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ALVARADO, Pete

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Birth/Death

 Born February 22, 1920 Raton, NM
Died December 27, 2003

Occupation/Title

 Animation/Comic Book Artist

Bio Summary

He was born in 1920 NM, and raised in Glendale CA. After high school, he attended The Chouinard Art Institute. He then worked for several companies including Disney, MGM and Warner Brothers. After serving in World War 2 and returning from the service, he decided that he wanted to get in to the more creative end of the business, doing story sketches and layouts, character designs and background paintings. Most of his years were spent working for Hanna-Barbera studios. Alvarado continued working in animation until his last few years, doing mostly storyboards and layout work. He died December 27, 2003.

Early Life/Family

 Wife, Kathleen
Son, Peter III
Daughter, Paula

Education/Training

Alvarado studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, where he earned a scholarship. When Pete started in Disney, they offered training while working in the job.

Career Outline

His career started at Walt Disney where he worked on Snow White and Dumbo as an assistant animator. In 1939 he traveled to New York to seek new kinds of work. There he met up with some artist and joined the comic book industry (which was new at the time). Pete did a number of different stories for publishers, including Marvel. Some time later he returned to Disney and later Warner Bros in 1946. There he got his first screen credit in the second Pepe LePew cartoon. In 1950 he design and painted all the backgrounds for the first Road Runner cartoon. Later on, after doing some comic books he came to dislike the more realistic illustrations and switched to the cartoon style permanently. He worked on Mr. Magoo for its entire newspaper run and mostly Hanna-Barbera newspaper strips like the Jetsons, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones, and of course he did the fill ins for almost every Disney strips, he was also the main artist on Donald Duck . Pete continued to work in animation as a layout artist and doing story boards. He worked on many cartoons like Garfield and Friends, Bobbys World, and Ghost Busters.

Comments On Style

Pete Alvarado was a master in the cartoon world. Working for almost every major animation studio, he managed to embrace each style and keeping a bit of his own on the piece. His work was very clean and carefully thought out. He was a professional who gave 110% every time.

Influences

Growing up in the nineteen twenties and thirties, and being exposed to cartoons like the Allice Comedies, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Mickey Mouse, it would be fair to say that these were the primary reasons for him wanting to be an animator. When he was in the Institute which was being financially helped by Walt Disney, he and his classmates immediately went over to Disney when they finished.

Personality

Pete was known to put a smile in anyones face. He was positive, shy, and he liked to chat. Accepted any work with pleasure and was known for his professionalism.

Anecdotes

Although he went to World War II, He personally believed that war was dumb.

Miscellaneous

Pete used to surround himself with reference when he worked, it gets injected into the work he said in an interview by John Cawley.

Filmography

That's Warner Bros. (1995) TV Series (background artist) (layout artist)
Yo Yogi (1991) TV Series (character designer)
Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (1990) TV Series (layout artist)
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) (layout artist)
The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour (1985) TV Series (layout artist)
The Puppy's Further Adventures (1983) TV Series (layout artist)
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) (layout artist)
A Flintstone Christmas (1977) (TV) (layout artist)
The Pink Panther and Friends (1976) TV Series (background artist)
Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch (1974) TV Series (layout artist)
Mesa Trouble (1974) (layout artist)
Goober and the Ghost-Chasers (1973) TV Series (layout artist)
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971) TV Series (layout artist)
Here Comes the Grump (1969) TV Series (layout artist)
The Pink Panther Show (1969) TV Series (background artist)
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (1968) TV Series (layout artist)
Super President (1967) TV Series (layout artist)
In the Pink (1967) (background artist)
Pink Panic (1967) (background artist)
The Bugs Bunny Show (1960) TV Series (layout artist)
Oily Hare (1952) (layout artist)
The Turn-Tale Wolf (1952) (layout artist)
Sock a Doodle Do (1952) (layout artist)
Kiddin' the Kitten (1952) (layout artist)
Thumb Fun (1952) (layout artist)
Who's Kitten Who? (1952) (layout artist)
The Prize Pest (1951) (layout artist)
Big Top Bunny (1951) (layout artist)
Scent-imental Romeo (1951) (background artist)
Bunny Hugged (1951) (layout artist)
Two's a Crowd (1950) (background artist) (layout artist)
The Ducksters (1950) (background artist)
8 Ball Bunny (1950) (background artist) (layout artist)
Homeless Hare (1950) (background artist)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) (background artist)
Rabbit Hood (1949) (background artist)
Bear Feat (1949) (background artist)
For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) (background artist)
Frigid Hare (1949) (background artist)
Fast and Furry-ous (1949) (background artist)
Often an Orphan (1949) (background artist)
Long-Haired Hare (1949) (background artist)
The Bee-Deviled Bruin (1949) (background artist)
Mississippi Hare (1949) (background artist)
Awful Orphan (1949) (background artist)
So Much for So Little (1949) (background artist) (layout artist)
Scaredy Cat (1948) (background artist)
My Bunny Lies Over the Sea (1948) (background artist)
Daffy Dilly (1948) (background artist)
House Hunting Mice (1948) (background artist)
You Were Never Duckier (1948) (background artist)
Haredevil Hare (1948) (background artist)
Rabbit Punch (1948) (background artist)
A Feather in His Hare (1948) (background artist)
Mouse Wreckers (1948) (background artist)
Scent-imental Over You (1947) (background artist)

