The Woody Woodpecker Show
1957
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Legacy. Walter Lantz Productions Staff: 1928–1972. Producers. Directors. Storyboard artists/writers. Music. Filmography. See also. References. External links. Walter Lantz Productions was an American animation studio. It was in operation from 1928 to 1972 and was the principal supplier of animation for Universal Pictures .
Mini Bio. Walter Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and film director from New Rochelle, New York. He was the eponymous founder of the animation studio Walter Lantz Productions (1928-1972). The studio was initially famous for continuing the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film series from 1928 to 1938.
Mar 23, 1994 · March 23, 1994 12 AM PT. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES. Walter Lantz, who emerged from the ranks of animation’s early pioneers to build a multimillion-dollar cartoon empire and a respected worldwide...
Mar 23, 1994 · Walter Lantz, an animator and producer who created the cartoon characters Woody Woodpecker and Andy Panda, died yesterday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, Calif. He was 93 and lived in...
Mar 23, 1994 · Mar 23, 1994. Animator Walter Lantz, who created the conniving Woody Woodpecker cartoon character after a woodpecker disrupted his honeymoon in the 1940s, died Tuesday. He was 93. Lantz was...
Walter Lantz was an American animation director and producer, one of the major figures during the Golden Age of Animation (1930-1960). He is most famous for characters like 'Andy Panda' (1939), 'Chilly Willy' (1953) and, of course, 'Woody Woodpecker' (1940). His studio, founded in 1935, produced cartoons for Universal Pictures.
Walter Lantz (1899-1994) was an American animator, producer and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker. Lantz started in animation at age 16, and directed, animated and even starred in his first cartoon series "Dinky Doodle" in 1924.
