Bill Littlejohn was an American animator. Among the cartoons he worked on was the early Tom and Jerry and Barney Bear shorts from 1939 to 1943, notably Dog Trouble and Sufferin' Cats!, and in Dangerous When Wet (1953) with the Tom and Jerry sequence. He animated Barney Bear shorts such as The Fishing Bear and The Flying Bear and one-shot shorts such as Wanted: No Master. Outside of the MGM studio, he also worked on the Peanuts specials, Garfield specials, a variety of commercials (Nesquik and Metlife to name a few), The Dudley-Do-Right Show, The Cat and the Hat, A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Watership Down, A Doonesbury Special, Rainbows of Hawai'i and Our Spirited Earth. He also co-founded and served as the first president of the Screen Cartoonists' Guild during the Disney animators strike of 1941.
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