July 23: Chuck Jones is fired by Warner Bros. Cartoons after they find out that he secretly worked for a rival cartoon studio, UPA, on the film Gay Purr-ee. Jones will go to establish his own animation studio.[3]
December 1: Carmen Get It!, the final Tom & Jerry cartoon by Gene Deitch, premieres. Deitch failed to produce anymore Tom and Jerry short films for MGM as Chuck Jones would take over production, which returned to Hollywood after five years.[9]
February 22: Steve Irwin, Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality, wildlife expert and environmentalist (voice of Trev in Happy Feet), (d. 2006).[13]
February 22: Anson Dyer, English director, screenwriter, animator, and actor, (directed Adolf Hitler-themed animated short films for Gaumont-British, including The British Lion Awakes, Hitler On His Front Line, Hitler's Peace Pudding, Hitler Dances To Stalin's Tune, and Run, Adolf, Run), dies at age 86.[42][43]
April 18: Vyacheslav Levandovsky, Ukrainian animator, considered the founder of Ukrainian animation, (The Fairy Tale of the Straw Bull, The Tale about the Squirrel Hostess and the Mouse Villain, Tuk-Tuk and his friend ZhukIn the Land of Dolls), dies at age 65.[47][48][49][50]
Bob McCay, American cartoonist, illustrator, comic book colorist and inker, (assistant for his father Winsor McCay, he received sole credit for several of his father's cartoons, including an animated film), dies at age 65.[52][53][54]
May 27: Gwen Williams, American actress (voice of Mary in Mr. Bug Goes to Town), dies at age 74.
June
June 2: Jules Luyckx, A.K.A. Julux, Belgian animator and comic artist (worked in the AFIM Studios, with Ray Goossens), dies at age 41 or 42 in an accident. [61]
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