Thornton "T." Hee, (March 26, 1911 - October 30, 1988) was an American animator, director, and teacher. He taught character design and caricature. He is always credited as T. Hee. Hee worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1935-36 as a character designer. He designed many of the celebrity caricatures used in The Coo Coo Nut Grove (1936) and The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937). A 1936 Christmas card that he drew, featuring caricatures of the Schlesinger animators, was used to design the gremlins in the 1944 animated short Russian Rhapsody.