Earl Hurd

Earl Hurd
Born	September 14, 1880(1880-09-14) Kansas
Died	September 14, 1880(1880-09-14) (aged -61) Burbank, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Animator, film director, comic strip cartoonist
Years active	1933–2001

Earl Hurd (September 14, 1880–September 28, 1940) was a pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions. Hurd and Bray are jointly responsible for developing the processes involved in cel animation, and were granted patents for their processes in 1914.

Booby Bumps

Bray Production

Hurd, a native of Kansas, later worked for Paul Terry's Terrytoons studio before starting his own Earl Hurd Productions studio in 1923.

Hurd was also a comic strip artist, illustrating the strips Trials of Elder Mouse (1911-1915), Brick Bodkin's Pa (1912) and Susie Sunshine (1927-1929). He worked later at the Ub Iwerks studio and the Walt Disney studio as a storyboard artist. He died on September 28, 1940, in Burbank, California.

References

• "Earl Hurd". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved September 6, 2007.

External links

• Earl Hurd at the Internet Movie Database