- Bill Justice
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name = Bill Justice
birth_date = birth date and age|1914|2|9
birth_place =Dayton, Ohio ,United States
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occupation = Disney animator and engineerWilliam Justice (b.
February 9 ,1914 , inDayton, Ohio ) was an animator and engineer for the Walt Disney Company.Justice joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator in 1937 and worked on such features as 1940's "Fantasia", 1944's "
The Three Caballeros ", 1951's "Alice in Wonderland", and 1953's "Peter Pan". He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from 1942's "Bambi " and chipmunksChip 'n Dale . He was the director of 1957's "The Truth About Mother Goose", 1959's "Noah's Ark", and 1962's "A Symposium On Popular Songs ", all of which were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Short Subject, Cartoon. In total, Justice worked on 57 shorts and 19 features.In 1965, Justice joined Walt Disney Imagineering, where he programmed figures for several Disney attractions such as
Pirates of the Caribbean , theHaunted Mansion , andCountry Bear Jamboree .Bill Justice, who retired from the Disney Company in 1979 and was named a
Disney Legend in 1996, currently resides inGranada Hills, California . He is the author of "Justice for Disney", which chronicles his years with the company.References
*imdb name | id=0433143 | name=Bill Justice
* [http://legends.disney.go.com/legends/detail?key=Bill+Justice Listing from Disney Legends]
* [http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID10019010.asp Listing from LaughingPlace.com]
* [http://www.robrichards.com/el_capitan.cfm?sr=85 Biography from Bob Richards]
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