Rudy Zamora

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Rudy Zamora
Born
Joaquin Rudolfo Zamora

(1910-03-26)March 26, 1910
Mexico City, Mexico
DiedJuly 29, 1989(1989-07-29) (aged 79)
Occupation(s)Animator, animation director
Years active1927–1987

Joaquin Rudolfo Zamora (March 26, 1910 – July 29, 1989) was a Mexican-American

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, The Jetsons, The Smurfs, The Biskitts, Peanuts
, and many others.

Career

Zamora was born in

Mexico City, Mexico, but raised in the United States.[2] As a young adult, he read a help wanted ad in the local newspaper seeking a male animator at Pat Sullivan's studio. Despite Zamora having no prior experience in the field, he was intrigued and applied. His test entailed tracing a photo of Felix the Cat, and Zamora was hired after placing second among three men.[2] Zamora was still employed at Pat Sullivan's in 1928.[3]

He was hired as an inbetweener at Fleischer Studios in 1930,[4] and eventually became an animator there. Shamus Culhane described Zamora as "the star" among the new batch of animators at Fleischer.[5]

Following his stint at Fleischer, Zamora worked at

Walt Disney Productions during the early 1930s, with Ed Benedict as his assistant.[6] While there, Zamora animated on Silly Symphony cartoons, including The China Plate (1931).[6] Zamora had a reputation for spending too much time playing practical jokes as opposed to working, and for this reason was fired by Walt Disney in 1932.[7]

By the 1940s he was an animator at

Peabody's Improbable History, also overseeing Mexican animators who worked on the series overseas.[11]

At the twilight of his career, Zamora was a director at Hanna-Barbera. He helmed episodes of Richie Rich,[12] The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show[13] and Laverne & Shirley, an animated adaptation of the sitcom.[14] Zamora directed a Christmas episode of The Smurfs that aired in 1983.[15] Zamora's last credit was the 1987 television film Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose.

References

  1. ISBN 9780684813127
    .
  2. ^
    Cartoon Research
    . Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  3. ISBN 9780813171487
    .
  4. ISBN 9780199839223
    .
  5. ISBN 9780306808302
    .
  6. ^
    ISBN 9780520256194
    .
  7. ISBN 9781604739404
    .
  8. ISBN 9780786481699
    .
  9. Cartoon Research
    . Retrieved December 6, 2022.
  10. Turner Publishing
    .
  11. ISBN 9781466867437
    .
  12. ISBN 9781538103746
    .
  13. ISBN 9780786462018
    .
  14. ISBN 9781476623849
    .
  15. ISBN 9781476605739
    .

External links
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