George Gordon (September 2, 1906 – May 24, 1986) was an American film and television animator and director of animated films. Starting in film in 1930, he animated and directed for Terrytoons and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and later on moved to Television in its early days. Gordon is credited with hundreds of cartoons from 1937 through 1983.
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Gordon began working with animation in 1930 at the Terrytoons Studio as an animator on the Jesse and James and Farmer Al Falfa Cartoons. Gordon was later promoted to a director on animations such as:
A Bully Frog (1936)
The Busy Bee (1936)
Robin Hood in an Arrow Escape (1936)
Farmer Al Falfa
Kiko the Kangaroo
Puddy the Pup
In 1937, Gordon left Terrytoons for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio to work as an animator. He animated for Rudolf Ising's unit on the Barney Bear series, and The Milky Way which would win an Oscar for Best Animated Short Subject in 1940. He would also animate for William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's unit for the Tom and Jerry shorts. After Ising left MGM to join the Army Air Forces animation unit, Gordon would inherit his old unit in July 1942. He directed the short The Storks Holiday (his only credited short) and the short lived Ol' Doc Donkey series. He finished his tenure directing Barney Bear shorts until he left MGM in 1943.
