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Thomas Archer Ray〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Director, Tom & Jerry animator Tom Ray dead at 90 )〕 (August 2, 1919 – April 6, 2010〔http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/tom-ray-1919-2010.html〕) was an American animator. ==Career== Ray was born in Williams, Arizona.〔 He began work at Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1937. Over the first two decades of his career, he was a junior animator who received no screen credit until Destination Earth in 1956. In 1958, he became a master animator in the Robert McKimson unit. Later, he transferred briefly to the Friz Freleng unit, then Chuck Jones unit, where he co-directed ''Adventures of the Road-Runner'' and several ''Bugs Bunny Show'' episodes. He followed Jones to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1963; there, he directed two Tom and Jerry compilation shorts, ''Matinee Mouse'' in 1966 and ''Shutter Bugged Cat'' in 1967. His later credits include animation on ''Pink Panther'' shorts, Bakshi’s ''Heavy Traffic'' and ''Coonskin'', Chuck Jones TV Specials, numerous Filmation and Hanna Barbera series, ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' and ''Animaniacs''. Ray directed many episodes of various series including the Sunbow Productions animated series based on Hasbro properties and including he did the director for the most episodes of ''Bobby's World'' and ''Garfield and Friends''. After his retirement from the Los Angeles animation business in 1998, Ray founded his own animation studio, Tomstone Animation, first located in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Ray moved his studio to Virginia Beach, Virginia just before he died in Virginia on April 6, 2010 aged 90. Ray's wife, Brenda Ellen Ray, continues to live in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Ray's son, Thomas G. "Greg" Ray, and daughter, Donna Mouliot, followed him into the animation business. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Ray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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