Spaghetti Western Director – Joseph Barbera
Joseph Barbera was born on March 24, 1911, New York City,
New York. He was an American animator who, as part of the team of Hanna and
Barbera, created popular cartoon characters such as Tom and Jerry, the
Flintstones, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear, and Scooby-Doo.
Barbera was working as a bank accountant with the Irving
Trust Company in New York City during the early 1930s when he started
submitting cartoons to magazines; he sold his first to Collier’s magazine and
decided to give up banking for cartooning. Barbera joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(MGM) as a sketch artist in 1937, the same year as William Hanna. Hanna and
Barbera produced more than 100 episodes in the Tom and Jerry series for MGM
between 1940 and 1957. Several of these—including Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943),
The Cat Concerto (1946), and Johann Mouse (1952)—won Academy Awards for best
animated short subject. In all, they won seven Academy Awards for their
cartoons between 1943 and 1952.
The pair left MGM and formed Hanna-Barbera Productions in
1957, where they made a number of cartoon series for television. For these
shows they developed a much-derided technique of “limited,” or reused,
animation that allowed them to produce cartoons much more cheaply by
drastically reducing the number of original drawings required to film an
episode. For example, the clean line created by Yogi Bear’s signature shirt
collar and tie enabled the studio to animate only his head in conversation
scenes, leaving his body static. To compensate for the reused animation, the
pair stressed character and witty dialogue instead of action. They were praised
for the quality of writing found in their most successful productions.
In 1996 Warner Brothers bought Hanna-Barbera, eventually
closing the studio and marketing its properties under the Cartoon Network
brand. Hundreds of episodes of their animated works continued to be broadcast
around the world. The Hanna-Barbera team had produced more than 3,000 half-hour
shows for 150 television cartoon series, and they won eight Emmy Awards.
Joe co-directed two animated Euro-westerns films: “Lucky
Luke: The Daltons on the Run” in 1982 with William Hanna, Morris and Ray
Patterson and the ‘Lucky Luke’ TV series from 1983 to 1984 and again in 1991 with
William Hanna, Morris and Philippe Landrot.
BARBERA, Joseph (Joseph Roland Barbera)
[3/24/1911, Little Italy, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.A. –
12/18/2006, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.] – producer, director,
writer, animator, composer, songwriter, married to Dorothy Earl [1910-1995]
(1934-1964) father of production manager Jayne Barbera [1941- ], writer Neal Francis Barbera [1944- ], telephone operator Lynn Merideth Barbera
[1938-2018], father of a son [1948-1948], married to make-up artist Sheila
Constance Holden [1927- ] (1964-2006),
co-founded Hanna-Barbera Studios [1957-1996], inducted into the Television
Academy Hall of Fame [1994].
Lucky Luke: The Daltons on the Run – 1982 (co) [as Joe
Barbera]
Lucky Luke (TV) – 1983-1984, 1991 (co)
Spaghetti Western Screenwriter – Sascha Arango
Sascha Arango was born in Berlin, German on December 2,
1959. Arango is one of Germany’s most prominent screenplay writers. Since 1989,
Sascha has been writing screenplays for radio, television and cinema. Since
1994. he taught at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and the German Film and
Television Academy (DFFB) in Berlin. In 1996, he won the Grimme Prize for the
television drama ‘Zu treuen Händen’ (With Confidence). He also wrote the
scripts for the first five episodes of the television series ‘Eva Blond’ on the
Sat1 channel. For the ARD series ‘Tatort’ (Crime Scene), he wrote the script
for the sequels that take place in Kiel: ‘Borowski in the Underground’, ‘Borowski
and the Girl from the Swamp’, Borowski and the Woman at the Window; and Borowski
and the Silent Guest’. His first novel, The Truth and Other Lies, has
been published in sixteen countries in 2015. He has also authored audio plays
and stage plays
Sasha Arango has written two screenplays for
Euro-westerns: “Tom Sawyer” in 2011 and
the sequel “Die Abenteuer des Huck Finn” (The Adventures of Huck Finn) in 2012.
ARANGO, Sascha [12/2/1959, Berlin,
Berlin, Germany - ] – author,
screenwriter.
Tom Sawyer – 2011
The Adventures of
Huck Finn – 2012
Spaghetti Western
Cinematographer – Maurice Barry
Maurice Georges
Édouard Barry was born in Paris, France on March 17, 1910. Barry began as a
director of photography in 1933 and worked in the cinema in this position until
1963. In the meantime, he worked with directors Gilles Grangier, Jacques Daroy,
Robert Vernay, Richard and Pottier,Guy Lefranc.
He was also a
director of photography for television, contributing between 1956 and 1968 to
two series ‘Les Cinq Dernières Minutes’ (The Last Five Minutes) and ‘La caméra
explore le temps’ (The Camera Explores Time), and fifteen television films
(directed by Claude Barma and Marcel Cravenne, among others), and for Claude
Santelli's program ‘Théâtre de la jeunesse’.
In addition, Maurice
Barry was occasionally a screenwriter on four films and one television film, as
well as a director of one film in 1956.
Barry died in Paris
on December 8, 1984, at the age of 74.
Maurice Barry was
the cinematographer on one Euro-western “Fernand Cowboy” in 1956.
BARRY, Maurice (aka Barry, M.
Barry) (Maurice Georges Édouard Barry) [3/17/1910, Paris,
Île-de-France, France – 12/8/1984, Paris, Île-de-France, France] – director,
assistant director, writer, cinematographer, cameraman.
Fernand Cowboy –
1956
