A.C. Gamer

Adolph Charles Gamer (13 May 1899 - 9 June 1964) was an effects animator for Warner Bros.
== Early Life ==
Gamer was born in Chicago, Illinois, to George and Hady Gamer. He also had a brother, Edward (born 1902), and a sister, Haidee (born 1906). Gamer attended the Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri and was accepted by the British Air Service at age seventeen when World War I broke out. He served in the Royal Flying Corps where he “received his wings.” After the war, Ace returned to St. Louis, and for the next eight years worked for a lumber company. He studied art at the Chicago Art Institute, and finally came back to Los Angeles where he studied at Chouinard Art Institute.
== Career ==
Gamer joined Leon Schlesinger Productions in early 1933 where worked as an effects animator. Chuck Jones identified Gamer as an "effects animator and World War I pilot." Gamer was earning $2,280 a year in his position at the Schlesinger studio. Gamer left Warner Bros. in late 1948 and was succeeded by Harry Love.
== Later Career ==
Gamer formed a firm with Murray Youlin known as "Animated Video Film Co." Later, he moved into the insurance business, becoming a Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company representative in 1950.
== Personal Life ==
Gamer married Jane Weaver (1918-1990) on 23 August 1937, and had one child Peter Paul Gamer (1938-1995) born 11 December 1938. He died in 1964 at the age of 65.
== Looney Works ==
==== As an Animator ====
* Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
* Dog Daze
* The Night Watchman
* Page Miss Glory
* She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
* Sweet Sioux
* You're an Education
==== As an Effects Animator ====
* A-Lad-In His Lamp
* Baby Bottleneck
* The Bee-Deviled Bruin
* Buckaroo Bugs
* Catch as Cats Can
* Ceiling Hero
* Daffy Dilly
* Draftee Daffy
* Fast and Furry-ous
* The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
* The Grey Hounded Hare
* A Gruesome Twosome
* Hare Remover
* Hare Tonic
* Haredevil Hare
* The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
* Horton Hatches the Egg
* A Horse Fly Fleas
* An Itch in Time
* Kitty Kornered
* Lights Fantastic
* Mississippi Hare
* Mouse Menace
* The Mouse-Merized Cat
* The Old Grey Hare
* One Meat Brawl
* Porky in Egypt
* Porky in the North Woods
* Rabbit Transit
* Russian Rhapsody
* Scent-imental over You
* Sniffles Takes a Trip
* The Stupid Cupid
* Super-Rabbit
* Swallow the Leader
* A Tale of Two Kitties
* Tortoise Wins by a Hare
* The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
* Wackiki Wabbit
* Wacky Wild Life
* Walky Talky Hawky
* Which Is Witch
* The Wise Quacking Duck
== External Links ==
* https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/a-c-gamer-captain-or-lieutenant-of-the-clouds/
* ancestry.com
 
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