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Hanna-Barbera - Josie & the Pussycats

Character Model Sheets by: Willie Ito (1970)

anima – Museum of the Art of Animation

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Film People Not Currently Listed On The Nonagenarians and Centenarians Website

I am a regular visitor to the website titled Nonagenarians and Centenarians (genarians.com). It contains the names of famous people of all walks of life who are over the age of 90. Outside of the usual legends, there are names of lesser-known film people that are missing from the website and rather than pester the webmaster to constantly update the site, I'd like to set up the list of people who I feel are integral in the world of film and entertainment in general born up to 1935, as the 1936 page is still underway. This list is a work in progress. Here are those names in chronological order:

Helen Colvig - costume designer (b. 4/8/1922)

Annette Warren - playback singer, actress (b. 7/11/1922)

Vincent Ball - actor (b. 12/4/1923)

Yatsuko Tan'ami - actress (b. 6/25/1924)

Ronald Spencer - producer, director (b. 7/15/1924)

Brigitte Auber - actress (b. 4/27/1925)

Peggy Webber - actress, screenwriter (b. 9/15/1925)

Pete Murray - actor, disc jockey (b. 9/19/1925)

Eve Brenner - actress (b. 9/24/1925)

Vladimir Zamansky - actor (b. 2/6/1926)

David Frankham - actor (b. 2/16/1926)

Marilyn Erskine - actress (b. 4/24/1926)

Margaret Barton - actress (b. 5/27/1926)

Everett Chambers - producer, screenwriter, director (b. 8/19/1926)

Elaine Bass - title designer (b. ??/??/1927)

Nils Eklund - actor (b. 1/17/1927)

Erni Mangold - actress (b. 1/25/1927)

H.M. Wynant - actor (b. 2/12/1927)

Mario Vulpiani - cinematographer (b. 2/15/1927)

Mirtha Legrand - actress (b. 2/23/1927)

Witold Giersz - animator, director (b. 2/26/1927)

Monique Chaumette - actress (b. 4/7/1927)

Allen Baron - director (b. 5/14/1927)

Ronnie Lang - film score musician (b. 7/24/1927)

Peter Walker - actor (b. 7/24/1927)

Jean Lodge - actress (b. 8/4/1927)

John Goddard - actor (b. 8/28/1927)

Toshio Masuda - director (b. 10/5/1927)

Stanley Dorfman - director (b. 11/24/1927)

Donna Martell - actress (b. 12/24/1927)

Sidney Kimmel - producer (b. 1/16/1928)

Richard Nash - film score musician (b. 1/26/1928)

Bob Singer - animator (b. 1/26/1928)

René Bonnière - director, producer, editor (b. 3/19/1928)

Joseph McGrath - director (b. 3/28/1928)

Gaby Rodgers - actress (b. 3/29/1928)

Fernand Dansereau - director, producer (b. 4/5/1928)

Genevieve Cluny - actress (b. 4/17/1928)

Mayo Simon - screenwriter (b. 5/2/1928)

Hans Noever - director, producer, screenwriter (b. 5/10/1928)

Lillian Michelson - film historian, researcher (b. 6/21/1928)

Bill Brame - editor, director (b. 6/28/1928)

Tatyana Piletskaya - actress (b. 7/2/1928)

Peter Cellier - actor (b. 7/12/1928)

George Dreyfus - film composer (b. 7/22/1928)

Fulvio Lucisano - producer (b. 8/1/1928)

James B. Harris - producer, director (b. 8/3/1928)

Brenda Hogan - actress (b. 9/6/1928)

Sergio Corona - actor (b. 10/7/1928)

Susumu Hani - director (b. 10/10/1928)

Lana Gogoberidze - director (b. 10/13/1928)

Günter Rohrbach - producer (b. 10/13/1928)

Chung Chang-wha - director, producer, screenwriter (b. 11/1/1928)

Shin Young-kyun - actor, producer (b. 11/6/1928)

Claude Pelletier - sound recordist (b. 11/14/1928)

Teddy Mason - sound editor (b. 11/26/1928)

