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Tex Avery and Michael Lah co-directed Tex Avery's last two cartoons at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after Tex Avery decided to return back to Walter Lantz, where his career started. They are Deputy Droopy (1955) and Cellbound (1955).

He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Magical Maestro (1952).

In addition to his role of a prolific supervising animation director, he also added his voice to several cartoons. Samples: Santa Claus in Who Killed Who? (1943) and lending his distinctive hysterical laugh to the bulldog in Bad Luck Blackie (1949) and just before leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was the voice of the shorter of two attempting thieves, in Deputy Droopy (1955), that he and Michael Lah co-directed, together.

From 1942 to 1954 Avery worked as director of cartoons at MGM. He was responsible for practically every MGM Cartoon that did not feature Tom and Jerry.

According to biographer, Joe Adamson, when Tex was working on the cartoon A Wild Hare (1940) (it is his first official Bugs Bunny cartoon, as designed today), they were looking for something for the rabbit to say when Elmer Fudd pointed his gun to the rabbit's head, Tex, off of the top of his head, quickly suggested, "How about 'What's up doc?' " He used "doc" on many of his earlier cartoons, especially at Walter Lantz studio before this, but nobody seemed to notice. "Doc" was an expression used at North Dallas High School, which Tex attended, by Tex and many other students.

From 1936 to 1941 he worked as supervisor - another word for cartoon director - of some 60 titles in the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes series for Leon Schlesinger at Warner's.

After showing samples of his artwork he got a job at Walter Lantz Studios in 1929 as animator. His contributions during the years at Walter Lantz Studios were minor.

Tex Avery was a descendant of Judge Roy Bean and Daniel Boone, but all his grandma ever told him about it was "Don't ever mention you are kin to Roy Bean. He's a no good skunk!!" After graduating from North Dallas High School in 1927, Avery moved to Southern California in 1929 and got a job in the harbor.