Bob Givens Age, Death Cause, Wife, Family, Biography, Facts & More

Bio
Real Name	Robert Herman Givens
Nickname	Bob
Profession	Animator
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters - 173 cm in meters - 1.73 m in feet inches - 5’ 8”
Weight (approx.)	in Kilograms - 60 kg in Pounds - 132 lbs
Eye Color	Hazel-Gray
Hair Color	Gray
Personal Life
Date of Birth	March 2, 1918
Birth Place	Hanson, Kentucky, U.S.
Date of Death	December 14, 2017
Place of Death	Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, United States
Age (at the time of death)	99 Years
Death Cause	Acute Respiratory Failure
Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Pisces
Nationality	American
Hometown	Willowbrook, California, United States
School	Alhambra High School, California, United States
College/University	N/A
Educational Qualification	A High School Graduate
Family	Father- Name Not Known (horse breeder and rancher) Mother- Name Not Known Brother- 1 (twin) Sister- Not Known
Religion	Not Known
Ethnicity/Race	White American
Hobbies	Reading, Traveling
Girlfriends, Affairs and More
Sexual Orientation	Straight
Marital Status	Married
Girlfriends/Affairs	Not Known
Wife/Spouse	Caryl Arlene Smith
Marriage Date	Year, 1945
Children	Son- Christopher Daughter- Mariana Givens

Some Lesser Known Facts About Bob Givens

• Did Bob Givens smoke?: Not Known

• Did Bob Givens drink alcohol?: Not Known

• He was born as one of two twin boys in Hanson, Kentucky.

• After graduating from the Alhambra High School in the summer of 1936, he started working as a freelance artist.

• In 1937, on the recommendation of Hardie Gramatky (his school classmate and Disney staffer), he joined the Walt Disney Studio. 

• At the Disney, he worked as an animation checker on many of their short subjects (especially, Donald Duck). 

• He also worked with the Disney on their first feature-length film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). 

• In 1940, Givens joined Warner Bros. and started working mostly under Chuck Jones and Tex Avery. 

• At Warner Bros., he was asked to redesign a rabbit character for the cartoon character, A Wild Hare (1940), as it was “too cute” in his existing design.

• Givens, therefore, came out with the first official design for the rabbit, which would become the famous Bugs Bunny. 

• He had to end his initial spell at the studio to join the World War II.  

• Before he left for the World War, his last cartoon happened to be The Draft Horse (1942).

• Givens returned to Warner Bros. in the 1950s and mostly worked as a layout artist; staying with the studio until its 1954 shutdown.

• When the Warner Bros. studio eventually opened again, unlike many of his co-workers, Givens did not rejoin the studio, and worked at various studios, including the Jack Kinney studio, UPA, and Hanna-Barbera.

• In the early 1960s, Givens returned for one last spell at Warner Bros., staying with the studio until its final shutdown, and worked as the layout artist on False Hare (1964)- the final cartoon made by the studio.

• After Warner Bros., Givens worked at DePatie–Freleng Enterprises.

• He also worked on the Tom and Jerry cartoon produced by Chuck Jones at Sib Tower 12 Productions. 

• After that, he worked at the reformed Warner Bros. Animation studio on The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981), Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) and Daffy Duck’s Fantastic Island (1983).

• Givens then worked at Filmation, founded by his long-time friend Lou Scheimer.

• In the 1990s, once again, he worked with Chuck Jones, handling the production design on the Looney Tunes cartoons. 

• His last animation credit was on 2001’s Timber Wolf, a direct-to-video animated film written and produced by Chuck Jones.

• After Jone’s death in 2002, Givens retired from active animation work, though he continued giving lectures and animation talks well into his nineties.