Hugh Harman

Hugh Harman (August 31, 1903 – November 25, 1982) was an American animator, film producer, and film director. An early collaborator of Walt Disney and a key figure in the Golden Age of American animation, Harman and his longtime collaborator Rudolf Ising founded Harman-Ising Pictures in 1929, through which they created the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series and set the foundation for what would later become the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. Moving the distribution of their cartoons to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934, Harman and Ising started the Happy Harmonies series, which led to the creation of the MGM cartoon studio, where Harman and Ising would both work as producer/directors.