Manny Gould was an American animated cartoonist from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Career

Gould was employed by the Barré Studio

Barré Studio

Barré Studio was, in all probability, the first film studio dedicated to animation . It was founded by Raoul Barré and William Nolan in 1914. They began with advertising films , then got a series with Edison called the Animated Grouch Chaser...

 in the early 1920s under the direction of William Nolan

Bill Nolan (animator)

William "Bill" Nolan was an Irish-American animated cartoon writer, animator, director, and artist. He is best-known for creating and perfecting the rubber hose style of animation and for streamlining Felix the Cat. From 1925 to 1927, he worked on a loose animated adaptation of George Herriman's...

. When the studio closed, Nolan went to work for Charles Mintz on the Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George Herriman, published daily in newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run...

cartoons, distributed first by Paramount Studios and then Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

. Gould and Ben Harrison went with him and later replaced him. Gould and Harrison moved with the Mintz studio to Los Angeles in 1930. Also going with him were his sister Martha Barbara Gould and brothers Louis R., Allen, and Will Gould, a sports cartoonist for the Bronx Home News who drew the syndicated strip Red Barry in the 1930s and became a television and movie screenwriter.

Gould, along with Art Davis, Lou Lilly

Lou Lilly

Lou Lilly was an American animator, screenwriter and director best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros..-External links:...

 and Frank Tashlin

Frank Tashlin

Frank Tashlin, born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director.-Animator:...

, arrived at the Warner Brothers cartoon studio in 1943 where he worked in the Bob Clampett

Bob Clampett

Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil...

 unit and remained in the unit after Clampett left and Robert McKimson

Robert McKimson

Robert "Bob" Porter McKimson, Sr. was an American animator, illustrator, and director best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros., and later DePatie-Freleng Enterprises...

 was chosen to direct.

Gould was hired in 1947 by Jerry Fairbanks Productions

Jerry Fairbanks

Gerald Bertram "Jerry" Fairbanks was a producer and director in the Hollywood motion picture and television industry....

 Productions as a director for its animation department, where Lilly had gone to head the story department. His last credited cartoon for Warners was released in 1949. Lilly formed his own commercial animation company in 1952 and by the late 1950s hired Gould to be his animation director.

Later career

In 1964, Gould was animating on the Linus The Lionhearted

Linus the Lionhearted

Linus the Lionhearted was an animated cartoon featuring a main character of the same name. The character was created in 1960 by the Ed Graham advertising agency, originally as a series of ads for General Foods' Post Cereals. At first, Linus was the spokesman for the short-lived Post cereal "Heart...

television cartoons for Ed Graham Productions, then the following year began working as an animator at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises

DePatie-Freleng Enterprises

DePatie-Freleng Enterprises was a Hollywood-based animation production company, active from 1963 to 1981. They produced theatrical cartoons, animated series, commercials, title sequences and television specials. Notable among these is The Pink Panther film titles and cartoon shorts and the Dr....

 on the Pink Panther and Tijuana Toads

Tijuana Toads

Tijuana Toads is a series of 17 theatrical cartoons produced by DePatie-Freleng and released through United Artists.-Plot:The series was about two toads, Toro and Pancho, who live in the Mexican city of Tijuana. Throughout the cartoon they try to eat their prey, but always get out-smarted...

shorts and several series for television. He also worked on the cartoon features Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic

Heavy Traffic is a 1973 American animated film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film, which begins, ends, and occasionally combines with live-action, explores the often surreal fantasies of a young New York cartoonist named Michael Corleone, using pinball imagery as a metaphor for...

and The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat is a 1974 animated film directed by Robert Taylor. It is an adult animation featuring a series of drug-induced vignettes both related and unrelated to life in the 1970s. Starring Skip Hinnant as the voice of the titular feline protagonist, the film is a sequel to...

for Ralph Bakshi

Ralph Bakshi

Ralph Bakshi is an Israeli-American director of animated and live-action films. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatrically released feature films, five of which he wrote...

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