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William Hanna
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Director, Producer, Executive Producer Born: July 14, 1910 in Melrose, NM Death: March 22, 2001 in Hollywood, CA Biography:The son of a construction superintendent for the Sante Fe railway stations, "William Hanna" was obliged to move around quite a bit as a youngster. Influenced by the preponderance of professional writers on his mother's side of the family, Hanna gravitated towards the creative arts in high school. He played saxophone in a dance band, then majored in journalism and engineering at Compton (California) Junior College. While looking for work in the early stages of the Depression, he landed a backstage engineering job at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre. Hanna's brother-in-law, who worked for a Hollywood lab called Pacific Title, tipped him off to a job opening at the Harman-Ising cartoon studios. From 1931 onward, Hanna contributed story ideas to Harman-Ising's "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series, produced on behalf of "Leon Schlesinger" and Warner Bros. He also wrote the music and lyrics for several of... Full Biography
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