Occupation Animator Name George Gordon | Role Film director | |
Died May 24, 1986, Apple Valley, California, United States Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program Movies Bear Raid Warden, Bat*21, Kiko Foils the Fox, The Unwelcome Guest, Barney Bear's Polar Pest Similar People Ray Patterson, Bob Hathcock, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Alan Zaslove | ||
George Gordon (September 2, 1906 – May 24, 1986) was a film and TV animator and director of animated productions. Starting in film in 1930, he moved to TV in its early days. Gordon is credited with hundreds of cartoons from 1937 through 1983.
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Gordon began working with animation in 1930 at the Moser-Terry-Coffman Studio as an animator on the Jesse and James and Farmer Al Falfa series . After two years, he movef to Terrytoons along with one of his previous employers, Paul Terry.
In 1937, Gordon left Terrytoons for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio to work as an animator. During his career at MGM, he was able to work on the Barney Bear and Tom and Jerry. Gordon was later promoted to the director position on animations such as:
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