Abe Levitow

1922-07-02 Los Angeles, California, USA 68 Credits

Biography

Abraham Levitow (July 2, 1922 – May 8, 1975) was an American animator who worked at Warner Bros. Cartoons, UPA and MGM Animation/Visual Arts. He is best known for his work under Chuck Jones' direction. Levitow began working as an in-betweener and assistant animator at Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1940 at the age of 17. He briefly left Warner Bros. when he was drafted during World War II working on training films. Levitow returned to the studio, working as an assistant animator for Ken Harris under ...

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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One

2011

Director

8.9
Directing

A Blu-ray Disc and DVD box set containing 50 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements. All but seven cartoons included on th...

Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

Bugs Bunny at the Symphony

2010

Animation Director

Directing

A concert musical featuring Looney Tunes characters.

Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes

Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes

1991

Director

6.6
Directing

Bugs has to defend the Earth's right to exist in an intergalactic court.

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

1980

Animation

6.1

A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" "Robin Hood Daffy" "Drip-Along Daffy" ...

What Happened to All That Bread?

1975

Producer

Producing

Explains why bread costs so much. Two reporters investigate the 65¢ profit of a loaf of “Mother Miller” bread and learn the cruel reality of how profi...

B.C.: The First Thanksgiving

B.C.: The First Thanksgiving

1973

Executive Producer, Director

5.7
Producing Directing

To add flavor to her rock soup, the Fat Broad commands Wiley, Peter, Thor, etc. to catch a turkey. The problem is that no one knows what a turkey is e...

Miss Peach II

1972

Director

Directing

Curiosity Shop short

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

1971

Story Artist

7.1
Writing

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...

The Wizard of Id

The Wizard of Id

1971

Director

Directing

Short cartoon based on the comic strip by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker.

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth

1970

Director, Producer

6.8
Directing Producing

The Phantom Tollbooth, based upon the children's adventure novel by Norton Juster, tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo. Unexpectedly recei...

Uncle Sam Magoo

Uncle Sam Magoo

1970

Director

Directing

Join Mr. Magoo as Uncle Sam, on an all-American animated adventure through our nation's history. Pull up a chair at the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving, ...

B.C. - The Shadow

1970

Director

Directing

A short animated cartoon featuring the characters from the B.C. comic strip by Johnny Hart.

Surf-Bored Cat

Surf-Bored Cat

1967

Director

5.6
Directing

Tom and Jerry are taking a cruise when Tom decides to go surfing. He has problems with a shark and a rather tenacious starfish.

The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R.

The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R.

1967

Director

6.4
Directing

Secret agent Jerry-akin has to steal a giant refrigerator full of cheese, guarded by the evil Tom Thrush with a vast array of diabolical gadgets and t...

Rock 'n' Rodent

Rock 'n' Rodent

1967

Director

5.7
Directing

Jerry heads out to his night job: drummer for an all-mouse rock band in the basement of a high-rise. They are loud enough to wake up Tom, despite his ...

Guided Mouse-Ille

Guided Mouse-Ille

1967

Director

6.3
Directing

2565 AD. Tom and Jerry are once again manipulating robot versions of themselves in space. Tom experiments with invisibility, a giant electromagnet, an...

O-Solar-Meow

O-Solar-Meow

1967

Director

6.6
Directing

A supply satellite arrives at the space station where Tom (despite his high-tech gadgets) is having no better luck than usual at catching Jerry before...

Catty-Cornered

Catty-Cornered

1966

Director

5.8
Directing

Jerry's mouse hole connects two homes, with Tom living in one residence, a neighboring cat in the other. Jerry decides the best survival plan is pitti...

The A-Tom-inable Snowman

The A-Tom-inable Snowman

1966

Director

5.3
Directing

In the Alps, Tom gets knocked out chasing Jerry, and is revived, revitalized and intoxicated by a St. Bernard with a keg of brandy. After several such...

Filet Meow

Filet Meow

1966

Director

5.6
Directing

Perhaps because he's grown weary of chasing Jerry, Tom sets his sights on the house's goldfish. But the female goldfish is a friend of Jerry's, and th...

Puss 'n' Boats

Puss 'n' Boats

1966

Director

5.6
Directing

Jerry's a wharf mouse; he sees a load of cheese being loaded onto a cargo ship and tries a variety of tricks to board, but Tom is on guard.

