Richard Bickenbach

Richard Bickenbach (1907-1994) was an American animator and male voice actor who worked for Warner Brothers and as layout artist and character designer for MGM and Hanna-Barbera. He worked on animation for many cartoons, and drew the art for several comic book adaptations, including Yogi Bear and the Flintstones. He first started at MGM in 1947 and animated close to eighty Tom and Jerry shorts during the decade he was there. When he moved to Hanna-Barbera, he was one of their first employees and he was there for two decades as an animator and layout artist. He had a large influence on Hanna-Barbera's early cartoon styles and was credited with creating the first official Yogi Bear model sheets. He was the recipient of the 1984 Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Golden Award.