Clampett later recalled:

Clampett would again use the Three Stooges parody when a later creation of his, Beany and Cecil, faced the " Dreaded Three-Headed Threep ".

Clampett was promoted to a directorial position in 1937 and during his fifteen years at the studio, directed 84 cartoons later deemed classic and designed some of the studio's most famous characters, including Porky Pig and Tweety.

In his later years, Bob Clampett toured college campuses and animation festivals as a lecturer on the history of animation.

Clampett made hand puppets as a child, and before adolescence had completed what animation historian Milt Gray describes as " a sort of prototype, a kind of nondescript dinosaur sock puppet that later evolved into Cecil.

" In high school, Clampett drew a full-page comic about the nocturnal adventures of a pussycat, later published in color in a Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times.

In his later years, Bob Clampett toured college campuses and animation festivals as a lecturer on the history of animation.

John Kricfalusi, best known as the creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, got to know Clampett in his later years and has reflected on those times as inspirational.

" Clampett later stated that the gophers ' effeminate mannerisms were derived from character actors Franklin Pangborn and Edward Everett Horton.

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 ).

* Bugs's nonchalant carrot-chewing stance, as explained many years later by Chuck Jones, and again by Friz Freleng and Bob Clampett, comes from the movie It Happened One Night, from a scene where the Clark Gable character is leaning against a fence eating carrots more quickly than he is swallowing ( as Bugs would later often do ), giving instructions with his mouth full to the Claudette Colbert character, during the hitch-hiking sequence.

A month later, Watson wins his fourth British Open title, in a tournament that will be remembered for the collapse of young American Bobby 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.

Bob Clampett created the character that would become Tweety in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties, pitting him against two hungry cats named Babbit and Catstello ( based on the famous comedians Abbott and Costello ).

Clampett began work on a short that would pit Tweety against a then-unnamed, lisping black and white cat created by Friz Freleng in 1945.

After Daffy Duck was created, he would add even more success to Warner Bros cartoons and replaced Porky Pig as the studio's most popular animated character, and Bob Clampett took over Termite Terrice, while Tex Avery took over the Merry Melodies department.

During production of Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937, Avery created a character that would become Daffy Duck and Clampett animated the character for the first time.

In 1949, Clampett turned his attentions to television, where he created the famous puppet show Time for Beany.

The Goofy Gophers were created by Warners animator Robert Clampett for the 1947 short film " The Goofy Gophers ".

In 1949, Butler landed a role in a televised puppet show created by former Warner Bros. cartoon director Bob Clampett called Time for Beany.

Michael Barrier, an animation historian, said that Kricfalusi's works " testify to his intense admiration for Bob Clampett's Warner Bros. cartoons " and that no cartoonist since Clampett created cartoons in which the emotions of the characters " distort their bodies so powerfully.

Beany and Cecil first appeared as a hand puppet TV show in the late 40 ' created by Bob Clampett.

Beany and Cecil was created by animator Bob Clampett after he left Warner Bros., where he had been directing theatrical cartoon shorts.

Clampett originally created the series as a puppet show called Time for Beany, which ran from February 28, 1949 to 1954.

Prior to the animated series, but concurrent with the puppet show, Clampett created a comic-book series of Beany and Cecil adventures for Dell Comics.

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.

In his early appearances in Bob Clampett cartoons, Tweety is a very aggressive character who tries anything to foil his foe, even kicking his enemy when he is down.

On the original model sheet, Tweety was named Orson ( which was also the name of a bird character from an earlier Clampett cartoon Wacky Blackout ).

Also at Termite Terrice animator Bob Clampett redesigned Porky from a fat, chubby pig to a more cute and childlike character.

During production of the short lead animator Bob Clampett elaborated the exit of the Duck character by having him jump up and down on his head, flip around and holler off into the sunset.

A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the 1993 movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies.

Unable to find a drawing of the character anywhere, Clampett took his sketchpad to the movies and came out with several sketches.

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.

After leaving Warner Bros. in 1946 ( reportedly due to angering his peers at the studio's cartoon division for taking credit that was not really his ), Bob Clampett approached Republic and wound up directing a single cartoon, It's a Grand Old Nag, featuring the equine character Charlie Horse.

In 1959, he voiced the beatnik character Go Man Van Gogh in " Wildman of Wildsville ", an episode of the Bob Clampett animated series Beany and Cecil.

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.

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.

In his commentary as part of the 1970s documentary film, Bugs Bunny: Superstar, Clampett discussed the fact that his early version of Tweety Bird had to be redesigned after his first picture because the producers thought he " looked naked ".

In the documentary Bugs Bunny: a Superstar, animator Clampett stated, in a sotto voce " aside " to the audience, that Tweety had been based " on my own naked baby picture ".

Allegedly, when Tweety's creator, director Bob Clampett, left the Warner Bros. studio in 1946, he was working on a fourth film starring Tweety, whom he would pair with Friz Freleng ’ s Sylvester, who previously appeared with Porky Pig in his cartoon Kitty Kornered ( released in 1946 ).

After moving to Los Angeles, Kricfalusi was introduced to Milt Gray by Bob Clampett, suggesting he should join Gray's classical animation class.