Arthur Davis
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Arthur "Art" Davis (June 14 1905 - May 9 2000) was an animator and a director for Warner Brothers' Termite Terrace cartoon studio. He got his start as an animator for Charles Mintz's Screen Gems cartoon studio, where he soon became a director. He later went to Terrytoons for a brief time.
He moved to work at Warner Bros. Animation in 1941 where he was an animator for the Frank Tashlin department, which was assumed in 1946 by Robert McKimson. Later that same year, he became a director himself, replacing Bob Clampett, who moved over to Screen Gems.
Davis directed a number of hilarious Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, with a tone somewhere in-between those of Clampett and McKimson. Unfortunately, his department was shut-down only three years later in 1949 when Warners was having a budget problem. Art Davis was assigned to Friz Freleng's unit.
Thirteen years later, Davis directed a cartoon for Warners again when Freleng was busy with other projects. This cartoon was "Quackodile Tears", which was also his last Warners short; he soon left to work at Walter Lantz as animator. He left Lantz in 1965 to work briefly for Hanna-Barbera Productions. He later moved over to DePatie-Freleng Enterprises to direct Pink Panther shorts and other cartoon series.