Among the characters he animated were the original Mighty Mouse, Yogi Bear and Flintstones.
He was born Carlo A. Vinciguerra on February 27, 1906[1] in the city of New York, as the only son of a family of Italian immigrants.
In 1924, Vinci was awarded the scholarship for the National Academy of Design when he was in high school, he graduated in 1929 and received a silver medal.
[3] In 1933, he was hired at the Van Beuren Studios in New York as an animator, where he trained a young newcomer named Joe Barbera.
[6] In 1955, Vinci was offered a job at MGM in California by Barbera, where he was first credited on the animated short "Give and Tyke."