When Clampett was promoted to director in 1937, Jones was assigned to his unit ; the Clampett unit was briefly assigned to work with Jones ' old employer, Ub Iwerks, when Iwerks subcontracted four cartoons to Schlesinger in 1937.

Aside from the top-billed Ebsen, other principal cast members included Irene Ryan as Jed's mother-in-law, Daisy Moses, also known as Granny ; Max Baer, Jr. as Jed's dimwitted nephew Jethro Bodine ; Donna Douglas as Jed's only child, the curvaceous, critter-loving Elly May Clampett ; Raymond Bailey as Milburn Drysdale, a bank president who oversees the Clampett fortune ; and Nancy Kulp as Jane Hathaway, Drysdale's secretary.

Clampett recalled his short time working for Disney: " Walt Disney himself sometimes came over in an old car to pick up the dolls ; he would give them out to visitors to the studio and at sales meetings.

Clampett liked to bring hip cultural movements into his cartoons, especially jazz ; film, magazines, comics, novels, and popular music are referenced in Clampett shorts, most visible in Book Revue ( 1946 ), where performers are drawn onto various famous books.

It turned out well enough for Republic to dabble in animated cartoons ; Bob Clampett directed a single cartoon, It's a Grand Old Nag, featuring the equine character Charlie Horse.

His first cartoon voice work was in a Warner Brothers cartoon called For He's a Jolly Good Fala, which was recorded but never filmed ( due to the death of Fala's owner, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ), followed by Roughly Squeaking ( 1946 ) as Bertie ; and in 1947, he was heard in It's a Grand Old Nag ( Charlie Horse ), produced and directed by Bob Clampett for Republic Pictures ; The Goofy Gophers ( Tosh ), and One Meat Brawl ( Grover Groundhog and Walter Winchell ).

Subsequent appearances of a similar " granny " character included The Cagey Canary, directed by Bob Clampett ; Hiss and Make Up, directed by Friz Freleng ; and Hare Force, featuring Bugs Bunny and Sylvester the dog ( a one-off character distinct from the later Sylvester the cat ).

He married Ruth Barth in 1939 and the couple had three children ; Linda Kaye Henning on whom Paul partially based the character of Elly May Clampett, Carol Alice and Paul Anthony Henning.

His main influence is Bob Clampett, and he also names Chuck Jones, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Milt Gross, Tex Avery, Peter Lorre, The Three Stooges, Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Don Martin and Robert Ryan.

In 1962, Ryan was cast as Daisy " Granny " Moses, the matriarch of the Clampett clan, in the CBS-TV comedy series The Beverly Hillbillies.

Robert Emerson " Bob " Clampett ( May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984 ) was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil.

Clampett died of a heart attack in Detroit, Michigan on May 2, 1984.

Robert Emerson " Bob " Clampett was born in San Diego, California on May 8, 1913.

Clampett died of a heart attack on May 2, 1984 in Detroit, Michigan, just six days before his 71st birthday, while touring the country to promote the home video release of Beany & Cecil cartoons.

Donna Douglas ( born September 26, 1933 ) is an American actress best known for her role as Elly May Clampett, in the long-running television series The Beverly Hillbillies.

* The Beverly Hillbillies: Elly May Clampett ( Donna Douglas ).

* Erika Eleniak-Elly May Clampett

Lisa was another example of the television cliché that a beautiful woman was almost invariably an incompetent cook, a characteristic which she shared with Elly May Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies, another show featuring absurd rural characters which was also being produced at the same time and by the same production company.

McGill's Kipling joke is used in a 1962 episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, " Pygmalion and Elly ", in a scene with Elly May Clampett ( Donna Douglas ) and Sonny Drysdale ( Louis Nye ).

His show packages included a variety of stars, one of those casts were Donna Douglas, “ Elly Mae Clampett ” of “ The Beverly Hillbillies ,” Sonny Shroyer “ Enos ” from “ The Dukes of Hazzard ” and himself.

From the beginning, Clampett was intrigued with and influenced by Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and he began making film short-subjects in his garage beginning when he was twelve.

