Paul J. Smith

Visual Effects

Paul J. Smith

Born — Died

1906-03-15 — 1980-11-17

Place of birth

Nahma Township, Michigan, USA

Known for

Visual Effects

Credits

40 titles

Paul J. Smith (March 15, 1906 – November 17, 1980) was an American animator and director. Smith began as a cel painter for Walt Disney Animation in 1926, then moved up to an animator. In 1928, when all the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons for Charles Mintz were completed, Smith left the payroll. Smith worked for the Walter Lantz studio for much of his career, first as an animator, and then as a director. He also animated at Warner Bros. Cartoons. By 1955, Smith had taken over as primary director of the Woody Woodpecker cartoon shorts. With Smith in the director's chair, the Woody Woodpecker series maintained its trademark frenetic energy, while the animation itself was simplified, due to …

Known for

Behind the camera

Tomcat Combat poster
7.5

Woody Woodpecker is engaged in combat with a big tomcat and after several break-even escapades, Woody finally tricks the cat into a dogcatcher's truck which is filled with dogs with a sour disposition, especially regarding cats. Woody finally shoots the cat off into outer space using a giant rocket (not from Acme).

Tomcat Combat

1959

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8.7

A Captain and his first mate shanghai Woody and with plans of having him swab the deck aboard their ship.

Shanghai Woody

1971

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6.8

Woody Woodpecker is pestered by a mosquito, and the idiotic exterminator he hires does not improve things.

Little Skeeter

1969

Tragic Magic poster
6.6

Woody goes to a magic show. He chomps popcorn and continually ribs the magician about his "easy" tricks, finally driving most of the audience away. Then the magician calls Woody on stage to "assist" him in a few "tricks," which enables him to get back at Woody for some of his taunts. Then Woody turns the tables, putting the magician under a magic spell. As the magician comes out of the spell, he tries to get rid of Woody by shooting him out of a cannon. But after the shot is fired, Woody's still there. In desperation, the magician climbs into the cannon and fires himself off the stage!

Tragic Magic

1962

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NR

"Symphony Night" (Walter Lantz) Coca-Cola advertising cartoon.

Symphony Night

1953

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10.0

Chilly and Maxie escape from the zoo and are hitchhiking on the highway.

Highway Hecklers

1968

Roamin' Roman poster
7.5

Woody is in Rome and is upsetting the Emperor, so he has his guard chase him down.

Roamin' Roman

1964

Get Lost poster
7.2

Woody Woodpecker is reading "Hansel and Gretel" to his two young cousins, Knothead, a boy, and Splinter,a girl. The children decide to get lost in a forest. A cat spots them and lures them to a gingerbread house. The cat tries to make woodpecker-pie out of the kids, but they outsmart him and escape.

Get Lost

1956

Shutter Bug poster
9.0

Glamorous screen star Woody Woodpecker is constantly beset by a publicity photographer who wants to take his picture. Finally, Woody gets away for a vacation in the woods, thinking that he has escaped the bright lights and publicity men for a while. However, who shows up but the pesky photographer? Woody tries a number of tricks to get rid of the photographer, including setting a grizzly bear on him. In the end, the photographer gets back at Woody with a cannonball in the rear end.

Shutter Bug

1963

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7.7

"Lonesome Ranger" is the 147th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically in 1966, the film was produced by Walter Lantz. Woody makes it difficult for a lone forest ranger that is just trying to do his job.

Lonesome Ranger

1966

Chiller Dillers poster
7.0

Chilly Willy and his friend the polar bear play rock music, which disturbs a ship's captain.

Chiller Dillers

1967

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8.5

Chilly and Smedley are cutting ice blocks to build an igloo when they discover a viking who has been frozen in the ice for 800 years ...

Vicious Viking

1967

Astronut Woody poster
8.3

Woody mistakes an about-to-be-launched rocket for a high-rise luxury treehouse. He becomes a space traveler and causes havoc along the way.

Astronut Woody

1966

Phoney Express poster
7.5

Inspector Willoughby is in Paris looking to capture the famous international spy, Agent X-13. He finds the spy "disguised" (with his head upside down) but Willoughby uncovers the "disguise" and gives chase. Agent X-13 ends up at the train station and riding the Orient Express. The Inspector follows with the agent using a variety of schemes to do away with Willoughby. He notices a downhill grade and sends a safe sliding down to crush the Inspector but the grade becomes an uphill grade and the safe ends up crashing into X-13. X-13 tries feeding him several poisonous foods and Willoughby's stomach turns out to have a trap door. Finally, Willoughby and X-13 battle on top of the train with X-13 leaping from the train to avoid hitting a tunnel and lands in Willoughby's net, then finding himself tied to a scale after going through the tunnel. The Inspector, having captured the crook, exclaims, "That's what I call apprehending crime on a big scale!"

Phoney Express

1962

Lotsa Luck poster
5.8

Woody Woodpecker and his friend Sugarfoot the horse are having all kinks of bad luck until Woody finds a four leaf clover...

Lotsa Luck

1968

Polar Fright poster
9.0

Chilly Willy short. First appearance of Maxie the Polar Bear.

Polar Fright

1966

Freeway Fracas poster
8.3

The construction of a freeway threatens to destroy Woody's home.

