Tex Avery
Also Known As: Frederick Bean Avery, Fred Avery
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator and director, known for producing and directing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior, and Chilly Willy.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Taylor, Texas, USA
Birthday: February 26, 1908
Deathday: August 26, 1980
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Fresh Fish
Overview: A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse race, and many other puns. Among the running gags, a two-headed fish who keeps asking for directions to Mr. Ripley and a professor in a diving sphere looking for a rare wim-wam whistling shark.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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The Penguin Parade
Overview: An evening at a night club for penguins, (and a walrus or two). The stage show includes an appearance by a penguin incarnation of Bing Crosby, who sings a jazzy version of, "When my dreamboat comes home". The band's three singers do a scat version as well. This is followed by a full swing band instrumental of the song which works the band into a "Hot Jazz" frenzy, literaly melting some of the instruments.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-23
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Uncle Tom's Bungalow
Overview: Warner Bros. cartoon parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-05
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Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas
Overview: Johnny Smith enters an America where the Indians behave like 1930s average Americans. When he is arrested, the girl Poker Huntas rescues and elopes with him.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Believe It or Else
Overview: In this Ripley's Believe It or Not! parody, some of the supposed curiosities we are shown are a man who daily drinks fifty quarts of milk, the world's loudest hog caller, a human basketball, a new giant telescope showing life on Mars, and a man who saws people in half.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-03
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Ghost Wanted
Overview: An inexperienced little ghost tries out for a house-haunting job, but winds up getting terrorized by the fat ghost interviewing him for the position.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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Bad Luck Blackie
Overview: A kitten who is being tormented by a bulldog finds a savior in a black cat (from the "Black Cat Bad Luck Company") who merely has to cross the dog's path for something very unlucky to happen to the bully.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-22
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Toyland Premiere
Overview: Santa Claus gets a telegram from Oswald the Rabbit, telling him the city is ready for his Toyland Parade and that there will be a reception in the big department store. Santa is a jolly elf indeed until he discovers that moths have eaten every last shred of his Santa suit. The day is saved when quick thinking on the part of an old elf, armed with red paint and popcorn, turns Santa's ordinary light-blue outfit into a real Santa suit. The parade is a big success, and the reception promises to be even better. Frankenstein's monster, Tarzan, Lupe Velez, Shirley Temple, Al Jolson and Bing Crosby are all there to greet Santa. Laurel and Hardy nearly spoil the day when they dress in a dragon's costume and try to steal the chocolate cake.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-06
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Lonesome Lenny
Overview: Screwy Squirrel becomes the playmate of Lenny, a lonesome, dopey, but strong dog, in this broad parody of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-09
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The Heckling Hare
Overview: Bugs is being chased by hunting dog Willoughby, and outsmarts him at every turn, until the end, where they outsmart the audience together.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-05
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Thugs with Dirty Mugs
Overview: Killer Diller and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order (except the 13th National Bank, which they skip out of superstition). Despite their predictable actions, the police are unable to catch them...until they get a tip from an unlikely source.
Genres: Animation Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-06
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The First Bad Man
Overview: The first Texas bad man come running into town a million years B.C.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-30
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The Village Smithy
Overview: The narrator sets the scene for a warped version of the classic poem, and the hijinks when assistant Porky gives the blacksmith a rubber horseshoe, then a hot horseshoe on the horse's backside by accident.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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The Sneezing Weasel
Overview: When Mama hen takes her chicks out to get breakfast, little Wilbur is soaked in a sudden rainstorm and comes down with a head cold. Mama puts him to bed, then goes back out to get the doctor. A conniving weasel, seeing Mama leave, disguises himself as a doctor and comes calling on the unattended chicks.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-12
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Count Me Out
Overview: Egghead decides his road to riches is through a boxing correspondence course. When he graduates, he takes on champion Biff Stew. Biff pummels him mercilessly (the correspondence course record continues to coach him during the match), but by accident, he knocks Biff out until we see it was all in Egghead's head, after being knocked out by the practice equipment.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-17
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Egghead Rides Again
Overview: City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly what he dreamed of.
Genres: Comedy Animation Western Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-17
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The Bear's Tale
Overview: The Three Bears meets Little Red Riding Hood, told in the style of Tex Avery.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-13
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A Feud There Was
Overview: The McCoys and the Weavers are two feuding hillbilly clans. Elmer Fudd, Peacemaker, attempts to end the fighting; but violence and zaniness win out.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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Jerky Turkey
Overview: A dopey Pilgrim goes hunting a turkey who speaks in a Jimmy Durante impersonation and runs the local black market. War and rationing gags abound (Pilgrims line up behind a sign reading "Ye Cigarettes Today"), as well as a running gag featuring a bear wearing an "Eat at Joe's" sandwich sign. The turkey harnesses the power of gags to save himself.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-07
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Don't Look Now
Overview: It's St. Valentine's Day. Cupid is having fun arranging, while a young devil is making mischief sabotaging, love affairs.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-07
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Garden Gopher
Overview: When Spike tries to bury a bone he finds a belligerent gopher.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-30
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Deputy Droopy
Overview: Two outlaws are trying to steal a shipment of gold being guarded by Deputy Droopy, and have to keep quiet to avoid alerting the sheriff.
