Edward John Barge (August 29, 1910 – September 29, 1991) was an American animator. Barge was born to Alfred Edward and Margaret G. Barge in

San Jose, California San Jose, officially San José (; ; ), is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 popu ...

. In 1916, the family moved to Bakersfield, where his father was employed by the

Santa Fe Railroad The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States. The railroad was chartered in February 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison and Topeka, Kansas, and ...

and Pacific Western Oil Co. before retiring in 1954. He was the second of six children; his brother Henry was a photographer for the ''Bakersfield Californian''. Barge attended St. Francis Parochial School and high school in Bakersfield, where he was a baseball and basketball star. He was still living in Bakersfield in July 1936 and was becoming known for his landscape paintings. He married Alice Davis, the daughter of Mrs. B.A. Davis of Bakersfield, in Beverly Hills on April 6, 1939. He began his career at the Harman-Ising studio''A Cast of Friends'', William Hanna, Taylor Publishing, 1996. which shut down by August 1937 when

Fred Quimby Frederick Clinton Quimby (July 31, 1886 – September 16, 1965) was an American animation producer and journalist best known for producing the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoon series, for which he won seven Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Films ...

poached a number of its staff members to form the

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio was an American animation studio operated by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) during the Golden Age of American animation. Active from 1937 until 1957, the studio was responsible for producing animated shorts to ...

. Barge worked at MGM as an assistant animator and received his first screen credit as an animator on ''Innertube Antics'', directed by George Gordon and released in 1944. Gordon's unit had been disbanded the year before, at which point Barge was placed in the

William Hanna William Denby Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator and cartoonist who was the creator of ''Tom and Jerry'' as well as the voice actor for the two title characters. Alongside Joseph Barbera, he also founded the anim ...

/ Joseph Barbera unit which made the

Tom and Jerry ''Tom and Jerry'' is an American Animated cartoon, animated media franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Best known for its 161 theatrical short films by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the series c ...

cartoons. Barge remained until about the time the studio closed in 1957. Hanna and Barbera opened their own studio that same year and hired Barge in 1965 for the movie '' The Man Called Flintstone.'' He remained with Hanna-Barbera until retiring in 1982. In '' Family Guy'' episode, " Road to Rupert", Barge became archive footage as Jerry's visible.

References

External links

* Animators from California 1910 births 1991 deaths Hanna-Barbera people Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio people {{HannaBarbera-stub