- Bob Clampett
Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett (May 8 1913-May 4 1984) was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the "Looney Tunes" series of cartoons from Warner Bros. and the television shows "Time for Beany", and "Beany and Cecil". - Ub Iwerks
Ub Iwerks (Ubbe Ert Iwwerks, was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His name is explained by his East Frisian roots — his father, Eert Ubbe Iwwerks, emigrated to the USA in 1869 from the village Uttum in East Frisia (northwest Germany). - Frank Thomas
Franklin Thomas was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. He graduated from Stanford University - where he worked on campus humor magazine the Stanford Chaparral with Ollie Johnston -- then later attended Chouinard Art Institute, then joined The Walt Disney Company on September 24, 1934 as employee number 224. There he animated dozens of feature films and shorts, and also was a member of the Dixieland band Firehouse Five Plus Two, … - Floyd Gottfredson
Arthur Floyd Gottfredson (May 5, 1905-July 22, 1986) was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the "Mickey Mouse" comic strip. He has probably had the same impact on the Mickey Mouse comics as Carl Barks had on the Donald Duck comics. Two decades after his death, his memory was honored with the Disney Legends citation in 2003 and induction into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. - Wayne Allwine
Wayne Anthony Allwine (born February 7, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is an American voice actor, a sound effects editor and foley artist for Walt Disney Studios and the current voice of Mickey Mouse, a role he assumed from Jimmy MacDonald. His first appearance as Mickey was voicing the animated lead-ins for "The New Mickey Mouse Club" in 1977. - Michael Barrier
"Michael Barrier" may refer to either of these two persons: *American actor, best known for appearances as Lieutenant DeSalle on "Star Trek: The Original Series". He appeared in at least three episodes: "The Squire of Gothos", "This Side of Paradise" and "Catspaw". *Famous and well-respected animation historian, who spent over twenty-five years of his life researching animation, … - Wilfred Jackson
Wilfred Jackson (January 24 1906-August 7 1988) was an American animator, arranger, composer and director best known for his work on the "Mickey Mouse" and "Silly Symphonies" series of cartoons from The Walt Disney Company. - Osamu Tezuka
was a mangaka (Japanese manga artist) and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of "Astro Boy" and "Kimba the White Lion". He is often credited as the Father of Anime, and the Walt Disney of Japan. His prolific output and his pioneering techniques and genres earned him such titles as "the father of manga" and "the god of manga." The distinctive "large eyes" style of Japanese animation (anime) was invented by Tezuka, … - Fred Moore
Fred Moore (born September 7, 1911 in Los Angeles, California, USA; died November 23, 1952 in Burbank, California, USA in a road accident), was an American character animator for Walt Disney Productions, best known for being the resident specialist of the animation of Mickey Mouse. Moore is most notable for re-designing the character in 1938 for his landmark role as The Sorcerer's Apprentice in "Fantasia", a look which remain's Mickey's official look to this day. - Joe Grant
Joe Grant was a Disney artist and writer. Born in New York City, New York, he worked for The Walt Disney Company as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1933 on the Mickey Mouse short, "Mickey's Gala Premiere". He was a Disney legend. He created the Queen in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". He co-wrote "Dumbo". He also led development of "Fantasia" and "Pinocchio". - Al Taliaferro
Charles Alfred Taliaferro (August 29, 1905 - February 3, 1969) known simply as Al Taliaferro was a Disney comics artist who used to produce Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate. Many of his strips were written by Bob Karp. He is best-known for his work on the Donald Duck comic strip, but he started his career lettering the Mickey Mouse strips (March 1931 - July 1932), … - Jack Hannah
Jack Hannah (January 13, 1913 - June 11, 1994) was an animator, writer and director of animated shorts. He began as an employee of the Walt Disney Studios. He started as an animator in the short "Modern Inventions" (released on May 29, 1937). After thirteen films as an animator, he was assigned as a writer, beginning with "Donald's Nephews" (released on April 15, 1938). He was given writing credits for 21 films. - Paul Murry
Paul Murry was an American cartoonist and comics artist. He is best known for his Disney comics, which appeared in Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics from 1946 to 1984. Like many Disney comic book artists Murry started his career working at the Walt Disney Studios. During his time there he was an assistant to legendary animator Fred Moore. In the 1940s, Murry worked on Disney newspaper strips. He began to work on comic book material in 1946, … - Giorgio Cavazzano
Giorgio Cavazzano (born October 19, 1947, Venice) is an Italian comic strip artist. He started his career at age 14, as an inker for Romano Scarpa. He made stories about Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck and others. Cavazzano's work is known for combining the traditional rubbery appearance of Disney characters with realistic illustration of technological gadgets and machinery. - Andreas Deja
