Directing

Ben Harrison

Born — Died

1896-11-30 — 1980-04-01

Place of birth

Portland, Maine, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Lucky Pigs poster
10.0

A down-and-out family of pigs wins a sweepstakes, are immediately besieged by reporters and photographers, and then go on a wild spending spree, which soon exhausts their windfall-prize money. Than the tax collector shows up. After paying the taxes, the pigs are right back where they started from.

Lucky Pigs

1939

Spring Festival poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Spring Festival

1937

Spring Festival poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Spring Festival

1937

Krazy Spooks poster
6.5

On a stormy, windy night, Krazy's car breaks down so he and Kitty must seek refuge in an eerie old house. Happy the pup finds a skeleton, but the really scary resident is a huge, violent gorilla that runs off with Kitty, and Krazy must rescue her.

Krazy Spooks

1933

Railroad Rhythm poster
8.0

Krazy Kat runs a small train line which is being put out of business by a modern streamliner. A wild situation requires Krazy to make a fantastic rescue. After receiving a reward, Krazy gets his own streamliner.

Railroad Rhythm

1937

Rodeo Dough poster
8.0

This was a Krazy Kat cartoon made for Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia. While the studio originally based the character on the comic strip created by George Herriman, by 1931 he was changed in design and personality to be more like Walt Disney's popular Mickey Mouse (whose cartoons, ironically, were also distributed by Columbia at the time).

Rodeo Dough

1931

Rodeo Dough poster
8.0

This was a Krazy Kat cartoon made for Charles Mintz and distributed by Columbia. While the studio originally based the character on the comic strip created by George Herriman, by 1931 he was changed in design and personality to be more like Walt Disney's popular Mickey Mouse (whose cartoons, ironically, were also distributed by Columbia at the time).

Rodeo Dough

1931

No artwork available
8.0

An animated short starring Krazy Kat and set in the Yukon.

The Lone Mountie

1938

Soda Poppa poster
7.0

Kitty is seduced into leaving the ice cream shop with a sneaky fox until she discovers his true intentions. Krazy Kat is called to the rescue.

Soda Poppa

1931

Soda Poppa poster
7.0

Kitty is seduced into leaving the ice cream shop with a sneaky fox until she discovers his true intentions. Krazy Kat is called to the rescue.

Soda Poppa

1931

Krazy's Race of Time poster
10.0

Krazy is sent on a mission to explore planet Mars.

Krazy's Race of Time

1937

No artwork available
10.0

The Happy Tots are a group of tiny elves. They decide to build a rocket and blast off to Mars.

Happy Tots' Expedition

1940

Light House Keeping poster
10.0

Krazy Kat runs his own lighthouse and when rough seas take over, he has to save a damsel in distress.

Light House Keeping

1932

No artwork available
8.0

Life on Krazy's small but happy Polynesian island largely consists of non-stop music making. Though the only proper instrument seen is a ukulele, Krazy, his girlfriend Kitty, birds, bugs and monkeys coax music out of everything from worms to houses to rings in the native women's noses. At the end, Krazy has a brief scrap with an alligator, resulting in the standard "turns-into-suitcase" gag.

Honolulu Wiles

1930

No artwork available
8.0

Life on Krazy's small but happy Polynesian island largely consists of non-stop music making. Though the only proper instrument seen is a ukulele, Krazy, his girlfriend Kitty, birds, bugs and monkeys coax music out of everything from worms to houses to rings in the native women's noses. At the end, Krazy has a brief scrap with an alligator, resulting in the standard "turns-into-suitcase" gag.

Honolulu Wiles

1930

No artwork available
10.0

A father tries to take picture of his easily distracted daughter, which is made more difficult by an angry group of dogs.

Paunch 'n' Judy

1940

No artwork available
8.0

Krazy Kat runs a gymnasium where out-of-shape folks go through the slimming and fit routines of the era, usually involving machinery or high-pressure steam.

Gym Jams

1938

Masquerade Party poster
8.0

Krazy Kat and Kitty throw a masquerade party.

Masquerade Party

1934

No artwork available
7.0

On a dark and stormy night, Krazy and his girlfriend seek shelter in an old abandoned house –- the domain of "The Great Hindini." Completely bizarre goings-on ensue! Lots of weird concepts and surreal gags a la Fleischer Studios' "Bimbo's Initiation" - this is truly a nightmare-flavored cartoon that really pulls all the stops.

Krazy Magic

1938

No artwork available
10.0

Krazy Kat lives in a ramshackle house. He wakes up and takes an outdoor shower. Then he steals a wheel from a baby buggy and makes a soapbox racer with a lawnmower attached. He proceeds to damage some lawns. Krazy meets up with his girlfriend, who lives in a huge mansion.