Jerry-Go-Round

Jerry-Go-Round

1966

Director

5.9
Directing

Jerry is chased into a circus, where he removes a tack from the foot of an elephant. This gets him a friend for life, and a powerful ally in the conti...

Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery

Mr. Magoo, Man of Mystery

1964

Director

Directing

Literary classics take a ribbing as the nearsighted bumbler portrays Dr. Watson, Dr. Frankenstein and other characters.

Martian Through Georgia

Martian Through Georgia

1962

Director

5.8
Directing

Way out in space, on another world whose population is contented, one of its people decides that travel broadens the mind and relieves boredom. So, he...

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

1962

Director

6.3
Directing

In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage productio...

Gay Purr-ee

Gay Purr-ee

1962

Director

6.6
Directing

Mewsette is a starry-eyed cat who grows weary of life on a French farm and heads for the excitement of 1890s Paris. Her tomcat suitor, Jaune-Tom, and ...

Nelly's Folly

Nelly's Folly

1961

Co-Director

6.2
Directing

Nelly the Giraffe is discovered in Africa and leaves to begin a singing career, but finds that chasing fame brings her nothing but unhappiness.

Lickety-Splat

Lickety-Splat

1961

Co-Director

6.3
Directing

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner with roller skis, a bow, a rifle, a boomerang, an anvil, and several exploding darts let loose from a balloon.

Magoo Meets Frankenstein

Magoo Meets Frankenstein

1961

Executive Producer

Producing

Mr Magoo goes to what he thinks is a hotel but it’s actually a mad scientist’s castle and he’s after a brain...

Barbecue for Two

Barbecue for Two

1960

Animation

3.0

Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all try to muscle in.

Inside Magoo

Inside Magoo

1960

Director

Directing

A public-service announcement from the American Cancer Society featuring Mr. Magoo. Not part of the regular series, this rare cartoon begins with a bu...

Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy)

1959

Director

Directing

Mr. Magoo agrees to babysit Gerald McBoing Boing.

1001 Arabian Nights

1001 Arabian Nights

1959

Art Direction

5.7

In this animated retelling of the classic tale, Abdul Aziz Magoo -- an ancestor of Mr. Magoo -- is the lamp-selling uncle of Aladdin. Tired of his nep...

Unnatural History

Unnatural History

1959

Director

6.0
Directing

Are animals human? Or vice versa? This is the question asked by a professor, Dr. Beest Lee, who appears on a stage in a theater to give a lecture and ...

A Witch's Tangled Hare

A Witch's Tangled Hare

1959

Director

6.0
Directing

Rabbit - in this case Bugs - is an important needed ingredient in Witch Hazel's brew.

Wild About Hurry

Wild About Hurry

1959

Animation

7.0

Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner by enclosing himself inside an indestructible steel ball.

Really Scent

Really Scent

1959

Director

6.9
Directing

Pepe le Pew arrives in New Orleans, where Fabrette the black cat has been cursed with white stripes like a skunk, interfering with her chances to get ...

Baton Bunny

Baton Bunny

1959

Director

6.7
Directing

Bugs conducts the Warner Brothers Symphony in Franz von Suppé's "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" while reacting to a bothersome fly.

Cat Feud

Cat Feud

1958

Animation

6.1

Bulldog Marc Anthony, guarding a construction site, finds a kitten, Pussyfoot, to whom he affectionately gives a wiener for lunch. A hungry grown cat ...

Whoa, Be-Gone!

Whoa, Be-Gone!

1958

Animation

7.1

Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds.

Hare-Way to the Stars

Hare-Way to the Stars

1958

Animation

6.9

Bugs Bunny groggily climbs out of bed and his hole and, unknowingly, into a rocket ship that's parked directly above. It transports him into outer spa...

Robin Hood Daffy

Robin Hood Daffy

1958

Animation

6.9

Daffy attempts to convince Porky, as Friar Tuck, that he really is Robin Hood.

Zoom and Bored

Zoom and Bored

1957

Animation

6.7

Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his attempts to catch the Road Runner.

What's Opera, Doc?

What's Opera, Doc?

1957

Animation

7.6

Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sin...

Steal Wool

Steal Wool

1957

Animation

7.0

Ralph Wolf tries to forcibly remove Sam Sheepdog in order to gain access to a flock of sheep. Without success, he uses a lasso, cannon, a string of fi...

