Iwao Takamoto (29 April 1925 - 8 January 2007) was a Japanese American animator, television producer, and film director. He was most famous as being a production and character designer for Hanna-Barbera Productions shows such as "Scooby-Doo". Wikipedia
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Iwao Takamoto had recently graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor; Iwao, his parents and siblings were interned as enemy aliens in the Manzanar internment camp where he learned the rudiments of dra www.imdb.com/name/nm0847314/
