1946 in animation
Events in 1946 in animation.
Events
January
January 4: Terrytoons produces The Talking Magpies, in which Heckle and Jeckle make their debut.January 5: Bob Clampett's Book Revue premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons and starring Daffy Duck.February
February 2: Friz Freleng's Baseball Bugs is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons and starring Bugs Bunny.March
March 7: 18th Academy Awards: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Quiet Please!, produced by MGM's Cartoon Studio, wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.March 8: Jack Hannah's Goofy cartoon A Knight for a Day, produced by The Walt Disney Company, premieres.March 9: Tex Avery's Lonesome Lenny premieres, produced by MGM. It is the final Screwy Squirrel cartoon.March 16: Bob Clampett's Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cartoon Baby Bottleneck premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.March 20: Robert McKimson's Hollywood Canine Canteen premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, featuring caricatures of Hollywood actors as anthropomorphic dogs.March 23: Frank Tashlin & Robert McKimson's Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd cartoon Hare Remover premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.March 30: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Springtime for Thomas premieres, produced by MGM's Cartoon Studio.April
April 6: Robert McKimson's cartoon Daffy Doodles premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, it is McKimson's first short to feature both Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.April 20: Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Joshua Meador's Make Mine Music, produced by The Walt Disney Company, is first released. It is an anthology film and consists of ten animated segments accompanied by music.May
May 4: Chuck Jones' final Sniffles cartoon Hush My Mouse premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. This is the final Looney Tunes short to feature Porky Pig's iconic drum end card.May 16: The first Danish animated feature film, The Tinderbox, based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen and directed by Svend Methling, is first released.May 18: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon The Milky Waif is first released, produced by MGM's Cartoon Studio. The short marks the debut of Jerry's nephew Nibbles.May 25: Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny cartoon Hair-Raising Hare is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. It marks the debut of Gossamer.June
June 8: Bob Clampett's Porky Pig and Sylvester the Cat cartoon Kitty Kornered is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.June 22: Friz Freleng & Hawley Pratt's Hollywood Daffy premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, in which Daffy Duck visits Hollywood and meets and impersonates celebrity actors.June 28: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Double Trouble premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. In it, Donald uses a well-mannered lookalike to make a good impression on Daisy Duck.June 29:- * William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Trap Happy, produced by MGM's Cartoon Studio, premieres.
- * Robert McKimson's first Bugs Bunny cartoon Acrobatty Bunny, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, premieres.
July
July 20: Bob Clampett's final & iconic Daffy Duck cartoon The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released. Porky Pig makes a cameo as a tram driver.August
August 3: Tex Avery's Droopy cartoon Northwest Hounded Police, produced by MGM's Cartoon Studio, premieres.August 9: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Wet Paint premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.August 30: Jack King's Donald Duck cartoon Dumb Bell of the Yukon premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.August 31:- * Robert McKimson's Walky Talky Hawky premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. It marks the debuts of Foghorn Leghorn and his arch-nemesis Barnyard Dawg, also McKimson's first short starring Henery Hawk.
- * William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon Solid Serenade, produced MGM's Cartoon Studio, premieres.
September
September 6: George Pal's John Henry and the Inky-Poo premieres.September 14: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon Racketeer Rabbit is first released, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.September 20: Jack Hannah's Donald Duck cartoon Lighthouse Keeping premieres, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios.September 28: Chuck Jones' Fair and Worm-er premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.October
October 5: Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny short The Big Snooze is first released. It is the final Warner Bros. Cartoons cartoon directed by Clampett before his retirement.October 26: Tex Avery's Henpecked Hoboes premieres, produced by MGM which marks the debut of George and Junior.November
November 1: The Story of Menstruation, an educational film for young teenagers about menstruation produced by The Walt Disney Company, is first released.November 1: The Donald Duck and Goofy short Frank Duck Brings 'Em Back Alive is released by RKO Radio Pictures.November 2: Arthur Davis' first Porky Pig cartoon Mouse Menace premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.November 9: Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny cartoon Rhapsody Rabbit premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.November 12: Song of the South, a film combining live-action and animation, is first released. The live-action scenes are directed by Harve Foster, while the animated scenes are directed by Wilfred Jackson and produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It marks the debut of the characters Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear who will become popular comic characters. However, decades later prior to the George Floyd protests in 2020, it became controversial due to being accused of promoting racial stereotypes and romanticizing slavery.December
December 20: Jack Hannah's Goofy cartoon Double Dribble, produced by The Walt Disney Company, premieres.Specific date unknown
- Karel Zeman's Podkova pro štěstí premieres which marks the debut of Mr. Prokouk.
