Ken Harris

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Karyl Ross Ken Harris July 31 1898 March 24 1982 was an American animator best known for his work at Warner Bros Cartoons under the supervision of director Chuck Jones The association with Jones began in 1937 and lasted until 1962 the longest time an animator spent with a director at the studio Jones described him as a virtuoso Ken Harris did it all Dan Backslide one of the characters from the Jones short The Dover Boys was a caricature of Harris After Jones left Warners Harris worked with former animator Phil Monroe on two cartoons before Warner Bros closed its cartoon department In 1963 Harris worked briefly for Friz Freleng on the titles of The Pink Panther 1963 then for HannaBarbera on their first feature film Hey There Its Yogi Bear 1964 then rejoined Jones at MGM for three years After work as an animator on How the Grinch Stole Christmas 1966 directed by Jones a longtime friend of Dr Seuss Harris came to the studio of independent animator Richard Williams in London in 1967 There he served as Williams mentor as well as his employee Harriss credits with him included A Christmas Carol 1971 as animator of Ebenezer Scrooge the opening titles of The Return of the Pink Panther 1975 and the stillunfinished animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler animating the Thief of the title which is very reminiscent of Harriss earlier work animating Wile E Coyote for Jones Harris died from Parkinsons disease at 83 years of age biography excerpted from Wikipedia
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