Profile of Butch Hartman on Famous Like Me

Butch Hartman (born Elmer Earl Hartman IV on January 10, 1965 in Highland Park, Michigan), is an American animator and director who created the Nickelodeon animated series The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom.

Hartman was born to Elmer Earl Hartman III and Carol Davis, received the nickname "Butch" as a youth and continues to use the name professionally as an adult. Hartman spend his childhood in Roseville, Michigan and his teen years in New Baltimore, Michigan. In 1983, he graduated from Anchor Bay High School in New Baltimore and studied at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

Hartman entered the animation industry in 1986, first working on the cartoon series My Little Pony and then It's Punky Brewster. Later he became a writer, director and storyboard artist for several Cartoon Network shows, including Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, and Johnny Bravo. In 1997, he created The Fairly OddParents, and in 2001, it became an animated series (it had debuted as a short on the series Oh Yeah! Cartoons earlier). It became very successful and popular, but Hartman quit it at the height of its popularity to work on a new cartoon, Danny Phantom, in 2004. A Fairly OddParents movie, and another show by Hartman, titled Crash Nebula, is currently being developed, as of January 2005.

His other TV work include voicing various characters on the animated series Family Guy, and playing the character Sean Masters on the short lived series Generations in 1991.

Hartman currently lives in Bell Canyon, California, with his wife, Julieann, and daughters, Carly and Sophia.

Trivia

• Hartman formerly resided in Encino, California during the time Phil Hartman was killed, approximately five miles from his house. The two are not related.

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