Films released
- April 20 - Make Mine Music
- May 16 - The Tinderbox
- November 12 - ''Song of the South''
Births
January
January 5: Diane Keaton, American actress,.January 19: Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman.January 20: David Lynch, American filmmaker, visual artist, musician and actor,.February
February 2: Blake Clark, American actor and comedian.February 14: Gregory Hines, American dancer, actor, choreographer and singer,.February 19: Hiroshi Fujioka, Japanese actor.February 20:- * Sandy Duncan, American actress, comedian, dancer and singer.
- * Brenda Blethyn, English actress.February 21:
- * Anthony Daniels, English actor.
- * Alan Rickman, English actor and director,.
March
March 6: Jacques Verbeek, Dutch animator and comics artist,.March 12: Frank Welker, American voice actor.March 21: Timothy Dalton, English actor.March 29: Bob Richardson, American animator and producer.March 27: Carl Weintraub, American actor.March 31: Dave Thomson, American animator and scene-planner,.April
April 8: Stuart Pankin, American actor.April 12: Ed O'Neill, American actor.April 18: Hayley Mills, English actress.April 19: Tim Curry, English actor.April 22: John Waters, American filmmaker, writer, actor and artist.April 23: Michael Sporn, American animator and film director and producer,.April 26: Claude Viseur, aka Clovis, Belgian comic artist and animator,.April 29: Wayne Robson, Canadian actor,.April 30: Bill Plympton, American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist and filmmaker.May
May 1: Nellie Bellflower, American actress.May 6:- * Larry Huber, American animator, television writer and producer.
- * Lulu Roman, American comedian and singer,.May 10: Donovan, Scottish musician.May 13: Marv Wolfman, American comic book and television writer.May 20: Cher, American singer and actress.
June
June 1: Brian Cox, Scottish actor.June 2: Tomomichi Nishimura, Japanese voice actor,.June 3: Tristan Rogers, Australian actor,.June 19: Jennifer Darling, American actress.June 24: Robert Reich, American professor, author, lawyer and political commentator.June 26: Ricky Jay, American stage magician, actor and writer,.June 28:- * Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress,.
- * Bruce Davison, American actor.
July
July 6:- * Sylvester Stallone, American actor and film director.
- * Fred Dryer, American actor and former football player.July 7: Joe Spano, American actor.July 13: Cheech Marin, American actor.July 14: Vincent Pastore, American actor.July 15: Linda Ronstadt, American retired singer.July 16: Dave Goelz, American puppeteer.July 17: Giannalberto Bendazzi, Italian animation historian,.July 20: Bob Heatlie, Scottish songwriter, record producer and composer,.July 21: Timothy Harris, American author, screenwriter and producer.July 22: Danny Glover, American actor, director and activist.
August
August 9: Alain Dorval, French voice actor,.August 12: Caroline Leaf, Canadian-American filmmaker, animator, director, producer, and tutor.August 19: Ferenc Rofusz, Hungarian animator.August 26: Rickie Sorensen, American actor,.August 27: Yuriy Meshcheryakov, Russian-Ukrainian animator,.September
September 11: Julie Payne, American actress.September 22: Roberto Espriú Sen, Mexican actor and voice actor,.September 26: Togo Igawa, Japanese actor.September 28: Jeffrey Jones, American actor.September 30: Fran Brill, American retired puppeteer and actress.October
October 2: Dale Soules, American actress.October 4: Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist.October 6: John Hostetter, American actor,.October 16: Suzanne Somers, American actress, author, singer, businesswoman and health spokesperson,.October 21: Lux Interior, American singer,.October 22: Richard McGonagle, American actor.October 23: Bill Millar, English visual effect and animator,.October 27: Ivan Reitman, Slovak-born Canadian film and television director, screenwriter and producer,.November
November 1: Yuko Shimizu, Japanese designer.November 2: Richard Newman, American-Canadian actor.November 3: Tom Savini, American prosthetic makeup artist, actor, stunt performer and film director.November 6: Sally Field, American actress.November 20: Samuel E. Wright, American actor and singer,.November 24: Joel Sill, American music supervisor,.November 25: Marc Brown, American author and illustrator.November 26: Lina Gagnon, Canadian animator,.November 28: Joe Dante, American actor, film editor, producer and director.December
December 1:- * Jonathan Katz, American comedian and actor.
- * Germana Dominici, Italian actress,,.December 4: Sherry Alberoni, American actress.December 14: Lynne Marie Stewart, American actress,.December 15: Indira Stefanianna, American actress and singer.December 16: Charles Dennis, Canadian actor.December 17:
- * Eugene Levy, Canadian actor and comedian.
- * Jayne Eastwood, Canadian actress.December 18: Steven Spielberg, American film director, screenwriter and producer.December 24:
- * Daniel Beretta, French actor,.
- * Arlene Banas, American actress.
Specific date unknown
- Bob Dermer, Canadian actor.
- Eric Peterson, Canadian actor.