This happened many times over the years. The man who made off with the Oscars was Fred Quimby, the head of MGM’s cartoon department. From 1943 to 1953, Tom and Jerry shorts, written and directed ...

Ed Benedict, 94, an animator who designed many famous cartoon characters including Fred ... back to Disney in the early ‘40s. He moved to MGM in the early 1950s and became lead designer and ...