Gil Turner

Gil Turner (11 September 1913 - 19 March 1967) was an American artist and animator. He voiced the Bing Crosby rooster in "Swooner Crooner".

Turner worked as an iceman before animating at the Disney Studios in January 1933. He joined the Harman-Ising studio one year later, which evolved into Warner Bros.' animation department. He began animating for Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton in 1937, and as with most of the animators in the unit, stayed on when Friz Freleng returned to Warner Bros. in 1939. Sometime in 1943, he transferred to Bob Clampett's unit, where his last cartoons for Warner Bros. were produced.

Around 1948, Turner joined MGM, where he was an animator on Tex Avery's "What Price Fleadom" and some Barney the Bear shorts. He briefly worked at Walter Lantz on several Woody Woodpecker and Chilly Willy before joining UPA for a brief time as a director and animator on Mr. Magoo. Turner concluded his animation career at the Hanna-Barbera Studios, where he worked on TV series like The Flintstones and Yogi Bear. He also directed several episodes of Alvin and the Chipmunks for Format Films in the early 1960s before he died in 1967.

Looney works

•  "Porky the Gob" (1938)
•  "Gold Rush Daze" (1939) 
•  "Bars and Stripes Forever" (1939) 
•  "Hobo Gadget Band" (1939) 
•  "Hare-um Scare-um" (1939)
•  "Sioux Me" (1939) 
•  "Porky the Giant Killer" (1939)
•  "Fagin's Freshman" (1939) 
•  "Confederate Honey" (1940)
•  "The Hardship of Miles Standish" (1940)
•  "Little Blabbermouse" (1940) 
•  "Ceiling Hero" (1940)
•  "Malibu Beach Party" (1940)
•  "Porky's Hired Hand" (1940)
•  "Shop Look & Listen" (1940)
•  "The Fighting 69½th" (1941) 
•  "Porky's Bear Facts" (1941) 
•  "The Trial of Mr. Wolf" (1941) 
•  "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (1941)  
•  "Notes to You" (1941) 
•  "Rookie Revue" (1941) 
•  "Rhapsody in Rivets" (1941)  
•  "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper" (1942) 
•  "Nutty News" (1942) 
•  "Lights Fantastic" (1942)
•  "Double Chaser" (1942) 
•  "Foney Fables" (1942) 
•  "Fresh Hare" (1942) 
•  "The Sheepish Wolf" (1942)  
•  "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist" (1942)
•  "Pigs in a Polka" (1943)   
•  "Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk" (1943)
•  "Yankee Doodle Daffy" (1943) 
•  "Daffy - The Commando" (1943) 
•  "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (1943)
• "Rumors" (1943) 
• "Booby Traps" (1944) 
•  "What's Cookin' Doc?" (1944)
•  "Tick Tock Tuckered" (1944) 
•  "Russian Rhapsody" (1944)
•  "Duck Soup to Nuts" (1944) 
•  "Hare Ribbin'" (1944)
•  "Birdy and the Beast" (1944)
•  "Draftee Daffy" (1945)

Gallery

Turner's characters are designed with big eyes and wide-open mouths