Genres: Animation Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-28
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The Compleat Tex Avery
Overview: A box set of Tex Avery’s complete output of theatrical cartoon shorts for the MGM studios, from 1942 to 1956.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-13
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Daredevil Droopy
Overview: Droopy and Spike are applying for the job of Dare Devil Dog at the Circus, and the one who give the best performance in a variety of "feats of strength and daring" will get it.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-31
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Who Killed Who?
Overview: A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to deal with some suspicious suspects and a haunted house.
Genres: Animation Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-19
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The Legend of Rockabye Point
Overview: The old fishing boat captain tells the story of Chilly Willy, a singing polar bear and a bulldog who quickly falls asleep when he hears a lullaby.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-11
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Circus Today
Overview: A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the Flying Cadenzas, literally fly; the lion puts his head in the tamer's mouth; and the human cannonball flies around the world.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-21
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A Day at the Zoo
Overview: A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Egghead teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-11
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The Crackpot Quail
Overview: A dog chasing a quail keeps getting outsmarted.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-15
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Hound Hunters
Overview: George and Junior get a job as dog catchers and spend the picture trying to catch one measly little dog.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-12
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Of Fox and Hounds
Overview: Willoughby, a big dumb hound, is repeatedly tricked by George, the fox, into jumping off cliffs, among other things.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-07
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Red Hot Rangers
Overview: Forest rangers George and Junior try to snuff out a frisky flame with a sparky personality that threatens to set the forest alight.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-03
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What Price Fleadom
Overview: A dog lives in harmony with its flea Homer, until Homer spots a lady flea on a passing dog and relocates.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-20
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Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5
Overview: The Looney Tunes Guide to Fairy Tales: In a storybook setting, Looney Tunes characters share with kids the necessary ingredients for a proper fairy tale
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-30
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Dangerous Dan McFoo
Overview: An arctic saloon. The tiny dog, Dan McFoo, is playing a pinball-like marble game in the back. His girlfriend, Sue, sounding like Katharine Hepburn, stands by. A stranger comes in with eyes for Sue; he begins a boxing match with Dan. After Dan gets knocked down, he accuses the stranger of having something in the glove; the ref finds four horseshoes and a horse. After the fight goes on a while with no conclusion, the narrator tosses a couple of guns, the lights go out, and Dan is shot or is he?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-15
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Porky the Wrestler
Overview: Porky Pig, hitchhiking to the big wrestling match, gets a ride from the challenger and unexpectedly winds up also in the ring.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-09
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King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
Overview: Focuses on how the legend of animation, Tex Avery, revolutionized cartoons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-16
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Portrait of Tex Avery
Overview: Documentary of American animation directory Tex Avery including interviews with his peers including Chuck Jones.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Tex Avery: A Crazy World
Overview: French documentary of the life and work of pioneering animation director Tex Avery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Porky's Phoney Express
Overview: A pony express office. Porky's only allowed to clean up and lick envelopes. When a rider comes back...
Genres: Animation Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Hold the Lion, Please
Overview: A lion wants to prove he's still "King of the Jungle" and, to prove it, he hunts rabbit.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-06
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Señor Droopy
Overview: The wolf, the champion toreador, and Droopy, the challenger, are competing to see who is best in the bullring in the hopes of winning the hand of actress Lina Romay (who appears in a live action shot).
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-09
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Henpecked Hoboes
Overview: George and Junior are two hungry bears who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-26
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
Overview: Animator Robert Clampett presents a history of "Termite Terrace," the little shack on the Warner Brothers studio lot which in the 1930's and 1940's housed the animation unit which gave birth to Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Includes color and black-and-white home-movie-type footage shot at the time showing such animation greats as Clampett, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. Also featured are nine complete Warner cartoons.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-19
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Barney's Hungry Cousin
Overview: Barney Bear heads to a national park for a vacation while another bear, native to the park, notices Barney's picnic lunch and makes various attempts to steal the food.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-31
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A Sunbonnet Blue
Overview: A rat comes between two mice in love.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-21
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Ventriloquist Cat
Overview: A cat learns the art of ventriloquism in order to play a series of practical jokes on a slow-witted bulldog...
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery
Overview: An interview with 'Tex Avery'.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Farm of Tomorrow
Overview: A series of gags showing how much more productive farms would be if farmers started crossbreeding their animals to create weird (but very useful) hybrids. This cartoon is one of Avery's future technology cartoons including The House of Tomorrow, The Car of Tomorrow and T.V. of Tomorrow.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-18
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