Danny Antonucci, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Danny Antonucci

Canadian animator, cartoonist, director, producer and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1957

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Profession: screenwriter, animator, film director, film producer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Daniel Edward Antonucci (, Italian: [anto'nutt?i]; born February 27, 1957) is a Canadian animator, director, producer, and writer.
Antonucci is known for creating the Cartoon Network animated comedy series Ed, Edd n Eddy.
He also created Lupo the Butcher, Cartoon Sushi, and The Brothers Grunt. Antonucci dropped out of the Sheridan College of Visual Arts to take a job as an animator at Hanna-Barbera, where he worked on a number of series, including Fables of the Green Forest, The Flintstone Comedy Show, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The Smurfs, and Richie Rich.
He continued his career in Vancouver, where he worked on animated shorts and television commercials for International Rocketship Limited, and created his first solo work, the animated short Lupo the Butcher.
At MTV, he worked on a number of commercials, his series The Brothers Grunt, and the animation showcase program Cartoon Sushi, which he co-created with Keith Alcorn.
He went on to create Ed, Edd n Eddy for Cartoon Network.
In 2008, Antonucci signed to the now-defunct WildBrain. Throughout his career, Antonucci won a number of awards.
Many of his commercials for Converse, ESPN and Levi's won a number of awards.
Lupo the Butcher was a successful short and is considered to be a cult classic.