1912 in animation
Events in 1912 in animation.
Films released
- January – How a Mosquito Operates
- 27 October – ''The Cameraman's Revenge''
Births
January
January 12: Sara Berner, American actress,.February
February 24: Jiří Trnka, Czech puppeteer, illustrator, animator and film director,.April
April 5: John Le Mesurier, English actor,.April 7: Jack Lawrence, American songwriter,.April 12: Lillian Friedman Astor, American animator,.April 15: Libico Maraja, Italian illustrator, animator and comics artist,.April 16: John Halas, Hungarian-British animator, film producer and director,.April 17: Arthur Humberstone, English animator and film director,.April 30: Emery Hawkins, American animator,.May
May 2: Marten Toonder, Dutch comics author and animator,.May 11: Don Towsley, American animator,.June
June 11: James Algar, American film director, screenwriter, and producer,.June 15: Ernie Nordli, American animator, animation designer and lay-out artist,.June 23: Gerry Chiniquy, American animator and film director,.June 24: Brad Case, American animator,.July
July 5:- * Bob Matz, American animator,.
- * Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter,.July 15: Al Bertino, American animator,.July 17: Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television personality,.July 23: Jackson Beck, American actor,.July 26: Buddy Clark, American singer,.
August
August 23:- * Ed Benedict, American animator, character designer and lay-out artist,.
- * Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, dancer, film director, producer and choreographer,.August 25: Ted Key, American animator/screenwriter and comics artist,.August 27: Sam Singer, American film director and producer,.
September
September 1: Michael Lah, American animator and film director,. September 5:- *Frank Thomas, American animator,.
- *Ray Gilbert, American lyricist,.September 12: Henry Wilson Allen, aka Heck Allen, American novelist and animation writer,.September 21: Chuck Jones, American animator, director and painter,.
October
October 5: Riley Thomson, American comics artist and animator,.October 6: Irving Dressler, American animator and comics artist,.October 11: Betty Noyes, American actress and singer,.October 15: Bonnie Poe, American actress,.October 31: Ollie Johnston, American animator,.November
November 11: Grant Simmons, American animator and director,.November 17: Jack Lescoulie, American actor,.November 23: George O'Hanlon, American actor,.Specific date unknown
- Lenn Redman, American caricaturist, animator, novelist, poet, illustrator, comics artist, cartoonist and activist,.
- Storm de Hirsch, American poet, film director and animator,.