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Earl Hurd

Earl Hurd

1880-09-14

Kansas City - Missouri - USA

DIRECTING

Biography

Pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions. Hurd and Bray are jointly responsible for developing the processes involved in cel animation, and were granted patents for their processes in 1914. -Wikipedia Entry

Best known for:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Mickey's Rival

Elmer Elephant

Mother Pluto

Two-Gun Mickey

Pantry Pirate

Bobby Bumps Starts for School

Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge

At the Dentist

Bobby Bumps and the Stork

Bobby Bumps Gets a Substitute

Bobby Bumps' Fly Swatter

Bobby Bumps and His Pointer Pup

Bobby Bumps Helps Out a Book Agent

Bobby Bumps at the Circus

Bobby Bumps' Fourth

Bobby Bumps, Surf Rider

Bobby Bumps Adopts a Turtle

Bobby Bumps at Fido's Birthday Party

Bobby Bumps, Chef

Bobby Bumps: Tanks

Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum

Bobby Bumps' Fight

Bobby Bumps Caught in the Jam

Bobby Bumps and the Hypnotic Eye

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Filmography:

Bobby Bumps and the Stork (1916)
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Director
Bobby Bumps Gets a Substitute (1916)
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Director
Bobby Bumps' Fly Swatter (1916)
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Director, Writer
Bobby Bumps and His Pointer Pup (1916)
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Director, Writer
Bobby Bumps Helps Out a Book Agent (1916)
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Director, Writer
Bobby Bumps at the Circus (1916)
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Director
Bobby Bumps Starts for School (1917)
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Director
Bobby Bumps' Fourth (1917)
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Director

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Bobby Bumps Adopts a Turtle (1917)
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Director, Writer
Bobby Bumps, Chef (1917)
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Director, Writer
Bobby Bumps' Amusement Park (1917)
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Director, Writer
Bobby Bumps: Tanks (1917)
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Director
Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum (1918)
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Director
Bobby Bumps on the Doughnut Trail (1918)
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Director
Bobby Bumps' Fight (1918)
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Director
At the Dentist (1918)
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Director, Writer

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Bobby Bumps Caught in the Jam (1918)
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Director, Writer
Bobby Bumps and the Hypnotic Eye (1919)
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Director
Bobby Bumps' Pup Gets the Flea-Enza (1919)
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Director
Bobby Bumps' Last Smoke (1919)
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Director, Writer
Bobby Bumps in Hunting and Fishing (1921)
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Director, Writer
Fresh Fish (1922)
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Producer, Director
Chicken Dressing (1923)
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Director
Two-Gun Mickey (1934)
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Animation
Elmer Elephant (1936)
4.8
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Writer
Mickey's Rival (1936)
4.9
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Story
Mother Pluto (1936)
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Story
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
6.8
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Screenplay
Pantry Pirate (1940)
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Story

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