Robert Cannon

Robert Cannon

Robert Cannon (July 16, 1909 - June 9, 1964) was an American animator. Robert 'Bobo' Cannon was born in Ohio. Not much is known about his early life, including the city he was born in. He began his animation career at Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1934, assisting ace animators Robert Clampett and Chuck Jones. After a two-year apprenticeship, he graduated to full animator. Cannon became an integral part of that anarchic Warner Brothers in-house cartoon outfit, known as 'Termite Terrace' (due to its cramped and austere quarters). In the process, he labored on such iconic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters as Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Elmer Fudd. He animated for Tex Avery, Clampett and Jones from 1936 to 1944, after which he became co-founder and a leading light in the innovative United Productions of America (UPA). Unlike at Warners, UPA allowed him to direct, including cartoons featuring the famous character of Mr. Magoo. Cannon later taught animation at San Fernando Valley State College and was awarded in 1976 with the International Film Society's Winsor McCay Award for Lifetime Achievement. He died at the age of 54 in 1964 due to a heart attack. Looney Tunes Wiki

  • Title: Robert Cannon
  • Popularity: 1.616
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1909-07-16
  • Place of Birth: Ohio, USA
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  • Also Known As: Robert 'Bobo' Cannon
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Robert Cannon Movies

  • 1953
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    Little Boy with a Big Horn

    Little Boy with a Big Horn

    6 1953 HD

    Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He...

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  • 1950
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    Gerald McBoing-Boing

    Gerald McBoing-Boing

    6.5 1950 HD

    The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon...

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  • 1944
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    Hell-Bent for Election

    Hell-Bent for Election

    5.3 1944 HD

    A full-blown re-election piece for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey. Roosevelt is...

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  • 1951
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    Georgie and the Dragon

    Georgie and the Dragon

    6 1951 HD

    Georgie, a young Scottish lad, befriends a baby dragon and takes it home as a pet and companion.

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  • 1950
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    The Miner's Daughter

    The Miner's Daughter

    8.5 1950 HD

    A Harvard grad tries to start a gold claim, but is immediately beset by the amorous daughter of a rival miner.

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  • 1942
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    The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall

    The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall

    6.8 1942 HD

    Three fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, Dan Backslide, in this...

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  • 1953
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    The Girl Next Door

    The Girl Next Door

    4 1953 HD

    Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke...

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  • 1953
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    Christopher Crumpet

    Christopher Crumpet

    6.8 1953 HD

    Through drawings, an illustrator tells his dog the story of a boy named Christopher Crumpet. Christopher can at will change himself from a little boy...

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  • 1954
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    Fudget's Budget

    Fudget's Budget

    5.7 1954 HD

    UPA cartoon about a nuclear family trying to live within a family budget.

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  • 1936
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    Page Miss Glory

    Page Miss Glory

    6.5 1936 HD

    A bellhop in the best hotel of a small town awaiting the arrival of Miss Glory dreams he has to page her at a first class hotel in New York. In time...

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  • 1956
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    Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo

    Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo

    5.8 1956 HD

    While meeting a new friend, Gerald is abducted by aliens and whisked to the planet Moo. The king of Moo mistakenly thinks that all Earthlings - like...

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  • 1970
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    Catching Clouds

    Catching Clouds

    1 1970 HD

    When Greg meets Niamh, everything seems to be fantastic. She's exciting, fun, charming- everything Greg wishes he could be. But he hits a bump in the...

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  • 1952
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    The Oompahs

    The Oompahs

    1 1952 HD

    A family of musical instruments, the Oompahs. Conflict strikes when the son wants to hang out with his rebellious friends, going against his...

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  • 1936
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    Milk and Money

    Milk and Money

    6.5 1936 HD

    Porky's father is going to lose his farm. Porky goes to town with his horse and works a milk route, with a warning that if he breaks a bottle he's...

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  • 1986
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    The Cosmic Eye

    The Cosmic Eye

    6.2 1986 HD

    Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.

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  • 1954
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    Ballet-Oop

    Ballet-Oop

    3.5 1954 HD

    Dance teacher Miss Placement is dismayed to learn that the head of the School of Ballet where she teaches has entered her beginners class in a...

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  • 1952
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    Madeline

    Madeline

    6.2 1952 HD

    This short from the UPA studio was nominated for the 1952 Oscars. Based on the Madeline series of children's books.

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  • 1956
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    The Jaywalker

    The Jaywalker

    6.6 1956 HD

    1956 Oscar nominated cartoon. The idea here is simple: the main character has taken up jaywalkng as a hobby and it quickly becomes manic, almost...

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  • 1951
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    Frosty the Snowman

    Frosty the Snowman

    6.4 1951 HD

    This short little cartoon is based on the popular song by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson, first recorded in 1950 by Gene Autry as his followup to...

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  • 1955
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    Christopher Crumpet's Playmate

    Christopher Crumpet's Playmate

    6.2 1955 HD

    Christopher Crumpet has an imaginary elephant for a playmate. Christopher's father begins to see the elephant. Mr. Crumpet reveals this to his...

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  • 1953
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    Gerald McBoing-Boing's Symphony

    Gerald McBoing-Boing's Symphony

    6.5 1953 HD

    Gerald McBoing Boing, a little boy who can't talk but can imitate any sound, is working as a one-man sound effects department for a radio station....

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  • 1954
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    How Now Boing Boing

    How Now Boing Boing

    6 1954 HD

    Gerald's parents, frustrated at his inability to talk, call in various experts (including the world's greatest voice professor) to teach their boy to...

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  • 1945
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    Brotherhood of Man

    Brotherhood of Man

    6 1945 HD

    Made from a pamphlet and financed by a union, the message that the similarities between people are greater than any racial differences, was part of a...

