1906 in animation
Events in 1906 in animation.
Films released
- April 6 – Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
- Date unknown – ''The House of Ghosts''
Births
January
January 19: Lanny Ross, American singer and actor,.January 20: Russ Dyson, American animator,.January 24: Wilfred Jackson, American animator, director, composer and arranger,.February
February 5:- * Ted Eshbaugh, American animator and film director,.
- * John Carradine, American actor,.February 27: Carlo Vinci, American animator,.
March
March 3: Donald Novis, English-born American actor and tenor,.March 7: Isadore Sparber, American storyboard artist, screenwriter, film director, and animation producer,.March 12: Courtland Hector Hoppin, American animator and photographer,.March 15: Paul Smith, American animator and film director,.March 16: Robert Gribbroek, American animator, lay-out artist and background painter,.April
April 4: Bea Benaderet, American actress and comedienne,.April 6: Les Kline, American animator,, April 18: Edith Vernick, Ukrainian-American animator, supervised the assistant animation department for both the Fleischer Studios and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio,.April 19: Ray Abrams, American animator and director,.April 26: Horst von Möllendorff, German comics artist, cartoonist and animator,.May
May 17: Jack Carr, American voice actor and animator, and actor,.May 19: Jimmy MacDonald, Scottish-American animator, actor, musician and sound effects maker,.May 24: Danny Webb, American voice actor,.July
July 3: George Sanders, British actor and singer,.July 27: Ben Clopton, American animator and animation director, directed early films of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit,.August
August 5: John Huston, American filmmaker and actor,.August 7: Ernestine Wade, American actress,.August 12: Tedd Pierce, American animation writer and actor,.August 18: John W. Burton, American film producer and cinematographer,.August 31: Claire Parker, American engineer and animator,.September
September 2:- * George Gordon, American animator and film director,.
- * Barbara Jo Allen, American actress,.September 15: Dmitry Nalbandyan, Armenian animator and painter,.September 29: Charles Wolcott, American composer,.
October
October 1: Walter Clinton, American animator and comics artist,.October 5: Hermann Diehl, German animator and film director,.October 30: Paul Smith, American composer,.November
November 10: Frank Engli, American animator and comics artist, letterer and colorist,.November 13: Hermione Baddeley, English actress,.November 21: Mary Ellen Bute, American animator, animation producer and director,.November 25: Larry Clemmons, American animator, screenwriter, and actor,.November 29: Luis van Rooten, Mexican-American actor,.December
December 9: Freddy Martin, American bandleader and tenor saxophonist,.Specific date unknown
- William Sturm, American animator,,.
- Wan Chaochen, Chinese film director and producer,.