Alex Lovy (right) with Lew Marshall
Alex Lovy (2 September 1913 - 14 February 1992) was an animator who prominently worked for Walter Lantz Productions and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. He is best known for having designed Andy Panda and the original Woody Woodpecker, supervising in the late 1930s and early 1940s, where he secured two Academy Award nominations for "Jukebox Jamboree" and "The Dizzy Acrobat". Later, he began working for Screen Gems, before returning to Lantz in the mid-1950s, taking over for Tex Avery on Chilly Willy and supervising a few Woody Woodpecker shorts, before leaving for Hanna-Barbera at the end of the decade.
He supervised the cartoons at Warner Bros. from 1967 to 1968; he was away from Hanna-Barbara at the time, with the animation style used in his Warner cartoons being similar to that of Hanna-Barbera.
He would create a large number of pitches for several cartoon series for the theatrical cartoons. Among one of the pitches accepted by him included a Rapid Rabbit and Quick Brown Fox series. However, Lovy left the studio before their cartoon was finished, and he was succeeded with Robert McKimson, who completed the rest of Lovy's pitches.
Looney Works[]
"Speedy Ghost to Town" (1967)- "Rodent to Stardom" (1967)
- "Go Away Stowaway" (1967)
- "Cool Cat" (1967)
- "Merlin the Magic Mouse" (1967)
- "Fiesta Fiasco" (1967)
- "Hocus Pocus Powwow" (1968)
- "Norman Normal" (1968)
- "Big Game Haunt" (1968)
- "Skyscraper Caper" (1968)
- "Hippydrome Tiger" (1968)
- "Feud with a Dude" (1968)
- "See Ya Later Gladiator" (1968)
- "3 Ring Wing-Ding" (1968)
- "Flying Circus" (1968)
- "Chimp & Zee" (1968)
- "Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!" (1969) (with Robert McKimson, uncredited)
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