# Ray Patterson (animator)

Raymond Patterson (November 23, 1911 – December 30, 2001) was an American animator, producer, and director. He was born in Hollywood, California, and was the younger brother of animator Don Patterson.

## Career

Patterson's earliest works in animation were for Charles B. Mintz's Krazy Kat/Screen Gems studio, where he started as an inker in 1929. He remained at Mintz for eleven years. In 1940, he moved to Walt Disney Productions, where he animated on Fantasia and Dumbo, as well as several Pluto shorts (Bone Trouble and Pluto's Playmate). By 1942, he mostly worked on Donald Duck shorts such as Donald Gets Drafted.
Patterson left Disney in 1941 during an animation strike. He would briefly reunite with Screen Gems, now creatively supervised by Frank Tashlin, before moving to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in 1943, with his first short for them being War Dogs, followed by Baby Puss, his debut on the Tom and Jerry series. While he mostly worked in the studio's Hanna-Barbera unit, he occasionally provided animation for Tex Avery's unit in the 1950s (as well as Avery's substitute director Dick Lundy). He worked on several Academy Award-winning animation shorts: Mouse Trouble (1944), Quiet Please! (1945), The Little Orphan (1948), and Johann Mouse (1952). Patterson (along with his colleague Irven Spence) would briefly leave MGM in the mid 40's. During this period, he would help organize and educate animators from David Hand's Gaumount British Animation Studio. He and Spence would later move back to MGM in the late 40's.
Patterson left MGM permanently in 1953 and was briefly hired by Walter Lantz. He (alongside former Tex Avery animator Grant Simmons) would direct two shorts, Broadways Bow Wows and Dig that Dog. Months afterwards, Patterson and Simmons left Walter Lantz Productions and co-founded their own studio, Grantray-Lawrence Animation, which he operated until 1967. GrantRay-Lawrence's early work was providing animation for television commercials, including the original "Winston Tastes Good" campaign. The company later moved on to producing such animated television series as Spider-Man and The Marvel Superheroes.
After GrantRay-Lawrence folded in 1967, Patterson joined his former bosses at Hanna-Barbera, where he worked as a supervising director on several animated television series. Patterson was eventually promoted to vice president in charge of animation direction, a position he held until his retirement in 1993.
Patterson was awarded the 1999 Winsor McCay Award by the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood for his lifetime of contributions to the animation field.

## Personal life and death

Ray was married to June Walker Patterson. June worked at Disney as a cel painter. They had four daughters.
Patterson died of natural causes in Encino, California on December 30, 2001, a month after his 90th birthday.

