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- Net worth: $300 Million William Hanna and Joseph Barbera created characters like The Flintstones, Tom & Jerry, and Scooby Doo.
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Hanna & Barbera Net worth: $300 Million. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera created characters like The Flintstones, Tom & Jerry, and Scooby Doo.
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William Denby Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, voice actor, and occasional musician who is best known for co-creating Tom and Jerry and providing the vocal effects for the series' title characters.
- Matt Groening – The Simpsons and Futurama. Groening tops the list for creating the legendary animated sitcom The Simpsons. Matt found success with the comic strip Life in Hell which, caught the attention of James L. Brooks, who wanted it to appear on the Fox variety TV series The Tracey Ullman Show.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone – South Park. Parker and Stone struck gold with their controversial animated series South Park. This adult oriented "cartoon" is mostly written and directed by Trey, while Matt handles the business end.
- William Hanna and Joseph Barbera – The Flintstones. The two men behind Hanna-Barbera met in the late 1930s while they were both working for MGM. They became writing partners and created one of the most successful cartoons ever called Tom and Jerry.
- Al Jean – The Critic and The Simpsons. Jean started out writing for the Harvard Lampoon Newspaper while in college. During that time period he met his writing partner Mike Reiss.
William Hanna was an animator, film director, and television producer. He was the co-founder of the company Hanna-Barbera, with his longtime partner Joseph Barbera. Hanna was born in an Irish-American family, son of William John Hanna (1873-1949) and his wife Avice Joyce Denby.
- July 14, 1910
- March 22, 2001
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- Walt Disney - $5 Billion. The first cartoonist on our list shouldn’t come as a surprise. Walter Elias Disney is the most famous animator in the world and when he died in 1966, the artist, entrepreneur, film producer, and voice actor was worth a staggering $5 billion.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone - $800 Million. With a combined net worth of $800 million, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made their way to the top in less than 20 years and the adult animated sitcom that got them there is still going strong.
- Matt Groening - $500 Million. Ok, so we’ve established that Walt Disney is a household name, but so is The Simpsons! Matthew Abram “Matt” Groening is the show’s creator and besides being worth $500 million, the screenwriter/comedian/television producer has racked up multiple Emmy Awards, along with title “longest-running prime time series,” succeeding Gunsmoke in 2009.
- Hanna-Barbera - $300 Million. Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, and The Flinstones—these are just a few of the famous cartoons created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, better known as Hanna-Barbera.
William Hanna was an animator, film director, and television producer. He was the co-founder of the company Hanna-Barbera, with his longtime partner Joseph Barbera. Hanna was born in an Irish-American family, son of William John Hanna (1873-1949) and his wife Avice Joyce Denby.
William (Bill) Hanna, was co-chairman and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera, Inc, producer of the world's largest library of animated entertainment.
