Bob Kuwahara

Personal Info

Know For

Visual Effects

Gender

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Birthday

1901-08-12 (63 years old)

Deathday

1964-12-10

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Bob Kuwahara

Biography

From Wikipedia: Japanese-born American animator best known for his work with Walt Disney and Terrytoons between the 1930s and 1960s. Kuwahara was born in Tokyo on August 12, 1901, and his family moved to the United States in 1910, where he graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School in 1921. After high school he attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles until 1928. In 1929 Kuwahara moved to New York City to work as a commercial artist, but the stock market crash later that year forced him to return to Los Angeles. In 1932 Kuwahara began working as an animator and writer for Walt Disney, where he had a hand in shorts like Thru t...

Production

1936

More Kittens

as Story

1936

1970

Martian Moochers

as Director

1962

1961

1957

1959

1965

The Invisibeam

as Director

1963

Obnoxious Obie

as Director

1950

The Fox Hunt

as Writer

1962

1933

Father Noah's Ark

as Animation

1933

Lullaby Land

as Animation

1934

1936

Three Little Wolves

as Storyboard

1936

1964

1957

Topsy TV

as Story

1957

Gag Buster

as Writer

1936

Three Little Wolves

as Screenplay

1963

Pearl Crazy

as Director

1963

Tea House Mouse

as Director

1962

Loyal Royalty

as Director

1963

Spooky-Yaki

as Director

1958

Gaston's Baby

as Writer

1957

1958

1959

Hashimoto-San

as Writer

1959

Hashimoto-San

as Director

1966

1966

Champion Chump

as Director

1964

1939

1939

Jitterbug Follies

as Background Designer

1963

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