Warren Foster

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Golden Records album cover of their recording of I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat

Warren Foster (b. October 24, 1904, Brooklyn, New York; d. December, 1971, San Clemente, California), was a writer, cartoonist and composer for the animation division of Warner Brothers and later with Hanna-Barbera.

Foster was educated at both Brooklyn Tech and the Pratt Institute, joining ASCAP in 1956.

Foster's long career with Warner Brothers began in 1938 as a writer on the Porky Pig short, Porky's Naughty Nephew and ended nearly 170 cartoons later in 1959 with his work on the Tweety Pie short, Tweet Dreams. In fact, Foster was the composer of Tweety's theme song, I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat. He worked, sometimes uncredited, on cartoons considered among the greatest ever, including Book Revue and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, each featuring Daffy Duck in 1946, Catty Cornered featuring Sylvester the Cat in 1953 and Bugs and Thugs featuring Bugs Bunny in 1954.

His career took a turn in 1961 at Hanna-Barbera where he would spend the next five years as a writer on a number of notable animated programs beginning with The Yogi Bear Show as well as several episodes of The Flintstones, including his final work on the feature-length A Man Called Flintstone.

Foster is buried at El Toro Memorial Park in Lake Forest, California.