- Clyde Geronimi
Clyde "Gerry" Geronimi (June 12 1901 - April 24 1989) was an Italian-American animation director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Studio. Geronimi was born in Italy, immigrating to the United States as a young child. Geronimi's earliest work in the animation field was for the J.R. Bray Studios, where he worked with Walter Lantz. Geronimi left Bray in 1931 to join Walt Disney Studio, where he remained for the rest of his career. - Wolfgang Reitherman
Wolfgang Reitherman (June 26, 1909 - May 22, 1985), also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a famed Disney animator and one of Disney's Nine Old Men. Born in Munich, Germany, Reitherman's family moved to America when he was a child. After attending Pasadena Junior College and briefly working as a draftsman for Douglas Aircraft, Reitherman returned to school at the Chouinard Art Institute, graduating in 1933. - Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (May 3, 1896 - November 24, 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. - Bill Peet
Bill Peet (January 29, 1915 - May 11, 2002) was a children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios. He joined Disney in 1937 and worked on "The Jungle Book", "Song of the South", "Cinderella", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians", "The Sword in the Stone", "Goliath II", "Sleeping Beauty", "Peter Pan", "Alice in Wonderland", "Dumbo", "Pinocchio", "Fantasia", … - J. Pat O'Malley
J. Pat O'Malley was an English singer and actor of Irish extraction. He was born James Patrick O'Malley in Burnley, England. O'Malley began his recording career in 1929 and was principal singer with Jack Hylton and his Orchestra from 1930 to 1933. Known at that time as "Pat O'Malley", he recorded over 400 popular songs of the day. O'Malley began a solo recording career in 1935 in parallel with his work with Hylton. - Marc Davis
Marc Fraser Davis was a prominent artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films. Some of the animated characters Davis mainly designed and animated are Thumper from "Bambi" (1942), Brer Rabbit from "Song of the South" (1946), "Cinderella" (1950), Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" (1951), Tinker Bell in "Peter Pan" (1953), … - John Lounsbery
John Lounsbery (March 9, 1911 - February 13, 1976) was an American animator who worked for The Walt Disney Company. He is best known as one of Disney's Nine Old Men. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Colorado. He attended East Denver High School and the Art Institute of Denver. While attending the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, an instructor sent him to interview with Walt Disney. Lounsbery was hired by Disney on July 2, 1935, … - Ken Anderson
Ken (Kenneth B.) Anderson (March 17 1909 - January 13 1993) was an art director, writer, and animator at Disney for 44 years. Ken Anderson studied architecture at the University of Washington, graduating with a B.Arch. in 1934. He was particularly influenced by faculty member Lionel Pries. With the delineation skills he learned in architecture school, he secured a position at Disney within a few years. - Eric Larson
Eric Larson (September 3, 1905 - October 25, 1988) was an animator for the Walt Disney Studios starting in 1933 and was one of the "Disney's Nine Old Men." Larson worked on such films as "Snow White", "Fantasia", "Bambi", "Cinderella", "Alice in Wonderland", "Peter Pan", "Lady and the Tramp", "Sleeping Beauty", "101 Dalmatians", and "The Jungle Book". - Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes, born Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser was an American film and television actress. Wickes was born in St. Louis, Missouri of German and Irish Protestant extraction in 1915. She began acting in films in the late 1930s, and was also a member of the Orson Welles troupe on his radio drama "Mercury Theatre of the Air". One of her earliest significant film appearances was in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1942), … - Mel Leven
Mel Leven (b. November 11, 1914, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer and lyricist who has a long association with the Walt Disney Company, although he has also written songs for Peggy Lee ("Every Time"), The Andrews Sisters ("Commoners Boogy"), Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, and Les Brown, among others. Leven's most famous song is arguably "Cruella De Vil" from the 1961 Disney animated feature "One Hundred and One Dalmatians". - Lucille Bliss
Lucille Bliss (born March 31, 1916 in New York City) is an American actress and voice artist. She has appeared in films and on television shows, including "Smurfs" as Smurfette, Nickelodeon's "Invader ZIM" (Ms. Bitters) and "Walt Disney's Cinderella" (Anastasia). - Paul Wexler
Paul Wexler, was an American character actor. Tall and physically imposing with a long face and deep baritone voice, he specialized in macabre or off-beat roles. Wexler made his film debut in the Bowery Boys 1952 comedy "Feudin' Fools". His most noteworthy film appearances inclded the 1954 film noir thriller "Suddenly" and as the supervillain Captain Seas in the 1975 adventure film "Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze". - Andrea
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