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On May 6, 2005, Joe Grant died of a heart attack while working at his drawing board in his home studio, at age 96. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Chicken Little, released six months after his death, along with Pixar's Up, released 4 years after his death, were dedicated to his memory.
Joe Grant was an American Disney animator, artist, and writer, as well as a Disney Legend.[1][2][3] 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 ...
Joe Grant. Writer: Fantasia. 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).
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Pictured above center, Joe Grant. 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.
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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.
May 10, 2005 · Joe Grant, one of Walt Disney's most talented artists and story men, whose career ran from the cartoon "Mickey's Gala Premiere" (1933) to the Oscar-nominated short "Lorenzo" (2004), died Friday at ...
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.
