United Artists Animation (formerly Howard-Williams Productions) is an animation studio founded in 1924 by James Howard and Bob Williams but the studio wouldn't make theatrical cartoons until 1928 with their Comedy Classics series and in 1931 they would make a spin-off series called Beanie The Cat which was a multimedia success and because of this the studio was able to start making feature films starting with 1969's The Luckless Cat, in 1984, James Howard and Bob Williams would retire and become executive producers and would be replaced by Greg Ford, by the late 1990's things were getting tough James Howard and Bob Williams had died in 1993 and 1998 and their cartoons weren't doing so well as they used to, because of this their distributor United Artists decided buy the company in December of 1999 and by June of 2000 the company was renamed United Artists Animation and Greg Ford was forced out by January 2001 and replaced by Paul Fish and Tom Michaels, they stopped production of theatrical cartoons in 2005 only bringing the back once a time but they still make feature films and are also doing TV Shows and web shows.
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Producers[]
- James Howard (1924-1984)
- Bob Williams (1924-1984)
- Greg Ford (1984-2001)
- Paul Fish (2001-present)
- Tom Michaels (2001-present)
Executive Producers[]
- James Howard (1984-1993)
- Bob Williams (1984-1998)
Directors[]
- James Howard
- Bob Williams
- Monte Collins
- Phil Monroe
- Paul Sommer
- George Germanetti
- Harold Walker
- Greg Ford
- Gerry Geronimi
- Jerry Fields
- Robert McKimson
- Norman McCabe
- Don Patterson
- Sid Marcus
- Alex Lovy
- Jack Hannah
- Jack Kinney
- Vernon Stallings
- Dick Lundy
Writers[]
- T. Hee
- Dan Gordon
- Cal Howard
- Sid Marcus
- Rich Hogan
- Bill Johnson
- Ted Sears
- Tedd Pierce
- Melvin Millar
- Michael Sasanoff
- Irving Spector
- Larry Silverman
Animators[]
- James Howard
- Bob Williams
- Don Patterson
- Ray Abrams
- Manny Gould
- Art Davis
- Paul Smith
- Virgil Ross
- Ed Love
- William Shull
- George Cannata
- Cecil Surry
- Arnold Gillespie
- Basil Davidovich
- Thomas Johnson
- George Germanetti
- Dave Tendlar
- Rudy Zamora
- Will Harrison
- John Barry
- Tom David
- Virgil Ross
- Ed Friedman
- Robert Bentley
- Fred Kopietz
- Don Williams
- Basil Davidovich
- Volus Jones
- Rod Scribner
- Bill Hammer
- John Carey
- Izzy Ellis
- George Germanetti
- Roy Jenkins
- Willis Pyle
- Phil Monroe
- Lester Kline
- George Dane
- Sidney Pillett
- Ken O' Brien
- Rudy Larriva
- Manny Gould
- Ed Love
- Emery Hawkins
Layouts and Backgrounds[]
- Robert Givens
- John T. Smith
- Irven Spence
- Bill Thompson
- Dorcy Howard
- Thomas McKimson
- Owen Fitzgerald
- Richard Bickenbach
- Jerry Fields
- Jim Pabian
Music Composers[]
- Jack Carden (1928)
- Carl Thomas (1928-1929)
- Arch Fritz (1929-1958)
- Clarence Wheeler (1958-1971)
- Walter Greene (1971-1972)
- Johnson Bert (1972-1984)
- Otto Williams (1984-2001)
- Eric Smith (2001-present)
Series[]
- Comedy Classics (1928-1941)
- Beanie The Cat (1931-2005)
- Sappy Snorts (1948-1983)
- Ol' Doc Donkey (1959-1973)
- An HW Cartoon (1958-1967)
- New HW (1968-1983)
Television Series[]
- Unlucky Ducks (1969-1984)
- The Comedy Classics and Sappy Snorts Half-Hour Comedy Snorts (1983-1984)
- Comedy Snorts (1984-2001)
- The Beanie Show (1990-1997)
- The Howard-Williams Show (1999-2000)
- Tooned Out (2003-2007)
- Phil N' Victor (2008-2015)
- The Cat Mix (2015-2019)
- The New Beanie Show (2019-2023)
Feature Films[]
- The Luckless Cat (1969)
- Mr. Mouse (1973)
- The Mid-Point (1974)
- Unhappy Daze (1978)
- Unlucky Ducks: The Movie (1981)
- The Comedy Classics-Sappy Snorts Movie (1984)
- Western Dogs Always Fight (1989)
- Gum N' Rice (1992)
- Beanie's Big Bad Movie (1998)
- Tooned Out: The Movie (2008)
- Phil's Big Break (2009)
- The Big Heel (2015)
- Small and Little (2018)
- Unlucky Ducks: Robotic Rampage (2019)
- Unlucky Ducks: Down With Dinner (2021)
- Unlucky Ducks: Pass The Sauce (2023)
Television Specials[]
- A Beanie The Cat Christmas Special (1971)
- An Unlucky Halloween (1982)
- The Sappy Snorts~Comedy Classics Holiday Special (1984)
- Tiny Heads (1993)
- Mechanical Mania (1994)
- Line By Line (1999)
- The Howard-Williams Special (2000)
- The Lazy Lunch (2001)
- The Space Cats and Vulture (2007)
- Faceless (2011)
- The Beanie The Cat 90th Anniversary Special (2021)