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- Birth namePaul Houghton Terry
- A somewhat unsung legend in the animation biz, Paul Terry--born in San Mateo, CA, and raised in San Francisco--attended Polytechnic High and began as a cartoonist in newspapers (The San Francisco Bulletin, The San Francisco Call-Examiner) between 1904 and 1914. After having drawn comics for King Features in 1913, Terry moved on to producing many, many cartoons between 1915 and 1955--some 1300 in all: Aesop's Fables (not the Jay Ward shorts of the early 1960s), Terrytoons characters Farmer Al Falfa (aka Farmer Grey), Mighty Mouse, Heckle & Jeckle, Gandy Goose, Slippery Sam, Dinky Duck, Rudy Rooster and many more. In the early '60s, Mr. Terry sold Terrytoons to CBS in order to pursue painting and a life of semi-retirement.- IMDb Mini Biography By: J. Kevin Stevens <jkstevens57@aol.com>
- SpouseIrma(? - January 7, 1969) (her death)
- Uncle of Alexander Anderson
- President of Aesop's Fables Studios, a company that produced animated shorts.
- Owner of Terrytoons, a company that produced animated shorts.
- Brother of John Coleman Terry.
- Co-founder and namesake of Terrytoons, an animation studio active from 1929 to 1968. From 1934 it was located in New Rochelle, NY.
- Disney is the Tiffany's in this business, and I am the Woolworth's.
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