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Ward Walrath Kimball (March 4, 1914 – July 8, 2002) was an American animator employed by Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was part of Walt Disney 's main team of animators, known collectively as Disney's Nine Old Men. His films have been honored with two Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film .
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- 1934–1980
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- One of Disney's Nine Old Men
Feb 4, 2015 · The world has had 100 years of Ward Kimball, and though he passed away in 2002, his influence and spirit remain in a multitude of legacies. Any retrospective of the man must begin with one thing: trains. Though he found a career and fame in the pursuit of art and music, trains were really Ward’s first love.
Aug 15, 2015 · Ward Kimball’s Personal History. 1914: I was born March 4, 10 p.m. in Minneapolis, Minn., Mercy Hospital. 1915: Any other baby would have looked the same. 1918: Mother told me that my Uncle Pierre was “Fighting the Battle of Paris.”. 1919: Muskogee, Oklahoma – A shed rat bit the little finger on my left hand.
Apr 27, 2019 · Ward Walrath Kimball (March 4, 1914 – July 8, 2002), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was an animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was one of Walt Disney 's team of animators, known as Disney's Nine Old Men. His films have been honored with two Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film. Outside of his job as an animator, Kimball was ...
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Jul 9, 2002 · July 9, 2002 12 AM PT. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES. Ward Kimball, the most colorful and eccentric of the Nine Old Men, the key group of Disney artists whose work set the standard by which all animation ...
Feb 25, 2015 · The book was available from Pocket Books Inc, for $1.50, and featured a foreword by artist Walt Kelly. Kelly was then famous for his comic-strip creation, Pogo, but 25 years earlier, Kelly had been a fellow animator and close friend of Ward’s at The Walt Disney Studios. Kelly left Disney as result of the animators' strike in 1941, but found ...
Jiminy is masterfully animated in the classic Disney style, though he still has moments of spunk and energy that would shine more so in Ward’s later characters. Ward was a success in the wake of Jiminy Cricket, and he would rise in the ranks of Disney animators into the 1940s. In Fantasia (1940) he handled Bacchus in the “Pastoral Symphony.”.
