Kenneth Muse

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Kenneth Muse
Born	July 26, 1910
Died	July 26, 1987 Templeton, California
Occupation	Animator

Kenneth L. Muse (July 26, 1910 - July 26, 1987) was an American animator. He is best known for his work on the Tom and Jerry series at MGM.

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Muse worked briefly at Walt Disney Studio, where he was Preston Blair's assistant on Fantasia (he helped animate "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" scenes).^[1]

Muse left Disney and joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's animation department in 1941. He was assigned to the Hanna - Barbera unit, where he remained for 17 years. He provided uncredited animation for the third Tom and Jerry short, The Night Before Christmas, as well as the very last Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry, Tot Watchers (1958), and nearly 120 other shorts inbetween. Muse also animated Jerry Mouse dancing with a live-action Gene Kelly in the 1945 musical Anchors Aweigh.

When MGM closed their animation studio in 1958, Muse joined his former bosses at their new company, Hanna-Barbera. He provided animation for many animated television series, such as Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks (1958), The Flintstones (1960), The Jetsons(1962), Wacky Races (1968), Hong Kong Phooey (1974), Jabberjaw (1976), and Challenge of the SuperFriends (1978).

Muse died on July 26, 1987 in Templeton, California.