Emery Hawkins

Early life and career Emery Hawkins was born in Jerome, Arizona to a father who was a all-round cowboy for two years and to a mother who was a painter. He started drawing when he was two years old and his family had a lot of history with artistic careers, including his aunts. He went to North Hollywood High School but was a college dropout. Hawkins always animated on flipbooks. At the age of 16 in 1928, he did an animation of a clown walking and dancing, showed it to Disney, and they thought it was a copy of their animation. Later in mid-1946 he would move to Warner Bros. Cartoons to animator for Arthur Davis, Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, and Friz Freleng up until 1950. Hawkins later worked in John Sutherland Productions as well as working and directing the 1954 Mexican cartoon Manolin Torero with his former colleague Pat Matthews at Dibujos Animados. He briefly did commercials for different companies in the 1950s, including Playhouse Pictures, Storyboard Inc., Pelican Films, Quartet Films and Bill Melendez Productions.

Later career and death Hawkins later years had him working in Richard Williams' animation studio. There he worked on the Greedy scene in Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure with assistant animator Dan Haskett (who disliked the job), The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (1968) (character animation) Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971) (graphic blandishment) Snoopy Come Home (1972) (graphic blandishment) Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977) (animated The Greedy) The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980) (character animation) Gnomes (film) (1980) (character animation) The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) (character animation) Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983) (character animation) The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986) (character animation) Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) (character animation) The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) (lead character animator)