Alex Lovy

Alex Lovy
Born	Alexander Lovy (1912-09-02)September 2, 1912 Passaic, New Jersey,United States
Died	February 14, 1992(1992-02-14)(aged 79) California,United States
Occupation	Animator
Years active	1929–1992
Employer(s)	The Van Beuren Corporation(1929–1936) Walter Lantz Productions(1936–1942; 1954–1959) Screen Gems(1942–1949) Hanna-Barbera Cartoons(1959–1967; 1968–1992) Warner Bros.(1950-1954,1967–1968)
Known for	directoratWalter Lantz Productions Producer atHanna-Barbera supervised atWarner Bros.

Alexander Lovy(September 2, 1912 – February 14, 1992) was an Americananimator.He spent the majority of his career as an animator anddirectoratWalter Lantz Productions.He was later a producer atHanna-Barbera,and also supervised the cartoon unit atWarner Bros.during its final days.

Life and career

Born inPassaic, New Jersey,Lovy's early career was spent as a comic artist atDC Comics.Later, he became an animator at the Lantz studio in the late 1930s. His first credit as a director was forFeed the Kittyin 1938. Studio headWalter Lantzwas taking a hiatus from directing at this time, this gave Lovy an opportunity to direct many of the studio's shorts in the 1938–1940 period. He stepped down to become an animator in 1940 after Lantz reverted to being director. However, he continued to play an important role in the production of the shorts, and stepped up to being the studio's lead director ofWoody Woodpeckershorts when Lantz retired from directing in 1942. The following year, however, Lovy wasdraftedinto the US Navy and left the studio;Shamus Culhanein the meantime replaced Lovy.

After the end ofWorld War II,Lovy worked briefly forColumbia Pictures' cartoon unit,Screen Gems,directing five shorts before it was closed down, and in 1955 made his return to the Lantz studio, initially to finish some cartoons thatTex Averyhad produced during a brief stint as director there.He carried on directing at the Lantz studio until the end of the decade, at which point he moved over to Hanna-Barbera. There, he worked mainly as a producer and storyboard artist, and often supervised the studio's voice recording sessions. In 1967, Lovy moved to the newly re-opened Warner Bros. cartoon studio, where he created the charactersCool CatandMerlin the Magic Mouse,in addition to directing cartoons with classic charactersDaffy DuckandSpeedy Gonzales.After just over a year at Warner Bros., Lovy returned to Hanna-Barbera, and worked there in various capacities until shortly before his death on Valentine's Day, 1992.

According toWalter Lantz,Lovy wasambidextrous,and could draw two storyboards at the same time, one with each hand.

External links

• Alex LovyatIMDb