Thornton Hee (March 26, 1911 – October 30, 1988) was an American animator, director, and teacher.
Hee worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1935–36 as a character designer.
He designed many of the celebrity caricatures used in The CooCoo Nut Grove (1936) and The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937).
[3] Hee was one of the co-founders, with Jack Hannah, of the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.
Hee provided the illustrations during the opening credits of The Life of Riley television show of the 1950s.