Directing
Eddie Donnelly
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Donnelly was a writer, director and animator for Disney, Terrytoons and Van Buren studios.
Known for
Yet another of John Foster's bug cartoons, much like Fly Hi and Fly Frolic ten years earlier. Boy Bug loses girl bug to big spider that invades a fly night club. This time there's cowboy flies on horsefly mounts.
Horsefly Opera
1941
Gandy Goose, now in the pest-extermination business takes the job of ridding his friend's house of mice. Everything he tries backfires on him and the goosey one is soon gone and the mice are still playing.
The Exterminator
1945
6.3Heckle and Jeckle of the Northwest Unmounted Police pursue the dreaded outlaw, Powerful Pierre.
'Sno Fun
1951
The tortoise and hare boys argue who would win a skating race, so overconfident daddy rabbit challenges daddy tortoise to a race he ultimately wins.
Ice Carnival
1941
6.5The boy mice of the village become hot rod fans and soon it isn't safe to walk the streets. Three cats seize up the situation and challenge the mice to a race, and then set a trap to catch them and make a meal. Truly a nefarious plot that calls for an intervention by Mighty Mouse.
Hot Rods
1953
5.5A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 May 1951.
Injun Trouble
1951
Behind the camera
Yet another of John Foster's bug cartoons, much like Fly Hi and Fly Frolic ten years earlier. Boy Bug loses girl bug to big spider that invades a fly night club. This time there's cowboy flies on horsefly mounts.
Horsefly Opera
1941
Gandy Goose, now in the pest-extermination business takes the job of ridding his friend's house of mice. Everything he tries backfires on him and the goosey one is soon gone and the mice are still playing.
The Exterminator
1945
6.3Heckle and Jeckle of the Northwest Unmounted Police pursue the dreaded outlaw, Powerful Pierre.
'Sno Fun
1951
The tortoise and hare boys argue who would win a skating race, so overconfident daddy rabbit challenges daddy tortoise to a race he ultimately wins.
Ice Carnival
1941
6.5The boy mice of the village become hot rod fans and soon it isn't safe to walk the streets. Three cats seize up the situation and challenge the mice to a race, and then set a trap to catch them and make a meal. Truly a nefarious plot that calls for an intervention by Mighty Mouse.
Hot Rods
1953
5.5A Terrytoons cartoon released 23 May 1951.
Injun Trouble
1951
Gandy and Sourpuss have been patching up their worn-out tires, due to wartime civilian restrictions on rubber. But finally they give out for the last time, and they seek out replacements at a garage.
Tire Trouble
1942
A fun, tune-filled retelling of the legendary Christopher Columbus telling of the world being round, and going on his ocean voyage.
Chris Columbo
1938
A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 March 1943. A World War II-themed story about how to save time and effort while building Victory ships in the naval yard. A collage of naval images is accompanied by Navy patriotic music.
Shipyard Symphony
1943
9.0Heckle and Jeckle, the always-talking Magpies, kick this one off by stealing a bowl of bones from Soupbone, an old hound dog. Soupbone raises some objections that leads to a fracas or two, with all hands ending up in a nervous place, and the two birds trying to rescue Soupbone from a padded cell.
Magpie Madness
1948
A Terrytoons cartoon released 1 May 1942.
Tricky Business
1942
Herman, a fat pig-man with a Herman Bing voice. He trades jobs with his wife and finds that cooking and taking care of kids is too difficult for a mere male. He concedes this to his wife, after the house has become a broken, wet shambles.
Housewife Herman
1938
8.0Oil Can Harry captures Mighty Mouse and traps him in the Mohave desert about to be eaten by vultures. Harry kidnaps Pearl Pureheart's father, the Colonel, ties him with a boulder and drops him off the Brooklyn Bridge and into the East river teeming with hungry crocodiles, then he goes after Pearl. The cops were too late to stop him as Harry absconds with Pearl. Meanwhile, Mighty Mouse breaks free and clobbers the vultures, rescues the colonel and his daughter and defeats Harry once again. Lots of singing in this operetta! This cartoon was produced in that old radio serial style, with the announcer setting the scene and interjecting throughout.
Triple Trouble
1948
8.0A Terrytoon cartoon.
Mopping Up
1943
The tiny toy helicopter which all the little mice didn't think was worth bother with, comes to the rescue of a mouse that has been trapped by the cat. The helicopter saves the day and becomes a mouse-hero icon.
The Helicopter
1944
The feud between Little Roquefort and the cat gets increasingly intense with explosives and tanks.
Mouse Menace
1953
9.0Heckle and Jeckle read in the newspaper about a reward offered by a millionaire for the finder of his childhood sweetheart. Since they have a storehouse filled with any kind of costume, they decide to collect the money by convincing the millionaire that Jackle is his lost love, so Jeckle shows up disguised as a woman---or female of whatever species applied. JUst as Jeckle has about convinced the millionaire that he is a she and his long-lost sweetheart, a slew of impostors walk in with the same claim.
Blind Date
1953
The Terry-Bears hear howling and waken their father, who is also frightened. A big dog comes in, and the cubs want to keep it but Papa Bear kicks it outside. The kids get the dog back inside and Papa decides to get rid of it and takes it away in his car. A traffic-cop is knocked down and gives chase. Later, the Terry-Bears are happy when the dog returns on his own, wearing a policeman's cap, while Papa Bear is in court giving an explanation to a judge.