Honors

Annie Award: Winsor McCay Award 2001
Animation Guild Golden Award for service to the craft

Related Links

www.petealvarado.com

Bibliographic References

 www.cataroo.com
www.newsfromme.com
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0023185/

Contributors To This Listing

 Enrique O. Rivera (History and Trends of animation student)
editor: Brother Rabbit


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At 4:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

• Birth/Death

Born February 22, 1920 Raton, NM
Died December 27, 2003

• Occupation/Title

Animation and comic book artist

• Bio Summary

He was born in 1920 NM, and raised in Glendale CA. After high school, he attended The Chouinard Art Institute. He then worked for several companies including Disney, MGM and Warner Brothers. After going to World War 2 and returning from the service, and decided that he wanted to get in to the more “creative end of the business”, doing story sketches and layouts , character designs and background paintings. Most of his years were spent working for Hanna-Barbera studios. Alvarado continued working in animation until his last few years, doing mostly storyboards and layout work. He died December 27, 2003.

• Early Life/Family

Wife, Kathleen
Son, Peter III
Daughter, Paula

• Education/Training

Alvarado studied at the Chouinard Art Institute, where he earned a scholarship. When Pete started in Disney, they offered training while working in the job.

• Career Outline

His career started at Walt Disney where he worked on Snow White and Dumbo as an assistant animator. In 1939 he traveled to New York to seek new kinds of work. There he met up with some artist and joined the comic book industry (which was new at the time). Pete did a number of different stories for publishers, including Marvel. Some time later he returned to Disney and later Warner Bros in 1946. There he got his first screen credit in the second Pepe LePew cartoon. In 1950 he design and painted all the backgrounds for the first Road Runner cartoon. Later on, after doing some comic books he came to dislike the more “realistic” illustrations and switched to the cartoon style permanently. He worked on Mr. Magoo for its entire newspaper run and mostly Hanna-Barbera newspaper strips like the Jetsons, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones, and of course he did the fill ins for almost every Disney strips, he was also the main artist on Donald Duck . Pete continued to work in animation as a layout artist and doing story boards. He worked on many cartoons like Garfield and Friends, Bobby’s World, and Ghost Busters.

• Comments on Style

Pete Alvarado was a master in the cartoon world. Working for almost every major animation studio, he managed to embrace each style and keeping a bit of his own to the piece. His work was very clean and carefully thought out. He was a professional who gave 110% every time.

• Influences

Growing up in the nineteen twenties and thirties, and being exposed to cartoons like the Allice Comedies, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Mickey Mouse, it would be fair to say that these were the primary reasons for him wanting to be an animator. When he was in the Institute which was being financially helped by Walt Disney, he and his classmates immediately went over to Disney when they finished.

• Personality

Pete was known to put a smile in anyone’s face. He was positive, shy, and he liked to chat. Accepted any work with pleasure and was known for his professionalism.

• Anecdotes

Although he went to World War II, He personally believed that “war was dumb”

• Miscellaneous

Pete used to surround himself with reference when he worked, “it gets injected into the work” he said in an interview by John Cawley.