Cousin Pearl and her daughter Jethrine moved into the Clampett mansion with the rest of the Clampett clan late in the first season.

His daughter from his first marriage is singer Katelyn Clampett.

Originally, Clampett wanted an all-black band to score the cartoon, the same way Max and Dave Fleischer had Cab Calloway and His Orchestra score the Betty Boop cartoons Minnie the Moocher, The Old Man of the Mountain, and their own version of Snow White.

In an ( 4 / 10 / 63 ) airing of The Beverly Hillbillies, Durocher plays golf with Jed Clampett ( Buddy Ebsen ) and Jethro Bodine ( Max Baer, Jr .), and he tries to sign Jethro to a baseball contract after discovering Jethro has a strong pitching arm.

Other notable figures in character animation include the Schlesinger / Warner Bros. directors ( Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Bill Melendez, Frank Tashlin, Robert McKimson, and Friz Freleng ), cartoon animators Max Fleischer and Walter Lantz, pioneering animators Hanna-Barbera, former Disney animator Don Bluth, independent animator Richard Williams, John Lasseter at Pixar, and latter-day Disney animators Andreas Deja and Glen Keane.

James Albert " Jim " Varney, Jr. ( June 15, 1949 – February 10, 2000 ) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, writer, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his role as Ernest P. Worrell, who was used in numerous television commercial campaigns and movies in the following years, giving Varney fame worldwide and playing Jed Clampett in the 1993 movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies.

In addition to the appearances by the above mentioned there is interview footage of Stan Freberg, June Foray, Noel Blanc, Billy West, Keith Scott, Mark Evanier, Bob Bergen, Joe Alaskey, Bill Melendez, Willie Ito, Corny Cole, Peter Alvarez, and the children of the various directors: Robert McKimson, Jr., Ruth Clampett, Sybil Freleng, and Linda Jones.

Robert Daniel Clampett, Jr. ( born April 22, 1960 ) is a television golf analyst, golf course architect, writer, and professional golfer, who played on the PGA Tour from 1980 to 1995.

The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

He also noted that the " feud " that there may have been between Jones and colleague Robert Clampett was mainly because they were so different from each other.

On December 11, 1975, shortly after the release of Bugs Bunny Superstar, which prominently featured Bob Clampett, Jones wrote a letter to Tex Avery, accusing Clampett of taking credit for ideas that were not his.

Their correspondence was never published in the media, nonetheless it was sent to Michael Barrier, who had conducted the interview with Clampett and was distributed by Jones to multiple people concerned with animation over the years.

Michael Barrier claims that Clampett had given himself too much credit, but also that Jones had had ill feelings towards him ever since their days at Termite Terrace, due to the fact that Bob Clampett was made an animation director before Chuck Jones.

Robert McKimson claimed in an interview that many animators but mostly Clampett contributed to the crazy personality of Bugs, while others like Chuck Jones concentrated more on the more calmed down gags.

* 1913 – Bob Clampett, American animator ( d. 1984 )

By the end of the decade, a new Schlesinger production team, including directors Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Robert Clampett, and Chuck Jones was formed.

** Bob Clampett, American " Looney Tunes " director ( d. 1984 )

Bugs Bunny made a cameo appearance in 1942 in the Avery / Clampett cartoon Crazy Cruise and also at the end of the Frank Tashlin 1943 cartoon Porky Pig's Feat which marked Bugs ' only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tunes short.

Daffy first appeared on April 17, 1937, in Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery and animated by Bob Clampett.

He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators ( particularly Bob Clampett ) created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig.

The character was designed by animator Bob Clampett and introduced in the short I Haven't Got a Hat ( first released on March 9, 1935 ), directed by Friz Freleng.

Bob Clampett finally pinned Porky down, making him a permanent young adult: cuter, slimmer, smarter, and eventually less of a stutterer.

Iwerks directed the first two shorts, while former Schlesinger animator Robert Clampett was promoted to director and helmed the other two shorts before he and his unit returned to the main Schlesinger lot.

The idea of a family of comical monsters was first suggested to Universal Studios in the late 1940s by animator Bob Clampett, who wanted to do a series of cartoons.