About Danny Antonucci
Daniel Antonucci (, Italian: [antoˈnuttʃi]; born February 27, 1957) is a Canadian animator, cartoonist, director, producer, writer, and voice actor. He created the Cartoon Network animated comedy series Ed, Edd n Eddy as well as Lupo the Butcher and The Brothers Grunt for MTV. He has also provided additional voice roles (such as voicing Mr. Sun in Ed, Edd n Eddy episode The Eds are Coming, the Eds are Coming and being a star in The Brothers Grunt.) Antonucci dropped out of the Sheridan College of Visual Arts to take a job as an animator at Hanna-Barbera, and worked on a number of series: The Flintstone Comedy Show, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The Smurfs, and Richie Rich. He continued his career in Vancouver, working on animated shorts and television commercials at International Rocketship Limited, where he created his first solo work, Lupo the Butcher. For MTV, Antonucci made a number of bumpers, his series The Brothers Grunt, and the title sequence to animation showcase program Cartoon Sushi. == Early life == Antonucci's parents were Italian immigrants to Canada. His experiences as a child in an immigrant family deeply influenced his later work, such as Lupo the Butcher. Growing up, he originally got into animation from watching Popeye the Sailor cartoons, along many other 1950's and 1960's cartoons like Tex Avery, Quick Draw McGraw, and Huckleberry Hound. Antonucci was a whistler as a boy, whistling "Big Noise from Winnetka" often, a personal favorite song of his. Antonucci whistled the intro of Ed, Edd, and Eddy.
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