Thomas Johnson

Nacimiento : 1907-03-14, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1960-01-01

Historia

Thomas Johnson was an American animator and animation director. He was one of the steady staffers at Fleischer (mainly on Popeye) and Famous Studios.

PelĂ­culas

Miceniks
Animation Director
Beatnik mice are chased by a square cat.
Terry The Terror
Animation Director
Terry is a brat who doesn't listen to his parents, so his mother calls in a child psychiatrist (Professor Schmaltz). The shrink tries to mentor the very rowdy, troublemaking young boy, but Terry gets the best of the professor.
Fine Feathered Fiend
Animation Director
A Native American chief's son, watches his pal win a feather from the chief for doing a good deed. He decides he wants one and thinks of a plan of how to obtain an eagle's feather.
Disguise The Limit
Animation Director
Mike the Masquerader is loose again in this sequel to Mike The Masquerader.
Peck Your Own Home
Animation Director
A woodpecker keeps a man from sleeping at night in his own home.
Trigger Treat
Animation Director
The new sheriff of an Old West town enforces a "no guns" policy.
Spooking of Ghosts
Animation
A ghost is hired by a real-estate agent on the behalf of a Scots-client to haunt the tight-wad's mansion while he is away so he won't have to pay for a caretaker. A weary hobo, who doesn't believe in ghost, tries to move in the invitingly-empty domicile...and rues the day.
Fit to Be Toyed
Animation
Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia".
Felineous Assault
Animation Director
Katnip teaches his little nephew Kitnip how to catch a mouse. Kitnip goes into Herman's mousehole and gets stuck under a pipe. Herman rescues Kitnip. Instead of being a supposed enemy, Kitnip becomes Herman's friend instead!
Spree Lunch
Animation
Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they compete for his business. The competition escalates, until finally they are throwing things at each other; Wimpy stands between them and snags a complete meal from the stream of objects passing overhead. Another spinach-free Popeye.
Patriotic Popeye
Animation
Two of Popeye's nephews get caught playing with fireworks on the Fourth of July. Popeye takes them away, and they spend the rest of the picture trying to get them back (mostly by getting Popeye away from them).
Nearlyweds
Animation
Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over.
Out to Punch
Animation
Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto, who's lazy about everything except sabotage, decides he needs to stop Popeye.
Popeye for President
Animation
Popeye and Bluto are running for president; it's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive is the only remaining voter. But she won't vote until her chores are done, so Popeye and Bluto compete to cut her wood, plow her fields, and store her hay. And then it's just an old-fashioned fight.
Hill-billing and Cooing
Animation
Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's spinach falls, it's up to Olive to save the day.
Car-azy Drivers
Animation
Popeye arrives in a suit of armor to take Olive for her first driving lesson. Between her literal-mindedness ("choke the engine"), inexperience, an inattentiveness, she has several accidents, culminating in a showdown with a locomotive.
Gift of Gag
Animation
Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house.
Beaus Will Be Beaus
Animation
Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting...
Penny Antics
Animation
A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories.
Private Eye Popeye
Animation
Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it.
Taxi-Turvy
Animation
Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.
Shaving Muggs
Animation
Shore leave; Olive refuses to go out with either of the boys until they get a shave and haircut (Popeye actually has stubble). Barber Wimpy is out, so they take turns. First Popeye takes care of Bluto, making him actually look presentable; then it's Bluto's turn to give Popeye the works of course, he's going to get a different treatment.
Firemen's Brawl
Animation
Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house.
Toreadorable
Animation
Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls for him.
Child Sockology
Animation
Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable fight starts, they ignore him and he wanders off to a construction site. The boys alternate between fighting each other and rescuing the tot, with Bluto concentrating on fighting and Popeye on saving.
Philharmaniacs
Animation Director
Singalong about an all-animal orchestra, spoofing the musicians and various instruments of the orchestra.
Big Bad Sindbad
Animation
