Bickenbach began his career as an animator for
Ub Iwerks Studios, the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio and
Walter Lantz Productions until finally settling at
Warner Bros. cartoon division
Leon Schlesinger Productions. He would animate the
Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies series for directors
Ben Hardaway and
Cal Dalton,
Friz Freleng,
Frank Tashlin, and
Robert McKimson in a span of roughly 8 years. He also provided his voice for a few cartoons, mostly portraying caricatures of
Frank Sinatra. He later left and moved back to MGM in 1946 to provided layouts for roughly eighty
Tom and Jerry shorts during the decade he was there. When he moved to Hanna-Barbera, he was one of their first employees and he was there for two decades as an animator and
layout artist. He had a large influence on Hanna-Barbera's early
cartoon styles and was credited with creating the first official
Yogi Bear model sheets. == References ==