Robert Clampett

Directing

Robert Clampett

Born — Died

1913-05-08 — 1984-05-02

Place of birth

San Diego, California, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

55 titles

Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil. Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood, and early on expressed an interest in animation and puppetry. After leaving high school a few months shy of graduating in 1931, Clampett joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio's newest short subjects, titled Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

Known for

Camera Three poster
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Camera Three is an American variety show devoted to the arts. It ran on CBS from January 22, 1956 to January 21, 1979, and moved to PBS in its final year to make way for the then-new CBS News Sunday Morning. The PBS version ran from October 4, 1979 to July 10, 1980. Camera Three featured programs showcasing drama, ballet, art, music, anything involving fine arts. One of its most notable presentations was a condensation of Marc Blitzstein's leftist opera The Cradle Will Rock. Presented on November 29, 1964, it was a dramatic demonstration of how far television had come since its early days, in its willingness to present a work that surely would have been banned from the airwaves during the era of Joseph McCarthy.

Camera Three

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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One poster
8.8

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 this volume - Lovelorn Leghorn, The Hasty Hare, Hare-Way to the Stars, Bill of Hare, A Witch's Tangled Hare, Feline Frame-Up, and From A to Z-Z-Z-Z - have been previously released, either as a part of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection or a Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD.

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One

2011

Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1 poster
6.0

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 is a 4-disk DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on October 28, 2003. The first release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 56 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.

Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1

2003

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid poster
6.9

Mama Buzzard wants her children to learn to bring back meat for dinner. One buzzardling is shy and has to be kicked out of the nest. He's told to at least bring back a rabbit.

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid

1942

His Hare Raising Tale poster
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Bugs tells stories to his nephew Clyde derived from earlier cartoons ("Baseball Bugs", "Stage Door Cartoon", "Rabbit Punch", "Falling Hare", and "Haredevil Hare").

His Hare Raising Tale

1951

A Tale of Two Kitties poster
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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.

A Tale of Two Kitties

1942

Film credits

1940s · 7 titles

1930s · 3 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One poster
8.8

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 this volume - Lovelorn Leghorn, The Hasty Hare, Hare-Way to the Stars, Bill of Hare, A Witch's Tangled Hare, Feline Frame-Up, and From A to Z-Z-Z-Z - have been previously released, either as a part of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection or a Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD.

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One

2011

Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1 poster
6.0

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 is a 4-disk DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on October 28, 2003. The first release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 56 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.

Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1

2003

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid poster
6.9

Mama Buzzard wants her children to learn to bring back meat for dinner. One buzzardling is shy and has to be kicked out of the nest. He's told to at least bring back a rabbit.

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid

1942

His Hare Raising Tale poster
6.3

Bugs tells stories to his nephew Clyde derived from earlier cartoons ("Baseball Bugs", "Stage Door Cartoon", "Rabbit Punch", "Falling Hare", and "Haredevil Hare").

His Hare Raising Tale

1951

A Tale of Two Kitties poster
6.8

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.

A Tale of Two Kitties

1942

Wagon Heels poster
6.8

Porky leads a wagon train into "Injun Joe Territory," and finally comes up against the fearsome Superchief. But Sloppy Moe, a survivor of a previous Injun Joe attack, knows something about him he won't tell... until the very end.

Wagon Heels

1945

Bugs Bunny in Space poster
7.0

Bugs Bunny in Space is a parody of "Star Wars" that features a compilation of science-fiction themed clips from Warner Brothers cartoons starring Bugs Bunny and other characters.

Bugs Bunny in Space

1977

Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection poster
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Bugs Bunny first hopped onto the screen in 1940 and he’s been a pop-culture icon ever since. More than eight generations have enjoyed the timeless antics of the carrot-munching wise guy who always outsmarts his rivals. Cartoons, movies, TV, comics, music, sports and more – this wascally wabbit has done it all. Clever pranks and one-liners are here, along with interviews with today’s most renowned animators, historians and superstars. Enjoy the full range of his silly and smart-alecky personality with 60 theatrical shorts restored and remastered to their original 4x3 aspect ratio on Blu-ray for the first time. It's just what the doctor – er, doc – ordered.

Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection

2020

A Coy Decoy poster
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Characters on book covers come to life, including Porky and Daffy. The "Wolf of Wall Street" chases Daffy through "The Hurricane," "The Storm" and across "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" before expiring in "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

A Coy Decoy

1941

Booby Traps poster
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Pvt. Snafu thinks he's too smart to get caught by an enemy booby trap, but he soon finds that the traps are alluring and that he is every bit the booby.

Booby Traps

1944

Fighting Tools poster
6.1

Pvt. Snafu suffers the consequences of not keeping his equipment and weapons properly maintained.

Fighting Tools

1943

Africa Squeaks poster
5.8

Porky Pig goes on a safari in Africa, and runs into an assortment of crazy animals, wacky natives and Kay Kyser giving dance lessons in the middle of the jungle.

Africa Squeaks

1940

The Bashful Buzzard poster
7.0

Beaky Buzzard, the shyest, dopiest young buzzard in his family, is sent out to catch something to eat.

The Bashful Buzzard

1945

The Chewin' Bruin poster
6.8

A bear hunter tells Porky the tale of a hunt 30 years ago: a bear got a taste of his chewing tobacco and chased him down to get it; the hunter took the bear on with his bare hands rather than lose the tobacco. Or at least, that's the way he told the story.

The Chewin' Bruin

1940

The Henpecked Duck poster
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Mrs. Duck sues Daffy for divorce in Judge Porky Pig's courtroom, charging her husband with losing their egg in an abortive magic trick.

The Henpecked Duck

1941

Patient Porky poster
6.9

Porky checks into a hospital with a tummyache; he has the bad luck to encounter a patient posing a "Dr. Chilled-Air" who is a bit too eager to operate.

Patient Porky

1940

Falling Hare poster
7.0

Relaxing with a carrot at a U.S. Army air field, Bugs is reading "Victory Through Hare Power" and scoffs at the notion of mentioned gremlins, little creatures who wreak havoc on planes with their diabolical sabotage.

Falling Hare

1943

The Essential Bugs Bunny poster
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The one, the only, the biggest hare in Hollywood: Bugs Bunny – his greatest chases, funniest situations and all essential appearances are here: from his breakthrough cartoons through classic clashes with co-stars Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig to his Oscar-nominated (and winning) animated shorts. Directed by legendary animators Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng and Tex Avery, this definitive collection puts everything you need to know about Bugs into one animated archive. Twelve theatrical shorts include the first time he asks, “What’s up Doc?” and his intergalactic meeting with Marvin the Martian. Also included are some of Bugs’ rarest appearance, included TV shows, TV specials and shorts never-before released for the home

The Essential Bugs Bunny

2010

Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl poster
10.0

This must-have animation collection "Looney Tunes Super Stars: Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl" (2010) is filled with shorts that have been released on disc before and will delight any Looney Tunes fans. Episodes include "Tick Tock Tuckered," "Nasty Quacks," Chuck Jones's "Daffy Dilly" (1948), "Wise Quackers," "The Prize Pest," "Design for Leaving," "Stork Naked," "This is a Life?" (1955), "Dime to Retire," "Ducking the Devil," "People Are Bunny" (1959), "Person to Bunny" (1960), "Daffy's Inn Trouble," "The Iceman Ducketh" and "Suppressed Duck" (1965).

Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl

2010

Tortoise Wins by a Hare poster
7.1

Bugs challenges Cecil Turtle to race, only this time he's wearing an aerodynamic suit like Cecil's. Unfortunately, the gambling ring has bet everything on the rabbit, and Bugs now looks like a tortoise.

Tortoise Wins by a Hare

1943

Jeepers Creepers poster
6.6

Police officer Porky is called to investigate strange noises at a house that might be haunted. Before he arrives, we tour the house and hear some evil-sounding cackles, which, it turns out, are coming from a radio – one that a ghost was listening to. The ghost then sings the title song while getting ready for a night of haunting, just as Porky arrives. The ghost invites him in with a woman's voice, then disappears. Porky comes in and gets spooked by some flapping curtains. When he comes back in, the ghost puts a couple of frogs into a pair of shoes and sets them loose; they collect a hatrack and a curtain, forming a sort of black ghost that ultimately scares Porky upstairs, right into the arms of the ghost.

Jeepers Creepers

1939

Wacky Blackout poster
5.4

We tour a farm and see how the various animals are preparing for the war, in a series of blackout skits.

Wacky Blackout

1942

Porky's Naughty Nephew poster
6.0

Porky and Pinky go to the beach. As Porky tries to nap, Pinky keeps whacking him with his little shovel. Then he fakes drowning in a shallow puddle. Porky enters a swim race, and Pinky sets a fake shark to follow him.

Porky's Naughty Nephew

1938

Goofy Groceries poster
5.8

Grocery store products come to life, along with caricatures of Jack Benny, Rochester and Ned Sparks, and take-offs on Superman and King Kong.

