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John Mitchell Lounsbery (March 9, 1911 – February 13, 1976) was an American
animator An animator is an artist who creates multiple images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video gam ...
and
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who worked for
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. He is best known as one of
Disney's Nine Old Men Disney's Nine Old Men were Walt Disney Productions' core animators, some of whom later became directors, who created some of Disney's most famous animated cartoons, from ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937) onward to ''The Rescuers'' (1977 ...
, of which he was the shortest lived as well as the first to die.


Life and career

He was born on March 9, 1911 in
Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...
,
Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
, and raised in
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. He attended East Denver High School and the Art Institute of Denver. While attending the
ArtCenter College of Design Art Center College of Design (stylized as ArtCenter College of Design) is a private art college in Pasadena, California. History ArtCenter College of Design was founded in 1930 in downtown Los Angeles as the Art Center School. In 1935, Fred ...
in Los Angeles, an instructor sent him to interview with Walt Disney. Lounsbery was hired by Disney on July 2, 1935, beginning as an assistant animator on ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (uncredited). He went on to work on numerous short features in the 1940s while continuing to serve as part of the animating team on nearly all of Disney's most famous feature-length
animated film Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...
s. In the 1970s, he was promoted to director and directed the short film ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'' and ''The Rescuers''. Lounsbery died on February 13, 1976 at his age of 64. At the time of his death, he was working on ''The Rescuers'' and still directing at the Walt Disney Studios. He was named a
Disney Legend The Disney Legends Awards is a Hall of Fame program that recognizes individuals who have made an extraordinary and integral contribution to The Walt Disney Company. Established in 1987, the honor was traditionally awarded annually during a speci ...
in 1989 and was buried at the
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in Los Angeles.


Filmography


External links

*
Disney Legends profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lounsbery, John Animators from Ohio 1911 births 1976 deaths American animated film directors Artists from Cincinnati Film directors from Ohio Walt Disney Animation Studios people Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)