Writing

Tedd Pierce

Born August 12, 1906 · Quogue, New York, USA

Died February 19, 1972 · aged 65

Tedd Pierce was an American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist. Pierce spent the majority of his career as a writer for the Warner Bros. "Termite Terrace" animation studio, working alongside fellow luminaries such as Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. Pierce also worked as a writer at Fleischer Studios from 1939 to 1941. Jones credited Pierce in his 1989 autobiography Chuck Amuck: The Life…

Known For

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie · 1981

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

MovieAnimationComedy

Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Tunes shorts and characters.

Rendezvous in Space

Rendezvous in Space · 1964

Rendezvous in Space

MovieDocumentaryAnimation

This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the Martin-Marietta Corporation for exhibition in the Hall of Science at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels · 1939

Gulliver's Travels

MovieAnimationFamily

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.

Destination Magoo

Destination Magoo · 1954

Destination Magoo

MovieComedyAnimation

The title of this short is a play on the title of the feature film Destination Moon (which itself has an animated sequence made by Walter Lantz and starring Woody Woodpecker) and once again Magoo and his myopia take an adventure, hand in hand, off to the "Moon". The life that man leads!

Baseball Bugs

Baseball Bugs · 1946

MovieAnimationComedy

Bugs Bunny single handedly takes on the “Gas-House Gorillas,” a baseball team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies.

Porky's Hero Agency

Porky's Hero Agency · 1937

Porky's Hero Agency

MovieAnimationComedy

Porky is reading the Greek myth of the gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bedtime; he dreams of being Porkykarkus, the hero that saves Greece.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Mr. Bug Goes to Town · 1941

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

MovieAnimationComedy

The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.

Blunder Below

Blunder Below · 1942

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye's on a battleship, on which he's banished to the boiler room. A Japanese sub comes along. Can Popeye save his ship from the enemy?

Filmography

Sort

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie · 1981

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

MovieAnimationComedy

Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Tunes shorts and characters.

Writer

Rendezvous in Space

Rendezvous in Space · 1964

Rendezvous in Space

MovieDocumentaryAnimation

This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the Martin-Marietta Corporation for exhibition in the Hall of Science at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Dialogue

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels · 1939

Gulliver's Travels

MovieAnimationFamily

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.

Screenplay

Destination Magoo

Destination Magoo · 1954

Destination Magoo

MovieComedyAnimation

The title of this short is a play on the title of the feature film Destination Moon (which itself has an animated sequence made by Walter Lantz and starring Woody Woodpecker) and once again Magoo and his myopia take an adventure, hand in hand, off to the "Moon". The life that man leads!

Treatment

Baseball Bugs

Baseball Bugs · 1946

MovieAnimationComedy

Bugs Bunny single handedly takes on the “Gas-House Gorillas,” a baseball team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies.

Announcer - First Scene (voice) (uncredited)

Porky's Hero Agency

Porky's Hero Agency · 1937

Porky's Hero Agency

MovieAnimationComedy

Porky is reading the Greek myth of the gorgon, who turned everyone she looked at into stone. Mother tells him it's bedtime; he dreams of being Porkykarkus, the hero that saves Greece.

The Gorgon (voice) (uncredited)

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Mr. Bug Goes to Town · 1941

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

MovieAnimationComedy

The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.

Story

Blunder Below

Blunder Below · 1942

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye's on a battleship, on which he's banished to the boiler room. A Japanese sub comes along. Can Popeye save his ship from the enemy?

Story

Tall in the Trap

Tall in the Trap · 1962

Tall in the Trap

MovieAnimationComedy

When Jerry rustles cheese from the Dry Gulch General Store, Sheriff Mutt Dillin hires Tom, the fastest trap in the West.

Story

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

How Bugs Bunny Won the West · 1978

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

MovieAnimationComedy

How Bugs Bunny Won the West is a Looney Tunes special that was released in 1978. This special was narrated by Denver Pyle. The special is available as a bonus feature on The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD set. It had a running time of 30 min.

Writer

Roughly Squeaking

Roughly Squeaking · 1946

Roughly Squeaking

MovieAnimationFamily

Scheming mice Hubie and Bertie convince a cat that he is, in fact, a lion.

