Abe Levitow
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Abe Levitow (July 2, 1922 - 8 May 1975) was an American animator who worked mainly at Warner Bros. Cartoons, UPA and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). He first received animation credit in 1953 while working under the direction of Chuck Jones. He worked steadily for Jones over the remainder of the 1950s, and directed several cartoons for release in 1959. While working under Jones, he made characters' joints more angular than most other animators. Those characters with fur (Wile E. Coyote, for example) looked especially shaggy in Levitow's scenes. In 1961 he moved to UPA and directed a series of Dick Tracy cartoons. A few years later, he rejoined Jones at MGM as an animator and a director in the Tom and Jerry series. His last project was B.C.: The First Thanksgiving in 1973.
