Founded by Dave Koch in 1997, the Big Cartoon DataBase brings together decades of animation history, from the earliest theatrical shorts to television cartoons and feature films. Explore the archive and rediscover the cartoons and creators you love.
The Big Cartoon DataBase
The animation archive
Explore more than 165,000 animated shorts, feature films and television cartoons in the Big Cartoon DataBase. Discover release dates, stories, cast and crew credits, and the people and studios behind the cartoons.
- 165,043Cartoons
- 8,615Studios and series
- 163,400Animators, cast and crew
Browse Cartoons by studio
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20th Century Fox
4 series, 1,709 cartoons -
Columbia Pictures
8 series, 1,669 cartoons -
Filmation Associates
5 series, 1,656 cartoons -
Hanna-Barbera Studios
11 series, 7,752 cartoons -
MGM
3 series, 559 cartoons -
Other Studios
26 series, 136,885 cartoons -
Paramount Pictures
7 series, 2,005 cartoons -
Universal Studios
7 series, 1,627 cartoons -
Walt Disney Studios
6 series, 6,813 cartoons -
Warner Bros.
8 series, 5,166 cartoons
From the archive
The Friendly Ghost (1945)
Casper runs away from home and the other ghosts there to explore the world and make friends. After unintentionally scaring away several different animals, he decides to end it all by laying on the railroad tracks in front of a speeding locomotive. Failing that, two children, Bonnie and Johnny, find him crying on the tracks and befriend him.
The people behind the cartoons
Every credit is linked. Pick a name to see everything that person directed, animated, wrote or voiced.
- Yuji Mutoh 6,585 credits
- Hiroyuki Sasaki 4,342 credits
- Hiroaki Sasaki 4,301 credits
- Pat Foley 3,957 credits
- Jim Cummings 3,094 credits
- Ayako Kawasumi 2,593 credits
- Butch Hartman 2,247 credits
- Hidefumi Kimura 2,218 credits
- Masakazu Hashimoto 2,157 credits
- Hiromitsu Morita 2,118 credits
- Makoto Moriwaki 1,848 credits
- Satoshi Anakura 1,814 credits
Explore by decade
From the first experiments of the 1890s through the golden age of theatrical shorts to the television era and beyond.