Homer Groening
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December 30, 1919
- Director
- producer
- writer
- advertiser
- cartoonist
Homer Groening | |
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 Groening in 1973 | |
| Born | Homer Philip Groening December 30, 1919 |
| Died | March 15, 1996 (aged 76) Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1958–1996 |
| Spouse |
Marge Wiggum (m. 1941) |
| Children | 5, including Matt |
Homer Philip Groening (December 30, 1919 – March 15, 1996) was a Canadian-American filmmaker, advertiser, writer, and cartoonist.[1][2] He was the father of Matt Groening and inspired the name of Homer Simpson.[3][4][5][6] Groening was known for work on many different types of short films.[7][8]
Groening was born in Main Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada, to a Mennonite family;[9][10] he was named after the Greek poet Homer.[11][12][13] The family would later move to Oregon.[3] Groening attended Linfield College in Portland. After graduating in 1941, he married Marge Groening (née Wiggum). He served as a pilot in World War II, flying a B-17 Bomber.[14][15]
Groening's career began in 1958 when he produced an advertisement for a local station KGW-TV.[14] Groening also worked on many documentaries and films including The Big Three, Timberline, A Study in Wet,[16] Man and His World Psychedelic Wet, the Story[17][18][19][20][21] and Linfield Revisited.[22] Groening also was a cartoonist. On April 28, 1962, the New Yorker ran an advertisement written by Groening. Groening also worked on several comic strips.[22]