Spike Brandt

Spike Brandt, an American animator, writer and voice actor, has worked for Warner Bros. Animation, often in partnership with Tony Cervone. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he entered animation in 1991 at the Chicago studio StarToons, whose founder, John McClenahan, hired him to help animate episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures. He remained three years, also contributing to Taz-Mania and Animaniacs and serving as an animation director on Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights. Starting in 1994, he and Cervone wrote, directed and produced projects for Warner Bros., including every episode of Duck Dodgers, which aired from 2003 to 2005, and they developed Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and The Looney Tunes Show. Their Tom and Jerry direct-to-video work takes in Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale and Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse. Brandt voiced Spike Bulldog in several such films and co-directed the 2005 short The Karate Guard with Joseph Barbera.