Edward Stacey "Tedd" Pierce III (August 12, 1906 â€" February 19,
1972) was a screenwriter of American animated cartoons, principally
from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s.Pierce was the son of a
stockbroker, Samuel Cuppels Pierce, who in turn was the son of Edward
S. Pierce, a long-serving treasurer of the St. Louis-based Samuel
Cuppels Woodenware Company. Pierce completed his education through the
fourth year of high school, according to the 1940 census
records.Pierce spent the majority of his career as a writer for the
Warner Bros. "Termite Terrace" animation studio, working alongside
fellow luminaries such as Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. Pierce also
worked as a writer at Fleischer Studios from 1939 to 1941. Jones
credited Pierce in his autobiography Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times
of an Animated Cartoonist (1989) as being the inspiration for the
character Pepé Le Pew, the haplessly romantic French skunk due to
Pierce's self-proclamation that he was a ladies' man.
1972) was a screenwriter of American animated cartoons, principally
from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s.Pierce was the son of a
stockbroker, Samuel Cuppels Pierce, who in turn was the son of Edward
S. Pierce, a long-serving treasurer of the St. Louis-based Samuel
Cuppels Woodenware Company. Pierce completed his education through the
fourth year of high school, according to the 1940 census
records.Pierce spent the majority of his career as a writer for the
Warner Bros. "Termite Terrace" animation studio, working alongside
fellow luminaries such as Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. Pierce also
worked as a writer at Fleischer Studios from 1939 to 1941. Jones
credited Pierce in his autobiography Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times
of an Animated Cartoonist (1989) as being the inspiration for the
character Pepé Le Pew, the haplessly romantic French skunk due to
Pierce's self-proclamation that he was a ladies' man.
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