Background
Green, Bert was born on January 28, 1885 in Sutton, Surrey, England. Son of Francis William and Gertrude Eleanor (Scarman) Green.
Green, Bert was born on January 28, 1885 in Sutton, Surrey, England. Son of Francis William and Gertrude Eleanor (Scarman) Green.
Brought to the United States, 1887. Public schools and privately tutored. Student art schools, Pratt Institute and Chase Art School.
1 son, Robert Barrington. Married second, Evelyn Virginia Betts, January 8, 1944. Around the world before the mast, 1900-1904.
Quartermaster, South.S. Arizonian, American-Hawaiian Lincolnshire, 1904.
Successively lathe hand, East. West. Bliss Company, Brooklyn, New York, assistant electrician, Old Times Building, New York City, with art departments New York Herald, New York World, New York Sunday American, New York Journal, Atlanta Georgian, 1905-1913. Art manager, Chicago Examiner, 1914-1915.
Animated cartoonist, Hearst-Pathe, later Pathe News, 1915-1923. In business for self, creator of industrial animated cartoons, 1923-1926.
Creator of comic strip “Kids,” Chicago Tribune, 1928.
Associate with George Palmer Putnam, Incorporated., New York City, 1926-1930, with Hal Roach and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Culver City, California, 1927. Creator of the United States Navy cartoons for the Vocafilm Corporation, since 1943. Creator of newspaper cartoon, Wise Guys, 1947.
Authors agent, Myron Selznick, New New New York
Club: Lotos (New New York
Married Catherine Porter, March 25, 1908 (died February 1, 1943). Married second, Evelyn Virginia Betts, January 8, 1944.