Abraham Levitow (July 2, 1922 – May 8, 1975) was an American animator who worked at Warner Bros. Cartoons, UPA and MGM Animation/Visual Arts. He is best known for his work under Chuck Jones' direction. Levitow was born in Los Angeles, California to William Levitow and Sarah Schlafmitz who were Polish Jews that immigrated to the United States due to the upsurge of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe. He began working as an in-betweener and assistant animator at Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1940 at the age of 17. Levitow briefly left Warner Brothers when he was drafted during World War II working on training films, during which time he met Stan Lee and became close friends with him. Levitow returned to Warners, working as an assistant animator for Ken Harris in the Chuck Jones unit. He was later promoted to animator in 1950 and would receive his first animations credit in 1953 for the cartoon Wild Over You. He worked steadily for Jones over the remainder of the 1950s, and directed several cartoons for release in 1959, including the Pepé Le Pew cartoon "Really Scent". While working under Jones, he made characters' joints more angular than most other animators. Those characters with fur (Wile E. Coyote and Claude Cat, for example) looked especially shaggy in Levitow's scenes. Some of Levitow's most distinctive work came within a few years of his promotion to director -- he animated the first minute of What's Opera, Doc? and a laughing Porky Pig in Robin Hood Daffy. More information...
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