• Filmography

“That’s Warner Bros.!” (1995) TV Series (background artist) (layout artist)
“Yo Yogi" (1991) TV Series (character designer)
“Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends" (1990) TV Series (layout artist)
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) (layout artist)
"The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour" (1985) TV Series (layout artist)
"The Puppy's Further Adventures" (1983) TV Series (layout artist)
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) (layout artist)
A Flintstone Christmas (1977) (TV) (layout artist)
"The Pink Panther and Friends" (1976) TV Series (background artist)
"Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch" (1974) TV Series (layout artist)
Mesa Trouble (1974) (layout artist)
"Goober and the Ghost-Chasers" (1973) TV Series (layout artist)
"The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show" (1971) TV Series (layout artist)
"Here Comes the Grump" (1969) TV Series (layout artist)
"The Pink Panther Show" (1969) TV Series (background artist)
"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" (1968) TV Series (layout artist)
"Super President" (1967) TV Series (layout artist)
In the Pink (1967) (background artist)
Pink Panic (1967) (background artist)
"The Bugs Bunny Show" (1960) TV Series (layout artist)
Oily Hare (1952) (layout artist)
The Turn-Tale Wolf (1952) (layout artist)
Sock a Doodle Do (1952) (layout artist)
Kiddin' the Kitten (1952) (layout artist)
Thumb Fun (1952) (layout artist)
Who's Kitten Who? (1952) (layout artist)
The Prize Pest (1951) (layout artist)
Big Top Bunny (1951) (layout artist)
Scent-imental Romeo (1951) (background artist)
Bunny Hugged (1951) (layout artist)
Two's a Crowd (1950) (background artist) (layout artist)
The Ducksters (1950) (background artist)
8 Ball Bunny (1950) (background artist) (layout artist)
Homeless Hare (1950) (background artist)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) (background artist)
Rabbit Hood (1949) (background artist)
Bear Feat (1949) (background artist)
For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) (background artist)
Frigid Hare (1949) (background artist)
Fast and Furry-ous (1949) (background artist)
Often an Orphan (1949) (background artist)
Long-Haired Hare (1949) (background artist)
The Bee-Deviled Bruin (1949) (background artist)
Mississippi Hare (1949) (background artist)
Awful Orphan (1949) (background artist)
So Much for So Little (1949) (background artist) (layout artist)
Scaredy Cat (1948) (background artist)
My Bunny Lies Over the Sea (1948) (background artist)
Daffy Dilly (1948) (background artist)
House Hunting Mice (1948) (background artist)
You Were Never Duckier (1948) (background artist)
Haredevil Hare (1948) (background artist)
Rabbit Punch (1948) (background artist)
A Feather in His Hare (1948) (background artist)
Mouse Wreckers (1948) (background artist)
Scent-imental Over You (1947) (background artist)


• Honors

Winsor McCay animation award for lifetime achievement

Animation Guild Golden Award for service to the craft

• Related Links

www.petealvarado.com




• Bibliographic References


www.cataroo.com
www.newsfromme.com
www.imdb.com


• Contributors to This Listing

Enrique O. Rivera( History and Trends of animation student)

 
At 6:37 PM, Anonymous Doug Sirois (Animation Aesthetics student) said...

Birth/Death-
Born in Ranton, NM February 22,1920
Died December27, 2003

Occupation/Title-
Animation, Comic Book, Syndicated Cartoon strip, Background and Layout artist.

Bio Summary-
Pete Alvarado was born in 1920 and was raised in Glendale, California. He attended Chouinard Art Institute. Soon after graduating from art school he was hired at Disney as an animation assistant and first worked on Snow White and Dumbo. He worked mostly on shorts by Disney as a background artist and later as a layout artist.
Pete soon left Disney to serve in World War II as a marine. Upon his return he moved to New York and found work as a comic book and cartoon strip artist. Eventually Pete moved back to California and worked long stints at animation studios such as Warner Bros., Disney, and MGM. Over his sixty year career Pete Alvarado has worked with almost every major publisher and studio in the cartoon industry. He has illustrated comic books, coloring books, comic strips, and dozens of Little Golden Books. He was awarded the Winsor McKay Award for his lifetime achievement and the Screen Cartoonist Guild Golden Award for his commitment to the craft. He died Decamber 27, 2003.

Early Life/Family-
Pete Alvarado spent his childhood and early part of his adulthood in Glendale, CA. In his adult life his family included his wife, Kathleen, son Peter III, and daughter Paula, grandson, David, and sisters Juanita and Dolores.