Freeway Fracas

1964

Chilly Willy poster
6.9

A schooner anchors at the South Pole, and the skipper goes ashore and leaves the ship's mascot, a St. Bernard dog, to stand watch and guard the ship. A small penguin, Chilly Willy (the only penguin not equipped for cold weather...anywhere), sees the ship and tries to get warm by its stove. The watchdog attempts to get rid of him, but Willy manages to get the dog drunk from the rum in its own cask. The captain returns to find Willy saving the ship from sinking, while the dog is found sleeping it off. Willy is made mascot and the dog is tossed in the ship's brig.

Chilly Willy

1953

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8.0

Two convicts escape from prison in the Wild West and disguise themselves as a horse. Sugarfoot sees the "horse" and falls in love. Later, Woody and Sugarfoot learn about the phony pony, and they try to send the convicts back to jail.

Phoney Pony

1969

Sissy Sheriff poster
7.2

After losing 12 sheriffs in twelve days, the town of Lizzard Gizzard Gulch makes Woody sheriff number 13, with the task of arresting notorious bank robber Dirty McNasty.

Sissy Sheriff

1967

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8.3

Woody lives in a pyramid. Woody finds famous explorer Mrs. Meany dressed in a helmet and shorts on a dig in Egypt.

Practical Yolk

1966

Hay Rube poster
9.0

The Jingling Bros. Circus is performing in the town that farm horse Sugarfoot lives in. Sugarfoot falls for one of the stars, a pretty horse named Starbrite.

Hay Rube

1954

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8.0

Chilly Willy's quiet life is thrown into chaos when a military installation appears next to his home.

Project Reject

1969

Woodpecker Wanted poster
8.7

Woody Woodpecker causes all kinds of problems for a bank robber.

Woodpecker Wanted

1965

The King of Ads poster
4.3

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.

The King of Ads

1991

Horse Play poster
7.7

Horse Play is the 158th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Woody has a run-in with an Indian who has a bad taste for Woody's horse.

Horse Play

1967

Careless Caretaker poster
6.8

Smedley's the caretaker of Greenleaf Park, a job that he likes very much because he cares for all the trees, and he just loves trees.

Careless Caretaker

1962

Crowin' Pains poster
7.0

Woody wakes up from his home in the big city and tries to get some food. After being attacked by a little old lady (for trying to steal her popcorn), he flies to the country where he notices a farmer and his pet crow, Jubilee, the latter of which is well fed. Woody makes a deal with the crow (they'll trade places) and Jubilee heads to the city while Woody disguises himself as the crow. When Woody's disguise comes off, the farmer isn't impressed and plans to stuff and mount the bird. Woody manages to talk his way out of it and is free to go only to be clobbered by a vengeful returning Jubilee who also had eyes on the lady's popcorn!

Crowin' Pains

1962

Phantom of the Horse Opera poster
6.3

In the ghost town of Spooksville, Arizona, Woody Woodpecker tangles with an outlaw who disguises himself as a ghost to scare Woody away.

Phantom of the Horse Opera

1961

Half Empty Saddles poster
7.1

Woody Woodpecker is wandering around the wild west again seeking to find some buried gold and he tangles with a crook who wishes to find the gold for himself. Woody finally disposes of the villain by shooting him into outer space via a rocket, another favorite method used by Woody to rid himself of whatever he wanted rid of at the moment. The horse steals the film.

Half Empty Saddles

1958

Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale poster
7.3

Woody Woodpecker is on a whaler-ship searching for Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale. When sighted, the ship captain sens Wood out in a rowboat to capture Dopey. The whale wrecks the ship but takes a liking to Woody, and off they go across the ocean with Woody water-skiing behind his new friend.

Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale

1957

Hot Noon or 12 O'Clock for Sure poster
6.6

Woody Woodpecker is the small town sheriff who must face the feared gunslinger Buzz Buzzard.

Hot Noon or 12 O'Clock for Sure

1953

Romp in a Swamp poster
6.8

Woody tricks Ali Gator into a swampland chase.

Romp in a Swamp

1959

Airlift a la Carte poster
8.0

Chilly, Maxie, and Gooney go to the store owned by Smedley

Airlift a la Carte

1971

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6.8

Woody drives the two park rangers of Gallstone National forest insane by pecking holes in all the trees.

A Peck of Trouble

1968

Saddle-Sore Woody poster
7.7

Dirty McNasty wants Woody Woodpecker's horse and horsenaps it.

Saddle-Sore Woody

1964

Little Woody Riding Hood poster
7.0

Woody's take on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but Gabby Gator tries to steal the wolf's part.

Little Woody Riding Hood

1962

Ship a-Hoy Woody poster
7.2

Woody Woodpecker, a swabby on a pirate ship, must protect the ship's massive supply of doubloons from bartender-cum-crook Buzz Buzzard.

Ship a-Hoy Woody

1969

Robin Hoody Woody poster
5.3

The evil king is busy counting his money. Woody Woodpecker and his Merry Men are dancing in Sherwood Forest. The old king's tax money comes up short because of Woody and his men.

Robin Hoody Woody

1962

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NR

Ali Baba is chased by three thieves who want whatever treasure is in his bag. Ali Baba is able to avoid them, ultimately weaving his own magic carpet and flying away to enjoy his loot: a refreshing bottle of ice-cold Coca-Cola.

Ali Baba and the Thieves

1953