1931 in animation

Events in 1931 in animation.

Films released

2 January – The Birthday Party
6 January – Ace of Spades
11 January – Popcorn
12 January – China
19 January – Big Man from the North
25 January:
* Circus Time
* Club Sandwich
28 January – College
31 January:
* The Soup Song
* The Village Smitty
February – Ain't Nature Grand!
7 February – Teacher's Pest
8 February – Razzberries
9 February – Shipwreck
10 February – Birds of a Feather
13 February – Rodeo Dough
21 February – Tree Saps
22 February – Go West, Big Boy
25 February – The Milkman
7 March – Traffic Troubles
8 March – Quack, Quack
14 March:
* Laughing Gas
* The Cow's Husband
22 March:
* The Brown Derby
* The Explorer
23 March – The Farmer
27 March – The Castaway
4 April:
* Swiss Movements
* Ups 'n Downs
5 April – Clowning
6 April – The Bum Bandit
8 April – The Fireman
15 April – Down South
17 April – Mother Goose Melodies
19 April – Sing, Sing Prison
20 April – Sunny South
26 April – The Male Man
27 April – Disarmament Conference
30 April:
* The Moose Hunt
* Adventures of Juku The Dog
1 May – Hallowe'en
2 May – Ragtime Romeo
3 May – The Fireman's Bride
5 May:
* Country School
* Twenty Legs Under the Sea
16 May – Aces Up
17 May – The Sultan's Cat
18 May – The Bandmaster
23 May – Silly Scandals
25 May – The China Plate
29 May – Soda Poppa
30 May – Dumb Patrol
31 May – A Day to Live
6 June – The Delivery Boy
7 June – The Bull Thrower
13 June – Yodeling Yokels
14 June – 2000 B.C.
22 June – The Busy Beavers
24 June – The Herring Murder Case
28 June – Blues
29 June – Northwoods
7 July – Mickey Steps Out
11 July – Stork Market
12 July – By the Sea
13 July – The Stone Age
16 July – Yelp Wanted
18 July – Bosko's Holiday
24 July – Bimbo's Initiation
25 July:
* The New Car
* The Tree's Knees
26 July – Her First Egg
27 July – Radio Rhythm
28 July – The Cat's Out
1 August – Wot a Night
2 August – Lady, Play Your Mandolin!
3 August – Svengarlic
9 August – Jazz Mad
15 August – The Little Pest
18 August – Blue Rhythm
22 August – Bimbo's Express
23 August – Canadian Capers
27 August – Egyptian Melodies
29 August – Movie Mad
5 September:
* Polar Pals
* Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!
6 September – Jesse and James
7 September – Kentucky Belles
12 September – The Village Specialist
14 September:
* Hot Feet
* Weenie Roast
15 September – Sunday Clothes
18 September – Peludópolis
19 September – Bosko Shipwrecked!
20 September – The Champ
25 September – Fishin' Around
26 September – Jail Birds
28 September – Minding the Baby
30 September – The Clock Store
3 October – One More Time
4 October – Around the World
10 October:
* The Barnyard Broadcast
* Trouble
12 October – The Hunter
15 October – Bars and Stripes
16 October – The Dog Snatcher
17 October:
* Africa Squeaks
* Bosko the Doughboy
18 October – Jingle Bells
19 October – In the Shade of the Old Apple Sauce
21 October – You Don't Know What You're Doin'!
23 October – The Spider and the Fly
26 October – Wonderland
1 November – The Black Spider
2 November – Hash House Blues
5 November – The Beach Party
9 November – Mask-A-Raid
10 November – The Fox Hunt
11 November – Showin Off
14 November:
* Bosko's Soda Fountain
* Jungle Jam
15 November – China
16 November – Minding the Baby
22 November – Jack and the Beanstalk
28 November – Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land
29 November – The Lorelei
30 November:
* Mickey Cuts Up
* The Hare Mail
1 December – The Restless Sax
7 December – The Fisherman
9 December – Mickey's Orphans
12 December
* Bosko's Fox Hunt
* Dizzy Red Riding Hood
13 December – Summertime
17 December – The Ugly Duckling
19 December – A Swiss Trick
21 December:
* Spooks
* The Clown
26 December – Red-Headed Baby
27 December – ''Aladdin's Lamp''

Events

June

June 13: Harman and Ising's Lady, Play Your Mandolin!, the first Merrie Melodie cartoon, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions premieres, Foxy makes his debut.

