Ed Barge (August 29, 1911 – September 29, 1991) was an American animator, best known for his work on the Tom and Jerry series.
Biography[]
Barge began his career at the Harman-Ising studio which shut down by August 1937 when Fred Quimby poached a number of its staff members to form the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. Barge worked at MGM as an assistant animator and received his first screen credit as an animator on Innertube Antics, directed by George Gordon and released in 1944. Gordon's unit had been disbanded the year before, at which point Barge was placed in the William Hanna/Joseph Barbera unit, then solely devoted to producing the Tom and Jerry cartoons; 1945's Quiet, Please! marks Barge's earliest credited work on the series. Barge subsequently remained at MGM for the next decade, eventually departing following production of the 1956 Tom and Jerry short Barbecue Brawl.
Hanna and Barbera opened their own studio that same year and hired Barge in 1957, He remained with Hanna-Barbera until 1984, when he moved to work for Film Roman Productions, remaining until his death on September 29th 1991 at the age 80.