Tian Hua - actress (b. 12/14/1928)

Colleen Townsend - actress (b. 12/21/1928)

Kelvin Pike - cinematographer (b. ??/??/1929)

Bibi Johns - actress (b. 1/21/1929)

Stanislaw Loth - cinematographer (b. 1/21/1929)

Angela Allen - script supervisor (b. 2/12/1929)

Allan Miller - actor (b. 2/14/1929)

Björn Bjelfvenstam - actor (b. 2/19/1929)

Il-seong Jeon - cinematographer (b. 2/19/1929)

Paula Stewart - actress (b. 4/9/1929)

Michael Forest - actor, voice actor (b. 4/17/1929)

Corinne Conley - actress, voice actor (b. 5/23/1929)

Art Leonardi - animator, producer, director (b. 5/24/1929)

Yvonne Lombard - actress (b. 5/28/1929)

Thelma Barlow - actress (b. 6/19/1929)

June Wyndham Davies - director, producer (b. 6/27/1929)

Nathalia Timberg - actress (b. 8/5/1929)

Martin Erlichman - producer (b. 9/13/1929)

Jacqueline Moreau - costume designer (b. 10/11/1929)

Liselotte Pulver - actress (b. 10/11/1929)

Colin Jeavons - actor (b. 10/20/1929)

Eric Till - director (b. 10/24/1929)

Steve Terrell - actor (b. 12/6/1929)

Michel Fano - film composer, sound editor (b. 12/9/1929)

Jerzy Antczak - director (b. 12/25/1929)

Aljean Harmetz - film historian, screenwriter (b. 12/30/1929)

Moira Armstrong - director (b. ??/??/1930)

Stan Hayward - screenwriter (b. ??/??/1930)

William P. Perry - film composer (b. ??/??/1930)

Ricardo Aronovich - cinematographer (b. 1/3/1930)

Gardy Granass - actress (b. 1/7/1930)

Roy Clarke - screenwriter, actor (b. 1/28/1930)

Lima Duarte - actor, director (b. 3/29/1930)

Larry Peerce - director (b. 4/19/1930)

Myriam Bru - actress (b. 4/20/1930)

Derek Kavanagh - producer (b. 5/10/1930)

William Grefé - director, producer, screenwriter (b. 5/17/1930)

Alexander Allerson - actor (b. 5/19/1930)

Gilles Jacob - producer, film critic (b. 5/22/1930)

Pier Luigi Pizzi - costume designer, production designer (b. 6/15/1930)

Tommy Cook - actor (b. 7/5/1930)

Edwin Butterworth - makeup artist (b. 7/20/1930)

Robert Cartwright - production designer (b. 8/3/1930)

Lyudmila Khityaeva - actress (b. 8/5/1930)

David Robinson - film critic, biographer (b. 8/6/1930)

Joseph Koenig - director, producer (b. 8/14/1930)

Patrick Dromgoole - director, producer (b. 8/30/1930)

Audrey A. Blasdel - set decorator, producer (b. 10/25/1930)

Lamberto Caimi - cinematographer (b. 10/30/1930)

John Scott - film composer (b. 11/1/1930)

Peter Weck - actor, director (b. 11/12/1930)

Carlo Reali - actor, voice actor (b. 12/6/1930)

Michael Kahn - editor (b. 12/8/1930)

Phil Roman - animator, producer, director (b. 12/25/1930)

Seamus Flannery - production designer (b. 12/29/1930)

Charuhasan - actor, director (b. 1/5/1931)

Ingrid Andree - actress (b. 1/19/1931)

Dov Seltzer - film composer (b. 1/26/1931 or 1932)

Jim Antonio - actor (b. 1/27/1931)

Bernie Orenstein - producer, screenwriter (b. 2/5/1931)

Franz Xaver Lederle - cinematographer (b. 2/18/1931)

Ann McCrea - actress (b. 2/25/1931)

Héctor Olivera - director, producer, screenwriter (b. 4/5/1931)

Dominique Delouche - director (b. 4/9/1931)

