Earl Hurd

Biography

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

Known For

Acting

1919

Bobby Bumps in Their Master's Voice

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Himself

Production

1922

Fresh Fish

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Crew

Directing

1916

Bobby Bumps and the Detective Story

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1917

Bobby Bumps Starts for School

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1916

Bobby Bumps and the Stork

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1916

Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge

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1917

Bobby Bumps' Fourth

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1918

Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum

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1916

Bobby Bumps and His Goatmobile

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1917

Bobby Bumps Outwits the Dogsnatcher

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1918

Bobby Bumps on the Doughnut Trail

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1918

Bobby Bumps' Fight

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1919

Bobby Bumps and the Hypnotic Eye

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1919

Bobby Bumps' Pup Gets the Flea-Enza

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1917

Bobby Bumps: Tanks

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1917

Bobby Bumps, Office Boy

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1918

At the Dentist

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1916

Bobby Bumps Gets a Substitute

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1917

Bobby Bumps, Surf Rider

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1916

Bobby Bumps' Fly Swatter

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1916

Bobby Bumps and His Pointer Pup

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1917

Bobby Bumps Adopts a Turtle

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1919

Bobby Bumps' Last Smoke

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1917

Bobby Bumps at Fido's Birthday Party

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1917

Bobby Bumps, Chef

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1921

Bobby Bumps in Hunting and Fishing

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1918

Bobby Bumps Caught in the Jam

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1916

Bobby Bumps Helps Out a Book Agent

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1919

Bobby Bumps in Their Master's Voice

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1916

Bobby Bumps at the Circus

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1922

Fresh Fish

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1917

Bobby Bumps' Amusement Park

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1923

Chicken Dressing

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1918

Bobby Bumps and the Speckled Death

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