James Algar
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Screenwriter
"James Algar was an animator, director, and screenwriter associated with The Walt Disney Studios from his time of employment in 1934 to his retirement in 1977. Algar attended Stanford University, where he was the editor of the university’s humour ma..."
Marcell Jankovics
Filed under: people, Animator, Character Designer, Director, Screenwriter, Writer, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Anime, Color, Hungary, Pannonia Studio, Technicolor
"Marcell Jankovics is a Hungarian animator, director, graphic artist, and writer. He was the former art director and managing director of Pannonia Film Studio in 1995 and 1996, the former president of the Hungarian Cultural Society in 1998 and the St...."
John Whitney, Sr.
Filed under: people, Animator, Composer, Inventor, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, U.S.A.
"John Whitney attended school at Pomona College, and in 1937, took a year in Paris to study twelve-tone composition under conductor René Leibowitz. Upon returning to America, he and his brother, James, began to make experimental films, initially work..."
Chuck Jones
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Looney Tunes, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Porky Pig, Tom and Jerry, U.S.A., Warner Bros.
"Chuck Jones was a 14 time Oscar nominee who created over 300 hundred animated films, including some of Warner Bros. most memorable cartoon characters, as well as producing many television specials, and full-length features."
Jaime Escudero & Carlos Trupp
Filed under: people, Animator, Artist, Character Designer, Illustrator, Painter, Chile
"Jaime Escudero was born on June 23, 1914 in Santiago. Juan Carlos Trupp's date of birth is unknown. Escudero and Trupp are best known for producing one of the earliest animations in Chile, 15 mil dibujos. The film was a box office failure, leaving..."
Paul Julian
Filed under: people, Artist, Background Artist, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Looney Tunes, Sylvester Jr., Warner Bros.
"Paul Julian was an American background and layout artist, art director and production designer whose work is best known in Warner Bros. classic Looney Tunes cartoons. He worked primar..."
Bill Justice
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Imagineer
"Bill Justice initially studied portrait art at the John Herron Art Institute, but almost immediately after graduating, he went on to work for the Walt Disney Studios. He would spend the next 42 years with the company as a successful animator, and a p..."
Milton (Milt) Kahl
Filed under: people, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Director, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Color, Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Winnie the Pooh
"Milt Kahl was an renown animator and director who was a part of Disney's group of “Nine Old Men”, who created and designed many Disney characters, and whose distinctive style had a large influence within the history of the studio. "
Fyodor Khitruk
Filed under: people, Art Director, Character Designer, Director, Color, Russia, Soyuzmultfilm
"Fyodor Savelyevich Khitruk was born May 1, 1917 in Tver, Russia. He was a Soviet animator best known for his Vinni Pukh animations, a Russian adaptation of A.A. Milne's British book series, Winnie the Pooh. Khitruk won numerous awards at several f..."
Nikolai Khodataev
Filed under: people, Animator, Artist, Writer, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Propaganda, Russia, Stop Motion
"Born in the village of Konstantinovsk in 1892, the son of a wealthy tsarist official, Nikolai Khodataev took painting lessons in his youth, eventually enrolling in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, at the age of twenty. In ..."
Olga Petrovna Khodataeva
Filed under: people, Animation Designer, Animator, Director, Visual Artist, Writer, Color, Educational films, Propaganda, Russia, Soyuzmultfilm, World War 2 ( WW2 )
"Olga Khodataeva was a Soviet animator, animation director, and pioneer of the Soviet animation industry. She was amongst the first wave of Soviet women animators. From 1927 to 1960, she directed around 30 films that often involved Soviet propaganda a..."
Ward Walrath Kimball
Filed under: people, Animator, Artist, Character Designer, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Color, Musical, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios
"Ward Kimball was a prolific animator for Walt Disney, part of the earliest team of core animators known as "Disney's Nine Old Men." While extremely influential, his importance in the early days of Disney has meant that biographers have encountered se..."
Seymour Kneitel
Filed under: people, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Director, Executive Producer, Studio Head, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Baby Huey, Betty Boop, Betty Boop series, Bray Productions, Casper the Ghost, Color, Dave Fleischer, Herman and Katnip, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Isadore Sparber, Koko the Clown, Max Fleischer, Noveltoons, Paramount Pictures, Popeye, Sam Buchwald, Seymour Kneitel, Superman, U.S.A.
"Seymour Kneitel was an early American animator, most well known for his work with Fleischer Studios. After the studio closed, he headed its successor, Famous Studios."
Zacharias Kunuk
Filed under: people, Director, Producer
"Zacharias Kunuk is an award-winning Inuk director and producer from Kapuivik, Baffin Island. In his recent stop-motion short film, Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman’s Apprentice, Kunuk tells the story of a young Inuit girl's searching of spirituality. He..."