Cinder Alley

1934

Make Believe Revue poster
7.0

Flown away to the land of the story books, Jack and Jill, aided by Mother Goose, watch a fairland revue complete with chorus girls and marching soldiers.

Make Believe Revue

1935

Make Believe Revue poster
7.0

Flown away to the land of the story books, Jack and Jill, aided by Mother Goose, watch a fairland revue complete with chorus girls and marching soldiers.

Make Believe Revue

1935

Gifts from the Air poster
5.7

A toyless boy finds a broken soldier doll and gets a very special Christmas as a result.

Gifts from the Air

1937

Gifts from the Air poster
5.7

A toyless boy finds a broken soldier doll and gets a very special Christmas as a result.

Gifts from the Air

1937

No artwork available
9.0

Scrappy hurt his leg and is sad because he can't go fishing. The bluebirds from Happyland realize this and put on a song and dance show, helping heal poor Scrappy's hurt leg and foot.

Doctor Bluebird

1936

The Merry Mutineers poster
8.0

Two little boys "battle" their toy pirate ships in a pool. The crews of both sea vessels are made of caricatures of such 30's era stars as Charles Laughton (as Captain Bligh), the Three Stooges, Wallace Beery, Jimmy Durante, Laurel & Hardy, and the Marx Brothers.

The Merry Mutineers

1936

No artwork available
7.0

Krazy Kat steers his magic carpet to three exotic locations while declaiming in the style of a radio announcer. The locales are the North Pole, Holland, and somewhere in Equatorial Africa.

Krazy's Travel Squawks

1938

No artwork available
9.0

Krazy Kat is a gondolier in Venice, Italy, so he sings "Santa Lucia." As he and his fellow gondolieri travel through the canals, it turns out everyone sings opera, even the cats and dogs.

Goofy Gondolas

1934

No artwork available
9.0

Krazy Kat and Kitty go golfing, pursued by people who want to play through.

Golf Chumps

1939

The Bon Bon Parade poster
8.0

A little poor boy, attracted one evening by a confectionery shop's window display, unexpectedly finds himself inside, where a cupid offers him a wish. The boy asks to live in Candytown full time.

The Bon Bon Parade

1935

The Big Birdcast poster
7.0

Birds present their own radio broadcasting service, featuring feathered versions of such stars as Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, and many others.

The Big Birdcast

1938

Hot Dogs On Ice poster
10.0

A comic interactions of "hot-dog" ice skaters on a frozen lake or river, and an Italian pushcart vendor who sells hot dogs to the ice skaters. A smart-aleck, larcenous skater tries to swipe a hot dog in a skate-by of the pushcart, resulting in a spinning amalgam of skaters and a long string of links. Other antics ensue on and under the ice.

Hot Dogs On Ice

1938

No artwork available
7.0

After a surgical operation on a radio that proves it's healthy again when an Arthur Tracy broadcast comes through, Krazy takes it on a flying carpet trip through the clouds where radio stars appear in caricature such as Kate Smith, Eddie Cantor, Bert Gordon,The Boswell Sisters, The Mills Brothers, Rudy Vallee,Ed Wynn, Morton Downey and Chandu the Magician.

Out of the Ether

1933

No artwork available
9.0

Movie star Krazy has his pick of beautiful girls, but one grotesque, huge snout faced gal must have him, so she goes through a grueling beautifying process that she hopes will make her look like Jean Harlow. When finished (better, but not Harlow!) she invites Krazy over to her house where she traps and chases him around.

Love Krazy

1932

Antique Antics poster
9.0

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 14, 1933.

Antique Antics

1933

No artwork available
7.0

The King declares a Festive Day in Happy Tots Kingdom and all his subjects, the Happy Tots, are invited to the celebration. Once there, they all have a great time and there are no conflicts in sight in this entry in the Happy Tots cartoon series, which isn't part of the Scrappy series.

Happy Tots

1939

No artwork available
7.0

Columbia Krazy Kat cartoon released June 19, 1930. A parade of various animals leads piano-playing Krazy and his likewise opponent, a Lion, to a large, crowded arena where they square off in the boxing ring to play a musical duel.

Jazz Rhythm

1930

No artwork available
7.0

Riding a camel through the desert, Krazy Kat and his Minnie-Mouse lookalike girlfriend are spotted by one of the sultan's men, who kidnaps the girl for his boss's harem. Lost Cartoon

Desert Sunk

1930

The Novelty Shop poster
8.0

The novelty shop owner has gone home, and that means it's time for its items to animate and have fun.

The Novelty Shop

1936

No artwork available
9.0

Krazy Kat is a young Russian worker assigned to "blow up the Palace". Filled with authentic-sounding Russian folk melodies.

Russian Dressing

1933