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Born in 1910 in Melrose, New Mexico, Hanna began his professional career at age 20, working as a story editor, lyricist, and composer for an independent studio; Barbera, born in New York City in 1911, was an accountant and a freelance magazine cartoonist. The two men met at MGM in 1937, the year they both joined the studio and, with Fred Quimby ...
Mini Bio. Joseph Roland Barbera was an American animator, film director, and television producer. He was the co-founder of the company Hanna-Barbera, with his longtime partner William Hanna. Barbera was born in an Italian-American family. His parents were barbershop-owner Vincent Barbera (1889-1965) and Francesca Calvacca (1875-1969), both ...
- March 24, 1911
- December 18, 2006
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Nov 11, 2022 · It was there that he met and worked with Joseph Barbera, born in 1911, according to The Guardian. Like Hanna, Barbera tried out a handful of jobs here and there before eventually making his way to MGM as an animator. Each man brought his own skill set to the table. Barbera was the man with the wit: In addition to his steady employment, he also ...
- 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.
Joe Barbera at his desk with David's father, Bill. Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Animation. 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 t...
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...
Joe Barbera's creations like Space Ghost live on in post-modern form on Adult Swim. © Cartoon Network. 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 happene...
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...
Nov 20, 2017 · Bill and Joe grabbed a bunch of their MGM colleagues, and promptly opened Hanna-Barbera on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. By the early '60s, Hanna-Barbera 'toons like Huckleberry Hound and Yogi were household words. The Flintstones, don't forget, was prime time. They sold the studio in 1967.
William Hanna (1910-2001) and Joseph Barbera (1911-2006) are the single most successful producing/directing team in animation history. For nearly two decades, their work on MGM's Tom & Jerry cartoons rocked movie houses with laughter. However, when the duo brought their knack for sight gags and sure sense of parody to television, they became ...
Nov 22, 2006 · Joseph Barbera, the cartoonist and storyboard artist responsible for those classics, died this week at age 95. It brought to an end a remarkable career spanning nearly seven decades. He was born ...
