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Darrell Wallace Calker (February 18, 1905 – February 20, 1964) was an American composer and arranger who worked on films and animated cartoons.
Darrell Wallace Calker was born in Washington, D.C. to Morris H. and Lugenia E. (Lily) Wallace of Philadelphia. He grew up with his younger sister Rena in the District of Columbia, where he attended Episcopal Cathedral School and sang with a church choir in his teens. He studied with Edgar Priest and David Pell, graduating from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Calker's early work in Hollywood included orchestration for Victor Young. He was also active as the composer of scores for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet. Among his compositions were the suites for orchestra, Golden Land and Penguin Island.
After arriving in Los Angeles by the mid-1930s, Calker worked as a session musician, and composed songs including Strings Full of Swing and Dixieland Strut. He formed his own band, which appeared on radio in the early 1940s.
Walter Benjamin Lantz (April 27, 1899– March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and director, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.
Lantz was born in New Rochelle, New York to Italian immigrant parents, Francesco Paolo Lantz (formerly Lanza) and Maria Gervasi from Calitri. According to Joe Adamson's biography, The Walter Lantz Story, Lantz's father was given his new surname by an immigration official who anglicized it. Walter Lantz was always interested in art, completing a mail order drawing class at age twelve. He was inspired when he saw Winsor McCay's animated short, Gertie the Dinosaur.
While working as an auto mechanic Lantz got his first break. A wealthy customer named Fred Kafka liked his drawings on the garage's bulletin board and financed Lantz's studies at the Art Students League of New York. Kafka also helped him land a job as a copy boy at the New York American, owned by William Randolph Hearst. Lantz worked at the newspaper and attended art school at night.
Joseph Benson "Ben/Bugs" Hardaway (May 21, 1895 – February 5, 1957) was an American storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer and director for several American animation studios during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He was sometimes credited as J. B. Hardaway, Ben Hardaway, Buggsy Hardaway and B. Hardaway.
He started his animation career working for the Kansas City Film Ad Service. He later worked for the Walt Disney Animation Studios and the Ub Iwerks Studio. He was hired by the Leon Schlesinger studio as a gagman for the Friz Freleng unit. He was promoted to director for seven Buddy animated shorts. Afterwards he resumed working as a gagman and storyman. Storymen started receiving film credits in 1937. His writing credits include Daffy Duck & Egghead and The Penguin Parade.
While at the Schlesinger/Warner Bros. studio studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway served as a storyman, and co-directed several Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts with Cal Dalton during Friz Freleng's three-year exodus to MGM. Leon Schlesinger needed a replacement for Freleng, and Hardaway's previous experience in the job resulted in his promotion. In 1938, Hardaway co-directed Porky's Hare Hunt, the first film to feature a rabbit. This as yet unnamed, embryonic rabbit was later named in an early model sheet as "Bugs' Bunny".
Woody Woodpecker is an anthropomorphic animated woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures. Though not the first of the screwball characters that became popular in the 1940s, Woody is one of the most indicative of the type.
Woody was created in 1940 by Lantz and storyboard artist Ben "Bugs" Hardaway, who had previously laid the groundwork for two other screwball characters, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the late 1930s. Woody's character and design would evolve over the years, from an insane bird with an unusually garish design to a more refined looking and acting character in the vein of the later Chuck Jones version of Bugs Bunny. Woody was originally voiced by prolific voice actor Mel Blanc, who was succeeded by Ben Hardaway and later by Grace Stafford, wife of Walter Lantz.
Lantz produced theatrical cartoons longer than most of his contemporaries, and Woody Woodpecker remained a staple of Universal's release schedule until 1972, when Lantz finally closed down his studio. The character has been revived since then only for special productions and occasions, save for one new Saturday morning cartoon television series, The New Woody Woodpecker Show, for the Fox Network in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
Johnny Carpenter (Jasper Carpenter; June 25, 1914 – February 27, 2003) was an American film actor, screenwriter and producer. He was known mostly for his work in Westerns and for his association with filmmaker Ed Wood. He used the stage names John, Johnny, Josh, and John Forbes.
Johnny began working in Hollywood in the mid-1940s, mostly in bit parts in B-Westerns. By 1950, Johnny had graduated to larger roles in films produced by Jack Schwarz, including Border Outlaws and Cattle Queen, his breakout film. He starred in several more B-westerns, all the while continuing to do stunt work in higher profile films.
