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Sidney "Sid" Sutherland (7 August 1901 - 20 April 1968) was an animator best known for his work on various cartoons for Leon Schlesinger Productions.

Career[]

Sid Sutherland began his career in animation in 1935 at Walter Lantz Productions for Universal Pictures, where he worked with Tex Avery, Virgil Ross, and Cecil Surry. He and the aforementioned three left for Leon Schlesinger Productions, where he joined Avery's unit, which was located in a run-down building nicknamed Termite Terrace with Ross and Surry alongside Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Elmer Wait, and Robert Cannon. He served as an animator for Avery and later for Bob Clampett when the former left in late-1941.

Later Career[]

In 1943, during a changing market caused by World War II, Sutherland left Warner Bros. and decided to take advantage of opportunities to work in the relatively new medium of television and made a career change to a more secure living as a sound supervisor and sound editor.

Personal Life[]

Sid was born in Los Angeles. He also died there, aged 66.

Looney Works[]

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