John Lounsbery

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, beginning as an assistant animator on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". He went on to work on numerous other 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 films. In the 1970s, he was promoted to director and co-directed "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!" and "The Rescuers".

John Lounsbery died on February 13, 1976. At the time of his death, he was working on the "The Rescuers" and still animating at the Walt Disney Studios. He was named a Disney Legend in 1989.

He was animation director for:

* "Dumbo" (1941)
* "Song of the South" (1946)
* "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" (1949)
* "Alice in Wonderland" (1951)
* "Peter Pan" (1953)
* "Ben and Me" (1953)
* "Lady and the Tramp" (1955)
* "Sleeping Beauty" (1959)
* "Goliath II" (1960)
* "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" (1961)
* "The Sword in the Stone" (1963)
* "The Jungle Book" (1967)
* "Robin Hood" (1973)

Characters animated by Lounsbery

*"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" - Assistant to Norm Ferguson on Witch
*"Pinocchio" - J. Worthington Foulfellow and Gideon
*"Fantasia" - Dance of the Hours
*"Dumbo" - Timothy Mouse
*"Make Mine Music" - Wolf in "Peter and the Wolf"
*"Fun and Fancy Free" - Willie the Giant
*"Peter Pan" - George Darling, Indians
*"Ben and Me"- Thomas Jefferson
*"Lady and the Tramp" - Joe, Bull
*"Sleeping Beauty" - King Hubert,King Stefan
*"Goliath II" - Goliath II´s Father and Mother and the Elephants
*"One Hundred and One Dalmatians" - Sgt Tibs, Horace Badun
*"The Jungle Book" - Colonel Hathi, Winifred, Junior, Bulgar elephant, and other elephants, King Louie
*"The Aristocats" - Edgar, Georges Hautecourt, Madame Bonfamille
*"Robin Hood" - ?
*"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" - Owl, Eeyore, and Gopher

External links

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* [http://legends.disney.go.com/legends/detail?key=John+Lounsbery Disney Legends profile]


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