Biography
Earl Hurd (14 September 1880 – 28 September 1940) was an American animator, film director and comic strip cartoonist. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he began as a newspaper cartoonist before moving into animation.
In 1915 he created the Bobby Bumps series of silent animated shorts for Bray Productions, which ran until 1925. With J.R. Bray he co-developed and patented the cel animation process in 1914. He later worked at studios including Van Beuren, Iwerks and Disney, where he contributed story adaptation to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and work on shorts such as Elmer Elephant (1936) and Mickey's Rival (1936), as well as Fantasia (1940).
