T. Hee

"T." (Thornton) Hee (March 26, 1911 – October 30, 1988) was an American animator, director, and teacher.

Career

Hee worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1935–36 as a character designer. He designed many of the celebrity caricatures used in "The CooCoo Nut Grove" (1936) and "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos" (1937). A 1936 Christmas card that he drew, featuring caricatures of the Schlesinger animators, was used to design the gremlins in the 1944 animated short "Russian Rhapsody".