Nice Doggy
1952
Heckel and Jeckel fly over a country estate and decide it would do just fine as a nesting ground for them, especially since it afforded a few luxuries they could take advantage of. But the Bulldog guardian of the grounds thinks otherwise and makes his objections know. They object to his objections by attacking him with the croquet mallets, pushing him into the swimming pool and several other objectionable ways the talking magpies could come up with.
The Intruders
1947
10.0A Terrytoon reworking of Jack and the Beanstalk, and the hen/goose that laid the golden eggs; here, the hen is a Jackpot that lays/produces golden coins, and swings a mean mallet in protecting Jack from the evil giant.
Beanstalk Jack
1946
A devious fox comes to a small farm and uses flattery to trick the ducks, chickens and roosters into coming with him, supposedly to compete at the County Fair. Dinky is desperate to come along, too, but the fox rejects the little black duck for the same reason all the other farm birds shun him: he's too small. Dinky, however, discovers that the fox has tricked all the birds into his cave. The fox has them caged and plans to roast them in his oven. It's up to the once-despised Dinky to come to the rescue.
Featherweight Champ
1953
7.5When a Dutch wolf puts the snatch on a Dutch-damsel-in-distress, the Holland-visiting Might Mouse comes to her rescue. As always, the Super Mighty Mouse, has a few problems before the villain is dispatched, but comes though in the end. And then, just like Superman, with theme-song blaring, flies off to his next adventure as the Wolrd's Mightest Mouse.
Happy Holland
1952
7.0Gandy Goose reads a scary story just before lights out, and suddenly finds himself escorted to a house full of ghosts.
Lights Out
1942
6.0Cubby The Bear is a jockey and prepares to race....
Galloping Fanny
1933
A Terrytoons cartoon with Little Roquefort.
Musical Madness
1951
A Terrytoons cartoon released 11 July 1941.
Twelve O'Clock and All Ain't Well
1941
Heckle and Jeckle know something other animated toilers don't: they're cartoons. That means unlimited power, which they use to outwit a bulldog cop.
The Power of Thought
1949
A Pete Smith-like narrator introduces us to a pig named Oscar who's overwhelmed with advice and useless elixirs to relieve his cold. This leads to his having a nightmare where he's pursued by giant medicine and pill containers.
What a Little Sneeze Will Do
1941
7.0A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 October 1945. Gandy Goose and Sourpuss are flown in to hunt big game. The two have something else in mind. They can't get out of there fast enough!
Who's Who in the Jungle
1945
A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 December 1944. Our tourist is taking in all the sights: the band playing on the snowy slope, goats harmonizing, skiers dancing on skis. But best of all, mice are shaving the Swiss cheese to run through the player piano to make the music. Dogs, pigs and ducks are all laughing, singing, playing and having a good time- until they get on a runaway snow sled...
Dear Old Switzerland
1944
7.0A Terrytoons cartoon.
Aesop's Fable: Golden Egg Goosie
1951
A Terrytoons cartoon released 28 September 1945. The classic "dog vs. rabbit" routine, but this time with a whole gang of mischievous hares!
Aesop's Fable: The Watchdog
1945
9.0Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, tangle with a pirate who has a treasure map, and after much finagling and talk, they are able to get the map and the treasure, only to find that an agent for the Iternal Revenue Service is waiting to collect the unpaid back taxes.
Pirate's Gold
1957
The talking magpies go to Africa to indulge in a bit of lion-hunting and, once there, they find a lion who has no desire to be hunted by two wise-cracking birds. Heckle almost meets his maker when Jeckle persuades him to serve as lion bait. The lion is deceived for a little while when they promise him a movie contract but the end finds the score about dead-even between the hunters and the huntee.
The Lion Hunt
1949
8.0Mrs. O'Leary's cow is brought to the witness stand in court to explain how she started a great fire. Her testimony fades into a very routine fire brigade cartoon.It has little to do with the Chicago conflagration she's famous for.
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
1938
A Terrytoons cartoon released 7 June 1946.
Dinky Finds a Home
1946
A Terrytoons cartoon released 10 June 1938.
Here's to the Good Old Jail
1938
NRWhen the little, cuddly, bouncy rabbits go freckling in the first snow of winter, the wily fox thinks his supper is in the bag. And, for a while it looks that way, but circumstances intervene and they get away. Not one to give-up easily, the hungry fox tries again, but this time Mighty Mouse, singing at the top of his lungs, interferes and the fox is forced to wave the white flag of defeat.
Mighty Mouse in the First Snow
1947
A young boy asks an old man why the valley they live in is such a beautiful utopia and is called Happy Valley, and the old man explains it is because everyone there is contented and happy but, he adds, it wasn't always that way. In a flashback, he tells the boy that many years ago this paradise was nearly wrecked when greed swept over the land, and this led to poverty and misery before all the farmers came to their senses. Sounds like a film that should have been investigated by the HUAC committee.
Aesop's Fable: Happy Valley
1952
A fox family is starving, the father with a bandaged foot and crutch. Hunters and dogs roar through and start hunting down one of the fox boys, but he not only outwits them he steals a turkey dinner from the men.
Their Last Bean
1939
