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  "description": "Karyl Ross \"Ken\" Harris (July 31, 1898 – March 24, 1982) was an American animator best known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons under the supervision of director Chuck Jones.\n\nThe association with Jones began in 1937 and lasted until 1962, the longest time an animator spent with a director at the studio. Jones described him as \"a virtuoso. Ken Harris did it all.\" Dan Backslide, one of the characters from the Jones short The Dover Boys, was a caricature of Harris.\n\nAfter Jones left Warner's, Harris worked with former animator Phil Monroe on two cartoons before Warner Bros. closed its cartoon department.\n\nIn 1963, Harris worked briefly for Friz Freleng on the titles of The Pink Panther (1963), then for Hanna-Barbera on their first feature film Hey There It's Yogi Bear! (1964), then rejoined Jones at MGM for three years. After work as an animator on How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) — directed by Jones, a longtime friend of Dr. Seuss — Harris came to the studio of independent animator Richard Williams in London in 1967. There he served as William's mentor as well as his employee. Harris's credits with him included A Christmas Carol (1971) — as animator of Ebenezer Scrooge — the opening titles of The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and the still-unfinished animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler (animating the Thief of the title, which is very reminiscent of Harris's earlier work animating Wile E. Coyote for Jones).\n\nHarris died from Parkinson's disease at 83 years of age.\n\n[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]",
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