Ralph Helfer - animal trainer (b. 4/9/1931)

Manfred Purzer - screenwriter, director (b. 4/13/1931)

Sylvia Lewis - actress (b. 4/22/1931)

Denise Filiatrault - actress, director, screenwriter (b. 5/16/1931)

Antun Vrdoljak - director, screenwriter, actor (b. 6/4/1931)

Timothy Burrill - producer (b. 6/8/1931)

Jo Swerling Jr. - director, producer, screenwriter (b. 6/18/1931)

David M. Walsh - cinematographer (b. 7/23/1931)

Elena Cotta - actress (b. 8/19/1931)

Marianne Koch - actress (b. 8/19/1931)

Peter Mullins - production designer (b. 9/??/1931)

Michael Dante - actor (b. 9/2/1931)

Márta Mészáros - director (b. 9/19/1931)

Singeetham Srinivasa Rao - director (b. 9/21/1931)

Hank Garrett - actor, voice actor (b. 10/26/1931)

Corinne Marchand - actress (b. 12/4/1931)

Kyōko Kagawa - actress (b. 12/5/1931)

Julia Martínez - actress (b. 12/5/1931)

Fujiko Yamamoto - actress (b. 12/11/1931)

Sowcar Janaki - actress (b. 12/12/1931)

Joe Dorsey - actor (b. 1/15/1932)

Peggy McIntire - actress (b. 1/17/1932)

Paul Wayne - screenwriter (b. 1/17/1932)

Woo Fung - actor (b. 1/18/1932)

Christiane Martel - actress (b. 1/18/1932)

Noel Burch - director, film theorist (b. 1/22/1932)

Gino Conforti - actor (b. 1/30/1932)

Margit Carlqvist - actress (b. 2/11/1932)

Donald M. Morgan - cinematographer (b. 2/11/1932)

Sherman Yellen - playwright, screenwriter (b. 2/25/1932)

Marthe Villalonga - actress (b. 3/20/1932)

Kenji Imai - actor (b. 3/31/1932)

Ineko Arima - actress (b. 4/3/1932)

Leonard A. Mazzola - set decorator (b. 4/6/1932)

Dov Hoenig - editor (b. 4/24/1932)

Laurence Méry-Clark - editor (b. 5/??/1932)

Anne Claire Poirier - director, producer, screenwriter (b. 5/6/1932)

Kenji Sahara - actor (b. 5/14/1932)

Meg Westergren - actress (b. 5/16/1932)

Dickie Bamber - producer (b. 5/21/1932)

Anouk Ferjac - actress (b. 5/25/1932)

Ray Cooney - producer, playwright, screenwriter, actor (b. 5/30/1932)

Alan Dobie - actor (b. 6/2/1932)

Bengt Forslund - producer (b. 6/22/1932)

Marcia Ashton - actress (b. 7/1/1932)

John Turner - actor (b. 7/7/1932)

Helga Liné - actress (b. 7/14/1932)

Eileen Moore - actress (b. 8/??/1932)

Norman Bowler - actor (b. 8/1/1932)

Elsa Cárdenas - actress (b. 8/3/1932)

Michael Deeley - producer (b. 8/6/1932)

John Gorrie - director (8/11/1932)

Keiko Kishi - actress (b. 8/11/1932)

Olive Moorefield - actress (b. 8/23/1932)

Steve Rowland - actor, record producer (b. 9/3/1932)

Tony Woollard - production designer (b. 9/3/1932)

Mary Carmen Ramirez - actress (b. 9/4/1932)

Edward De Souza - actor (b. 9/4/1932)

Fred Wolf - director, animator (b. 9/13/1932)

Dany Carrel - actress (b. 9/20/1932)

Richard Tyler - actor (b. 9/23/1932)

Dominique Michel - actress (b. 9/24/1932)

Jeremy Isaacs - producer (b. 9/28/1932)

Henri Safran - director (b. 10/7/1932)

Jacqueline Beer - actress (b. 10/14/1932)

Colleen Miller - actress (b. 11/10/1932)

