Cecil Hays Surry (April 19, 1907 – September 19, 1956) was a cartoonist at various film studios in the Golden Age of Animation.
Surry enrolled in the Otis Art Institute and, as a second-year student, won a poster competition sponsored by the Junior League of Los Angeles for the third annual horse show of the Flintridge Riding Club.
[1] By 1931, he got a job at Walt Disney Animation[2] where he met his future wife Constance Berry.
Surry was first credited as an animator at Walter Lantz Productions studio in the 1933 short Going to Blazes.
When fellow Lantz animator Tex Avery left to take a director's job at Warner Bros. Cartoons, Surry, Virgil Ross and Sid Sutherland went with him to work in the original Termite Terrace unit with Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Robert (Bobe) Cannon and assistant animator Elmer Wait.