Warner Elvon Leighton was an American film, sound, music, effects and supervising editor. An only child, he married Patricia Relyea in the early 1950s. He had two daughters with Patricia; Denise was born in 1955 and Cynthia was born in 1958. He also had one Grandson, Kyler, born in 1993. Later, he married Margaret (P.J.) Webb on March 3, 1984. During the 1960s, Leighton edited many William Hanna

William Hanna

William Denby Hanna was an American animator, director, producer, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of people for much of the 20th century. When he was a young child, Hanna's family moved frequently, but they settled in Compton, California, by...

 and Joseph Barbera

Joseph Barbera

Joseph Roland Barbera was an influential American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....

 cartoons such as The Flintstones

The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that screened from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, The Flintstones was about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. It...

, The Jetsons

The Jetsons

The Jetsons is a animated American sitcom that was produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in prime-time from 1962–1963 and again from 1985–1987...

, Atom Ant

Atom Ant

Atom Ant is a cartoon ant and superhero, created by Hanna-Barbera in 1965. Atom costarred in The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show...

, Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise based around several animated television series and related works produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969...

, The Secret Squirrel Show, Jonny Quest

Jonny Quest (TV series)

Jonny Quest – often casually referred to as The Adventures of Jonny Quest – is an American science fiction/adventure animated television series about a boy who accompanies his father on extraordinary adventures...

, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear, and Space Ghost

Space Ghost

Space Ghost is a fictional superhero created by Hanna-Barbera Productions and designed by Alex Toth for CBS in the 1960s. In his original incarnation, he was a superhero who, with his sidekick teen helpers Jan, Jace, and Blip the monkey, fought supervillains in outer space...

. He also edited a lot of Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby , born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium....

 and Stan Lee

Stan Lee

Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics....

 cartoons such as Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium...

, and Doug Wildey

Doug Wildey

Douglas S. Wildey was a cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his co-creation of the 1964 animated television series, Jonny Quest for Hanna-Barbera Productions.-Early life and career:...

 cartoons such as Jonny Quest

Jonny Quest

Jonny Quest is a media franchise that revolves around a boy named Jonny Quest who accompanies his father on extraordinary adventures. The franchise started with a 1964-65 television series and has come to include two subsequent television series, two television films, and a video game.-1964–1965...

.

Leighton edited the film Gone in 60 Seconds

Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 film)

Gone in 60 Seconds is a 1974 American action film written, directed, produced by, and starring H.B. 'Toby' Halicki. It centers on a group of car thieves and the 48 cars they must steal in a matter of days. The film is famous for having wrecked and destroyed 93 cars in a 34-minute car chase scene....

. There was no official script for the film, apart from several pages outlining main dialog sequences. Much of the action/dialog was improvised and made up by the cast and crew as they went along. This caused many problems for Leighton, who never knew what footage was being dumped on him or where in the movie it belonged. In the DVD audio commentary, he described the script for the construction site portion of the main pursuit as a piece of cardboard with a circle on it. Leighton edited the films The Junkman

The Junkman

The Junkman is a 1982 independent film which spent two years in production. To make the film, H. B. Halicki used his own personal collection of over 200 cars, toys, and guns - including Eleanor, the star of his 1974 cult classic Gone in 60 Seconds....

and Deadline Auto Theft

Deadline Auto Theft

Deadline Auto Theft is a 1983 independent film written and directed by H.B 'Toby' Halicki, made up of scenes from Gone in 60 Seconds and The Junkman, as well as new material featuring Hoyt Axton.- Plot :...

for director H. B. Halicki

H. B. Halicki

H.B. Halicki was an American stunt driver, actor, and filmmaker. He was also known as Toby to his friends and family, and to his fans as 'The Car Crash King'.-Biography:...

.

Leighton edited several television films. He edited the film C.H.O.M.P.S.

C.H.O.M.P.S.

-Plot:A young inventor - Brian Foster creates a robotic dog for use as part of a home protection system. C.H.O.M.P.S. is an acronym for "canine home protection system." Ralph Norton is his boss who he constantly argues with. Norton's daughter Casey and Foster develop a relationship...

, The American Dreamer for actor, director, producer, and stuntman Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...

, and Wolf Lake

Wolf Lake

Wolf Lake is an American television series that originally aired on CBS. Wolf Lake follows a pack of werewolves living in a Seattle suburb. The first 5 episodes aired on CBS, but due to low ratings CBS cancelled it. A total of nine aired episodes and a non-aired pilot were made before the show...

.

Filmography

• That's My Mommy
  That's My Mommy
  That's My Mommy is the 97th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1955, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley....
  
   (1955)
• Good Will to Men (1955)
• The Flying Sorceress
  The Flying Sorceress
  The Flying Sorceress is the 98th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1955, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Irven Spence and Lewis Marshall, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and...
  
   (1956)
• Busy Buddies
  Busy Buddies
  Busy Buddies is the 100th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Irven Spence, Lewis Marshall, Kenneth Muse and Ed Barge, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and layouts...
  