Carmen Munroe - actress (b. 11/12/1932)

J.A. Preston - actor (b. 11/13/1932)

Véra Belmont - producer, director (b. 11/19/1932)

Takayo Fischer - actress, voice actor (b. 11/25/1932)

Steve Binder - producer, director (b. 12/12/1932)

Michael Bradsell - editor (b. ??/??/1933)

Ron Clark - screenwriter (b. ??/??/1933)

K. Narayanan - editor (b. ??/??/1933)

William Fruet - director (b. 1/1/1933)

Yûko Kusunoki - actress (b. 1/1/1933)

Jennifer Shull - casting director (b. 1/1/1933)

Julieta Serrano - actress (b. 1/2/1933)

Olga Dimitrov - costume designer (b. 1/5/1933)

Ann Firbank - actress (b. 1/9/1933)

Mariko Okada - actress (b. 1/11/1933)

Victor Rebengiuc - actor (b. 2/10/1933)

Caroline Blakiston - actress (b. 2/13/1933)

Inessa Kovalevskaya - director, screenwriter, producer, animator (b. 3/1/1933)

Ziva Rodann - actress (b. 3/2/1933)

Robert Young - director (b. 3/16/1933)

Bones Howe - sound engineer (b. 3/18/1933)

Howard Kuperman - editor (b. 3/18/1933)

Burtt Harris - producer (b. 3/27/1933)

Mary Germaine - actress (b. 3/28/1933)

Claude De Givray - director, screenwriter (b. 4/7/1933)

Diana Darrin - actress (b. 4/15/1933)

Stenio Garcia - actor (b. 4/28/1933)

Martin Duckworth - director (b. 5/8/1933)

Jeanette Sterke - actress (b. 5/23/1933)

Jill Perryman - actress (b. 5/30/1933)

Chung Ching - actress (b. 6/12/1933)

Franco Piavoli - director (b. 6/21/1933)

Larry Kent - director, producer, screenwriter (b. 6/27/1933)

Lita Milan - actress (b. 6/29/1933)

Richard S. Church - sound mixer (b. 7/6/1933)

Mie Kitahara - actress (b. 7/22/1933)

Vera Day - actress (b. 8/4/1933)

Buz Kohan - screenwriter, producer (b. 8/9/1933)

Gary Clarke - actor (b. 8/16/1933)

Tony Forsberg - cinematographer (b. 8/17/1933)

Rosita Arenas - actress (b. 8/19/1933)

Elizabeth Seal - actress (b. 8/28/1933)

Patricia Conolly - actress (b. 8/29/1933)

Tatyana Doronina - actress (b. 9/12/1933)

Madhu - actor, director, producer (b. 9/23/1933)

Dawn Greenhalgh - actress (b. 9/25/1933)

Barbara Knox - actress (b. 9/30/1933)

Birgit Sadolin - actress (b. 10/10/1933)

Mitsuko Kusabue - actress (b. 10/22/1933)

Charlotte Austin - actress (b. 11/2/1933)

Ayako Wakao - actress (b. 11/8/1933)

Willi Segler - producer (b. 11/10/1933)

Jacques Godbout - director, producer, screenwriter (b. 11/27/1933)

Barrie Vince - editor (b. 11/29/1933)

Patti Hale - actress (b. 11/30/1933)

Brandon Maggart - actor (b. 12/12/1933)

Corny Collins - actress (b. 12/18/1933)

Garry Sherman - film composer, film conductor (b. 12/28/1933)

Evangeline Harrison - costume designer (b. ??/??/1934)

Larry Jordan - director (b. ??/??/1934)

Emanuel Azenberg - producer (b. 1/22/1934)

Lou Antonio - actor, director (b. 1/23/1934)

Richard A. Harris - editor (b. 2/6/1934)

Robert Berger - producer (b. 2/9/1934)

Geraldine Newman - actress (b. 2/18/1934)

Michael Fairman - actor (b. 2/25/1934)

Giorgos Katsaros - film composer (b. 3/7/1934)

