Emanuel “Manny” Gould was an American animated cartoonist from the 1920s to the 1970s, who is known for his contributions as a director and animator for Screen Gems, and solely an animator for Warner Bros. Cartoons and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. Gould’s animation for Warner Bros. is well known by animation historians for his very rubbery and quick-pace style that very few animators mimicked at that time.
Career
Gould was employed by the Barré Studio in the early 1920s under the direction of William Nolan. When the studio closed, Nolan went to work for Charles Mintz on the Krazy Kat cartoons, distributed first by Paramount Studios and then Columbia Pictures. Gould and Ben Harrison went with him and later replaced him. Gould and Harrison moved with the Mintz studio to Los Angeles in 1930. Also going with him were his sister Martha Barbara Gould and brothers Louis R., Allen, and Will Gould, a sports cartoonist for the Bronx Home News who drew the syndicated strip Red Barry in the 1930s and became a television and movie screenwriter. Gould, along with Art Davis, Lou Lilly and Frank Tashlin, arrived at the Warner Brotherscartoon studio in 1943 where he worked as an animator for Bob Clampett's unit. Clampett left Warner Bros in May 1945 to start his career for puppetry, and his unit was in the hands of Art Davis. He animated a few shorts for Davis, until he moved to Robert McKimson's unit and continued to animate shorts for the next few years. Gould was hired in 1947 by Jerry Fairbanks Productions Productions as a director for its animation department, where Lilly had gone to head the story department. His last credited cartoon for Warners was released in 1949, with The Windblown Hare. Lilly formed his own commercial animation company in 1952 and by the late 1950s hired Gould to be his animation director.
Later career
In 1964, Gould was animating on the Linus The Lionhearted television cartoons for Ed Graham Productions, then the following year began working as an animator at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises on the Pink Panther and Tijuana Toads shorts and several series for television. He also worked on the cartoon features Heavy Traffic and The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat for Ralph Bakshi.
