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Legends Award Category: Animation. Year Inducted: 1992. 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.
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....
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...
Joe Grant (May 15, 1908 - May 9, 2005) was an American animator, writer and illustrator. He worked for Walt Disney between 1933 and 1949 and again from 1989 until his death just a few days before his 97th birthday. Joe Grant was born at 1908 in New York City. After school, he began his career as a caricaturist.
May 15, 1908 · New York City, New York, USA. Died. May 6, 2005 · Glendale, California, USA (heart attack) Mini Bio. Joe Grant was born on May 15, 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.
Dec 13, 2005 · An interview by Michael Barrier. 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.
Apr 15, 2004 · Disney's legendary creator Joe Grant. All images © Disney Enterprises Inc. All rights reserved. Disney legend Joe Grant first came up with the idea for Lorenzo more than 20 years ago after witnessing his fearless cat dive right into the middle of a fight between his two poodles. What if that silly cat lost its tail? he wondered.
