Joseph Benson Hardaway Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Joseph Benson "Ben/Bugs" Hardaway (May 21, 1895 – February 5, 1957) was a storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer and director for several American animation studios during the The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He was sometimes credited as J. B. Hardaway, Ben Hardaway, Buggsy Hardaway and B. Hardaway.He started his animation career working for the Kansas City Film Ad Service. He later worked for the Walt Disney Animation Studios and the Ub Iwerks Studio. He was hired by the Leon Schlesinger studio as a gagman for the Friz Freleng. He was promoted to director for seven Buddy animated shorts. Afterwards he resumed working as a gagman and storyman. Storymen started receiving film credits in 1937. His writing credits include Daffy Duck & Egghead and The Penguin Parade.While at the Schlesinger/Warner Bros. studio studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway served as a storyman, and co-directed several Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts with Cal Dalton during Friz Freleng's three-year exodus to MGM. Leon Schlesinger needed replacements for Freleng, and Hardaway's previous experience in the job resulted in his promotion. In 1938, Hardaway co-directed Porky's Hare Hunt, the first film to feature a rabbit. This as yet unnamed, embryonic rabbit had been created by Bob Clampett after a weekend of drawing (which is described in great detail in the interview published by Michael Barrier in the now defunct magazine Funnyworld issue #12 {1970}).A new drawing of a redesigned rabbit had been requested by the story department as described by Virgil Ross, the animator of A Wild Hare in an interview published in Animato magazine issue #19.Animator Ben "Bugs" Hardaway inadvertently christened him when "his casual sketch of a proposed rabbit character" was labeled "Bugs's Bunny" by a fellow employee, as described in the Encyclopædia Britannica.When Freleng returned to Warner Bros. in 1939, Hardaway was demoted back to storyman, while Tex Avery eventually created his own rabbit which would later replace Hardaway's Rabbit. In 1940, Hardaway joined the staff of Walter Lantz Productions, where he helped Walter Lantz in creating the studio's most famous character, Woody Woodpecker. Hardaway wrote or co-wrote most of the stories for the 1940-1949 Woody Woodpecker shorts, as well as supplying Woody's voice during this period as well. (Mel Blanc voiced Woody for the woodpecker's first three cartoon appearances: Knock Knock, Woody Woodpecker, and The Screwdriver.)Hardaway was also the writer for "The Adventures of Pow Wow" cartoon series that aired as part of the Captain Kangaroo TV show.
After an unknown animator completed the model sheet for the rabbit character to be used in Hare-um Scare-um (1939), he handed it in to be given to Mr. Hardaway with "Bugs' Bunny" written on it. Thus did the famous cartoon rabbit get his name.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Woody Woodpecker
2017
based on the character created by post-production
The Looney Tunes Show
2011-2013
TV Series characters - 21 episodes
Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure
2001
Video Game character: Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker and His Friends
1982
Video documentary
The Woody Woodpecker Show
1957
TV Series
The Adventures of Pow Wow
1956
TV Series short story - 1956
Woodpecker in the Rough
1952
Short uncredited
Born to Peck
1952
Short uncredited
Destination Meat Ball
1951
Short uncredited
A Bone for a Bone
1951
Short story - as J.B. Hardaway
Sleep Happy
1951
Short
Puny Express
1951
Short
Drooler's Delight
1949
Short writer
Scrappy Birthday
1949
Short story
Wild and Woody!
1948
Short writer
Dog Tax Dodgers
1948
Short story
Playful Pelican
1948
Short story
Pixie Picnic
1948
Short writer
Wet Blanket Policy
1948
Short story
Wacky-Bye Baby
1948
Short story
Kiddie Koncert
1948
Short story
Banquet Busters
1948
Short writer
The Bandmaster
1947
Short
The Mad Hatter
1947
Short
Solid Ivory
1947
Short
Well Oiled
1947
Short
Woody the Giant Killer
1947
Short
The Overture to 'William Tell'
1947
Short
The Coo Coo Bird
1947
Short
Smoked Hams
1947
Short
The Wacky Weed
1946
Short
Fair Weather Fiends
1946
Short
The Reckless Driver
1946
Short
Bathing Buddies
1946
Short
Who's Cookin Who?
1946
Short
Mousie Come Home
1946
Short
Apple Andy
1946
Short
Musical Moments from Chopin
1946
Short story
The Loose Nut
1945
Short story
The Dippy Diplomat
1945
Short
Crow Crazy
1945
Short story
Woody Dines Out
1945
Short story
Sliphorn King of Polaroo
1945
Short story
Chew-Chew Baby
1945
Short
The Pied Piper of Basin Street
1945
Short
The Poet & Peasant
1945
Short story
The Painter and the Pointer
1944
Short screenplay
Ski for Two
1944
Short story
The Beach Nut
1944
Short
Abou Ben Boogie
1944
Short story
Fish Fry
1944
Short story
Jungle Jive
1944
Short
The Barber of Seville
1944
Short
The Greatest Man in Siam
1944
Short
Meatless Tuesday
1943
Short writer
Boogie Woogie Man Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out
1943
Short writer
Andy Panda's Victory Garden
1943
Short story
Pass the Biscuits Mirandy!