From 1953 to 1956, Carpenter produced four movies independently; Son of the Renegade (1953), The Lawless Rider (1954), Outlaw Treasure (1955) and I Killed Wild Bill Hickok (1956). These four films have drawn comparisons between Carpenter and his friend Ed Wood, who actually helped produce The Lawless Rider and may have worked on Son of the Renegade, as well. Carpenter would also make a featured appearance in Wood's 1959 film, Night of the Ghouls.
Darrell Calker: Main Title music from Hoodlum (1951). Film Noir
Andy Panda in "Dog Tax Dodgers" Director - Dick Lundy Storyboard - Ben Hardaway, Heck Allen Voice of Andy - Walter Tetley Voice of Wally - William Demarest Music - Darrell Calker Produced by - Walter Lantz Released by - United Artist
Directed by Dave Fleischer (uncredited) Walter Lantz (uncredited) Writing credits (in alphabetical order) Ben Hardaway story Cast (in alphabetical order) Mel Blanc ... Boat Captain / Fighter One / Fighter Two / Various (voice) (uncredited) Vivian Dandridge ... The Girl (voice) (uncredited) Danny Webb ... Mammy / Deep-Voiced Little Girl (voice) (uncredited) Create a character page for: Produced by Walter Lantz .... producer Original Music by Don Raye Darrell Calker (uncredited) Art Department Alex Lovy .... artist Frank Tipper .... artist Animation Department Alex Lovy .... animator (uncredited) Frank Tipper .... animator (uncredited) Music Department Darrell Calker .... music arranger (public domain)
Animation by Alex Lovy and Lester Kline, story by Ben Hardaway and L.E. Elliott, music by Darrell Calker.
"Pica-Pau Biruta" é um curta-metragem de 1941, sendo o primeiro episódio oficial do desenho animado do Pica-Pau. Data de lançamento: 17 de julho de 1941 (EUA) Direção: Walter Lantz Música composta por: Darrell Calker Série de filmes: Knock Knock Film Series Elenco: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Bernice Hansen, Danny Webb Roteiro: Ben Hardaway, Jack Cosgriff
Rolling Home Directed by William Berke Produced by William Berke (producer) Samuel K. Decker (associate producer) Robert L. Lippert (executive producer) Written by William Berke (story) Edwin V. Westrate (screenplay) Starring Jean Parker Russell Hayden Pamela Blake Music by Darrell Calker Cinematography Benjamin H. Kline Edited by Arthur A. Brooks Release dates November 1, 1946 Running time 71 minutes (U.S.) Country United States Language English Criei este vídeo com o Editor de vídeos do YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/editor)
Release Date: 12/31/48 Direction: Dick Lundy Story: Ben Hardaway and Heck Allen Animation: Ed Love and Pat Matthews Music: Darrell Calker Backgrounds: Fred Brunish Notes: Production Number: UA-11 Last onscreen credit for Pat Matthews at Lantz
Johnny Rebel (John Forbes) and Wild Bill Hickok have an appointment with destiny. Initial release: June 16, 1956 (USA) Director: Richard Talmadge Screenplay: Johnny Carpenter Producer: Johnny Carpenter Music composed by: Darrell Calker Cast Johnny Carpenter ("Johnny Rebel" Savage) Johnny Carpenter "Johnny Rebel" Savage Helen Westcott (Belle Longtree) Helen Westcott Belle Longtree Virginia Gibson (Anne James) Virginia Gibson Anne James Denver Pyle (Jim Bailey) Denver Pyle Jim Bailey I. Stanford Jolley (Henry Longtree) I. Stanford Jolley Henry Longtree
Weatherby Groundhog predicts a cold winter and advises all the birds to fly south. But Woody Woodpecker decides to stay, and nearly starves. Animation by Alex Lovy and Lester Kline, story by Ben Hardaway and L.E. Elliott, music by Darrell Calker.
$21 a Day Once a month - 1941 - Walter Lantz This cartoon, the first in Walter Lantz's Swing Symphony series, is built around a performance of the title song, an original by Felix Bernard and Ray Klages about army life. It's set at "Camp Pain," situated within the Toyland Army section of the Toy Department of the "Maybe So Dept. Store" and features the toy soldiers and animals on the shelves coming to life and joining in to do all the orchestral and vocal parts. There's nothing more to it than that, but it's a lively song with some great jazz bits and it benefits from creative musical arrangements by Darrell Calker, Lantz's talented longtime music supervisor. Director: Walter Lantz (uncredited) Writers: Lowell Elliot (as L.E. Elliot), Ben Hardaway