Jim Pabian

James Anthony Pabian (April 14, 1909 – July 23, 1996) was an American animator, screenwriter and director.

Pabian was born in 1909 in Rochester, New York. When he was 15 years old in 1924, his mother died of a ruptured appendix. He studied at the Mechanics Arts Institute in Rochester before moving to Hollywood in 1931.

In 1955, Pabian was hired by Le Cineastis Associates and moved to Paris with his family. He won an award at the Cannes Film Festival for his work in animation before working with Hanna-Barbera in London. His family moved to Ojai, California, in 1966. Pabian was a member of the California Watercolor Society and had his art on display in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

In his old age he became legally blind and suffered from Parkinson's disease, causing him to pick up writing rather than animation. He died on July 23, 1996, at 87 years old.