Education/Training-
Pete attended elementary school at Holy Family School and high school at Hoover, High. He won a scholarship to attend Chouinard Art Institute. After art school Pete was hired by Disney as an assistant and received training as a layout and background artist.

Career Outline-
Pete Alvarado’s prolific professional career in the cartoon and comic book industries started at Disney as an animation assistant and worked on Snow White and Dumbo. He soon moved to New York and found work as a comic book artist for many different publishers including a company called Timely (later changing its name to Marvel). He worked in New York for eighteen months and had made ties and connections with various publishers including Western Publishing. Within Western, Pete worked on coloring books, kids’ books, comic books and later newspaper comic strips. Roy Rogers was a title Pete worked on with Charles McKimson and the strip was signed “Al McKimson”, which was a combonation of both Pete and Charles’ names. After Roy Rogers, Pete decided he wanted to stick with the funny animal cartoony style of strips. These types of strips were a lot of fun for Pete and he could let his sense of humor out in the characters’ expressions and movements. Soon Pete returned to California still continuing to illustrate comic strips and comic books, but with a continued focus at the animation studios. Pete illustrated the entire run of Mr. Magoo comic strips and often filled-in on many Disney strips as well as Hanna-Barbara titles, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones. Later on Pete became the main artist on Donald Duck. He also spent a long time working for the Dell/ Gold Key series that often would take animated cartoons an features and render them in book form. Pete a master at taking the look of the animated character and drawing the characters with more expression and flair than the original version. Pete often penciled 20 – 40 pages of sequential art all the way up into his late seventies.
Upon his return to California from New York, Pete started working at Warner Bros. in the time called the Golden Era. He worked mainly on the short animations as a background and layout artist. His first on-screen credit was the second Pepe LePew cartoon entitled, Scent-imental Over You (1947). He worked alongside Chuck Jones designing and developing the look of the backgrounds in the first Road Runner cartoon. Pete worked as a contract artist and a freelance artist for almost every major animation studio, such as Warner Bros, Disney, MGM, UPA, Hanna-Barbara, Filmation, Marvel, Depatie-Freleng, Krantz, Sanrio, and Ruby-Spears as well as many others.

Comments On Style-
Pete Alvarado has worked for almost every animation company and publisher out there. He was able to take and adapt to any character and style for any project. He was often hired to take Warner Bros. and Disney characters and putting them into comic book for keeping to the design and the style of each character. He brought intensive care and love to each project whether illustration a character of background.

Influences-
Pete Alvarado was influenced by early Disney and Walter Lantz cartoons. Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Rabbit were probably the cartoons he watched that helped inspire Pete as a child. He was also probably inspired by his peers at Chouinard who longed to be the next wave of cartoonists which led him to approach Disney soon after graduating.

Personality-
Pete Alvarado has often been described as “One of the Good Guys” of the animation Industry. He was a loving husband and caring father and a good friend to people acquainted with him. He was said to be painfully shy, but when approached he would stop to talk with anyone who wanted to chat with him. He accepted work with a creative flare and pleasure and always gave 110% to the project. He loved his job and treated everything he worked on with care and a strong sense of professionalism. People say that Petes’ jolly face brought smiles to anyone he worked with and had known him. He always had a love for telling stories about his history in the industry and his positive attitude about new future talent gave you the sense that it was more than “just business” to him.

Anecdotes-
Pete Alvarado had a deep faith and trust in God. This fact seems apparent in his outlook and his personality. He served in WWII as a marine and even though he thought the idea of the war was dumb, he served his country proudly.

Miscellaneous-
Pete was a true professional when it came to his craft. He hand work in on time, numbered correctly, and clean.

