Friz Freleng

Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1905–May 26, 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He introduced several of the studio's biggest stars, including Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, and Speedy Gonzalez. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng is also the most honored of the Warners directors, having won four Academy Awards. After Warners shut down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons, feature film title sequences, and Saturday morning cartoons through the early 1980s.

Later career

Freleng later served as an executive producer on a series of 1980s Looney Tunes movies that linked together several of the classic shorts.

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Executive producer - 1980s - Looney Tunes

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On his passing in 1995, he was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.

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1995 - Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery - Culver City, California

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