Bob Kurtz
Filed under: people, Animation Designer, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Director, Misc. Crew, Producer, Sequence Animator, Soundtrack, Storyboard Artist, Title Department, Writer, U.S.A.
"His career started when he began writing the pink panther series."
Bob Kuwahara
Filed under: people, Animator, Background Artist, Director, Layout Artist, Storyman, Writer
"Bob Kuwahara was born in Tokyo, Japan on August 12, 1901. His family moved to the United States in 1910. He was a Japanese-American animator and writer who is best known for creating the Terrytoons character Hashimoto-san, a mouse who is a judo in..."
Gregory La Cava
Filed under: people, Animator, Director
"Gregory La Cava was an American director and animator, best remembered for his films in the '30s. Born in Pensylvania, La Cava got his early start animating for Raoul Barré in 1913. After being ..."
Michael Lah
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Barney Bear, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, U.S.A.
"Michael Lah was a noted MGM animator and director, as well as being the understudy of Tex Avery. Lah helped redesign the well-known Barney Bear character, and directed many screwball cartoons, including one that garnered him an Academy Award nomina..."
Evelyn Lambart
Filed under: people, Animator, Artist, Director
"Evelyn Lambart was the first woman animator to join the National Film Board of Canada in 1942 and is widely recognized as one of the first Canadian women animators. For nearly 25 years, Lambart was the only woman directing animated films at the NFB. ..."
Walter Lantz
Filed under: people, Animator, Cartoonist, Painter, U.S.A.
"Walter Lantz was born on April 27, 1899, to a family of Italian immigrants in Westchester County, 16 miles from New York City. Watching Gertie the Dinosaur immediately ignited his passion for animation. While working as an auto mechanic by day, he me..."
Caroline Leaf
Filed under: people, Animator, Artist, Director, Educator, Producer, Writer, Canada, U.S.A.
"Caroline Leaf was born in Seattle, Washington on August 12, 1946. Leaf is an award-winning Canadian-American animator who has produced a diverse collection of experimental animations, employing various mediums such as sand, silhouettes, paint on g..."
Lin Wenxiao (林文肖)
Filed under: people, Animation Designer, Animator, Artist, Director, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Anime, China, Cinecolor, Painted Animation, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Technicolor
"Lin Wenxiao (林文肖) is one of the greatest animators and directors in Early Chinese Animation. She is a former member of Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS, 上海美术电影制片厂) as well as International Animated Film Association (ASIFA)..."
Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière and Louis Jean Lumière
Filed under: people, Director, Filmmaker, Imagineer, Inventor
"Auguste and Louis Lumière were the first filmmakers in history. The invented and patented the cinematograph, the first technology that allowed the viewing of films by multiple people at once. Their film Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon (1895) is c..."
Richard “Dick” Lundy
Filed under: people, , Barney Bear, Bill Hanna, Donald Duck, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Joe Barbera, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Woody Woodpecker
"Dick Lundy was an animator and director, associated with several studios, including Disney, MGM and
Don Lusk
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Walt Disney Studios, Walter Lantz Productions
"Donald "Don" Lusk was born in Burbank, California, USA, on October 28, 1913 He was the last surviving animator from Disney Animation's golden age, known for his character animation in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the cat Figaro and the ..."
Hamilton (Ham) Luske
Filed under: people, Animation Designer, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Director, Editorial Cartoonist, Producer, Sequence Animator, Color, Educational films, Mickey Mouse, Painted Animation, Silly Symphonies, Technicolor, Training films, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios
"Hamilton Luske was born in Chicago on October 16, 1903. He was an animator, animation supervisor, film director, and producer at Walt Disney for several commercial feature and short-length projects at the studio, as well as working on some of Disn..."
Eunice Macaulay
Filed under: people, Animator, Filmmaker, Producer, Writer, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Canada, Color, Cultural Industries, National Film Board of Canada, U.K.
"Before entering animation, Eunice Macaulay worked at Pilkington Brothers as an analytical chemist, and later during the Second World War as a radio operator. After the war, in 1948, a Christmas card Macaulay illustrated caught the attention of Gaumon..."
Michael Maltese
Filed under: people, Writer, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Looney Tunes, Tasmanian Devil, U.S.A., Warner Bros.
"Born in New York City to Italian immigrants, Michael Maltese studied at the National Academy of Art and Design, before landing his first animation job working as a colourist for Betty Boop cartoons, in 1935. He and his wife, Florence Sass, later move..."
Sidney (Sid) Marcus
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, U.S.A.
