Generally credited, along with Ben Hardaway, as being the creator of a
proto-Bugs Bunny in the 1939 short "Hare-um Scare-um."
Spent fifteen years at Leon Schlesinger Productions, latterly in Robert McKimson's unit, animating Merrie Melodies characters Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. After 1947, worked variously for Disney, Paramount and Walter Lantz.