TOM the cat played in 154 cartoons with JERRY the mouse. These two very popular figures were created by
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Seven Tom & Jerry cartoons have already been
rewarded with a Oscar!
Most famous
cartoon cat ever is without doubt the fat, lazy cat GARFIELD, owned by Jon Arbuckle. Garfield is created by Jim Davies and first
appeared in 1978. Within 4 years Garfield appeared world-wide in thousands of papers.
TOP CAT, the relaxed street cat, was created in 1961 by Hannah and Barbera.
DUCHESS an elegant cat from Paris was catnapped and left behind at the French
countryside where she meets several animals. Street cat "O'Malley" helps her to
escape and return to Paris.
LUCIFER is the spoiled housecat in the Walt
Disney movie "Cinderella". No mouse is safe when he is around.
In 1983 BRB
Internacional - the Spanish based producers of the animated series "Dogtanian and the
Three Muskehounds", made a 26-part animated serial based on Jules Verne's famous
novel "Around the World in Eighty Days". The series differed from the book in
several ways, but the greatest was that all the characters were not people - but animals,
amongst which a cat named RIGADON.
The cartoon
cat HEATHCLIFF was created by
George Gately.
In 1945 cartoon cat SYLVESTER made his debut on television in
"Life with Feathers".
Cat FIGARO was created for the movie
"Pinokkio" in 1940.
FELIX THE CAT debuted in 1919 in "Feline Follies" (a movie by Pat Sullivan,
the Australian cartoonist of Paramount). In 1960 he returned to the television with 260
new series.
The CAT IN THE HAT is a novel figure created by
the well-know writer De Suess. She appeared for the first time in 1957 in The Cat in
the Hat".
First cartoon cat ever was KRAZY KAT. He was drawn in 1910 by George Herriman who worked for a paper published
by Hearst. In 1921 Krazy Kat appeared in the slapstick "Krazy Kat and Ignatz
Mouse".
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