The Man From Hanna-Barbera

Ed Benedict (1912-2006) started with Walt Disney in 1930 but left three years later to work at Universal Studios as an animator with Walter Lantz Productions. His ultimate fame arose after joining Hanna-Barbera in 1957 to help create their first television series, The Ruff and Reddy Show. Benedict was responsible for designing the characters on many of Hanna-Barbera’s earliest and most popular series, including Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, Quick Draw McGraw, and numerous others of the 1950s and 1960s, including the character design for the television show, Bewitched. His simple contour drawing approach captured each character's movements and expressions precisely. He left Hanna-Barbera at the end of the 1960s, but continued to do occasional projects for the studio, including background and layout advisor on one of Hanna-Barbera’s final cartoons, Johnny Bravo.

A Familiar Television Face

 

Paul Carr (1934-2006) was a busy American actor of stage, film, and television for over 50 years. He was also a writer and director and headed the Play Committee of the L.A. Repertory Company. The Louisiana-born actor had a short stint in the United States Marine Corps during his late teens before launching his acting career in a New Orleans production of Herman Melville's, Billy Budd. By the middle 1950s, he was working on live television. Though his career was spent on the small screen, he garnered his first (uncredited) role for Alfred Hitchcock's, The Wrong Man, in 1955. He had supporting roles in many western series with three appearances on Laramie, Trackdown, four appearances on Rawhide, The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, The Tall Man, and The Virginian. He could always be found on popular drama series during the Sixties such as Dr. Kildare, Hawaii Five-O, The Fugitive, Twelve O'Clock High, Burke's Law, and Combat!. Carr could be seen in the science fiction series, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, a notable role on the second pilot episode of Star Trek, and The Invaders. For seven episodes, he was a cast member on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Carr joined the cast of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, in 1981. With the exception of the hit, Murphy Brown, Carr finished his career on lesser-known series through 2002.