## Filmography
### Short films

| Year | Series | Title | Credits |
| 1943 | Tom and Jerry | Baby Puss | animator |
| 1944 | Tom and Jerry | The Zoot Cat | animator |
| 1944 | Tom and Jerry | The Million Dollar Cat | animator |
| 1944 | Tom and Jerry | The Bodyguard | animator |
| 1944 | Tom and Jerry | Puttin' on the Dog | animator |
| 1944 | Tom and Jerry | Mouse Trouble | animator |
| 1945 | Tom and Jerry | The Mouse Comes to Dinner | animator |
| 1945 | Tom and Jerry | Mouse in Manhattan | animator |
| 1945 | Tom and Jerry | Tee for Two | animator |
| 1945 | Tom and Jerry | Flirty Birdy | animator |
| 1945 | Tom and Jerry | Quiet Please! | animator |
| 1946 | Tom and Jerry | Springtime for Thomas | animator |
| 1946 | Tom and Jerry | Solid Serenade | animator |
| 1947 | Tom and Jerry | Salt Water Tabby | animator |
| 1948 | Tom and Jerry | The Truce Hurts | animator |
| 1948 | Tom and Jerry | Old Rockin' Chair Tom | animator |
| 1948 | Tom and Jerry | Professor Tom | animator |
| 1948 | Tom and Jerry | Mouse Cleaning | animator |
| 1949 | Tom and Jerry | Polka Dot Puss | animator |
| 1949 | Tom and Jerry | The Little Orphan | animator |
| 1949 | Tom and Jerry | Hatch Up Your Troubles | animator |
| 1949 | Tom and Jerry | Heavenly Puss | animator |
| 1949 | Tom and Jerry | The Cat and the Mermouse | animator |
| 1949 | Tom and Jerry | Love That Pup | animator |
| 1949 | Tom and Jerry | Tennis Chumps | animator |
| 1950 | Tom and Jerry | Little Quacker | animator |
| 1950 | Tom and Jerry | Saturday Evening Puss | animator |
| 1950 | Tom and Jerry | Texas Tom | animator |
| 1950 | Tom and Jerry | Jerry and the Lion | animator |
| 1950 | Tom and Jerry | Safety Second | animator |
| 1950 | Tom and Jerry | Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl | animator |
| 1950 | Tom and Jerry | The Framed Cat | animator |
| 1950 | Tom and Jerry | Cueball Cat | animator |
| 1951 | Tom and Jerry | Casanova Cat | animator |
| 1951 | Tom and Jerry | Jerry and the Goldfish | animator |
| 1951 | Tom and Jerry | Jerry's Cousin | animator |
| 1951 | Tom and Jerry | Sleepy-Time Tom | animator |
| 1951 | Tom and Jerry | His Mouse Friday | animator |
| 1951 | Tom and Jerry | Slicked-Up Pup | animator |
| 1951 | Tom and Jerry | Nit-Witty Kitty | animator |
| 1951 | Tom and Jerry | Cat Napping | animator |
| 1952 | Tom and Jerry | The Flying Cat | animator |
| 1952 | Tom and Jerry | The Duck Doctor | animator |
| 1952 | Tom and Jerry | Triplet Trouble | animator |
| 1952 | Tom and Jerry | Little Runaway | animator |
| 1952 | Tom and Jerry | Fit to Be Tied | animator |
| 1952 | Droopy | Caballero Droopy | animator |
| 1952 | Tom and Jerry | Cruise Cat | animator |
| 1952 | Barney Bear | The Little Wise Quacker | animator |
| 1952 | Tom and Jerry | The Dog House | animator |
| 1953 | Tom and Jerry | The Missing Mouse | animator |
| 1953 | Barney Bear | Barney's Hungry Cousin | animator |
| 1953 | Tom and Jerry | Johann Mouse | animator |
| 1953 | | Little Johnny Jet | animator |
| 1953 | Tom and Jerry | That's My Pup! | animator |
| 1953 | | T.V. of Tomorrow | animator |
| 1953 | Barney Bear | Wee-Willie Wildcat | animator |
| 1953 | Tom and Jerry | Just Ducky | animator |
| 1953 | Tom and Jerry | Two Little Indians | animator |
| 1953 | Droopy | Three Little Pups | animator |
| 1954 | Tom and Jerry | Posse Cat | animator |
| 1954 | Droopy | Drag-A-Long Droopy | animator |
| 1954 | Tom and Jerry | Hic-cup Pup | animator |
| 1954 | | Billy Boy | animator |
| 1954 | Tom and Jerry | Mice Follies | animator |
| 1954 | Tom and Jerry | Neapolitan Mouse | animator |
| 1954 | Tom and Jerry | Downhearted Duckling | animator |
| 1955 | Tom and Jerry | Pup on a Picnic | animator |
| 1955 | Tom and Jerry | Mouse for Sale | animator |
| 1955 | | The First Bad Man | animator |
| 1955 | Droopy | Deputy Droopy | animator |
| 1955 | Tom and Jerry | Pecos Pest | animator |
| 1956 | Tom and Jerry | The Egg and Jerry | animator |
| 1957 | Tom and Jerry | Tops with Pops | animator |
| 1957 | Tom and Jerry | Feedin' the Kiddie | animator |

### Feature films

| Year | Title | Credits |
| 1940 | Fantasia | Animator - Segment "Dance of the Hours" |
| 1941 | Dumbo | Animator |
| 1946 | Holiday in Mexico | Animator |
| 1962 | Gay Purr-ee | Animator |
| 1964 | Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! | Animator |
| 1973 | Charlotte's Web | Animator |
| 1975 | Coonskin | Animator |
| 1986 | GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords | Director |

### Television

| Year | Title | Credits | Notes |
| 1979 | The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone | director | TV special |
| 1979 | Scooby Goes Hollywood | director | TV movie |
| 1980 | The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling | director | TV special |
| 1980 | Yogi's First Christmas | director | TV movie |
| 1981 | The Flintstones: Jogging Fever | director | TV special |
| 1982 | Christmas Comes to Pac-Land | director | TV special |
| 1987 | Tis The Season to Be Smurfy | director | TV movie |
| 1988 | Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf | director | TV movie |
| 1993 | A Flintstone Family Christmas | director | TV movie |