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Alexander Lovy (September 2, 1912 – February 14, 1992) was an American animator. He spent the majority of his career as an animator and director at Walter Lantz Productions. He was later a producer at Hanna-Barbera, and also supervised the cartoon unit at Warner Bros. during its final days.
Alex Lovy was born on 2 September 1913. He was a producer, known for The Jetsons (1962), Jonny Quest (1964) and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969). He died on 14 February 1992 in California, USA.
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Alex Lovy was born on September 2, 1913. He was a producer, known for Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1965), Jonny Quest (1964) and The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976). He died on February 14, 1992 in California, USA.
- September 2, 1913
- February 14, 1992
Alexander Lovy (September 2, 1912 – February 14, 1992) was an American animator. He spent the majority of his career as an animator and director at Walter Lantz Productions. He was later a producer at Hanna-Barbera, and also supervised the cartoon unit at Warner Bros. during its final days.
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- List of cartoons directed by Alex Lovy
Alexander Lovy (September 2, 1913 - February 14, 1992) was an American animator, who spent the majority of his career as an animator and director at Walter Lantz Productions, later being a producer at Hanna-Barbera, and also supervising the cartoon unit at Warner Bros. during its final days.
Lovy's early career was spent as a comic artist at DC Comics, and he became an animator at the Lantz studio in the late 1930s, his first credit being as director of Feed the Kitty in 1938. Studio head Walter Lantz was taking a hiatus from directing at this time, and Lovy directed many of the studio's shorts in the 1938-1940 period. He stepped down to animator in 1940 after Lantz reverted to being director, but continued to play an important role in the production of the shorts, and stepped up to being the studio's lead director of Woody Woodpecker shorts when Lantz retired from directing in 1942. however that same year in November 1942, Lovy was drafted into the US Navy and left the studio; Shamus Culhane would replaced Lovy in March 1943.
After the end of World War II, Lovy worked briefly for Columbia Pictures' cartoon unit, directing five shorts before it was closed down, and in 1955 made his return to the Lantz studio, initially to finish some cartoons that Tex Avery had produced during a brief stint as director there. He carried on directing at the Lantz studio until the end of the decade, at which point he moved over to Hanna-Barbera. There, he worked mainly as a producer and storyboard artist, and often supervised the studio's voice recording sessions. In 1967, Lovy moved to the newly re-opened Warner Bros. cartoon studio, where he created the characters Cool Cat and Merlin the Magic Mouse, in addition to directing cartoons with classic characters Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. After just over a year at Warner Bros., Lovy returned to Hanna-Barbera, and worked there in various capacities until shortly before his death.
According to Walter Lantz, Lovy was ambidextrous, and could draw two storyboards at the same time, one with each hand.
•Feed the Kitty (1938)
•Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl (or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands) (1938)
•Movie Phoney News (1938)
•Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter (1938)
•Barnyard Romeo (1938)
•The Big Cat and the Little Mousie (1938)
Alex Lovy (2 September 1913 - 14 February 1992) was an animator who prominently worked for Walter Lantz Productions and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. He supervised the cartoons at Warner Bros. from 1967 to 1968; he was away from Hanna-Barbara at the time, with the animation style used in his Warner...
Feb 14, 1992 · Alex Lovy is known as an Director, Producer, Animation, Associate Producer, Writer, Story, Creator, Co-Art Director, Co-Director, Story Editor, and Sound Director. Some of his work includes Knock Knock, The Dizzy Acrobat, Ace in the Hole, The Loan Stranger, Ballyhooey, The Screwball, The Tree Medic, and Juke Box Jamboree.