Jost Vacano - cinematographer (b. 3/14/1934)

Kai Fischer - actress (b. 3/18/1934)

Peter Kubelka - director (b. 3/23/1934)

Giulia Lazzarini - actress (b. 3/24/1934)

Richard Harris - screenwriter, playwright (b. 3/26/1934)

Miles Kreuger - film and theater historian (b. 3/28/1934)

Umberto Orsini - actor (b. 4/3/1934)

Brian Cosgrove - animator, director, producer (b. 4/6/1934)

Donald McAlpine - cinematographer (b. 4/13/1934)

Gyula Bodrogi - actor (b. 4/15/1934)

Jan Klusak - film composer (b. 4/18/1934)

Bob Kurtz - director, producer, screenwriter, animator (b. 4/20/1934)

Nanette Newman - actress (b. 4/29/1934)

Jane Greenwood - costume designer (b. 4/30/1934)

Renny Lister - actress (b. 5/24/1934)

Riccardo Pizzuti - actor, stuntman (b. 5/28/1934)

Leila Hoffman - actress (b. 6/11/1934)

Emmanuel Machuel - cinematographer (b. 6/12/1934)

Michael Darlow - director, producer (b. 6/13/1934)

Fern Field - producer (b. 6/28/1934)

Robert Fields - actor (b. 7/10/1934)

John Standing - actor (b. 7/10/1934)

Willie Ito - animator (b. 7/17/1934)

Eric del Castillo - actor (b. 7/22/1934)

Claude Zidi - director (b. 7/25/1934)

Irwin Yablans - producer (b. 7/25/1934)

Gonzalo Suarez - director (b. 7/30/1934)

Jolene Brand - actress (b. 7/31/1934)

Patrick Gorman - actor (b. 8/3/1934)

Myrna Hansen - actress (b. 8/5/1934)

Vernon Dobtcheff - actor (b. 8/15/1934)

Yoko Tsukasa - actress (b. 8/20/1934)

Izzet Gunay - actor (b. 8/21/1934)

Eddy Matalon - director, producer (b. 9/11/1934)

Richard Goodwin - producer (b. 9/13/1934)

Jérôme Seydoux - producer (b. 9/21/1934)

Conlan Carter - actor (b. 10/3/1934)

Helena Law - actress (b. 10/13/1934)

Patricia Birch - director, choreographer (b. 10/16/1934)

Julia Gutiérrez Caba - actress (b. 10/20/1934)

Steve Emerson - actor, stuntman (b. 10/31/1934)

Paul Glass - film composer (b. 11/19/1934)

Herrmann Zschoche - director (b. 11/25/1934)

Jerry Jameson - director, producer (b. 11/26/1934)

Judith Roberts - actress (b. 11/30/1934)

Dante Barbetta - animator (b. 12/4/1934)

Alisa Freindlikh - actress (b. 12/8/1934)

Jacobo Morales - actor, director (b. 12/12/1934)

Irma Dorantes - actress (b. 12/21/1934)

Dani Crayne - actress (b. 12/25/1934)

Ted Childs - producer, screenwriter, director (b. 12/26/1934)

Rowena Cooper - actress (b. ??/??/1935)

Brian Smedley-Aston - editor (b. ??/??/1935)

Norman Wanstall - sound editor (b. ??/??/1935)

Giovanna Ralli - actress (b. 1/2/1935)

Inger Pehrsson - costume designer (b. 1/5/1935)

Melvyn Hayes - actor (b. 1/11/1935)

Ghita Norby - actress (b. 1/11/1935)

Philip Rosenberg - production designer (b. 1/15/1935)

Sanford Rackow - sound editor (b. 1/19/1935)

Dick DeBenedictis - film composer (b. 1/23/1935)

Akiko Koyama - actress (b. 1/27/1935)

Robert Markowitz - director (b. 2/7/1935)

Dawn Bender - actress (b. 2/21/1935)

Pierre Grunstein - producer (b. 3/10/1935)

Nancy Kovack - actress (b. 3/11/1935)