"Marcus began his career in animation in 1916 as an animator for William Randolph Hearst's International Film Service, where he animated the Krazy Kat series. In 1925, he joined Associated Animators in order to work on Mutt and Jeff animations for Sho..."
Kenzō Masaoka
Filed under: people, Actor, Animator, Director, Producer, Special Effects Animator, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Anime, Early Sound, Japan, Toei Animation Studio
"Masaoka was one of the first Japanese animators, who also trained and guided artists who would move on to become the next generation of animators. Masaoka is credited with creating the earliest anime using cel animation and recorded sound. He has als..."
Pat Matthews
"Pat Matthews was an American animator who got his start as an inbetweener for Walt Disney in 1938. He worked on Pinocchio and received screen credit but lost his job after the inbetweeners went on strike. Later, Matthews went to work at Walter Lant..."
Norman McCabe
Filed under: people, Animator, Director
"Norman McCabe was a British born Warner Bros. animator and director, with a long spanning career lasting well into the 90's. He helped bring to life many cartoon series, as well as feature length animations, including work on the Oscar-winning Pink P..."
Winsor McCay
Filed under: people, Animator, Cartoonist, Comic Strip Artist
"Winsor McCay was born in Ontario, and is considered one of the pioneers of film animation, having produced, directed (with the help of J.S. Blackton) and animated the world’s first fully animated cartoons. McCay was best known for his Sunday comi..."
Robert “Bob” McKimson
Filed under: people, Animator, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester Jr., Tasmanian Devil, U.S.A., Warner Bros.
"Bob McKimson was one of the most-underrated and overlooked animators who worked at Warner Bros. during the golden age of animation. He directed many Academy Award-nominated shorts as a part of Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies series, creating cha..."
Norman McLaren
Filed under: people, Animator, Director
"One of the most influential animators in Canadian history, McLaren worked largely for the National Film Board of Canada, creating the Oscar-nominated short Neighbours in 1952. Over the course of his lifetime, McClaren won over two hundred internati..."
Georges Méliès
Filed under: people, Art Director, Artist, Background Artist, Cinematographer, Comic Strip Artist, Filmmaker, President, Producer, Set Designer
"George Méliès was one of the earliest filmmakers, and one of the few who experimented with the vast trick and illusionist possibilities of film, inventing a wide range of cinematic techniques. These techniques include substitution splices, multiple..."
Jack Mercer
Filed under: people, Voice Actor, Popeye, U.S.A.
"Jack Mercer was born on January 31, 1910. Mercer today is known as the most iconic voice of Popeye. He was an in-betweener at Fleischer before auditioning for the voice of Popeye, ultimately landing the role and recording the voice for the televis..."
Otto Messmer
Filed under: people, , 1910s, 1920s, Early Sound, Felix the Cat, Noveltoons, Pat Sullivan Cartoons, Silent, U.S.A.
"Messmer was a legendary American cartoonist and animator, who was best know as the creator of Felix the Cat, who is considered the first major cartoon star."
Charles B. Mintz
Filed under: people, Producer, Krazy Kat, U.S.A.
"Mintz got his start as a producer of animation after his marriage to Margaret J. Winkler of Winkler Pictures. The company produced over 370 cartoon shorts between 1925-1939. The Columbia cartoon producer studied at St. Lawrence University and started..."
Margaret Mintz nee Winkler
Filed under: people, Animator, Producer, 1910s, 1920s, Oswald, Pat Sullivan Cartoons, Universal Studios, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros.
"A crucial figure in the history of the American animation industry, Margaret Winkler was the first woman to produce and distribute animated films, including early works of the Dave and
Miyazaki Hayao (宮崎駿)
Filed under: people, Animator, Author, Cartoonist, Director, Screenwriter, Studio Head, Writer, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Anime, Color, Japan, Mayazaki Hayao, Studio Ghibli, Technicolor
"Miyazaki Hayao (宮崎駿) is an internationally renowned and influential Japanese animator, director, screenwriter, and comic artist. He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli and the winner of two Best Animated Feature Academy Awards. "
Ram Mohan
Filed under: people, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Businessman, Director, Educator, Studio Head, India
"Ram Mohan was born on August 26, 1931, in India. His birthplace is unknown. Known as the Father of Indian Animation, he was a pioneer animator from the post-Independence era, working for the Cartoon Film Unit at Films Division and Prasad Productio..."
Robert Fred “Freddie” Moore
Filed under: people, Animator, Artist, Character Designer, 1930s, 1940s, Looney Tunes, Mickey Mouse, U.S.A., Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Walter Lantz, Walter Lantz Productions, Woody Woodpecker
"Freddie Moore was a highly influential animator with Walt Disney Productions in a crucial era of its development during the 30s, up until the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937) and the establishment of the core group of animators k..."
