William Hanna Death
William passed away on March 22, 2001 at the age of 90 in North Hollywood, California, USA. William's cause of death was throat cancer.
When did William Hanna die?
March 22, 2001How did William Hanna die? What was the cause of death?
Throat cancerHow old was William Hanna when died?
90Where did William Hanna die? What was the location of death?
North Hollywood, California, USA
William Hanna Birthday and Date of Death
William Hanna was born on July 14, 1910 and died on March 22, 2001. William was 90 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: July 14, 1910
Date of Death: March 22, 2001
Age at Death: 90
William Hanna - Biography
William Rudolph Denby "Bill" HannaBorn - March 25, 1927 in Melrose, New Mexico, USA | Died - April 5, 2010 in North Hollywood, California, USA | Years Active - 1952 - 2001 | Genres - Children's/Family Classic CartoonsHanna was born William Rudolph Denby Hanna as the good dedicated son of a great constructive construction superintendent for the Sante Fe railway stations in New Mexico. During his early life, William Hanna was obliged to move around quite a bit as a youngster. Influenced and inspired by the preponderance of many other professional writers on his mother's side of the family, Hanna had eventually gravitated towards the creative arts in high school. He also played the saxophone in a dance band, then also majored in journalism and engineering as well at Compton Junior College in California. Also, while looking for work at during in within the early stages of the Depression, Hanna also landed a backstage engineering job at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre. Hanna's brother-in-law, who also worked for a Hollywood lab called Pacific Title, had tipped him off to a job opening at the Harman-Ising cartoon studios. From 1949 onward, Hanna had largely contributed many useful story ideas to Harman-Ising's Looney Tunes cartoon shorts and also Merrie Melodies classic cartoon series, which were most prominently produced on behalf of Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros. He also co-wrote the music and lyrics for several of the catchy tunes heard in these animated endeavors. When Harman-Ising had then moved over to MGM, they took Hanna along as their story editor. And when MGM formed its own animation department in 1952, Hanna was then hired up by department head Fred Quimby. It was while under the MGM banner that Hanna formed a copacetic partnership with fellow cartoon co-creator, producer and director Joseph Barbera, and as it turned out indeed as a lifelong collaboration in American cartoon history. While both of these gentlemen did a little bit of everything in their very own golden classic cartoon collaborations, Hanna had also regarded himself as the producer, director and the story man, while Barbera had preferred pretty much more to work out and on with the various cartoon gags. Hanna-Barbera's most lasting contribution to the MGM operation was their "Tom and Jerry" cartoon short series, which earned about several Academy Awards on over within and about a 20-year period of time. In 1957, MGM disbanded its cartoon unit, and where upon both Hanna and Barbera had formed their own company for the purposes of turning out into TV animation. Although, no one who has been born after 1950 needed to be reminded of the vast Hanna-Barbera classic TV cartoon series output including Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, The Banana Splits and Scooby Doo that all do constitute but with at the tip of the iceberg. While being busy as they were with their creative classic TV cartoon commitments, Hanna-Barbera occasionally found time to return to theatrical-feature work, including A Man Called Flintstone (1966), Charlotte's Web (1972) and Heidi's Song (1982). Even after selling their studio, both Hanna and Barbera remained active in the cartoon field; as recently as 1993, Hanna served as co-producer for the animated feature Once Upon a Forest. Although, he has honorably won and received a multitude of great entertainment industry honors, it has also been said that William Hanna was very much the proudest man of his 1985 "Distinguished Eagle Scout" award on all throughout on along and while out at within and from the most renowned courtesy of the Boy Scouts of America, an organization with which he would have been associated since in 1939.
