John McGrew was born on 19 March 1910 in New York, New York, USA. He is known for The Aristo-Cat (1943). He died on 11 January 1999 in Le Bois-D'Oingt, Rhone, France.
American painter, trained at the Chouinard Art Institute in Pasadena. He worked as a layout artist under Chuck Jones at Warner Brothers in the early 1940's. After wartime service in the U.S. Navy, he was named as a communist sympathiser and blacklisted by HUAC. He eventually moved to France where he spent the remainder of his life.
