Rudolf Ising

Carl Rudolf Ising ( born August 7, 1903 in Kansas City, Missouri; † July 18, 1992 in Newport Beach, California ) was an American producer and director of animated films, especially during the numerous collaboration with Hugh Harman -known cartoon films turned.

Biography

Ising first began in the early 1920s as an animation artist for a film version of Little Red Riding Hood as a cartoon short film titled Little Red Riding Hood (1922 ) and was in the mid -1920s not only signatories Another fairy tale animated films, but also a cameraman of a cartoon series of so-called Alice cartoons that were created under the direction of Walt Disney 1923-1927.

End of the 1920s he was even working as director and producer of animated films, and until the mid -1940s, about 100 cartoons and documentary short films.

At the Academy Awards in 1936, he was first nominated along with Hugh Harman for the Oscar for best animated short film and indeed for In the land of stuffed animals from the year 1935. The second nomination for an Oscar in this category he and Harman 1937 received for The Old Mill Pond ( 1936).

The successful collaboration of the duo Harman - Ising in the Looney Tunes from Warner Bros. continued even after their departure from Warner Bros. in 1934 by more cartoons produced for Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer. Other partners of this period were Leon Schlesinger, Warner Bros., for which he created the cartoon character " Bosko " along with Harman, and Walter Lantz. End of the 1930s he also worked at the Silly- Simphonies films of the Walt Disney Company.

Other well-known films that have been staged or produced by him were he caught me again (1932 ), the first film of the cartoon duo Tom and Jerry, entitled Jerry gets busted (1940 ), The Milky Way (1940 ) and Barney Bear as a recruit ( 1941).

Later, he was twice honored for his life's work: on the one in 1988 with the Winsor McCay Award, which is awarded as part of the award of the Annie Award, and secondly in 1988 with the Golden Prize of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Award.