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Virgil Ross

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  • 1907 - 1996

Biography

Virgil Ross (as he was usually known) spent his early years in New York state and in Michigan, but his family moved to Long Beach, California, when he was in his late teens. This state was to be his primary home for the rest of his life. His introduction to cartooning was in high-school, where he took a class in that art form. Early work was done for Charles B. Mintz (later Screen Gems), Ub Iwerks studio, and then on to Walter Lantz, where he began animation work. In 1935, he moved on to work forLeon Schlesinger at Warner Bros. where he spent about 30 years, first under Tex Avery's supervision, until 1942, then for Bob Clampett, and finally with Friz Freleng. His résumé also includes time spent with such firms as Filmation (where he worked on the early '70s Star Trek: The Animated Series), Hanna Barbera, and Marvel Comics. In 1979 he animated Woody Woodpecker for a special scene at the 51st Academy Awards. He was notably self-effacing. In an interview with John Province in 1989, he is quoted as saying "I always had an eye for movement, and I think this kept me in the business a lot longer than a lot of guys, despite the fact that I really wasn't very good at drawing. When I started out in animation, you didn't have to be a good artist. I just had a little natural talent, and it's mostly just timing anyway."  Of the very many characters Ross animated, he is most closely associated with Bugs Bunny, but also did a great deal of work involving Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, and many others, including Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. When handling long-eared characters such as Bugs or Wile E., Ross occasionally tilted or waved an ear in otherwise-static scenes. As the animator for "A Wild Hare", generally regarded as the first appearance of Bugs Bunny, Ross had a first person view of the creation of the character. In the interview of Ross, published in Animato magazine #19, Virgil recalls how the character of Bugs Bunny came to be. He says in the interview, "We received orders from the story department that they needed a drawing of a bunny. We all did drawings and tacked them on the wall, and the storymen voted on them. We had one writer named Bugs Hardaway, and for some reason, this one drawing became known as Bugs' Bunny. Leon Schlesinger liked the sound of the name and told them to keep it, and that's how Bugs Bunny got his name. Years later, before he died, Hardaway tried to get some credit for making the character, which he probably deserved. But Warner Bros owned the rights to everything we created."

Birthday: 1907-08-08

Crewed In:

Fritz the Cat
12593
A Bird in a Guilty Cage
34711
A Corny Concerto
34712
Gift Wrapped
48875
High Diving Hare
57814
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
74999
A Tale of Two Kitties
83676
I Love to Singa
83797
Hyde and Go Tweet
84588
Aviation Vacation
84662
Dangerous Dan McFoo
84678
Tweety Pie
88768
Hollywood Steps Out
100310
Kit for Cat
100317
Little Red Riding Rabbit
100318
Lumber Jerks
100319
Putty Tat Trouble
100339
Rabbit Transit
100342
Rhapsody Rabbit
100344
Slick Hare
100349
The Hep Cat
100369
The Last Hungry Cat
100371
Tortoise Beats Hare
100379
Tweety's S.O.S.
100384
Birds Anonymous
100395
Fighting Tools
100723
Knighty Knight Bugs
106927
Bad Ol' Putty Tat
118805
All a Bir-r-r-rd
118979
Ain't She Tweet
119608
Room and Bird
119799
A Wild Hare
144904
Canary Row
145811
Bugs and Thugs
147915
Egghead Rides Again
152234
Tweet Tweet Tweety
162303
Snow Business
163036
Pizzicato Pussycat
165269
Devil's Feud Cake
165853
Hare-Less Wolf
165854
Mutiny on the Bunny
165868
Sandy Claws
168018
Tugboat Granny
184050
Home, Tweet Home
188741
Porky's Duck Hunt
190072
Goldimouse and the Three Cats
195868
Moochin' Pooch
202318
The Bungling Builder
202328
Quackodile Tears
210823
Honey's Money
234535
D' Fightin' Ones
234705
Lighter Than Hare
234744
From Hare to Heir
234748
Horse Hare
234755
Person to Bunny
234758
Trip for Tat
234759
Mouse and Garden
234760
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
236933
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