Unknown author · Public domain
Friz Freleng
American animator, cartoonist, director
1905 – 1995aged 89
Directed more Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons than anyone else at Warner Bros. — 266 of them across three decades — and either created or shaped Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, and Speedy Gonzales along the way. Won five Academy Awards and three Emmys for his direction. After Warner shuttered its animation studio in 1963, he co-founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced The Pink Panther Show and a run of feature-film title sequences.