   (1956)
• Muscle Beach Tom
  Muscle Beach Tom
  Muscle Beach Tom is the 101st one-reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The cartoon was animated by Lewis Marshall, Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, and Irven Spence , with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and layouts by Richard Bickenbach...
  
   (1956)
• Millionaire Droopy (1956)
• The Egg and Jerry
  The Egg and Jerry
  The Egg and Jerry is the 99th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. It is a CinemaScope remake of 1949's Hatch Up Your Troubles, and the first of the Cinemascope remakes of a few cartoons...
  
   (1956)
• Barbecue Brawl
  Barbecue Brawl
  Barbecue Brawl is the 104th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. It was animated by Ed Barge, Irven Spence, Lewis Marshall and Kenneth Muse, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and layouts by...
  
   (1956)
• Blue Cat Blues
  Blue Cat Blues
  Blue Cat Blues is the 103rd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley...
  
   (1956)
• Down Beat Bear
  Down Beat Bear
  Down Beat Bear is the 102nd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge, Irven Spence and Lewis Marshall, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle and...
  
   (1956)
• The Ruff & Reddy Show
  The Ruff & Reddy Show
  The Ruff & Reddy Show is a Hanna-Barbera animated series starring Ruff, a straight and smart cat voiced by Don Messick, and Reddy, a dumb and stupid dog voiced by Daws Butler...
  
   (1957)
• One Droopy Knight
  One Droopy Knight
  One Droopy Knight is a 1957 animated short subject in the Droopy series, directed by Michael Lah and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in CinemaScope as well.- Plot :...
  
   (1957)
• Tom's Photo Finish
  Tom's Photo Finish
  Tom's Photo Finish is the 109th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Bill Schipek, Lewis Marshall, Jack Carr, Herman Cohen and Ken Southworth, with...
  
   (1957)
• Blackboard Jumble (1957)
• Mucho Mouse
  Mucho Mouse
  Mucho Mouse is the 108th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. It was released on September 6, 1957 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
   (1957)
• Scat Cats
  Scat Cats
  Scat Cats is a 1957 Spike and Tyke cartoon produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. It is the second and final Spike and Tyke spin-off of Tom and Jerry.- Plot :...
  
   (1957)
• Feedin' the Kiddie
  Feedin' the Kiddie
  Feedin' the Kiddie is the 107th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. It is a CinemaScope remake of 1948's Academy Award winning cartoon, The Little Orphan...
  
   (1957)
• Grin and Share It (1957)
• Timid Tabby
  Timid Tabby
  Timid Tabby is the 106th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, copyrighted 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Lewis Marshall, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, Ken Southworth and Bill Schipek, with backgrounds by...
  
   (1957)
• Give and Tyke
  Give and Tyke
  Give and Tyke is the first of the Spike and Tyke cartoon series. The title is a pun on "Give and Take".-Plot:The main antagonist, a hungry dog is humming the theme song of Tom and Jerry. He stops and gets a bone and a newspaper from the trash can. He then sits and he uses his newspaper as his...
  
   (1957)
• Tops with Pops
  Tops with Pops
  Tops with Pops is the 105th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. It is a shot-for-shot CinemaScope remake of 1949's Love That Pup...
  
   (1957)
• Cat's Meow (1957)
• The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958)
• Pixie & Dixie (1958)
• Tot Watchers
  Tot Watchers
  Tot Watchers is the 114th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1957, produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The short was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on August 1, 1958, over a year after it was produced...
  
   (1958)
• Droopy Leprechaun (1958)
• Robin Hoodwinked
  Robin Hoodwinked
  Robin Hoodwinked is the 113th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, copyrighted 1957 and released on June 6, 1958 after the MGM cartoon studio had effectively closed down. It was the penultimate Tom and Jerry cartoon that was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley...
  
   (1958)
• The Vanishing Duck
  The Vanishing Duck
  The Vanishing Duck is the 112th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1957, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon was animated by Lewis Marshall, Kenneth Muse, Carlo Vinci and James Escalante, with backgrounds by Robert Gentle...
  
   (1958)
• Mutts About Racing (1958)
• Royal Cat Nap
  Royal Cat Nap
  Royal Cat Nap is the 111th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created 1957, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with music by Scott Bradley...
  
   (1958)
• Sheep Wrecked (1958)
• Happy Go Ducky
  Happy Go Ducky
  Happy Go Ducky is the 110th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley, and marks the penultimate appearance of Quacker the duckling. The cartoon's working title was One Quack Mind before the...
  
   (1958)
• South Seas Adventure (1958)
• The Flintstones
  The Flintstones
  The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that screened from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, The Flintstones was about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. It...
  
   (1960)
• Top Cat
  Top Cat
  Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Reruns are played on Cartoon Network's classic animation network Boomerang.-History:...
  
   (1961)
• The Jetsons
  The Jetsons
  The Jetsons is a animated American sitcom that was produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in prime-time from 1962–1963 and again from 1985–1987...
  
   (1962)
• Wally Gator
  Wally Gator
  Wally Gator is one of the segments from The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series. The other segments that compose this trilogy are Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har and Touché Turtle and Dum Dum. The segment consisted of 52 episodes over two seasons....
  