Goofy Groceries

1941

Wise Quacks poster
7.2

Mr. (and Mrs.!) Daffy Duck are expecting four ducklings; Daffy plays the nervous father, and Porky drops by to offer congratulations. Soon, a bald eagle hijacks the runt of the litter, and Daffy gives chase (despite the fact he's been celebrating the birth a little too much).

Wise Quacks

1939

Wabbit Twouble poster
7.3

Elmer Fudd expects to find "west and wewaxation" during his visit to Jellostone National Park, but he sets up camp in Bugs' backyard, and the rabbit (and a neighboring bear) definitely don't have leisure in mind.

Wabbit Twouble

1941

Prehistoric Porky poster
6.7

Caveman Porky awakens and plays with his pet Rover, a massive dinosaur. After Rover's playfulness causes a disruption to the prehistoric peace and quiet, Porky's copy of "Expire" magazine arrives in the mail, filled with ads for fashionable new bearskins. Porky decides to go out and get himself a new suit, and sets off with his trusty club.

Prehistoric Porky

1940

Pilgrim Porky poster
6.3

The Pilgrims, led by captain Porky Pig, set sail from Plymouth for America. We get a series of ocean sailing blackout gags, including a running bit between our narrator and the cook, looking for a fish suitable for dinner, a singing trio interrupted by seasickness, flying fish (in airplanes). Then, The Rains Came. A collision with an iceberg is narrowly averted. Land is sighted. The pilgrims are welcomed by Chief Sitting Bull.

Pilgrim Porky

1940

Porky's Poor Fish poster
6.4

Porky Pig owns a fish store and goes out to lunch. After a cat is not having much success with a mouse, he goes into the fish store when Porky is away. When the cat thinks he has the good appetite, the fish go to war against him and drive him out of the store. He is then freaked out by the mouse and shrinks as the mouse grows.

Porky's Poor Fish

1940

Porky's Hero Agency poster
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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.

Porky's Hero Agency

1937

Porky's Badtime Story poster
6.9

After Porky and Gabby oversleep yet again, their boss warns them that they'll be fired if they're late again...

Porky's Badtime Story

1937

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery poster
7.0

While reading his favorite comic book, Daffy accidentally knocks himself unconscious and dreams he's Duck Twacy, famous detective, trying to solve the case of the missing piggy banks. Taking a streetcar (conducted by Porky Pig, in a non-speaking cameo role) to the gangsters' hideout, he meets up with such grotesque criminals as Pickle Puss, Eighty-Eight Teeth and Neon Noodle.

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

1946

Baby Bottleneck poster
6.8

As the baby boom commences, and with the delivery service overworked, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are placed in charge of a baby preparation factory, where they help the stork keep up.

Baby Bottleneck

1946

Porky's Movie Mystery poster
7.3

Mr. Motto (Porky) is called back from vacation to catch the invisible man.

Porky's Movie Mystery

1939

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs poster
5.4

Spoof of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) with an all-black cartoon cast. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

1943

Natural Vision 3-Dimension poster
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A short documentary explaining that you need to wear polarized glasses to see the 3rd dimension on the "new" 3-D films and introducing their 3-D film camera/system Natural Vision. Originally screened as a prologue to "Bwana Devil".

Natural Vision 3-Dimension

1952

Natural Vision 3-Dimension poster
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A short documentary explaining that you need to wear polarized glasses to see the 3rd dimension on the "new" 3-D films and introducing their 3-D film camera/system Natural Vision. Originally screened as a prologue to "Bwana Devil".

Natural Vision 3-Dimension

1952

Natural Vision 3-Dimension poster
NR

A short documentary explaining that you need to wear polarized glasses to see the 3rd dimension on the "new" 3-D films and introducing their 3-D film camera/system Natural Vision. Originally screened as a prologue to "Bwana Devil".

Natural Vision 3-Dimension

1952

Polar Pals poster
6.7

Porky Pig inhabits an igloo in the Arctic, where he beds with a covering a several live, furry polar bears, bathes in a shower whose water instantly freezes into long icicles, and dances in the ice and snow with the native fauna. When a greedy fur trapper named I. Killem arrives to threaten Porky's walrus, bear, and seal friends, Porky acts to repel the trapper by firing a musket which spits out buckshot and explosives. Killem flees in what he thinks is a kayak but is actually a whale.

Polar Pals

1939

Porky in Wackyland poster
7.0

Porky Pig travels to a surreal land in order to hunt and catch the elusive Do-Do bird, reportedly the last of its kind.

Porky in Wackyland

1938