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Paul J. Smith

Paul J. Smith

Biography

Paul J. Smith (March 15, 1906 – November 17, 1980) was an American animator and director.

Smith began as a cel painter for Walt Disney Animation in 1926, then moved up to an animator. In 1928, when all the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons for Charles Mintz were completed, Smith left the payroll.

Smith worked for the Walter Lantz studio for much of his career, first as an animator, and then as a director. He also animated at Warner Bros. Cartoons.

By 1955, Smith had taken over as primary director of the Woody Woodpecker cartoon shorts. With Smith in the director's chair, the Woody Woodpecker series maintained its trademark frenetic energy, while the animation itself was simplified, due to budget constraints. By the late 1960s, Smith became the sole director of the Lantz studio's output: the cartoon series Woody Woodpecker, Chilly Willy, and The Beary Family. Smith stayed with Lantz until the studio was closed in 1972.

Smith died in Van Nuys, California on November 17, 1980. He was the brother of animators Frank Smith and Hank Smith and the uncle of actor and film director Charles Martin Smith.

[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Personal Info

Known For

Visual Effects

Known Credits

222

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-03-15

Place of Birth

Nahma Township, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

Paul Smith

Known For

Arts and Flowers Niagara Fools Calling All Cuckoos Chief Charlie Horse Get Lost Box Car Bandit Tomcat Combat Red Riding Hoodlum Little Red Riding Hood Vicious Viking Have Gun Can't Travel Chilly Chums Sissy Sheriff Hot Time on Ice Practical Yolk Polar Fright The Big Bite Woody and the Beanstalk Lonesome Ranger Canned Dog Feud Hassle in a Castle Snow Place Like Home Monster of Ceremonies Janie Get Your Gun South Pole Pals Astronut Woody Foot Brawl What's Peckin' Woodpecker Wanted Davey Cricket Case of the Elephant's Trunk Roof-Top Razzle Dazzle Freeway Fracas Case of the Cold Storage Yegg Goose in the Rough Charlie's Mother-in-Law Coming Out Party Saddle-Sore Woody Roamin' Roman The Case of the Maltese Chicken Hi-Seas Hi-Jacker Room and Bored Little Woody Riding Hood Hyde and Sneak Calling Dr. Woodpecker Crowin' Pains Short in the Saddle Careless Caretaker Tragic Magic Home Sweet Homewrecker Phoney Express Mississippi Slow Boat Sufferin' Cats Case of the Red-Eyed Ruby The Bird Who Came to Dinner St. Moritz Blitz Papoose on the Loose Busman's Holiday Phantom of the Horse Opera Fowled Up Falcon Heap Big Hepcat How to Stuff a Woodpecker Rough and Tumbleweed Bats in the Belfry Ozark Lark Pistol Packin' Woodpecker Kiddie League Fish Hooked Romp in a Swamp Log Jammed Jittery Jester Everglade Raid Three-Ring Fling Half Empty Saddles Misguided Missile Fodder and Son The Unbearable Salesman Round Trip to Mars Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale International Woodpecker Woodpecker from Mars Bunco Busters After the Ball Witch Crafty Private Eye Pooch Square Shootin' Square Bedtime Bedlam Helter Shelter Hot Rod Huckster Hot Noon or 12 O'Clock for Sure Chilly Willy Maw and Paw Secret Agent Woody Woodpecker Window Pains Hot Diggity Dog Chiller Dillers The Nautical Nut Chilly and the Woodchopper Horse Play Real Gone Woody Highway Hecklers Tumble Weed Greed Wild Bill Hiccup Airlift a la Carte Buster's Last Stand A Lad in Bagdad Cool It, Charlie Gooney's Goofy Landings How to Trap a Woodpecker Gold Diggin' Woodpecker Show Biz Beagle Seal on the Loose Fat in the Saddle Charlie's Campout Prehistoric Super Salesman Sleepy Time Chimes Shanghai Woody The Snoozin' Bruin' Indian Corn Hook, Line, and Stinker A Peck of Trouble Chilly and the Looney Gooney Phoney Pony A Gooney Is Born The Rude Intruder The Bungling Builder A Horse's Tale Feudin Fightin-N-Fussin Project Reject Woody the Freeloader Jerky Turkey Kitty from the City Ship a-Hoy Woody Hi-Rise Wise Guys Paste Makes Waste Sleepy Time Bear The Genie with the Light Touch Under Sea Dogs Lotsa Luck One Horse Town Woody's Knight Mare Coo Coo Nuts Moochin' Pooch Chilly's Hide-a-Way Chilly's Ice Folly Flim Flam Fountain All Hams on Deck Woody's Magic Touch The Reluctant Recruit Pecking Holes in Poles Little Skeeter Chilly's Cold War Charlie the Rainmaker Chili Con Corny For the Love of Pizza Bye, Bye, Blackboard A Fish Story Gopher Broke Guest Who? Charlie in Hot Water Let Charlie Do It The Unhandy Man Charlie's Golf Classic Bugged in a Rug Mouse in the House Rah Rah Ruckus The Flying Turtle The Dog That Cried Wolf Rain Rain, Go Away Bee Bopped Unlucky Potluck Hay Rube The Goose Is Wild Tree's a Crowd Salmon Yeggs Plywood Panic Robin Hoody Woody His Better Elf The Secret Weapon Spook-a-Nanny The Mouse and the Lion The Tee Bird Shutter Bug Paw's Night Out Pig in a Pickle Truant Student The King of Ads Symphony Night The Hound and the Rabbit
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