Filmography

1 "That's Warner Bros.!" (1995) TV Series (background artist) (layout artist)
2 "Yo Yogi!" (1991) TV Series (character designer)
3 "Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends" (1990) TV Series (layout artist)

4 Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) (layout artist)
5 "She-Ra: Princess of Power" (1985) TV Series (layout artist)
6 "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour" (1985) TV Series (layout artist)
7 "The Puppy's Further Adventures" (1983) TV Series (layout artist)
8 The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) (layout artist)
... aka Friz Freleng's Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

9 "The New Fred and Barney Show" (1979) TV Series (layout artist) (as Pete Alvarado)
10 A Flintstone Christmas (1977) (TV) (layout artist)
11 "The Pink Panther Laugh and the Half Hour and Half Show" (1976) TV Series (background artist)
12 "Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch" (1974) TV Series (layout artist)
13 Mesa Trouble (1974) (layout artist)
14 "Goober and the Ghost Chasers" (1973) TV Series (layout artist)
15 "The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show" (1971) TV Series (layout artist) (as Pete Alvarado)

16 "Here Comes the Grump" (1969) TV Series (layout artist)
17 "The Pink Panther Show" (1969) TV Series (background artist)
... aka The New Pink Panther Show (USA: third season title)
... aka The Pink Panther Meets the Ant and the Aardvark (USA: second season title)
18 "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" (1968) TV Series (layout artist)
19 "Super President" (1967) TV Series (layout artist)
20 In the Pink (1967) (background artist)
21 Pink Panic (1967) (background artist)
22 "The Bugs Bunny Show" (1960) TV Series (layout artist)

23 Oily Hare (1952) (layout artist)
24 The Turn-Tale Wolf (1952) (layout artist)
25 Sock a Doodle Do (1952) (layout artist)
26 Kiddin' the Kitten (1952) (layout artist)
27 Thumb Fun (1952) (layout artist)
28 Who's Kitten Who? (1952) (layout artist)
29 The Prize Pest (1951) (layout artist)
30 Big Top Bunny (1951) (layout artist)
31 Scent-imental Romeo (1951) (background artist)
32 Bunny Hugged (1951) (layout artist)
33 Two's a Crowd (1950) (background artist) (layout artist)
34 The Ducksters (1950) (background artist)
35 8 Ball Bunny (1950) (background artist) (layout artist)
36 Homeless Hare (1950) (background artist)
37 The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) (background artist)

38 Rabbit Hood (1949) (background artist)
39 Bear Feat (1949) (background artist)
40 For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) (background artist)
41 Frigid Hare (1949) (background artist)
42 Fast and Furry-ous (1949) (background artist)
43 Often an Orphan (1949) (background artist)
44 Long-Haired Hare (1949) (background artist)
45 The Bee-Deviled Bruin (1949) (background artist)
46 Mississippi Hare (1949) (background artist)
47 Awful Orphan (1949) (background artist)
48 So Much for So Little (1949) (background artist) (layout artist)
49 Scaredy Cat (1948) (background artist)
50 My Bunny Lies Over the Sea (1948) (background artist)
51 Daffy Dilly (1948) (background artist)
52 House Hunting Mice (1948) (background artist)
53 You Were Never Duckier (1948) (background artist)
54 Haredevil Hare (1948) (background artist)
55 Rabbit Punch (1948) (background artist)
56 A Feather in His Hare (1948) (background artist)
57 Mouse Wreckers (1948) (background artist)
58 Scent-imental Over You (1947) (background artist)


Filmography as: Miscellaneous Crew, Art Department, Self

Art Department - filmography
1 Bunnicula, the Vampire Rabbit (1979) (layout) (as Pete Alvarado)
2 "The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie" (1972) TV Series (layout)
... aka The New Saturday Superstar Movie (USA: second season title)
3 "The Houndcats" (1972) TV Series (layout)


Filmography as: Miscellaneous Crew, Art Department, Self

Self - filmography
1 Behind the Tunes: The Charm of Stink - On the Scent of Pepe le Pew (2005) (V) .... Himself
2 Behind the Tunes: Man from Wackyland - The Art of Bob Clampett (2004) (V) .... Himself
3 Behind the Tunes: Blanc Expressions (2003) (V) .... Himself


Honors

Winsor McCay Award 2001 for Lifetime Achievement.
Animation Guild Golden Award for his commitment to the craft.

Related Links-
http://petealvarado.com
Lambiek.net - Pete Alvarado
Pete Alvarado by John Crawley
Pete Alvarado by Mark Evanier
Peg-Board 4/04 - Pete Alvarado
ComicCon - RIP Pete Alvarado
Warner Bros. Cartoons of Pete Alvarado
Ask Art Listing - Pete Alvarado

Bibliographic References
Pete Alvarado by John Crawley
Pete Alvarado by Mark Evanier
IMBD.com

 

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