Arnold Margolin - screenwriter (b. 3/12/1935)

Leslie Parrish - actress (b. 3/18/1935)

Susan Engel - actress (b. 3/25/1935)

Marcel Sabourin - actor (b. 3/25/1935)

Doug McGrath - actor (b. 4/13/1935)

Joyce Meadows - actress (b. 4/13/1935)

Marcel Carrière - director, sound engineer (b. 4/16/1935)

Costas Ferris - director, screenwriter (b. 4/18/1935)

Herman F. Zimmerman - production designer (b. 4/19/1935)

Gary Raymond - actor (b. 4/20/1935)

Milena Vukotic - actress (b. 4/23/1935)

Julian Mitchell - playwright, screenwriter (b. 5/1/1935)

Robert Rehme - producer (b. 5/5/1935)

Salome Jens - actress (b. 5/8/1935)

John Bloom - editor (b. 5/12/1935)

Peter Sasdy - director (b. 5/27/1935)

María Galiana - actress (b. 5/31/1935)

Tony Ianzelo - director, producer (b. 6/13/1935)

James Bolam - actor (b. 6/18/1935)

Derren Nesbitt - actor (b. 6/19/1935)

Edwin Hodgeman - actor (b. 6/26/1935)

Tony Perez - actor (b. 7/18/1935)

Vasily Livanov - actor, director (b. 7/19/1935)

Grover Dale - actor, dancer (b. 7/22/1935)

Lisa Gastoni - actress (b. 7/28/1935)

Wanda Ventham - actress (b. 8/5/1935)

Candace Hilligoss - actress (b. 8/14/1935)

Janet Henfrey - actress (b. 8/16/1935)

Nobuo Yana - actor (b. 8/16/1935)

Nico Crama - producer, director (b. 8/20/1935)

Vernon Weddle - actor (b. 8/23/1935)

Michael Gruskoff - producer (b. 8/27/1935)

Sonny Shroyer - actor (b. 8/28/1935)

Vitaly Kanevsky - director (b. 9/4/1935)

Lucille Soong - actress (b. 9/5/1935)

Amanda Barrie - actress (b. 9/14/1935)

Anthony Page - director (b. 9/21/1935)

Kenout Peltier - editor (b. 9/23/1935)

John Quested - producer, director (b. 9/30/1935)

Shandor Kallosh - film composer (b. 10/23/1935)

Lena Söderblom - actress (b. 10/24/1935)

Barry Crocker - actor (b. 11/4/1935)

Esperanza Roy - actress (b. 11/22/1935)

Salim Khan - actor, producer, screenwriter (b. 11/24/1935)

Amanda Walker - actress (b. 11/29/1935)

Billy Green Bush - actor (b. 12/7/1935)

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg - director (b. 12/8/1935)

Luz Marquez - actress (b. 12/12/1935)

Usha Mangeshkar - playback singer (b. 12/15/1935)

Barbara Bostock - actress (b. 12/19/1935)

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Hanna Barbera “Teen show concept” character designs By Willie Ito

And a letter of authenticity along with it

Source for better quality

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Ducktales Concept Consumer Products (1980s)

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👩🏻‍🦰 Josie is ready for her next adventure with her friends. 🎶🎵🎸🗺️

[dailylooneys]

Friz's Bugs, I found very, very humorous. It was funny, because at the end of my six-years with Chuck and I went over Friz's unit to work on his Bugs, he came to me and said, "remember, you came from Chuck's unit, we don't do Bugs the way Chuck does". So I had to get Friz's Bugs Bunny model sheet and do Bugs all-over.

Willie Ito, animator for Friz Freleng’s unit

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Before He Animated For Disney, He Sketched Cartoons In An Internment Camp

As a child, Willie Ito spent nearly three years in a Japanese American internment camp. At StoryCorps, he tells his son how he went from doodling on Sears catalogs to animating for Walt Disney.

NPR broadcast this story today about an old friend of mine from years ago. Willie once told me about his collection of Walt Disney comics that he had as a boy that was stolen from his family when they were shipped off to the internment camps.