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Barbera, Joseph

Overview
Works: 944 works in 1,291 publications in 18 languages and 29,905 library holdings
Roles: Director, Producer, Interviewee, Composer, Animator , Conceptor, Bibliographic antecedent, Film editor, Scenarist, Other, Creator, Lyricist
Classifications: pn1992.77, 791.4575
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Most widely held works by Joseph Barbera
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6 editions published in in English and held by 546 libraries worldwide
No other studio, not Disney, not Warner's, has created more familiar and beloved - or just plain more - cartoon characters than Hanna-Barbera, and just about all of them started life in the mind of Joe Barbera. He was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side and was raised in Flatbush, Brooklyn, by a doting mother and a father who made a bundle as a popular barber, only to gamble most of it away before finally bowing out on his family altogether. Fresh out of high school, young Joe spent six years chained to a desk in a Wall Street bank filling out income tax forms. There he discovered he couldn't add, but he knew he could draw, and after he saw Walt Disney's pioneering "Skeleton Dance" at a Roxy Theatre Matinee, he knew he wanted to draw animated cartoons.
 
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Audience level: 0.29 (from 0.15 for Scooby-Doo ... to 0.44 for My life in ...)
Alternative Names
Barbera, Joe.
Barbera, Joe, 1911-2006
Barbera, Joseph R. 1911-2006
Barbera, Joseph Roland 1911-2006
Languages
English (617)
Spanish (162)
French (147)
Undetermined (135)
No Linguistic content (58)
Dutch (49)
Multiple languages (34)
Swedish (32)
Chinese (29)
Danish (15)
German (6)
Russian (5)
Tamil (4)
Italian (3)
Hungarian (2)
Portuguese (2)
Slovenian (1)
Turkish (1)
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