August

August 15: Harman and Ising's Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! starring Foxy and produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions premieres, the title song would later be used in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Births

January

January 13:

* Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher,.
* Chris Wiggins, English-born Canadian actor,.
* Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian,. His ashes were scattered at sea in Hawaii.
* Scott Beach, American actor,.January 17: James Earl Jones, American actor,.January 20: Shinsuke Chikaishi, Japanese voice actor,.January 25: Dean Jones, American actor,.January 29: Richard Bakalyan, Armenian-American actor,.

February

February 6: Rip Torn, American actor,.February 7:

* José Luis Beltrán Coscojuela, Spanish comics artist and animator,.
* Serge Danot, French animator, film director and producer,.February 13: Isaac Bardavid, Brazilian actor,.February 26: Jacques Rouxel, French animator,.February 28: Gavin MacLeod, American actor,.

March

March 8: Gerald Potterton, British-Canadian animator, storyboard artist, writer, producer and director,.March 11: Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born American businessman and founder of News Corporation.March 20:

* Hal Linden, American actor.
* Rein Raamat, Estonian animation film director, artist and screenwriter.March 22: William Shatner, Canadian actor.March 26: Leonard Nimoy, American actor,.March 31: Ryō Ishihara, Japanese voice actor,.

April

April 10: Gérald Forton, Belgian-born French comic book artist, animator, storyboard artist, character designer, background artist and production designer,.April 11: Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer,.April 12: Gerry Matthews, American actor,.April 13: Jon Stone, American writer, producer, and director,.April 18: Nina Gulyayeva, Russian actress,.April 26: Bernie Brillstein, American film producer and talent agent,.

May

May 5: Greg, Belgian comics artist, writer and screenplay writer,.May 10: Ichiro Nagai, Japanese actor.May 6: Willie Mays, American baseball player,.May 12: Art Seidel, American production manager,.May 18: Robert Morse, American actor and singer,.May 23: Barbara Barrie, American actress and author.

June

June 7: Michael Bakewell, British television producer,.June 6: Ken Knowlton, American computer graphics pioneer, artist, mosaicist and portraitist,.June 17: John Baldessari, American conceptual artist,.June 20: Olympia Dukakis, American actress,.June 21: Zlatko Grgić, Croatian animator and animation director,.June 27: Luc Mazel, Belgian comic artist and animator,.June 29: Ed Gilbert, American actor,.

July

July 2: Robert Ito, Canadian actor.July 5: Bill Skiles, American comedian,.July 6: Della Reese, American singer and actress,.July 11: Yasuo Ōtsuka, Japanese animator,.July 16: Ed Seeman, American animator,.July 28: Darryl Hickman, American former actor,.

August

August 7: Per Åhlin, Swedish artist and animated film director,.August 10: Giuliano Cenci, Italian film director,.August 17: Robert D. Buchanan, American animator.August 25: Regis Philbin, American television presenter,.August 26: Ram Mohan, Indian animator, director and animation producer,.August 30: Jōji Yanami, Japanese actor,.August 31: Sergio Matteucci, Italian actor and radio presenter,.

September

September 10: Philip Baker Hall, American actor,.September 12:

* Ian Holm, English actor,.
* Bill McKinney, American actor,.September 17: Anne Bancroft, American actress,.September 21: Larry Hagman, American actor, director and producer,.September 25: Peter Woodthorpe, English actor,.September 29: Eddie Barth, American actor,.

October

October 2: Enzo Facciolo, Italian comics artist and animator,.October 24: Sofia Gubaidulina, Soviet and Russian composer,.October 27: Vinnie Bell, American animator,.October 30: Dick Gautier, American actor, comedian, singer and caricaturist,.October 31: Dan Rather, American journalist.

November

November 1: Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer,.November 19: Lester Pourier, American animator and layout artist,.November 22: Esa Saario, Finnish actor,.November 28: Tomi Ungerer, French novelist, illustrator, cartoonist and poster designer,.November 30: Jack Sheldon, American jazz trumpeter, singer and actor,.

December

December 9: Paddi Edwards, British actress,.December 11: Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-born American actress and singer.December 15: Ernest Pintoff, American animator and film director,.December 23: Ronnie Schell, American actor and comedian.December 24: Robert Ridgely, American actor,.

Specific date unknown

David Cherkassky, Soviet and Ukrainian animated film director and screenwriter,.
Dan Mills, American animator and storyboard artist,.
David Saire, English actor,.
Eugene Troubetzkoy, French-born American nuclear physicist, scientist and software supporter,.