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Joseph Clarence Grant (May 15, 1908 – May 6, 2005) was an American conceptual artist, storyboard artist, and screenwriter.
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Joe Grant was an American Disney animator, artist, and writer, as well as a Disney Legend.
Grant was born in New York City and began working for Disney Studios in 1933, beginning with the Mickey Mouse short Mickey's Gala Premiere. He also created the Witch for Walt's first film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs released in 1937 and also helped co-write Dumbo released in 1941 and also led development for Pinocchio and Fantasia both released in 1940. During World War II, he worked on the Academy Award-winning cartoon Der Fuehrer's Face, but left Disney Studios in 1949 to start his own greeting card business. Grant returned to Disney in 1989 and worked on Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), Pocahontas (1995), Mulan (1998), and Fantasia 2000 (2000). Additionally, he worked on Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc. (2001).
Sadly, on May 6, 2005, while working at his studio on the animated short Lorenzo, Joe Grant died of a heart attack at the age of 96 just nine days short of his 97th birthday. Chicken Little (2005), which was released six months after his death and the last Disney film on which he worked, was dedicated to him. It was said on the Disney DVD of Lady and the Tramp that Grant and his wife owned a dog named Lady on whom the main character of the movie was based.
A book about both Grant and Joe Ranft, who died in a car accident on August 16, 2005 (just three months after Joe Grant's passing) entitled Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers (ISBN 9781423110675) by Animation Historian John Canemaker was published on August 3, 2010.
Grant was inducted as a Disney Legend in 1992.
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4."Joe Grant, 96; Disney Artist Helped Make Films That Became Classics". Los Angeles Times (May 10, 2005).
5."Two Guys Named Joe by John Canemaker". ImagiNERDing (Jan 1, 2015).
6."Joe Grant - D23". D23.
Joe Grant was born on 15 May 1908 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He was married to Jenny Grant. He died on 6 May 2005 in Glendale, California, USA.
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Mar 7, 2024 · Visit Joe Grant’s CaringBridge website where you'll find the latest updates and a place to share messages of love, hope & compassion.
Story artist Joe Grant’s lengthy career at The Walt Disney Studios came full circle. In 1940, he contributed to Fantasia and, 50 years later, he fathered the “flamingo with a yo-yo” concept for the “Carnival of the Animals” sequence featured in Fantasia 2000.
May 11, 2005 · Joe Grant, an artist and writer who created Disney characters like the queen-witch in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' and was a co-writer of ''Dumbo,'' died here on Friday. He was 96. Mr....
Dec 13, 2005 · Joe Grant, who died last spring at the age of ninety-six, was a remarkable survivor from Disney animation's golden age in the 1930s and early 1940s. Remarkable not just because he lived so long, outlasting almost all of his contemporaries, but because he was still working at the Disney studio when he died. His Disney tenure was not continuous.
