About

Known credits:
44
Birthday:
1907-03-11
Place of birth:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Website:
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Robert Bentley

Overview

Robert Bentley (11 March 1907 – 28 November 2000) was an American animator. Bentley started his animation career in 1929 as an assistant animator at the Van Beuren cartoon studio in New York City, later working for Les Elton's independent studio on his 1931 cartoon "Simon the Monk". He moved to the West Coast in 1935 to work briefly at Walt Disney's studio, then spent the next few years as a full-fledged animator in Frank Tashlin's unit at Leon Schlesinger's cartoon studio for Warner Bros. In 1939, Bentley, along with other Tashlin animators like Joe D'Igalo and Nelson Demorest, moved to Miami to work for Fleischer Studios, as they were hiring experienced West Coast animators to tool up for their first animated feature, Gulliver's Travels.

In the early 40s, Bentley returned to California to animate for the Walter Lantz studio on Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker cartoons, and by the mid-40s was a top animator of both Tex Avery's and Dick Lundy's animation units at MGM's cartoon studio.

Bentley spent the majority of the 50s animating back at Lantz's studio, before being hired by Hanna-Barbera to work primarily on TV animation. From then on, he bounced between stints at numerous television animation studios like DePatie-Freleng and Filmation, where he contributed to such animated productions as Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1974), Spider-Man (1967), and others.

[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Known for

Visual Effects
1960 Ozark Lark Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1960 Heap Big Hepcat Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1959 Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy) Visual Effects Animation N/A
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1959 Kiddie League Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1959 Romp in a Swamp Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1959 The Tee Bird Visual Effects Animation 58
Average
1959 Bee Bopped Visual Effects Animation N/A
N/A
1959 Log Jammed Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1959 Truant Student Visual Effects Animation N/A
N/A
1959 Tomcat Combat Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1958 Jittery Jester Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1958 Tree's a Crowd Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1958 Everglade Raid Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1958 Half Empty Saddles Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1958 Salmon Yeggs Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1958 Misguided Missile Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1958 His Better Elf Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1957 Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1957 Fodder and Son Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1957 Round Trip to Mars Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1957 International Woodpecker Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1957 The Unbearable Salesman Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1957 Box Car Bandit Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1957 Red Riding Hoodlum Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1956 Niagara Fools Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1955 Bunco Busters Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1955 Square Shootin' Square Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1955 Bedtime Bedlam Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1955 Private Eye Pooch Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1955 Witch Crafty Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1955 Helter Shelter Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1954 Pig in a Pickle Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1954 Paw's Night Out Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1954 Sleepy-Time Squirrel Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1953 Hot Noon or 12 O'Clock for Sure Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1953 Plywood Panic Visual Effects Animation N/A
N/A
1953 Maw and Paw Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1953 Little Johnny Jet Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1947 Slap Happy Lion Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1947 Uncle Tom's Cabana Visual Effects Animation 58
Average
1942 Under the Spreading Blacksmith Shop Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1939 Gulliver's Travels Visual Effects Animation 59
Average
1938 Now That Summer Is Gone Visual Effects Animation 58
Average
1937 The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos Visual Effects Animation 58
Average