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John Mitchell Lounsbery (March 9, 1911 - February 13, 1976) was an American animator and director employed by Walt Disney Productions. He is best known as one of Disney's Nine Old Men, of which he was the shortest lived as well as the first to die.
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John Lounsbery 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 was 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 Rescuers and still animating at the Walt Disney Studios. He was named a Disney Legend in 1989.
He was an animation director for:
•Dumbo (1941)
•Pinocchio - J. Worthington Foulfellow and Gideon
•Fantasia - Alligators, Ben Ali Gator, the alligators, and the hippos in "Dance of the Hours", Mickey Mouse
•Dumbo - Dumbo, Timothy Mouse
•The Three Caballeros - Donald Duck, José Carioca, Panchito Pistoles
•Make Mine Music - Wolf in Peter and the Wolf, Willie the Whale
•Song of the South - Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, Br'er Bear
John Lounsbery was an American animator and animation director from Cincinnati, Ohio. He eventually became one of "Disney's Nine Old Men", a group of senior animators who were in charge of the Walt Disney Animation Studios from c. 1945 to 1977.
- Animation Department, Director
- March 9, 1911
- John Lounsbery
- February 13, 1976
- LES CLARK. There’s no doubt that Les Clark’s talent landed him a job at Disney Studios, but his courage played a pretty big role as well. As a high school student, Clark worked at a lunch counter where Walt and Roy Disney frequently dined.
- MARC DAVIS. In 1935, Marc Davis was looking for a job as a newspaper cartoonist when he happened to notice that Disney Studios was hiring. Though he had no background in animation, Disney was impressed with his sketches of animal anatomy and movement and hired Davis as an apprentice animator for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- OLLIE JOHNSTON. Joining Marc Davis as a Disney Studios newbie in 1935 was Ollie Johnston, who was also hired as an apprentice animator. One of his earliest projects was a Silly Symphonies short called The Tortoise and the Hare, which won an Oscar for Best Short Subject.
- MILT KAHL. Like Marc Davis, Milt Kahl had hoped to find work as a cartoonist. He dropped out of high school to work at the Oakland Post-Enquirer and the San Francisco Bulletin, but after Kahl saw Disney’s Three Little Pigs short at a local movie theater, he decided to try his hand at animation.
- 13-Time Animation Director. During his Disney career, Lounsbery was the animation director for a whopping 13 Disney animated classics. The best-known titles he directed include Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book, and Robin Hood.
- Character Development. In addition to being animation director on more than a dozen films, Lounsbery animated some very well-known characters during his tenure at Disney Animation Studios.
- Shy Guy. John Lounsbery was quiet and shy by nature. However, the characters he animated were the complete opposite. Characters like Honest John are lifelike and slightly in-your-face, which was contrary to Lounsbery’s own personality.
- Ohio Born, Colorado Raised. While John Lounsbery was born in Ohio, he grew up in Colorado, where he discovered a love of winter sports. Lounsbery enrolled in the Art Institute of Denver, where he honed his drawing skills.
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John Lounsbery was an American animator and animation director from Cincinnati, Ohio. He eventually became one of "Disney's Nine Old Men", a group of senior animators who were in charge of the Walt Disney Animation Studios from c. 1945 to 1977.
John Lounsbery passed away on February 13, 1976, in Los Angeles. At the time of his death, he was still giving Disney his all as one of the directors of the animated feature The Rescuers. John Lounsbery had his own special way of looking at things, according to fellow animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.
