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Bill Hanna
July 7, 1910 to March 3, 2001

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March 24, 1911 to present

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Bill Hanna began his workin' years at a profession as well.

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In 1937, both Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera ed the team of cartoonists at MGM studios in Hollywood, where they were paired up to work on a little cartoons and continued on as a drawing/producing team for the rest of their careers.

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Faced with MGM studios shutting down their animation department in 1957, Hanna and Barbera decided to strike out on their own and created Hanna-Barbera Productions that same year.

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Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera worked together for nearly 50 years.

Between 1943 and 1953, the two animators won seven Oscars for their work on Tom and Jerry.

The very first characters created at the Hanna-Barbera studios were Ruff and Ready (which was a cat and dog duo this time) and Huckleberry Hound.

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Yogi Bear (1960)

The Flintstones (1960)

The Jetsons (1962)

Magilla Gorilla (1964)

Scooby-Doo Where Are You? (1969)

Josie and the Pussycats (1970)

The Harlem Globetrotters (1970)

Scooby & Scrappy-Doo (1979)

The Smurfs (1981)

The Snorks (1984)

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