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Following this, Barbera's maternal uncle, Jim, took care of the family. Growing up as a talented artist, Barbera attended 'Erasmus Hall High School' in Brooklyn, where he won many boxing titles. However, he soon lost interest in the sport.
- Sarah Baisley, Editor in Chief, Awn, Former HB Publicity Director
- David Hanna, Bill Hanna's Son
- Gary Hoffman, Former HB Layout Supervisor
- Merle Welton, Animation Checker
- Gary Owens, Voice Actor
- Jean Ann Wright, Author, Animation Writing and Development
- Floyd Norman, Animator
- John Michaeli, Former HB PR Exec
- Ginny Mcswain, Casting & Recording Director
- Marc D. Grossmann, Director, Public Relations, Taffy Ent.
They were not only great creators of cartoons, which they demonstrated they could do for the first 15-20 years at MGM -- they were awfully good at that. But they did an even better job when they formed Hanna-Barbera. They created disruptive technology and they disrupted an entire industry. Nobody thought at the time cartoons could move to televisio...
Joe Barbera's creative talent will give enjoyment to generations of kids and adults to come. My honor is to have played a small part as a cartoonist working with him at Hanna-Barbera for many years.
I started to work at H&B in 1960! The "new building" was not completed yet, so we occupied a building up the block, at 3501 Cahuenga Blvd. We were all on one floor and Bill & Joe's doors were always open to us, thereby creating a warm, friendly atmosphere that is lacking all but the smallest studios today. They also continued the Disney & MGM tradi...
I have so many fond memories of Joe Barbera -- what a guy! I was announcing many of the CBS-TV cartoon promos fro Joe & Bill and Fred Silverman. Then, about the time the great artist Alex Toth was sketching Space Ghost, something wonderful happened. They chose me to do the hero voice - and I did it from 1966 to 1994. It was great working with our m...
In 1982, the production staff arrived one Monday morning to find time clocks installed for punching in each morning and out at night. The animators were furious. Some threatened to quit. Before a day or so went by we got this memo: "Joe and I do not know how it happened but over the weekend some sneaky guy climbed over the fence and installed a bun...
I confess I didn't really know Joe Barbera all that well. It seems I was continually working one on one with Mr. Hanna, but I usually only saw Joe in meetings. He sure seemed like a nice enough guy and always said, "Hi" when you passed him in the hallway. Other than that I can't say I really knew him. What I did know was that he and Mr. Hanna made ...
Two years ago I spent an afternoon with Joe Barbera in his Sherman Oaks office at Warner Bros. Animation. Our meeting was to discuss a book about Hanna-Barbera and to ask Joe for his thoughts, which he willingly shared with me. When I entered his office I was surprised to see him in a wheel chair. Joe was a vibrant, quick-witted man who delighted i...
As Jayne Barbera said in her tribute, 'Hanna-Barbera was like getting a masters in life... the best school in town for the last of a quality education in animation.' I couldn't be more gratefulfor the learning tree it provided... 31 years later I apply my Hanna-Barbera experience daily. With all the red tape that it takes to make a cartoon show in ...
There's one story that will always stand out in my mind about Joe Barbera I was the director of PR at H-B from October 1994 through September 1996. I believe it was my second or third day on the job in '94 when I was asked to sit in on an interview a reporter was doing with Mr. Barbera. The interview went well over an hour and after the reporter le...
You know there's the old expression 'A picture is worth a thousand words.' Well, Joe Barbera would say that sometimes the most enduring characters are ones that spring out of a cartoonist's mind or imagination. Some of us could make a drawing of a character, and Mr. B would like it, and he'd say, "Let's develop a show around this character." And it...
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The son of an Italian immigrant, Joseph Roland Barbera was born on March 24, 1911, in New York City. Growing up in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, the youngster discovered his love of theater and writing while attending Erasmus Hall High School.
Dec 19, 2006 · Joseph Barbera, who, with his longtime partner William “Bill” Hanna, created such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, Huckleberry...
Jan 31, 2023 · Hanna was born in 1910 in Melrose, New Mexico. He developed an early interest in art and animation, and after high school, however, that did not become his initial college course as he enrolled in journalism and engineering, but later, he joined the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.
May 15, 2024 · Hanna-Barbera worked as an in-house studio until the beginning of the 1970s when they outsourced to Australia (which eventually led to its own independent off-shoot known as Hanna-Barbera Australia until the late 1980s ), and then to South Korea by the end of the 1970s.
Dec 19, 2006 · Joseph Barbera, an innovator of animation who teamed with William Hanna to give generations of young television viewers a pantheon of beloved characters, including Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear,...
