Ben Hardaway
![Ben Hardaway](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/rCoJqfF3QdX7YpGEEbWgRCRunZV.jpg)
Known For: Writing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: May 21, 1895
Day of Death: February 5, 1957 (62 years old)
Place of Birth: Belton, Missouri, USA
Joseph Benson 'Ben' (a.k.a. 'Bugs') Hardaway (May 21, 1895 – February 5, 1957) was an American storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer and director for several American animation studios during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. While at the Leon Schlesinger / Warner Bros. studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway, in 1938, co-directed Porky's Hare Hunt, the first film to feature a rabbit. When this unnamed, embryonic rabbit was given a new model sheet for a later short, since, according to Chuck Jones, Hardaway "didn't draw it very well", designer Charlie Thorson inadvertently offered a permanent name by titling the model sheet "Bugs' Bunny" since it was meant for Hardaway's unit. By the time the rabbit was redesigned and refined for the film A Wild Hare, the name was already being used in relation to the character in studio publicity materials. In 1940, Hardaway joined the staff of Walter Lantz Productions, where he helped Walter Lantz in creating the studio's most famous character, Woody Woodpecker. Hardaway wrote or co-wrote most of the stories for the 1940–1950 Woody Woodpecker shorts, as well as supplying Woody's voice between 1944 and 1949. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
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![The Reckless Driver](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/1LehF4LB7FrAUEG4aLrIWebhVvd.jpg)
Actor Woody Woodpecker (voice)
The Reckless Driver
![Fair Weather Fiends](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/gdQWdwB2lpizMuFMVOLOcrXi5Zl.jpg)
Actor Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Fair Weather Fiends
![Who's Cookin Who?](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/pY36CeJbAJKZtMP1ce5NOeckkX4.jpg)
Actor Woody Woodpecker / Starvation (voice)
Who's Cookin Who?
![Bathing Buddies](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/mLaJWlDlTedLSQ0VRxHrbjHnf3e.jpg)
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Bathing Buddies
![Apple Andy](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/gZQbnw4ma866wKMH17CrLvB5suU.jpg)
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Apple Andy
![The Wacky Weed](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/ckB7AWuFDEWCtoyyUloNIsStqFD.jpg)
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The Wacky Weed
![The Reckless Driver](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/1LehF4LB7FrAUEG4aLrIWebhVvd.jpg)
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The Reckless Driver
![Fair Weather Fiends](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/gdQWdwB2lpizMuFMVOLOcrXi5Zl.jpg)
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Fair Weather Fiends
![Mousie Come Home](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/hvNSmPvmuQeGgHkRiHNvNmCAyCx.jpg)
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Mousie Come Home
![Who's Cookin Who?](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/pY36CeJbAJKZtMP1ce5NOeckkX4.jpg)
Writer
Who's Cookin Who?
1945
![Woody Dines Out](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/zOVkp4RPUBuOFgUHymOjfLQGHRh.jpg)
Actor Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Woody Dines Out
![Chew-Chew Baby](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/tTphrynlVO75iIZinWJfStRG2FC.jpg)
Actor Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
Chew-Chew Baby
![The Dippy Diplomat](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/xN0rCVLfVHUO1pfcCvZtebJlqSo.jpg)
Actor Woody Woodpecker (voice)
The Dippy Diplomat
![The Loose Nut](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/pFLvOO5lHZ9LNO3lpEJ70QMXbx3.jpg)
Actor Woody Woodpecker / Bull Dozer (voice)
The Loose Nut
![Chew-Chew Baby](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/tTphrynlVO75iIZinWJfStRG2FC.jpg)
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Chew-Chew Baby
![Woody Dines Out](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/zOVkp4RPUBuOFgUHymOjfLQGHRh.jpg)
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Woody Dines Out
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The Pied Piper of Basin Street
![The Dippy Diplomat](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/xN0rCVLfVHUO1pfcCvZtebJlqSo.jpg)
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The Dippy Diplomat
![The Loose Nut](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/pFLvOO5lHZ9LNO3lpEJ70QMXbx3.jpg)
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The Loose Nut