Frank Moser
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, U.S.A.
"Similarly to other animators, Moser started his career as a cartoonist for newspapers and print publications. Soon, however, he turned his attention to animation, and in 1915 started working for Barré Studio, where he animated The Animated Grouch Ch..."
Grant Munro
Filed under: people, Actor, Animator, Filmmaker, Producer, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Canada, Documentary, National Film Board of Canada
"Grant Munro was an animator, actor, producer and filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada, who was instrumental in many of the first developments of the film board and its associated studios. He was one of the board's earliest and longest ser..."
Kenneth Muse
Filed under: people, Animator, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Tom and Jerry
"Kenneth muse was an American animator best known for working on the first episodes of the Tom and Jerry series at MGM Studios, as well as the Mickey Mouse cartoons for Walt Disney and The Flintstones series for Hanna-Barbera."
Myron (Grim) Natwick
Filed under: people, Animator, Betty Boop series, Max Fleischer, U.S.A.
"Myron Natwick was born in Wisconsin Rapids in 1890 and died 100 years later in LA, California of pneumonia and heart disease. He is best known for creating the most popular character from
Payut Ngaokrachang
Filed under: people, Animator, Educator, Studio Head, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Commercials, Propaganda, Toei Animation Studio
"Payut Ngaokrachang was a Thai animation pioneer and creator of Thailand’s first animated feature film. He is known as “Thailand’s Walt Disney.”"
Charles Augustus Nichols (“Nick”)
Filed under: people, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Director, U.S.A., Walt Disney Studios
""Nick" Nichols was an Academy Award winning animator and director who first came into prominence working for Disney Studios, hired on December 31st, in 1937. In years to come he would work..."
Maurice Noble
Filed under: people, Animation Designer, Layout Artist, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros.
"Maurice Noble was one of the most well-respected animation designers and layout artists of the age of Golden American Animation, and a self-proclaimed "rebel" who worked for Walt Disney as..."
Bill Nolan
Filed under: people, Animator, U.S.A.
"Bill Nolar started in New York doing crazy cat on Felix the Cat. He worked for Lantz Studios during the mid 40s."
William C. (Bill) Nolan
Filed under: people, , Early Sound, Felix the Cat, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Oswald, Popeye, U.S.A.
"Nolan was a innovative film animator and director during the early days of sound animation, working mostly with Walter Lantz and J.R. Bra..."
Floyd Ernest Norman
Filed under: people, Animation Designer, Director, Hanna-Barbera Studios, U.S.A., Walt Disney
"Floyd Norman is an American animation legend responsible for directing a number of feature animated films for Walt Disney Studios, including Sleeping Beauty (1959), One Hundred and One Dalmations (1961), and The Jungle Book (1967). Having worked fo..."
Yuri Norstein
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Russia, Soyuzmultfilm
"Norstein was born in Andreyevka, Penza region in Russia on September 15, 1941. Norstein is credited as one of the most legendary Russian animators of all time. His most famous film, Hedgehog in the Fog, released in 1975 to critical acclaim, and w..."
Lester Novros
Filed under: people, Animator, Artist, Film designer, Professor
"Novros was an oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, animator and artist, as well as being a professor and a film designer, who made many breakthroughs in the large-format screen industry used widespread today to depict theatrical films. "
Willis Harold O’Brien
Filed under: people, Animator, Special Effects Animator
"O'Brien was an innovative special effects animator, most well-known for the landmark production in 1925 of The Lost World, and animated the Gorilla sequences in the famed King Kong film from the 30's. He also developed the revolutionary animation..."
Ken O’Connor
Filed under: people, Art Director, Layout Artist, U.S.A., Walt Disney Studios
"Ken O'Connor was born in Perth, Australia, and died in Burbank California. He was a legendary Disney layout artist, designer as well as art director. During his time at Disney, he helped the studio achieve a high level of visual dynamism in their cla..."
Joseph (Joe) Oriolo
Filed under: people, Animator, Cartoonist, Casper the Ghost, Felix the Cat
"Oriolo was a cartoon animator who was born in Union City in 1913. He created the famed Casper the Friendly Ghost character, and directed more than one thousand cartoons, including the first syndicated television series of Felix the Cat. "
George Pal
Filed under: people, Animator, Director, Producer, Puppetoons
"George Pal was an Oscar-winning, Hungarian-born animator, director and producer, and the creator of the Paramount Puppetoons stop-motion theatrical series, as well as many celebrated science-fiction films that combined Pal's expertise in special ef..."