George Gordon September 2 1906 May 24 1986 was a film and TV animator and director of animated productions Starting in film in 1930 he moved to TV in its early days Gordon is credited with hundreds of cartoons from 1937 through 1983 Gordon began working with animation in 1930 at the MoserTerryCoffman Studio as an animator on the Jesse and James and Farmer Al Falfa series After two years he moved to Terrytoons along with one of his previous employers Paul Terry In 1937 Gordon left Terrytoons for the MetroGoldwynMayer cartoon studio to work as an animator During his career at MGM he was able to work on the Barney Bear and Tom and Jerry Gordon was later promoted to the director position on animations From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia