The Resume

(April 29, 1925-January 8, 2007)
Born in Los Angeles, California
Worked for Walt Disney 91945-61), Hanna-Barbera (1961-96), and Warner Brothers (1996-2007)
Character designer for the films 'Cinderella' (1950), 'Peter Pan' (1953), 'Lady and the Tramp' (1955), 'Sleeping Beauty' (1959), and 'One Hundred and One Dalmatians' (1961) and for the TV series The Jetsons, 'Wacky Races,' 'Atom Ant,' and Scooby-Doo
Co-directed 'Charlotte's Web' (1973)

Why he might be annoying:

When he applied for a job at Disney and was told to bring a portfolio of his work, 'I didn't have much of an idea of what a portfolio truly was.' (He spent the weekend before his interview filling up two notebooks with sketches, which apparently impressed DIsney enough to land him a job as assistant to animator Milt Kahl.)
His first marriage, to Jane Baer, lasted less than two years.
In creating Scooby-Doo, he deliberately gave Scooby the opposite features of a dog show-winning great Dane (bowed legs instead of straight, swayed back instead of straight, etc.).

Why he might not be annoying:

He graduated high school at age fifteen.
He was imprisoned at a camp for Japanese Americans during World War II, where he received training in illustration from two other internees.
In 'Charlotte's Web,' he succeeded in creating 'an appealing character out of a spider.'
He received the Winsor McCay Award for lifetime achievement from the International Animated Film Association (1996).

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 89]
• Cartoonists
• I Died in 2007 (Ranked: 81)
• I Died in the City I Was Born In
• I Married for Less than Two Years
• I Married Outside My Race
• I Was Imprisoned at a Japanese Internment Camp in the US
• I'm Buried at Mount Sinai Jewish Cemetery [Hollywood, Ca]
• Look at Me, I'm with Scooby-Doo
• Profiles 54751-55000 (Ranked: 54919)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 19 Votes: 0% Annoying