spoil the day when they dress in a dragon's costume and try to steal the chocolate cake.