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Jack Hannah John Frederick Jack Hannah ( January 5 , 1913 – June 11 , 1994 ) was an American animator , writer and director of animated shorts . Biography . Hannah was born on January 5 , 1913 , in Nogales , Arizona . He moved to Los Angeles in 1931 to study at the Art Guild Academy . One of his first jobs was designing movie posters for Hollywood theaters . In 1933 , during the Great Depression , Hannah dropped off his portfolio at Walt Disney Studios , and soon afterward was hired as an in-between and clean-up artist , working on Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck , and Silly Symphony cartoons . Hannahs career as an animator commenced with the short Modern Inventions ( released on May 29 , 1937 ) . After thirteen films in that capacity , he was assigned to the story department writing cartoon short continuities , beginning with Donalds Nephews ( released on April 15 , 1938 ) . He received writing credit on 21 Disney cartoon shorts . In 1942 he collaborated with Carl Barks on the first two comic books Barks worked on , Pluto Saves the Ship and Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold . Hannah in subsequent years did a handful of other Donald Duck comic book stories but , unlike Barks , he stayed at the studio and eventually was given a chance to be a director . The short Donalds Off Day ( released on December 8 , 1944 ) was the first of 94 films he would direct . These include most of the shorts featuring Donald Duck in the post-war era along with all starring Chip n Dale and Humphrey the Bear ; he also directed some shorts starring Goofy , Mickey Mouse , Pluto and some minor Disney characters such as Lambert the Sheepish Lion . After Disney stopped producing animated shorts , Hannah did 14 episodes of the Walt Disney anthology television series ( composed of footage from the classic cartoons along with new linking material ) and fulfilled his ambition to direct live-action by handling Walt Disneys introductions for the episodes . Hannah hoped to segue into a career in live-action but Walt had me pegged as an animation director so he balked at the suggestion . We had a few heated discussions and I became aware that I had come to an impasse . Hannah then went to Walter Lantz Productions and directed a number of films featuring Woody Woodpecker and some minor characters . Besides directing shorts , Hannah also was Assistant Director for the television series The Woody Woodpecker Show , which began airing on October 3 , 1957 . I did more or less the same thing that I did with Walt Disney in directing live-action except Lantz was better at taking direction . His last directing effort was the short Charlies Mother-In-Law ( released on April 16 , 1963 ) . He retired shortly thereafter . In 1975 , Hannah was one of the co-founders , along with T . Hee , of the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts . Hannah was honored as a Disney Legend in 1992 . Jack Hannah is often credited with developing , if not creating , the personality of the animated version of Donald Duck . It is for this reason Disney historian Jim Korkis has dubbed him Donald Ducks Other Daddy . Despite that , Hannah has often been noted for being responsible for Donalds most formulaic period , where constantly paired Donald with pint-sized antagonists . The most famous of these antagonists are Chip n Dale , but other characters included Spike the Bee , Bootle Beetle and a colony of ants . These vermin became the focus of their shorts , relegating Donald to a supporting foil role with a consequent personality diminution . Hannah died in Burbank , California on June 11 , 1994 , at age 81 . Filmography . TV series . - Disneyland ( 1954-79 ) - The Donald Duck Story ( director and story ; 1954 ) - Adventures of Mickey Mouse ( director ; 1955 ) - At Home with Donald Duck ( director ; 1956 ) - The Great Cat Family ( segment director ; 1956 ) - Where Do the Stories Come From ? ( director ; 1956 ) - On Vacation ( director ; 1956 ) - A Day in the Life of Donald Duck ( director;1956 ) - Duck for Hire ( director ; 1957 ) - Donalds Award ( director ; 1957 ) - All About Magic ( sequence director ; 1957 ) - Your Host , Donald Duck ( director;1957 ) - From All of Us to All of You ( director ; 1958 ) - Four Tales on a Mouse ( director : Christmas sequence ; 1958 ) - Donalds Weekend ( director ; 1958 ) - Highway to Trouble ( director;1959 ) - Duck Flies Coop ( director ; 1959 ) - Two Happy Amigos ( director;1960 ) - This Is Your Life Donald Duck ( director;1960 ) - Kids Is Kids ( segment director ; 1961 ) - A Square Peg in a Round Hole ( segment director ; 1963 ) - The Ranger of Brownstone ( sequence director ; 1968 ) - Baseball Fever ( director ; 1979 ) - The Woody Woodpecker Show ( 1957-58 ) - Mattys Funday Funnies ( TV Series ) ( 1962 ; story ) External links . - Jack Hannah Remembers Pirate Gold at Mouse Planet - Donald Ducks Other Daddy ( Part One )