1943
Short story
Ration Bored
1943
Short writer
Canine Commandos
1943
Short writer
The Dizzy Acrobat
1943
Short story
Swing Your Partner
1943/II
Short story
The Screwball
1943
Short story
Cow-Cow Boogie
1943
Short story
Air Raid Warden
1942
Short
Boogie Woogie Sioux
1942
Short
The Loan Stranger
1942
Short
Yankee Doodle Swing Shift
1942
Short
Pigeon Patrol
1942
Short
Juke Box Jamboree
1942
Short story - as B. Hardaway
Ace in the Hole
1942
Short
Nutty Pine Cabin
1942
Short
Good-Bye Mr. Moth
1942
Short
Mother Goose on the Loose
1942
Short as Buggsy Hardaway
The Hams That Couldn't Be Cured
1942
Short
The Hollywood Matador
1942
Short screenplay
Under the Spreading Blacksmith Shop
1942
Short
$21 a Day - (Once a Month)
1941
Short
Pantry Panic
1941
Short story
Man's Best Friend
1941
Short story
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company 'B'
1941
Short story
The Screwdriver
1941
Short story
Andy Panda's Pop
1941
Short
Woody Woodpecker
1941
Short
Salt Water Daffy
1941
Short
Dizzy Kitty
1941
Short story
Hysterical High Spots in American History
1941
Short story
Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
1941
Short story
Fair Today
1941
Short
Mouse Trappers
1941
Short story
Syncopated Sioux
1940
Short
Knock Knock
1940
Short
Recruiting Daze
1940
Short
Little Blabbermouse
1940
Short as J.B. Hardaway
Porky's Baseball Broadcast
1940
Short story - as J.B. Hardaway
The Bear's Tale
1940
Short story - as J.B. Hardaway
Confederate Honey
1940
Short story
The Penguin Parade
1938
Short story - as J.B. Hardaway
Daffy Duck & Egghead
1938
Short story - as J.B. Hardaway
Little Boy Blue
1936
Short uncredited
Ali Baba
1936
Short uncredited
Summertime
1935
Short uncredited
Old Mother Hubbard
1935
Short uncredited
Jack Frost
1934
Short story - uncredited
Don Quixote
1934
Short uncredited
The Headless Horseman
1934
Short story adaptation - uncredited
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
1934
Short uncredited
How Do I Know It's Sunday
1934
Short uncredited
Insultin' the Sultan
1934
Short uncredited
Robin Hood, Jr.
1934
Short story - uncredited
Jack and the Beanstalk
1933
Short uncredited
The Air Race
1933
Short story - uncredited
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Woody Woodpecker Show
1957
TV Series
Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Drooler's Delight
1949
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Wild and Woody!
1948
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Wet Blanket Policy
1948
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Wacky-Bye Baby
1948
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Banquet Busters
1948
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
The Mad Hatter
1947
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Solid Ivory
1947
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Well Oiled
1947
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Woody the Giant Killer
1947
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
The Coo Coo Bird
1947
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Smoked Hams
1947
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Fair Weather Fiends
1946
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
The Reckless Driver
1946
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Bathing Buddies
1946
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Who's Cookin Who?
1946
Short
Woody Woodpecker / Starvation (voice, uncredited)
The Loose Nut
1945
Short
Woody Woodpecker
Bull Dozer (voice, uncredited)
The Dippy Diplomat
1945
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Woody Dines Out
1945
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Chew-Chew Baby
1945
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Ski for Two
1944
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
The Beach Nut
1944
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
The Barber of Seville
1944
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Ace in the Hole
1942
Short
Woody Woodpecker (voice, uncredited)
Love and Curses
1938
Short
Harold (voice, uncredited)
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Egg Cracker Suite
1943
Short
Busy Bakers
1940
Short
Fagin's Freshman
1939
Short
Porky the Giant Killer
1939
Short
Sioux Me
1939
Short
Hare-um Scare-um
1939
Short
Hobo Gadget Band
1939
Short
Porky and Teabiscuit
1939
Short
Bars and Stripes Forever
1939
Short
Gold Rush Daze
1939
Short
It's an Ill Wind
1939
Short
Count Me Out
1938
Short
Porky the Gob
1938
Short
Love and Curses
1938
Short
Porky's Hare Hunt
1938
Short
Buddy in Africa
1935
Short
Buddy of the Legion
1935
Short
Buddy's Pony Express
1935
Short
Buddy's Theatre
1935
Short
Buddy the Dentist
1934
Short
Rhythm in the Bow
1934
Short
Buddy of the Apes
1934
Short
Buddy's Adventures
1934
Short
Animation Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
1986
TV Special director: classic animation - uncredited
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Loose Nut
1945
Short storyboard artist - uncredited
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Dizzy Acrobat
1943
Short performer: "I Went to the Animal Fair" - uncredited