Andreas Deja is a Polish-born German character animator for The Walt Disney Company. He lived since 1958 in Dinslaken/Germany and studies Graphic-Design at the Folkwang-Schule in Essen/Germany. A lifelong fan of Disney animated films, he started with the studio in 1980. The first film on which he worked was "The Black Cauldron," during which time he shared a cubicle with Tim Burton. - James MacDonald
James MacDonald (19 May, 1906 - 1 February, 1991) was an American actor. He was the second person to perform the voice of Mickey Mouse. He did voices such as Evinrude in The Rescuers (1977). He was a drummer before doing Disney. MacDonald died of heart failure in Glendale, California. - Grim Natwick
Myron "Grim" Natwick was an American animator and film director, regarded as one of the greatest of all time. He was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. Best known for creating the Fleischer Studio's most popular character, Betty Boop, Natwick worked for a number of American animation studios, including the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, the Walter Lantz studio, UPA, and the Richard Williams studio. - Lillian Disney
Lillian Marie Bounds was the wife of Walt Disney from 1925 until his death in 1966. She later married John L. Truyens in 1969 and remained married to him until his death in 1981. Lillian and Walt Disney married in 1925 and had two daughters - Diane Marie Disney and Sharon Mae Disney, the latter of whom was an adoptee. She is aunt of Roy Edward Disney and grandmother to Chris Miller, Joanna Miller, Tamara Scheer, Jennifer Miller-Goff, Walter Elias Disney Miller, … - Darko Macan
Darko Macan is a Croatian author and illustrator who has created and collaborated on comics, essays and science fiction and fantasy. He is also an editor. Born in Zagreb, where he still lives, he has a degree in history and archeology from the University of Zagreb. He has drawn and written many comic books, mostly in Croatian, but in 1993 he broke into the American comics industry when he and fellow Croatian artist Edvin Biuković submitted their work to Dark Horse Comics. - Pat Powers
Patrick A. Powers (1869 - 30 July 1948) was an Irish-American businessman, involved in the animation industry of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in County Waterford, Ireland, he founded the Powers Motion Picture Company that merged with Carl Laemmle's IMP film company and others in 1912 to create Universal Pictures. He served as treasurer of the Universal Motion Picture Company. According to the "Buffalo Courier-Express" obit dated 1 August 1948, … - Brian Sibley
Brian Sibley (born July 14, 1949) is an English writer. He is author of over 100 hours of radio drama and has written and presented hundreds of radio documentaries, features and weekly programmes. Born in London, he grew up and was educated in Chislehurst, Kent. In 1981, he co-wrote BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" with Michael Bakewell, … - Ted Osborne
Ted Osborne (1900-1968) was an American writer of comics, radio shows and animated films, remembered for his contributions to the creation and refinement, during the 1930s, of Walt Disney cartoon characters. Ted Osborne spent a decade (1931-40) at the Walt Disney Studio as a story writer and, between 1932 and 1937, wrote the "Mickey Mouse" newspaper dailies and "Silly Symphonies" Sunday comics. - Carl Fallberg
Carl Robert Fallberg (September 11, 1915 - May 9, 1996) was a Disney Comics artist who wrote and drew many Disney Comics. He was noteworthy for scripting most of the Mickey Mouse serials illustrated by Paul Murry that appeared in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories from the early 1950s to 1973. Many of these reflected his love of railroads. He also specialized in creating colorful characters inhabiting the various exotic locales the serials often were set in. - John Lustig
John Lustig (born January 25, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American comics writer (former journalist) principally known for his comic book scripts featuring Donald Duck and other members of Disney's Duck family. Lustig's scripts have been illustrated by William Van Horn and other artists. In addition, Lustig has written Mickey Mouse scripts that have been drawn by Noel Van Horn (William's son) and others. - Giovan Battista Carpi
Giovan Battista Carpi (November 16 1927-March 3 1999) was an Italian comics artist. He worked mainly for Disney comics, mostly on books featuring Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck, although he occasionally drew Mickey Mouse as well. He created Paperinik with Guido Martina. - Don Grady
Don Agrati (born June 8, 1944 in San Francisco, California), better known as Don Grady, is an American composer, musician and actor. He is remembered both as one of Mickey Mouse's Mouseketeers, and as Robbie Douglas, from "My Three Sons". His sister was also an actress, billed as Lani O'Grady. Their mother was a talent agent, known as Mary Grady. - Donovan Cook
Donovan Cook is a American film director, most well-known for the Disney animated feature Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers. Donovan Cook was born in California in 1968. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 1990 and has worked on several different Disney animated movies, such as "The Little Mermaid" and the Mickey Mouse adaptation of "The Prince and the Pauper". - Noel van Horn
