1908 in animation
Events in 1908 in animation.
Films released
- April 25 – The Airship, or 100 Years Hence
- August 17 – Fantasmagorie
- October 31 – ''Hôtel électrique''
Births
January
January 7: Eliot Daniel, American songwriter,.January 11: Lionel Stander, American actor,.January 16: Ethel Merman, American actress and singer,.January 19: Jack Cutting, American animator and film director,.February
February 1: George Pal, Hungarian-American animator, film director, special effects maker and film producer,.February 6: Michael Maltese, American screenwriter and comics writer,.February 26: Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, film director, and voice actor, creator or further developer of several characters,.March
March 11: Frank Smith, American animator and comics artist,.March 13: Paul Stewart, American actor,.March 16: Seymour Kneitel, American animator,.March 20: Michael Redgrave, British actor and director,.March 31: Anton Loeb, American animator, cartoonist, and illustrator,.April
April 13: Bob Nolan, American country singer and actor,.April 19: Robert Stokes, American animator,.April 23: Myron Waldman, American animator and comics artist,.May
May 3: Jack Zander, American animator,.May 15: Joe Grant, American animator, character designer and screenwriter,.May 17: Ralph Wright, American animator, storyboard writer and actor,.May 20: James Stewart, American actor,.May 22: Nino Pagot, Italian comics artist and animator,.May 25: Barbara Luddy, American actress,.May 26: Robert Morley, English actor,.May 30: Mel Blanc, American voice actor,.June
June 14: John Scott Trotter, American arranger, composer and orchestra leader,.June 18: Bud Collyer, American actor,. June 29: John Hench, American animator, designer and creative director,.July
July 23: Karl Swenson, American actor,.July 25: Harold Peary, American actor and comedian,.August
August 4: Wally Maher, American actor,.August 20: Alan Reed, American voice actor,.August 24: John Reed, American animator, special effects artist, and animation director,.September
September 10: Raymond Scott, American composer,.September 13: Mae Questel, American actress,.September 15: Penny Singleton, American actress and labor leader,.September 26: Shug Fisher, American actor, singer, songwriter, musician, and comedian,.September 30: Wetzel Whitaker, American animator, film director, and film producer,.October
October 22: José Escobar Saliente, Spanish animator, comics writer and artist,.October 24: Preston Blair, American animator,.November
November 12: Shamus Culhane, American animator and film producer and film director,.December
December 2: Cal Dalton, American film director and animator,.December 14: Morey Amsterdam, American actor, comedian, writer and producer,.Specific date unknown
- Stamatis L. Polenakis, Greek comic artist and animated film director,.