William Nolan Movies

A brat leads Oswald the Lucky Rabbit on a merry chase at the fairgrounds. Slapdash, violent laugh riot sparked by a round of parental abuse. Not to...

A Walter Lantz/Bill Nolan Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released February 9, 1931.

Oswald the Rabbit comes to the rescue when a peg-legged sheik abducts his girlfriend and brings her to a mysterious pyramid filled with walking...

By this point, Lantz used Oswald the Lucky Rabbit as his house mascot, here to introduce the cartoon. And while the story of the Gingerbread Boy as...

"Smash-Up in China" is a very early animated film. The story consists of the Hooligan telling the little hooligans about his supposed adventures in...

Mars is a 1930 short animated film. It is one of many short films in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series.

A well composed series of gags run from ones involving simply frame composition all the way out to Keaton-like surrealism in this well-ordered and...

Oswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues.

A Walter Lantz Pooch the Pup cartoon released August 29, 1932.

The sheriff runs Oswald the Rabbit out of town; but then Oswald finds the sheriff's infant son out in the desert.

Oswald is driven out of his store by mice, so he turns to a cat for help in this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon from Walter Lantz.

In this one, Oswald, his girlfriend Kitty, and Pete are working on a farm.

Oswald applies and lands a job at Pete's Piano shop. After teaching a chicken to play with corn seeds, he gets a call from his girlfriend to deliver...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit works in a laundry shop in Chinatown in this one. It's a late synchronized sound cartoon: no talking or singing, but lots of...

It has a very childish set of gags. This is apparently a deliberate choice as the Stork brings hundreds of baby bugs to the Old Woman Who Lives in a...

Disaster ensues when Oswald neglects his day care center. I won't spoil the experience for you; just let this document of one-sided American...

Oswald has a fun day at the beach.

Oswald and Annie are set to be married, but Pete steals Annie away momentarily by pretending to be a "handsome gentleman" who will fetch her to...

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Walter Lantz Production #496. Released January 16, 1933. Directed by “Bill” Nolan. Animated by Ray Abrams, Fred...

Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strips.