   (1962)
• The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series (1962)
• Whatcha Watchin' (1963)
• Hey There, It's Yogi Bear (1964)
• Magilla Gorilla
  Magilla Gorilla
  The Magilla Gorilla Show is an animated series for television produced by Hanna-Barbera for Screen Gems between 1963 and 1967, and originally sponsored in syndication by Ideal Toys from 1963 through 1966. The show also had other recurring characters, including Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse, and Ricochet...
  
   (1964)
• Peter Potamus and His Magic Flying Balloon
  Peter Potamus
  Peter Potamus is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and first broadcast on September 16, 1964. -Premise:Peter Potamus was a syndicated series divided into three segments; one of Peter Potamus and So-So, one of...
  
   (1964)
• Jonny Quest
  Jonny Quest
  Jonny Quest is a media franchise that revolves around a boy named Jonny Quest who accompanies his father on extraordinary adventures. The franchise started with a 1964-65 television series and has come to include two subsequent television series, two television films, and a video game.-1964–1965...
  
   (1964)
• The Hillbilly Bears
  The Hillbilly Bears
  The Hillbilly Bears is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It aired as a segment on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show for two seasons, from 1965 to 1967. During the first half of the 1966-67 television season, The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show was split into two...
  
   (1965)
• Sinbad Jr. (1965)
• Tom and Jerry
  Tom and Jerry
  Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...
  
   (1965)
• The Atom Ant Show (1965)
• The Secret Squirrel Show (1965)
• The Man Called Flintstone
  The Man Called Flintstone
  The Man Called Flintstone is a 1966 American animated musical comedy film produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and released by Columbia Pictures. It was the second Hanna-Barbera feature, after Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!...
  
   (1966)
• Space Ghost
  Space Ghost
  Space Ghost is a fictional superhero created by Hanna-Barbera Productions and designed by Alex Toth for CBS in the 1960s. In his original incarnation, he was a superhero who, with his sidekick teen helpers Jan, Jace, and Blip the monkey, fought supervillains in outer space...
  
   (1966)
• The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show (1966)
• A Laurel and Hardy Cartoon (1966)
• The Peter Potamus Show
  Peter Potamus
  Peter Potamus is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and first broadcast on September 16, 1964. -Premise:Peter Potamus was a syndicated series divided into three segments; one of Peter Potamus and So-So, one of...
  
   (1966)
• The Space Kidettes (1966)
• Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles
  Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles
  Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles was an American Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1966. It premiered on September 10, 1966, and ran for two seasons.-Overview:...
  
   (1966)
• Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
  Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
  Birdman and the Galaxy Trio is an animated science fiction TV series created by Alex Toth and produced by Hanna-Barbera. It debuted on NBC on September 9, 1967, and ran on Saturday mornings until September 6, 1969...
  
   (1967)
• The Fantastic Four (1967)
• The Herculoids
  The Herculoids
  The Herculoids is a Saturday morning animated television series that was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show debuted on September 9, 1967 on CBS...
  
   (1967)
• Shazzan
  Shazzan
  Shazzan is an animated television series, created by Alex Toth and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1967 for CBS. The series follows the adventures of two teenage siblings, Chuck and Nancy, traveling around a mystical Arabian world, mounted on Kaboobie the flying camel...
  
   (1967)
• We'll Take Manhattan
  We'll Take Manhattan
  We'll Take Manhattan was a television comedy show that debuted on April 30, 1967. It only lasted one episode. It followed a young lawyer, Lucas Graystone, as he attempted to help a 140-year old native American and his tribe, reclaim Manhattan.- Cast :...
  
   (1967)
• Samson & Goliath
  Samson & Goliath
  Samson & Goliath is a 30-minute animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC in 1967, and primarily sponsored by General Mills...
  
   (1967)
• Jack and the Beanstalk
  Jack and the Beanstalk
  Jack and the Beanstalk is a folktale said by English historian Francis Palgrave to be an oral legend that arrived in England with the Vikings. The tale is closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant-killer. It is known under a number of versions...
  
   (1967)
• Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor
  Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor
  Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor is a science fiction animated series created by Alex Toth for Hanna-Barbera Productions, which ran on CBS from 1967 to 1969. Despite Moby's name coming first, he had only one short per half-hour episode, sandwiched between two with Mightor; the same structure was used...
  
   (1967)
• Scooby Doo (1967)
• Gone in 60 Seconds
  Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 film)
  Gone in 60 Seconds is a 1974 American action film written, directed, produced by, and starring H.B. 'Toby' Halicki. It centers on a group of car thieves and the 48 cars they must steal in a matter of days. The film is famous for having wrecked and destroyed 93 cars in a 34-minute car chase scene....
  
   (1974)
• C.H.O.M.P.S.
  C.H.O.M.P.S.
  -Plot:A young inventor - Brian Foster creates a robotic dog for use as part of a home protection system. C.H.O.M.P.S. is an acronym for "canine home protection system." Ralph Norton is his boss who he constantly argues with. Norton's daughter Casey and Foster develop a relationship...
  
  (1979)

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