Popeye's nephews are touring a museum of nautical history (only three of them, for some reason). They come to a statue of Sindbad, the world's greatest sailor, and ask Popeye to explain, since *he* is supposed to be the world's greatest sailor. He explains by telling the story of the time he met Sindbad, as seen in part of the earlier short Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936). Inspired by his tale, the nephews adjust the statue.
Riot in Rhythm
Animation
Popeye's nephews practice their music, swinging out at the end. He puts them to bed with a perfunctory story; they say their prayers, finishing by blessing "all the nice people that come to see their pictures." But they're not ready to sleep, so they sneak down to their instruments. Popeye confiscates the instruments (even the piano) so he can get some sleep. The tots quickly realize that common objects in their bedroom can be used as musical instruments and they start swinging out on everything in sight. Popeye can't catch them in the act; they are always asleep when he looks in, even through the window or floorboards. He pulls his bed outside the iris-out, but they follow and he runs down the aisle of the theatre.
The Circus Comes to Clown
Animation
Singalong about the fun of the circus featuring spot gags such as stereotypical black "Siamese Twins" eating watermelons (one eats them, the other spits out the seeds) and lions shooting the teaser after he whips them with his rod. A trumpeting seal holds out a sign reading "Petrillo Says Two Fish" (a reference to American Federation of Musicians president James C. Petrillo). The main attraction, a man on a flying trapeze, swoops down into the audience and picks up a beautiful girl. Watch for a cameo appearance by Blackie the Lamb, who kills the man on the flying trapeze at the end.
Safari So Good
Animation
Popeye and Olive are on a safari, he with a gun and she with a camera. She wanders off to stalk a chimp, and happens across Bluto as a Tarzan-like character. She's smitten, as is he, so he shows off a bit. Popeye finally catches on, and they start the usual round of fighting and one-upmanship. Bluto summons a wide array of animals, and while Popeye's occupied, hauls Olive high into a treehouse. With some help from the chimp, Popeye has his spinach and turns most of the animals into fur coats (on a rack the chimp pushes through the melee), then rescues Olive by hauling on the tree's roots until she's at ground level.
Safari So Good
Animation Director
Popeye and Olive are on a safari, he with a gun and she with a camera. She wanders off to stalk a chimp, and happens across Bluto as a Tarzan-like character. She's smitten, as is he, so he shows off a bit. Popeye finally catches on, and they start the usual round of fighting and one-upmanship. Bluto summons a wide array of animals, and while Popeye's occupied, hauls Olive high into a treehouse. With some help from the chimp, Popeye has his spinach and turns most of the animals into fur coats (on a rack the chimp pushes through the melee), then rescues Olive by hauling on the tree's roots until she's at ground level.
Wotta Knight
Animation
Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hair). Of course, Bluto plays dirty, squirting grease on the field in front of Popeye's horse, and using an extra-long lance. But Popeye wins anyhow, and climbs SB's tower with Bluto right behind him. They fight over her, playing tug-of-war with her pigtails.
Wotta Knight
Animation Director
Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hair). Of course, Bluto plays dirty, squirting grease on the field in front of Popeye's horse, and using an extra-long lance. But Popeye wins anyhow, and climbs SB's tower with Bluto right behind him. They fight over her, playing tug-of-war with her pigtails.
The Royal Four-Flusher
Animation Director
Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker), rides up on his horse and steals Olive away, while tricking Popeye with an exploding cigar and other gimmicks.
The Mild West
Animation
A series of blackout gags, followed by an exhortation to sing along with the bouncing ball -- the song being "I'm an Old Cow Hand".
Madhattan Island
Director
A humorous tour of Manhattan concludes with 3 bouncing-ball songs.
I'll Be Skiing Ya
Animation
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill.
I'll Be Skiing Ya
Animation Director
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill.
Zero the Hound
Animation
A cartoon in the Animated Antics series from the Fleischer Studios about Zero the Hound.
Granite Hotel
Animation
It's just another day at the Granite Hotel.
She Wronged Him Right
Animation
Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama.