Robert Emerson (Bob) Clampett

  General Notes:

Social Security Number: 562-05-6398

The state listed in the birth locality field is where the Social Security Number was issued.

The zip code listed in the death locality field is the last place of residence.

Death Residence Localities ZIP Code: 90038 Hollywood, Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Wilcox, Los Angeles, California

  Events

• He worked as a Cartoonist in 1935 in Warner Brothers. Bob Clampett (1913-1984) was one of the pioneers of American Animation. While he was still in his teens, Clampett designed the first Mickey Mouse doll for Walt Disney. Shortly thereafter, Clampett went to work for the Harman-Isling studio, animating the first Merrie Melodies ever made, Lady Play Your Mandolin.
In 1935, the studio still looking for a star, producer Leon Schlesinger suggested a cartoon version of Our Gang. Clampett created fat little pig named Porky, and a black cat named Beans. Although Beans got top billing, Porky was the hit with audiences and became the first Warner Bros. star.

Later that year, Clampett teamed up with director Tex Avery in a dilapidated little building at the back of the Warner lot dubbed Termite Terrace. Avery and Clampett forged a new direction in animation with their wild, irreverent sense of humor, what soon came to be called Warner style. It was at Termite Terrace these two created a character that gave Looney Toons some of their wildest moments- Daffy Duck.

• He worked as a Promoted to Director of Warner Brothers in 1937. In 1937, Clampett was promoted to Director, and for the next nine years he would create some of the wildest, funniest and most memorable cartoons produced at Warner Bros. Studios. Some of these, such as Porky in Wackyland (1938), Corney Concerto and Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs (1943), and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946) are widely considered classics. Clampett also introduced two other prominent Warner characters, Beaky Buzzard and Tweety.

• He worked as a Left Warner Brothers and opened own studio in 1946. In 1946 Clampett left Warner Bros. and opened his own studio. He went on to create and produce The Beany and Cecil Show, Albert Einstein's favorite puppet show.

• He worked as a Created "Children's Express" in 1975. ¹⁴⁷ Children's Express occupied every nook in Bob Clampitt's house. It would eventually dominate 21 years of his life. Since he founded it in 1975, the nonprofit news service has trained more than 3,500 reporters (ages 8 to 13) and editors (ages 14 to 19) in bureaus in Manhattan, Harlem, Newark, Boston, Atlanta, Oakland, Indianapolis, Washington, D.C., Michigan, London, Tokyo, Australia and New Zealand. Its young news teams published five books, held national hearings about violence and the juvenile justice system, broadcast award-winning television and radio shows, reported from a Cambodian refugee camp and covered every political convention since 1976.

• Address: Charles Street in Greenwich Village. ¹⁴⁷ Bob lived on Charles Street in Greenwich Village, just around the corner from Ray's Pizza and the 14th Street subway station.

Robert married Theota Ann Stone, daughter of Albert Corder Stone and Della Dosson Shelton, on 25 Jun 1955. (Theota Ann Stone was born on 4 Apr 1931.)