as well as his employee. Harris's credits with him included A Christmas Carol (1971) — as animator of Ebenezer Scrooge — the opening titles of The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and the still-unfinished animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler (animating the Thief of the title, which is very reminiscent of Harris's earlier work animating Wile E. Coyote for Jones). Among the many scenes Harris animated: Mama Bear doing an outrageous tap dance (which Chuck Jones, who directed the cartoon, and who was Harris' longtime collaborator, has said was inspired by Michael Maltese, "who could really dance that way") in A Bear For Punishment; Wile E. Coyote consuming earthquake pills in Hopalong Casualty; and the lengthy dance sequence in What's Opera, Doc?. Harris died on March 24, 1982, from Parkinson's disease in Woodland, California, at 83 years of age. Awards At the 1981 Annie Awards, ASIFA-Hollywood awarded Harris the Winsor McCay Award for lifetime achievement in the field of animation. References External links Official site of Ken Harris Retrieved December 2011 1898 births 1982 deaths Animators from California American animated film directors American cartoonists Neurological disease deaths in California Deaths from Parkinson's disease People from Tulare County, California Artists from Los Angeles Warner Bros. Cartoons people