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Ubbe Eert Iwerks, A.S.C. (24 March 1901 - 7 July 1971) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American animator, cartoonist, character designer, producer, and special effects technician. He is best known for co-creating Mickey Mouse and Oswald The Lucky Rabbit with Walt Disney.
Due to a fallout with Disney, Iwerks left the studio in 1930. He started his own Iwerks Studio, which produced cartoons starring Flip the Frog and Willie Whopper for MGM, as well as the independently distributed ComiColor Cartoons series. The studio closed in 1936 due to its failure to compete with studios such as Disney and Fleischer.
Iwerks was later contracted to direct four Looney Tunes shorts for Leon Schlesinger Productions. He would only direct two such shorts; the other two were handled by Bob Clampett, who was subsequently promoted to a regular director for the studio. Iwerks then moved to Screen Gems, where he directed Color Rhapsody shorts until his return to Disney in 1940.
In his later years, Iwerks' career was primarily in developing special visual effects for Disney (Song of the South, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Mary Poppins) and others (Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds).
Looney Credits[]
Director[]
"Porky and Gabby" (1937)- "Porky's Super Service" (1937)
- "Porky's Badtime Story" (1937) (with Bob Clampett, uncredited)