Story

The Arctic Giant

The Arctic Giant · 1942

The Arctic Giant

MovieFantasyAnimation

A frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and revives, Superman has to stop his rampage!

Story

Duck Soup to Nuts

Duck Soup to Nuts · 1944

Duck Soup to Nuts

MovieAnimationComedy

Porky Pig is out hunting duck, but Daffy shows him that he is no ordinary duck.

Story

Bonanza Bunny

Bonanza Bunny · 1959

MovieAnimationComedy

Bugs fights with Blacque Jacque Shellacque over Klondike gold.

Story

Fox Pop

Fox Pop · 1942

Hearing that silver foxes are all the rage in high society, a fox paints himself silver and gets himself trapped, finding out too late that it's only his fur anyone is interested in.

Various (voice)

The Turn-Tale Wolf

The Turn-Tale Wolf · 1952

The Turn-Tale Wolf

MovieAnimationComedy

The Big Bad Wolf's proper little nephew has learned at school that his uncle was the fiend who blew the Three Little Pigs' houses down and is ashamed that his uncle could have committed such a deed, so his uncle tells him what REALLY happened.

Story

Hare Do

Hare Do · 1949

MovieAnimationComedy

Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny all the way from the woods to a local movie theater, where cinema-related hijinks ensue.

Story

Many Tanks

Many Tanks · 1942

MovieAnimationComedy

Bluto's in the Army; he tries to sneak off base, but can't. Popeye passes by, Bluto invites him in, then swaps uniforms. Popeye ends up in a tank drill.

Bluto (voice) (uncredited)

Ding Dog Daddy

Ding Dog Daddy · 1942

A dumb mutt falls in love with the metal statue of a greyhound.

Writer

Bad Ol' Putty Tat

Bad Ol' Putty Tat · 1949

Bad Ol' Putty Tat

MovieAnimationComedy

Sylvester Cat starts to saw down Tweety Bird's house. Tweety flees into a badminton court, where he becomes the birdie in the game. Sylvester disguises himself as a player, and Tweety drops a TNT stick into Sylvester's mouth.

Story

A Tale of Two Kitties

A Tale of Two Kitties · 1942

A Tale of Two Kitties

MovieAnimationComedy

Two alley cats, Babbitt and Catsello, decide to make a meal out of Orson as he sleeps in his nest atop a telephone pole. The gullible (and loud) Catsello is repeatedly gulled into trying to "get the bird," earning a variety of thrashings from the casually murderous little canary. Catsello finally resorts to an air strike (with a pair of wooden boards for wings), but it's wartime, and Orson has the cat blasted out of the sky by anti-aircraft guns.

Babbit (voice)

Slick Hare

Slick Hare · 1947

MovieAnimationComedy

Humphrey Bogart visits the Mocrumbo Restaurant. He orders fried rabbit and Elmer Fudd has twenty minutes to serve it.

Story

Bedtime for Sniffles

Bedtime for Sniffles · 1940

Bedtime for Sniffles

MovieAnimationFamily

Christmas Eve, and Sniffles is determined to stay awake to see Santa. Not an easy task.

Story

Problem Pappy

Problem Pappy · 1941

MovieAnimationComedy

Popeye's Pappy takes a flagpole sitting job atop a tall building without telling Popeye. Popeye goes to rescue him, but he doesn't want to go until an electrical storm hits.

Story

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes · 1929

SeriesAnimationComedy

Series of comedy short films from 1929 to 1969 during the golden age of American animation, alongside its sister series Merrie Melodies.

Writer

The Mr. Magoo Show

The Mr. Magoo Show · 1960

The Mr. Magoo Show

SeriesAnimation

The Mister Magoo Show is an American animated television series which was produced from November 7, 1960 to February 2, 1962. A single episode included five five-minute shorts and could either be aired together with bumpers as a single half-hour show, or it could be split up with one short aired each weekday, along with other cartoons. It was produced by United Productions of America.

Writer

The Inspector

The Inspector · 1965

SeriesAnimationComedy

A confident but inept French inspector tracks down a series of surreal villains with the help of the reluctant Sergeant Deux-Deux.

Writer