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James Algar (June 11, 1912 – February 26, 1998) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked at Walt Disney Productions for 43 years and received the Disney Legends award in 1998. He was born in Modesto, California and died in Carmel, California.
James Algar (1912-1998) was a Disney legend who worked on classic animated and live-action films, such as Fantasia, Bambi, and The Living Desert. He also wrote and produced documentaries for the True-Life Adventure series and The Magical World of Disney.
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- Modesto, California, USA
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- Carmel, California, USA
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James Nelson Algar was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He received the Disney Legends award in 1998.
Algar was born in California and studied at Stanford where he developed his skills as a cartoonist by drawing for the university's satirical magazine, "The Chaparral". He joined Disney in 1934 initially as animator before becoming a director. He also directed the classic "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Fantasia, as well as several sequences of Bambi.
Algar was one of several key personnel to whom Walt Disney delegated higher executive functions. During the 1950s, he assumed the mantle of chief writer/director for Disney's True-Life Adventures series, turning out Oscar-winning documentaries, such as The Living Desert and The Vanishing Prairie. He also directed the Oscar-winning documentary White Wilderness, which contains a scene that supposedly depicts a mass lemming migration, and ends with the lemmings leaping into the Arctic Ocean which caused some controversy over animals right and misinformation.
He retired in 1977 and died in 1998.
•Servants' Entrance (1934 animator - uncredited)
•Broken Toys (Short) (1935 animator - uncredited)
•Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 - animator)
•Fantasia (1940 - director: segment The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
•Bambi (1942 - sequence director)
•Four Methods of Flush Riveting (1942 - director)
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Mar 23, 1998 · News. Mar 22, 1998 11:00pm PT. James Algar dies at 85. Longtime Disney producer-writer-director. By Variety Staff. James Algar, longtime Walt Disney Co. producer, writer and director, and...
James Algar was a Disney animator, director and writer who worked on classics like Fantasia and Bambi. He also produced documentaries like The Living Desert and The Vanishing Prairie, and was named a Disney Legend in 1998.
- June 11, 1912
- February 26, 1998
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James Algar was a versatile and influential storyteller who directed, wrote, produced, and narrated many Disney classics, including Fantasia, Bambi, and the True-Life Adventure series. He also contributed to theme park attractions, such as Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln and The Hall of Presidents.
Feb 28, 1998 · James Nelson Algar, animator, writer, director and producer at Walt Disney Studios for 43 years, who shared nine Academy Awards for nature and adventure documentaries and features, has died. He...
