From the January 2002 Peg-Board
Animator, director and 1994 Golden Award winner RAY PATTERSON died on December 30, 2001 at the age of ninety.
He started in 1929 at the Mintz studio and a decade later moved to Disney, where he animated on Pluto cartoons and on Fantasia and Dumbo. In 1941 he joined MGM's Hanna-Barbera unit as an animator.
In 1954 Patterson co-founded GrantRay-Lawrence Studios and operated it until the late 'sixties, after which he worked for Hanna-Barbera (co-directing the Charlotte's Web feature), Fred Calvert Productions and Sanrio Productions. At H-B he eventually became VP in charge of animation direction, a post he held until his retirement in 1993.
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