Tom Ray

Tom Ray (1919-2010) was an animator, often for Looney Tunes and Chuck Jones, who was an animation director on Muppet Babies for the first three seasons, as well as on Little Muppet Monsters and Fraggle Rock.
Ray began his animation career at Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1937 and moved over to MGM, working on The Captain and the Kids shorts. After stints at other studios, Ray returned to Warner Bros., working in Robert McKimson's unit on shorts with Bugs Bunny, Foghorn Leghorn, and The Honeymousers. He moved to Chuck Jones' unit, adding the Roadrunner and Pepe LePew to his roster. Following Jones to MGM, he worked on Tom and Jerry shorts, The Dot and the Line (narrated by Robert Morley), TV specials (including How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Horton Hears a Who), and the feature film The Phantom Tollbooth. He'd rejoin Jones on periodic later specials (Mowgli's Brothers, two Raggedy Ann specials).
Since the later Chuck Jones projects did not provide full-time work, Ray animated at other studios, occasionally at Filmation but primarily Hanna-Barbera (i.e. Hong Kong Phooey, Scooby's Laff-A Lympics) and DePatie-Freleng (The Pink Panther and Inspector shorts and the Spider-Woman series). When DePatie-Freleng's studio transitioned to Marvel Productions, Ray remained on staff as an animation director on The Incredible Hulk, Dungeons & Dragons, Defenders of the Earth, Transformers, and others. Still active in the 1990s, he was a timing director or sheet timer on Tiny Toon Adventures, Darkwing Duck, and Men in Black: The Series.
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