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  • 1952
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    Willie the Kid

    Willie the Kid

    1 1952 HD

    Little Willie's large imagination turns his family-home in the suburbs into the old Wild WEst when he puts on his cowboy suit, guns, holsters and...

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  • 1953
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    Little Boy with a Big Horn

    Little Boy with a Big Horn

    6 1953 HD

    Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He...

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  • 1951
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    The Wonder Gloves

    The Wonder Gloves

    7 1951 HD

    Uncle George is showing Little Johnny, his nephew, the pair of boxing gloves he claims enabled him, when he was the janitor at a training-gym, to...

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  • 1960
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    Children of the Sun

    Children of the Sun

    1 1960 HD

    On the one hand, a healthy child who has enough to eat. On the other hand, a poor, undernourished kid. On the one hand, a quarter of the blue...

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  • 1951
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    Peter Cottontail

    Peter Cottontail

    1 1951 HD

    The jazzy cartoon short about that "cool little bunny" giving baskets full of Easter joy. Stylish 1950s UPA production design in this Easter musical...

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  • 1943
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    Wackiki Wabbit

    Wackiki Wabbit

    6.714 1943 HD

    On a tropical island, a pair of castaways look to Bugs as a source of food.

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  • 1943
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    To Duck.... Or Not to Duck

    To Duck.... Or Not to Duck

    6.4 1943 HD

    Daffy challenges duckhunter Elmer to a boxing match, rigged in his favor with the collusion of the duck referee. In the stands, Elmer's dog Larrimore...

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  • 1959
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    Moonbird

    Moonbird

    5.4 1959 HD

    Two boys go outside at night to capture a bird. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2003.

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  • 1958
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    Scoutmaster Magoo

    Scoutmaster Magoo

    6 1958 HD

    Magoo mistakes three bear cubs for three scouts.

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  • 1945
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    Grampaw Pettibone's Gripes: Join-Up Collisions

    Grampaw Pettibone's Gripes: Join-Up Collisions

    1 1945 HD

    Part of the "Flight Safety" series of animated shorts commissioned by the U.S. Air Force at the end of World War II. This one,completed by United...

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  • 1941
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    Meet John Doughboy

    Meet John Doughboy

    5.6 1941 HD

    Porky introduces a newsreel of wartime spot gags, including a spoof of the RKO Pictures logo, and caricatures of Jack Benny and Rochester.

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  • 1941
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    Porky's Midnight Matinee

    Porky's Midnight Matinee

    5.3 1941 HD

    Working backstage at a theater, Porky frees a little ant he finds in a cage, only to learn that it's a rare and valuable trained pygmy ant.

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  • 1949
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    Bailing Out

    Bailing Out

    1 1949 HD

    Part of the FLIGHT SAFETY series, instructing U.S. Navy pilots in the history of parachutes and the correct use of parachutes.

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  • 1942
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    Hold the Lion, Please

    Hold the Lion, Please

    6.2 1942 HD

    A lion wants to prove he's still "King of the Jungle" and, to prove it, he hunts rabbit.

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  • 1957
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    Magoo's Moose Hunt

    Magoo's Moose Hunt

    5 1957 HD

    Mr. Maggo tries to hunt a moose

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  • 1957
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    Magoo's Moose Hunt

    Magoo's Moose Hunt

    5 1957 HD

    Mr. Maggo tries to hunt a moose

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  • 1943
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    The Unbearable Bear

    The Unbearable Bear

    6.2 1943 HD

    Sniffles the mouse's non-stop talking foils both the burglar and a tipsy Officer Bear, who's trying to sneak past his rolling pin-toting,...

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  • 1956
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    Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo

    Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo

    5.8 1956 HD

    While meeting a new friend, Gerald is abducted by aliens and whisked to the planet Moo. The king of Moo mistakenly thinks that all Earthlings - like...

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  • 1954
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    How Now Boing Boing

    How Now Boing Boing

    6 1954 HD

    Gerald's parents, frustrated at his inability to talk, call in various experts (including the world's greatest voice professor) to teach their boy to...

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  • 1937
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    Porky's Duck Hunt

    Porky's Duck Hunt

    6.5 1937 HD

    Inexperienced duck hunter Porky Pig is taunted by a mischievous duck (Daffy, making his screen debut).

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  • 1958
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    The Tender Game

    The Tender Game

    6.3 1958 HD

    Inspired by the song Tenderly Jack Lawrence and Walter Gross, a tender animation on a florist and a sweeper that she falls madly in love.

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  • 1941
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    Toy Trouble

    Toy Trouble

    5 1941 HD

    Sniffles the mouse and his friend the Bookworm try to evade a cat in a the toy department of Lacy's department store.

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  • 1954
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    Tune in Tomorrow

    Tune in Tomorrow

    1 1954 HD

    A carnival setting illustrates the superiority of the radio medium for American business, with an eye on a future of economic prosperity.

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  • 1954
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    Ballet-Oop

    Ballet-Oop

    3.5 1954 HD

    Dance teacher Miss Placement is dismayed to learn that the head of the School of Ballet where she teaches has entered her beginners class in a...

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  • 1937
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    I Only Have Eyes for You

    I Only Have Eyes for You

    5.6 1937 HD

    The iceman is in love with a pretty girl, and an old spinster is pining and cooking for him. But his dreamgirl prefers crooners like Bing Crosby,...

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  • 1940
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    Cross Country Detours

    Cross Country Detours

    6.5 1940 HD

    A wacky travelogue takes us to the forests of Yosemite, the rocks of Brice Canyon, the frozen wastes of Alaska, the desert wastes of New Mexico, the...

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  • 1961
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    Shrimp

    Shrimp

    1 1961 HD

    Format Films pilot

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  • 1970
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    10 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    10 1970 HD

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