Tedd Pierce

Writing

Tedd Pierce

Born 1906-08-12 · Quogue, New York, USA

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 and Times of an Animated Cartoonist as being the inspiration for the character Pepé Le Pew, the haplessly romantic French skunk due to Pierce's self-proclamation that he was a ladies' man.

Acting credits

Mr. Bug Goes to Town poster
6.3

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

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

1941

Gulliver's Travels poster
6.2

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.

Gulliver's Travels

1939

Rumors poster
7.1

Snafu inadvertantly starts a panic on his base when he begins a mistaken rumour that the base is about to be bombed.

Rumors

1943

Country Mouse poster
6.1

A strong mouse says that he will become the heavyweight champion of the world. But his grandma (who is just as strong) doesn't want him to fight...

Country Mouse

1935

Jungle Jitters poster
4.8

Starts out with a tribe of African cannibals imitating Native Americans. After this, they do the new Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theme "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down." Then a sloppy stuttering salesman knocks on their doors, and they bring him in and put him in a pot of boiling water. The queen of the tribe wants to see the man. She falls in love with him. They get married, but when the salesman sees he has to kiss the bride, he decides he'd be better off being dinner for a tribe of hungry cannibals. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.

Jungle Jitters

1938

Baseball Bugs poster
6.9

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

Baseball Bugs

1946

Many Tanks poster
7.0

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.

Many Tanks

1942

Little Blabbermouse poster
5.6

A mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads a nighttime tour of a closed drugstore for other mice, that include a very inquisitive little boy.

Little Blabbermouse

1940

A Star Is Hatched poster
5.8

Emily the chicken lives in Hickville but dreams of Hollywood. Her chance comes when director J. Megga-Phone happens to drive past and gives her his card.

A Star Is Hatched

1938

Uncle Tom's Bungalow poster
4.8

Warner Bros. cartoon parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping.

Uncle Tom's Bungalow

1937

Fox Pop poster
5.8

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.

Fox Pop

1942

Ding Dog Daddy poster
5.6

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

Ding Dog Daddy

1942

Stealin Aint Honest poster
7.7

Olive has a map that shows the location of her secret gold mine, but while she's showing it to Popeye, claim jumper Bluto photographs it and gets there first.

Stealin Aint Honest

1940

Snafuperman poster
6.6

Pvt. Snafu becomes a superhero, only for him to become the world's dumbest one because he won't study his field manuals.

Snafuperman

1944

Little Red Walking Hood poster
6.3

Red walks past a pool hall; the wolf sees her and pursues her, but, she is oblivious to his come-ons.

Little Red Walking Hood

1937

The CooCoo Nut Grove poster
5.6

A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John Barrymore, Harpo Marx, George Arliss, Mae West, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clark Gable, Edna May Oliver, Gary Cooper, The Dionne Quintuplets, Groucho Marx, Helen Morgan, Wallace Beery, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft.

The CooCoo Nut Grove

1936

Milk and Money poster
6.1

Porky's father is going to lose his farm. Porky goes to town with his horse and works a milk route, with a warning that if he breaks a bottle he's fired. As he's delivering, cats follow along behind draining the bottles. Meanwhile, Hank Horsefly follows them into town. He stings Dobbin, who crashes and breaks many bottles. They happen upon a horse race and accidentally enter; the horse is merely plodding along until it gets stung again.

Milk and Money

1936

Porky's Hero Agency poster
7.1

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

I Love to Singa poster
6.8

A stern classical music teacher becomes a father of four musically-inclined sons, but when one of them demonstrates a preference for jazz music, his father kicks him out of the house.

I Love to Singa

1936

The Mighty Navy poster
7.2

Popeye joins the US Navy and routs the enemy in a one-man battle, but not before he causes his commanding officer plenty of aggravation.

The Mighty Navy

1941

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

Fagin's Freshman poster
6.7

Blackie, a tough little kitten, dreams he runs away from home and falls afoul of Fagin and his school of gangsters.

Fagin's Freshman

1939

The Aristo-Cat poster
6.9

Meadows the butler quits after being tormented by the spoiled family cat, who finds he is unable to survive on his own, especially after meeting the mice Hubie and Bertie.

The Aristo-Cat

1943

Super-Rabbit poster
6.6

Bugs Bunny becomes a superhero who does battle with a rabbit-hating cowboy and his horse.

Super-Rabbit

1943

Behind the camera

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie poster
7.3

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

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

1981

Mr. Bug Goes to Town poster
6.3

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

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

1941

Gulliver's Travels poster
6.2

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.

Gulliver's Travels

1939

Ding Dog Daddy poster
5.6

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

Ding Dog Daddy

1942

Hair-Raising Hare poster
7.2

A sneaker-wearing, hairy monster chases Bugs through a castle belonging to an evil scientist.

Hair-Raising Hare

1946

I Was a Teenage Magoo poster
NR

Told in flashback, the plot has teenage (but still nearsighted) red-headed Magoo picks up his date "Melba" (a kangaroo) from her home (in a circus) and go on a picnic.

I Was a Teenage Magoo

1960

How Bugs Bunny Won the West poster
6.6

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.

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

1978

Dough for the Do-Do poster
7.0

Porky Pig has an adventure in Wackyland while searching for the last Do-Do bird.

Dough for the Do-Do

1949

You Were Never Duckier poster
7.0

Finding that the prize for best duck at the National Poultry Show is only $5.00, but $5,000 for the best rooster, Daffy disguises himself as one, but then becomes the object of Henery Hawk's chicken hunt.

You Were Never Duckier

1948

The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall poster
6.8

Three fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, Dan Backslide, in this spoof of the Rover Boys.

The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall

1942

Backwoods Bunny poster
6.2

When Bugs vacations in the Ozarks he is pursued by hungry buzzards.

Backwoods Bunny

1959

Bunker Hill Bunny poster
7.4

Sam Von Schamm The Hessian and Bugs Bunny fight it out in the little known American Revolutionary War Battle of Bagel Heights.

Bunker Hill Bunny

1950

Bugs Bunny Rides Again poster
6.7

In the Western town of Rising Gorge, Bugs faces off against Yosemite Sam, "the roughest, toughest, he-man stuffest hombre who's ever crossed the Rio Grande."

Bugs Bunny Rides Again

1948

No artwork available
6.7

A slick movie director tricks a hayseed horse into becoming a stunt double.

It's a Grand Old Nag

1947

Hold the Lion, Please poster
6.4

A lion wants to prove he's still "King of the Jungle" and, to prove it, he hunts rabbit.

Hold the Lion, Please

1942

At Your Service Madame poster
6.0

Mrs. Hamhock finds herself the object of unwanted attention following an article in the paper about...

At Your Service Madame

1936

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special poster
6.6

A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" "Robin Hood Daffy" "Drip-Along Daffy" "His Bitter Half"

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

1980

No artwork available
NR

Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl was released in conjunction with Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire None of these shorts have been released on disc before, and Chuck Jones's "Daffy Dilly" (1948) is a welcome addition to any cartoon library. Daffy sets out to win the money a gloomy millionaire is offering to anyone who can make him laugh--and succeeds in spite of himself. But many of these cartoons are, simply, duds. "This Is a Life?" (1955), "People Are Bunny" (1959), and "Person to Bunny" (1960) spoof largely forgotten TV shows. How many viewers under 65 will recognize caricatures of Art Linkletter and Edward R. Murrow? The films pitting Daffy against Bugs play like weak remakes of Jones's "Rabbit Fire" trilogy or Friz Freleng's "Show Biz Bugs"--"Person to Bunny" even repeats some of Daffy's tap dance to "Jeepers Creepers" in "Show Biz." The very late "Suppressed Duck" (1965) is painfully unfunny. Once again, some of the films have been inexplicably cropped to simulate a widescreen format.

Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl

2010