Boyhood Daze

Boyhood Daze

1957

Animation

5.8

Ralph gets sent to his room for breaking a window. There, he passes the time in Walter Mitty-type fashion, daydreaming that he's a parent-saving jungl...

Scrambled Aches

Scrambled Aches

1957

Animation

7.0

Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner.

90 Day Wondering

90 Day Wondering

1956

Animation

5.1

Ralph Phillips is overjoyed when he runs out of Fort Itude, because he's a civilian again. Things, however, don't go well for him when he gets home, a...

There They Go-Go-Go!

There They Go-Go-Go!

1956

Animation

6.6

Wile E. Coyote is hungry and schemes to catch the Road Runner.

Deduce, You Say

Deduce, You Say

1956

Animation

6.9

Daffy Duck is a detective who is hunting for the Shropshire Slasher.

Rocket-bye Baby

Rocket-bye Baby

1956

Animation

6.7

A cosmic mix-up results in a Martian baby being delivered to Earth, while an Earth baby is sent to Mars. Joseph Wilbur and his wife try to raise the g...

Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z

Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z

1956

Animation

6.7

Wile E. Coyote unsuccessfully chases the Road Runner using such contrivances as a rifle, a steel plate, a dynamite stick on an extending metal pulley,...

Broom-Stick Bunny

Broom-Stick Bunny

1956

Animation

6.8

On Halloween night, Bugs Bunny, masquerading as a witch, trick-or-treats at the creepy old mansion of Witch Hazel, who prides herself on being the ugl...

One Froggy Evening

One Froggy Evening

1955

Animation

7.7

A workman finds a singing frog in the cornerstone of an old building being demolished. But when he tries to cash in on his discovery, he finds the fro...

Guided Muscle

Guided Muscle

1955

Animation

7.0

While cooking a tin can, the Coyote spots a better meal rushing by: the Road Runner.

Two Scent's Worth

Two Scent's Worth

1955

Animation

6.5

A crook disguises a cat as a skunk to scare people out of a bank. Soon after, great lover Pepé Le Pew sees her and the chase is on through the French ...

Double or Mutton

Double or Mutton

1955

Animation

7.0

Ralph Wolf wants to steal sheep; Sam Sheepdog wants to stop him. Ralph's tricks include digging a tunnel, walking a tightrope, launching a guided miss...

Ready.. Set.. Zoom!

Ready.. Set.. Zoom!

1955

Animation

7.0

Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a was...

Beanstalk Bunny

Beanstalk Bunny

1955

Animation

6.8

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (as Jack) find themselves at the top of a beanstalk where they get chased around by a giant Elmer Fudd.

A Hitch in Time

A Hitch in Time

1955

Animation

5.1

John McRogers dreams about his future after spending four years in the U.S. Air Force, and is convinced by "Grogan," Technical Gremlin First Class, on...

Baby Buggy Bunny

Baby Buggy Bunny

1954

Animation

6.7

Baby-Faced Finster robs a bank, but the baby carriage with the money in it goes down Bugs' rabbit hole.

Sheep Ahoy

Sheep Ahoy

1954

Animation

7.1

After punching in for work, Sam Sheepdog deals with Ralph Wolf's attempts to steal the flock, which this time make use of a balloon, a fake Acme-brand...

Stop! Look! and Hasten!

Stop! Look! and Hasten!

1954

Animation

6.8

A Burmese tiger trap, a pop-up steel wall, a motorcycle, and a box of Acme-brand leg-building vitamins can't help the Coyote (Eatibus anythingus) catc...

Claws for Alarm

Claws for Alarm

1954

Animation

7.2

Porky and Sylvester stay overnight in what Sylvester realizes is a terrifying hotel filled with endless imminent danger.

Feline Frame-Up

Feline Frame-Up

1954

Animation

6.7

After Claude frames Marc Antony, making it look like the bulldog ate the kitty, Marc must try various methods of getting back at Claude from outside t...

It's Everybody's Business

It's Everybody's Business

1954

Animation

6.0

Animated propaganda advocating for the importance of unregulated capitalism to the American way of life.

Forward March Hare

Forward March Hare

1953

Animation

6.5

Bugs Bunny gets a draft notice by mistake and joins the army, with disastrous results, especially for the sergeant of his platoon.

Scaredy Cat

Scaredy Cat

1948

Animation

7.5

Porky Pig and Sylvester the Cat spend the night in an old dark house, whose horrors only Sylvester sees.