Noel Van Horn (born July 6, 1968 in San Francisco, California, later moved to Vancouver in his family's country of origin Canada) is a Disney comics artist and occasionally writer just like his father, William Van Horn. He does mainly Mickey Mouse comics, in a style similar to that of his father. - Merrill de Maris
Merrill De Maris is an artist who worked on Disney Comic Strips for King Features Syndicate. De Maris helped Floyd Gottfredson with many of his early Mickey Mouse comic strips, and helped Carl Barks with one of his Donald Duck stories, titled "Too Many Pets". De Maris also participated at the Disney Studio on the story adaptation for 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". - Manuel Gonzales
Manuel Gonzales (March 3, 1913 - March 31, 1993) was a Spanish-American Disney comics artist. He emigrated from Spain to the USA in 1918 via Ellis Island, and was employed at the Walt Disney Studios in September 1936, where he initially worked as an "in-betweener" on the motion picture, Snow White. Later working in the comic strip department, Gonzales took over the illustrating of the Mickey Mouse Sunday page from Floyd Gottfredson in 1938. - Michael T. Gilbert
Michael Terry Gilbert (b. 1951) is a comic book artist and writer for both ground-level and underground comic book categories. He graduated from SUNY at New Paltz in 1973, and had his first comic stories printed that same year (in his self-published underground, "New Paltz Comix".) He began drawing for several Star Reach and Kitchen Sink titles; a mix of underground comix ("Slow Death", "Bizarre Sex", … - Peter Emmerich
Peter Emmerich (born November 5,1973) an acclaimed Illustrator having an extensive relationship with The Walt Disney Co. Born in New York City, he was raised in Brooklyn and attended Xaverian High School, and then The Fashion Institute of Technology. Upon graduating from The Fashion Institute of Technology he began his career with The Walt Disney Co. as a character artist for Walt Disney Consumer Products. - Charlotte Clark
Carolyn "Charlotte" Geis Clark was an American seamstress who created the first line of Mickey Mouse dolls and other Disney characters. - Jimmy MacDonald
John James "Jimmy" MacDonald (born May 19, 1906, Dundee, Scotland; died February 1, 1991, Glendale, California, USA) was a Scottish voice actor and the original head of the Disney sound effects department, and the voice of Mickey Mouse from 1946 to 1983. In addition to directing sounds for films as aurally complicated at "Mickey's Trailer" (1938), he developed many original inventions to achieve expressive sounds for characters like the train Casey Jr. - Walt Elias Disney
Walter Elias Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Disney is notable as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Walt became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. - Lasse Åberg
Lars Gunnar Åberg is a Swedish actor, musician, film director and artist. He was born in the small town Hofors, but grew up in Stockholm. Åberg has produced some of the most successful films in Sweden, depicting "typical" Swedish life and customs in a usually humorous way. Åbergs character can be described as an inept outsider with a large heart, constantly pushed aside without noticing. One may say he resembles the typical Chevy Chase or Mr. Bean character, … - Scott Bradley
Scott Bradley (November 26, 1891 in Russellville, Arkansas - April 27, 1977 in Chatsworth, California) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. He is most famous for scoring the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) theatrical cartoons, including those starring Tom and Jerry, Droopy Dog, Barney Bear, and the many one-shot works of Tex Avery. Bradley was a conservatory-trained composer and English horn player who had studied under Arnold Schoenberg. - Mike Jittlov
Mike Jittlov (born June 8, 1948) is an American animator and the creator of short films and one feature length movie using forms of special effects animation, including stop-motion animation, rotoscoping, and pixilation. He is best known for the 1987 feature "The Wizard of Speed and Time" feature-length film, based on his 1979 short film of the same name. Born in Los Angeles native, Jittlov was a math-language major at UCLA. - R. C. Gorman
Rudolph Carl Gorman (July 26 1931 - November 3 2005) was a Native American artist of the Navajo nation. Referred to as "the Picasso of American art" by the "New York Times", his paintings are primarily of Native American women and characterized by fluid forms and vibrant colors, though he also worked in sculpture, ceramics, and stone lithography. He was also an avid lover of cuisine, authoring four cookbooks, … - Jasmine Bligh
Jasmine Bligh (born May 20 1913 in London, England, United Kingdom; died July 21 1991) was one of the first three BBC Television Service presenters in the 1930s, along with Leslie Mitchell and Elizabeth Cowell, providing continuity announcements and introducing programmes in-vision. She rejoined the service in 1946 after its Second World War hiatus and was the first person to appear when broadcasting was resumed, greeting viewers with the words "Good afternoon everybody.
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