Joe oriolo biography

American cartoonist

Joseph Oriolo (; February 21, 1913 – December 25, 1985) was an American cartoonanimator, writer, director and producer, known as the co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost and the creator of the Felix the Cat TV series.^[1][2] He provided the voice of the Italian barber in Gulliver's Travels.^[3]

Early life

Oriolo was born in Union City, New Jersey in 1913, the son of Italian immigrants.

He graduated from Union Hill High School and moved to New York City, and enrolled in the Cooper Union.^[4]

Career

In 1933, at age 20, he went to work for Fleischer Studios as an errand boy, where his talent as a draftsman and his ambitions advanced him to the position of an animator within one year.

During the late 1930s, he worked on a number of studio shorts, and when the studio moved to Miami in 1938 he went with it. There, in addition to the shorts, he worked on both of the studio's feature-length films, Gull Michael Maltese VEP