Earl Hurd

Directing

Birthday	Sep 14, 1880 (60 years old)
Deathday	Sep 28, 1940
Place of birth	Kansas City - Missouri - USA
Gender	Male

Pioneering American animator and film director. He is noted for creating and producing the silent Bobby Bumps animated short subject series for early animation producer J.R. Bray's Bray Productions. Hurd and Bray are jointly responsible for developing the processes involved in cel animation, and were granted patents for their processes in 1914. -Wikipedia Entry