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Creator of Woody Woodpecker dies

Wednesday 23 March 1994 00:02 GMT
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The animator, Walter Lantz, who created the conniving Woody Woodpecker cartoon character after a woodpecker disrupted his honeymoon in the 1940s, died yesterday, AP reports from Los Angeles. He was 93.

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