Tom O'Loughlin, a veteran background artist for Warner Bros. and several other studios, died October 26 at 83.
From 1947 to 1987, he worked for WB, Disney, Hanna-Barbera, DePatie-Freleng and Filmation.
O'Loughlin got off to an inauspicious beginning at Warner Bros. The credits in his first cartoon for the studio, A Pizza Tweety-Pie (1958), misspelled his surname as "O'Laughlin."(He was sometimes billed as "O'Laughlin" on TV productions much later.)
But later that year, he did the backgrounds for Knighty Knight Bugs, which won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoon).
At DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, he worked in many Pink Panthercartoons, including the Oscar-winning The Pink Phink(1964), the studio's first theatrical short.
