Nationality American Role Animator Name Earl Hurd | Relatives Andy Luckey (Cousin) Years active 1911-1940 | |
Born September 14, 1880 ( 1880-09-14 ) Kansas City, Missouri Occupation Animator, film director, comic strip cartoonist Died September 28, 1940, Burbank, California, United States Movies Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Elmer Elephant Similar People Ted Sears, Perce Pearce, David Hand, Larry Morey, Ben Sharpsteen | ||
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Earl Hurd (September 14, 1880 – September 28, 1940) was a pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions. Hurd and Bray are jointly responsible for developing the processes involved in cel animation, and were granted patents for their processes in 1914.
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American Animator Andy Luckey (1965- ) is a maternal cousin, twice removed, of Hurd's.
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Bobby Bumps
Hurd, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, later worked for Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio before starting his own Earl Hurd Productions studio in 1923.
Hurd was also a comic strip artist, illustrating the strips Trials of Elder Mouse (1911–1915), Brick Bodkin's Pa (1912) and Susie Sunshine (1927–1929). He worked later at the Ub Iwerks studio and the Walt Disney studio as a storyboard artist. Animation historian Giannalberto Bendazzi has called Hurd "probably the best American animator of his time" after Bray and said of his films that they "display an uncommon visual inventiveness, gentle humour and attention to drawing and scenography".
Hurd died on September 28, 1940, in Burbank, California.