From his early teens Clampett showed an interest in animation and puppetry. Clampett also recalled watching his father play handball at the Los Angeles Athletic Club with another of the great silent comedians, Harold Lloyd. While living in Hollywood as a young boy, Clampett and his mother Joan lived next door to Charlie Chaplin and his brother Sydney Chaplin. From the beginning, Clampett was intrigued with and influenced by Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and he began making film short-subjects in his garage beginning when he was twelve. Clampett was displaying extraordinary art skills by the age of five. The elder Clampett was born in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1882, and he immigrated to the United States with his parents at age two in 1884. Robert Emerson Clampett was born in San Diego, California on May 8, 1913, to Robert Caleb Clampett and Mildred Joan Merrifield.
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The series is considered the first fully creator-driven television series and carried the byline "a Bob Clampett Cartoon". A later animated version of the series, titled Beany and Cecil, was initially broadcast on ABC in 1962 and was rerun until 1967.
Cartoons in 1945 and turned his attention to television, creating the puppet show Time for Beany in 1949. Among Clampett's most acclaimed films are Porky in Wackyland (1938) and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946). After leaving high school a few months shy of graduating in 1931, Clampett joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio's newest short subjects, titled Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.Ĭlampett was promoted to a directorial position in 1937 and during his fifteen years at the studio, directed 84 cartoons later deemed classic and designed some of the studio's most famous characters, including Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and Tweety. Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood and, early in his life, showed an interest in animation and puppetry. as well as the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil. He was best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros. (– May 2, 1984) was an American animator, director, producer and puppeteer.
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