Norman McCabe

Norman Hildreth McCabe (February 10, 1911 – January 17, 2006) was a British-American animator who enjoyed a long career that lasted into the 1990s.

Early life and Warner Bros. McCabe was born in England and raised in the United States. He worked in Tacoma, Washington, as a theater lobby artist. During the Great Depression, he moved to Los Angeles to look for work at lobbies, but to no avail. and educational films.

In the 1950s, McCabe found himself working for various television commercial studios such as Swift-Chaplin Productions, Five Star Productions, FilmFair, and TeleMation Inc. He worked as an animation director for All Scope Pictures, Inc., a commercial film division for 20th Century Fox from 1958 until the early 1960s.

Legacy McCabe's work is obscure today, because he never made color cartoons during his (relatively brief) directorial tenure at the Schlesinger studio, and several of his cartoons would now be considered offensive due to heavy racial stereotyping (particularly true in his World War II propaganda cartoons, such as The Ducktators, Confusions of a Nutzy Spy, and Tokio Jokio, which satirize Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and/or Hideki Tojo, alongside broadly caricatured versions of Japanese soldiers). During a screening of his cartoons at ASIFA-Hollywood, he spoke highly of Clampett, but was outright embarrassed by his old black-and-white cartoons. However, he won recognition and accolades from those in the animation business.

Filmography Film

Feature films

Television