The One and Only June Foray

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Mrs. Doubtfire

Garfield: His 9 Lives

It's the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown

Snoopy: The Musical

The Cosmic Eye

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Garfield's Halloween Adventure

The Romance of Betty Boop

It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown

Watership Down

It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown

It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown

The 2000 Year Old Man

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown

You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Smattering of Spots

A Rainy Day with the Bear Family

Jitterbug Follies

William Charles Littlejohn (January 27, 1914 – September 17, 2010) was an American animator and union organizer. Littlejohn worked on animated shorts and features in the 1930s through to the 1990s.  His notable works include the Tom and Jerry shorts, the Peanuts television specials, the Oscar-winning short The Hole (1962), and the Oscar-nominated A Doonesbury Special (1977).  He was inducted into the Cartoon Hall of Fame and received the Winsor McCay Award and garnered lifetime achievement awards from the Annie Awards and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.  Director Michael Sporn has called Littlejohn "an animation 'God'."
Littlejohn co-founded and served as the first president of the Screen Cartoonists Guild Local #852 in 1938.  He led the effort to gain recognition for the union at the major Hollywood animation studios.  When Walt Disney refused to negotiate with the union and fired 16 pro-union artists, Littlejohn led the union in the 1941 Disney animators strike.  The strike lasted nine weeks and resulted in Disney's recognition of the union, substantial salary increases, a 40-hour work week and screen credits.  The Disney strike has been recognized as a watershed moment in the movement to unionize the animation industry.
Littlejohn was an active advocate for the art of animation, becoming  a co-founder of ASIFA-Hollywood in 1957 and of the International Tournée of Animation in the mid-1960s. He also served on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors representing short films and animation from 1988 to 2001.



Bill Littlejohn

Bill Littlejohn

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