Sid Marcus

• Name — Sid Marcus • Born — 13 July 1904 • Birthplace — New York, U.S. • Died — 9 September 1985 • Place of death — Santa Monica, California, U.S • Occupation — Animator, director • Employer — Associated Animators (1925–1926) Out of the Inkwell Films (1927–1930) Screen Gems (1930–1941; 1943–1946) Warner Bros. Cartoons (1947; 1952–1953) Walter Lantz Productions (1963–1966) DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (1969–1978) • Years Active — 1925–1979

Sid Marcus began his animation career in 1925 at Associated Animators working on the Mutt and Jeff cartoons. The studio closed by 1926 and Marcus began working at Fleischer Studios. His animation can be seen in the 1930 Talkartoon Hot Dog. In 1930 he and Fleischer colleague Dick Huemer were hired by Charles Mintz to make a series of cartoons for RKO in collaboration with Art Davis. After one season of Toby the Pup cartoons, the team began a new series of cartoons for Columbia instead, Scrappy. After Dick Huemer left the studio in 1933, Sid Marcus would take over direction of the Scrappy cartoons. In 1934, Sid Marcus directed the first Color Rhapsody, and would direct all four entries of the short lived Barney Google series. In 1941, Columbia let go of most of Screen Gems' staff, including Marcus, Davis and director Lou Lilly, (Ben Harrison, Manny Gould and Allen Rose had been fired before) with story man Frank Tashlin now in charge. Marcus' draft card from the time lists that he is employed at his own studio. By 1943, Marcus was once again at Screen Gems, this time as a story man. He worked on the Li'l Abner, Fox and Crow, Flippy and Phantasy cartoons. He would even direct two cartoons, in place of Paul Sommer. In 1945, director Bob Wickersham would leave the studio with Marcus taking over his role. The studio shut down in 1946. Marcus would then become Art Davis' story man at Warner Bros. Cartoons where he wrote two cartoons: Bye, Bye Bluebeard and A Ham in a Role. Davis only finished one before his unit was disbanded in 1947 (Bye, Bye Bluebeard), Robert McKimson would complete the second (A Ham in a Role). Marcus was let go when the unit disbanded. He would return to Warner's in the early 1950s writing for McKimson. He was let go when the studio briefly shut down in 1953. In the late 1950s Marcus worked on Joe Oriolo's Felix the Cat TV series, directed on Sam Singer's Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse in the early 1960s, directed at Walter Lantz's studio from 1963 to 1966, directed at Grantray-Lawrence Animation on The Marvel Super Heroes and Spider-Man (1967–1968), while freelancing stories for Walter Lantz and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. By 1969 he was working on Here Comes the Grump at DePatie–Freleng where he would spend the rest of his career. His last credits were in 1979.

• Title — Release Date — Role — Series — Notes • The Museum — 1930 — Co-director with Dick Huemer — Toby the Pup • The Fiddler • The Miner • The Showman • The Bug House • Circus Time — 1931 • The Milkman • The Brown Derby • Down South • Hallowe’en • Aces Up • The Bull Thrower • Yelp Wanted — Animator — Scrappy • The Little Pest • Sunday Clothes • The Dog Snatcher • Showing Off • Minding the Baby • The Chinatown Mystery — 1932 • The Treasure Runt • Railroad Wretch • The Pet Shop • Stepping Stones • Battle of the Barn • Fare Play • Camping Out • The Black Sheep • The Great Bird Mystery • Flop House • The Bad Genius • The Wolf at the Door • Sassy Cats — 1933 • Scrappy’s Party • The Beer Parade • The False Alarm • The Match Kid — Director • Technoracket • The World’s Affair • Movie Struck • Sandman Tales • Hollywood Babies • Scrappy’s Auto Show • Scrappy’s Art Gallery — 1934 • Scrappy’s Television • Aw Nurse • Scrappy’s Toy Shop • Scrappy’s Dog Show • Scrappy’s Theme Song • Scrappy’s Relay Race • The Great Experiment • Scrappy’s Expedition • The Trapeze Artist — Krazy Kat • The Concert Kid — Scrappy • Holiday Land — Color Rhapsody • The Happy Butterfly — Scrappy • The Gold Getters — 1935 • Little Rover — Color Rhapsody • Neighbours • Tetched in the Head — Barney Google • Patch Mah Britches • The Bird Stuffer — 1936 — Krazy Kat • Spark Plug — Barney Google • Major Google • In My Gondola — Color Rhapsody • A Boy and his Dog • The Novelty Shop • Mother Hen’s Holiday — 1937 • Indian Serenade • Scary Crows • Hollywood Picnic • The Little Match Girl • The Air Hostess • The Foolish Bunny — 1938 • Window Shopping • Poor Elmer • Little Moths Big Flame • Peaceful Neighbours — 1939 • The House That Jack Built • Jitterbug Knights • Dreams on Ice • The Greyhound and the Rabbit — 1940 • Tangled Television • The Mad Hatter • A Helping Paw — 1941 • The Land of Fun • Tom Thumb’s Brother • The Cuckoo I.Q. • The Crystal Gazer — Phantasy • Who’s Zoo in Hollywood — Color Rhapsody • Red Riding Hood Rides Again • Amoozin’ But Confoozin’ — 1944 — Story — Li’l Abner • A Pee-Kool-Yar-Sit-Chee-Ay-Shun — Story & Direction • Mr. Moocher — Story — Fox and Crow • Kickapoo Juice — Li’l Abner • Goofy News Views — 1945 — Story & Direction — Phantasy • Booby Socks — Story • Phoney Baloney — Fox and Crow • Unsure Runts — 1946 • Cagey Bird — Flippy • Mysto Fox — Fox and Crow • Up N’ Atom — 1947 — Director — Color Rhapsody • Swiss Tease • Kitty Caddy — Phantasy • Boston Beanie — Color Rhapsody • Topsy Turkey — 1948 — Phantasy • The Coo-Coo Bird Dog — 1949 — Color Rhapsody • Cat-Tastrophy — Final Columbia cartoon by Sid Marcus. • Bye, Bye Bluebeard — Story — Merrie Melodies • A Ham in a Role — Looney Tunes • No Parking Hare — 1954 • Devil May Hare — Debut of Tasmanian Devil. • The Oily American — Merrie Melodies • Gone Batty — Story with Ben Washam — Looney Tunes • All Fowled Up — Story with Charles McKimson • Lighthouse Mouse — 1955 — Story — Merrie Melodies • The Hole Idea — Looney Tunes • Dime to Retire • Greedy Gabby Gator — 1963 — Director — Woody Woodpecker • Stowaway Woody • Salmon Loafer — Chilly Willy • Coy Decoy — Woody Woodpecker • The Tenant’s Racket • Pesky Pelican — Chilly Willy • Tepee For Two — Woody Woodpecker • Science Friction • Dumb Like a Fox — 1964 • Deep Freeze Squeeze — Chilly Willy • Woody's Clip Joint — Woody Woodpecker • Skinfolks • Lighthouse Keeping Blues — Chilly Willy • Get Lost! Little Doggy — Woody Woodpecker • Ski-napper — Chilly Willy • Three Little Woodpeckers — 1965 — Woody Woodpecker • Fractured Friendship — Chilly Willy • Birds of a Feather — Woody Woodpecker • Half Baked Alaska — Chilly Willy • Sioux Me — Woody Woodpecker • Pesky Guest — Chilly Willy • Rough Riding Hood — 1966 — Woody Woodpecker • A Squeak in the Deep — Story — Looney Tunes • Teeny Weeny Meany — Director — Chilly Willy • Swing Ding Amigo — Story — Looney Tunes • Operation Shanghai — 1967 — Director — Chilly Willy • Hot Time on Ice — Story • The Nautical Nut — Woody Woodpecker • Chilly and the Woodpecker — Chilly Willy • Think Before You Pink — 1969 — Pink Panther • Odd Ant Out — 1970 — The Ant and the Aardvark • The Foul Kin — Roland and Ratfink • War and Pieces • All Hams on Deck — Woody Woodpecker • Chilly’s Cold War — Chilly Willy • A Gooney is Born — 1971 • Rough Brunch — The Ant and the Aardvark • Trick or Retreat — Roland and Ratfink • Chilley’s Hide-A-Way — Chilly Willy • The Rude Intruder — 1972 • Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow — 1973 — Director — The Blue Racer • Giddy Up Woe — 1974 — Hoot Kloot • Mesa Trouble • Pinky Doodle — 1976 — Pink Panther • Pink Arcade — 1978 • Dietetic Pink • Pink S.W.A.T. • Yankee Doodle Pink • Pink in the Drink • Pink Z-Z-Z • Toro Pink — 1979 • Pink Pull • Doctor Pink

Source: Writer • Felix the Cat (1958–1961) Director • Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse (1960–1962) • Sinbad Jr. and His Magic Belt (1965–1966) • The Marvel Super Heroes (1966) • Spider-Man (1967–1968) • Here Comes the Grump (1969) • Doctor Dolittle (1970–1971) • Baggy Pants and the Nitwits (1977) • Misterjaw (1977–1978) Animation Director • Bailey's Comets (1973–1974)