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Joseph Clarence Grant (May 15, 1908 – May 6, 2005) was an American conceptual artist, storyboard artist, and screenwriter. Early life. Grant was born on May 15, 1908 in New York City on the Lower East Side. He was the son of George Albert Grant and Eva Green. He had a younger sister, Geraldine.
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Joe Grant was an American Disney animator, artist, and writer, as well as a Disney Legend.
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 led development for Pinocchio and Fantasia both released in 1940. During World War II, he worked on the Academy Award-winning cartoon Der Fuehrer's Face, but left Disney Studios in 1949 to start his own greeting card business. Grant returned to Disney in 1989 and worked on Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), Pocahontas (1995), Mulan (1998), and Fantasia 2000 (2000). Additionally, he worked on Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc. (2001).
Sadly, on May 6, 2005, while working at his studio on the animated short Lorenzo, Joe Grant died of a heart attack at the age of 96 just nine days short of his 97th birthday. Chicken Little (2005), which was released six months after his death and the last Disney film on which he worked, was dedicated to him. It was said on the Disney DVD of Lady and the Tramp that Grant and his wife owned a dog named Lady on whom the main character of the movie was based.
A book about both Grant and Joe Ranft, who died in a car accident on August 16, 2005 (just three months after Joe Grant's passing) entitled Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers (ISBN 9781423110675) by Animation Historian John Canemaker was published on August 3, 2010.
Grant was inducted as a Disney Legend in 1992.
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4."Joe Grant, 96; Disney Artist Helped Make Films That Became Classics". Los Angeles Times (May 10, 2005).
5."Two Guys Named Joe by John Canemaker". ImagiNERDing (Jan 1, 2015).
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Joe Grant was a Disney animator, artist, and writer who worked on many classic films from Snow White to Monsters, Inc. He was a Disney Legend and died in 2005 at the age of 96.
Joe Grant (1908-2005) was a writer and animator who worked on many classic Disney films, such as Fantasia, Dumbo, and Pocahontas. He was hired by Walt Disney in 1933 and left and returned to the studio several times.
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Joe Grant was a prolific and influential story artist who worked on many classic Disney animated films, from Snow White to Mulan. He also consulted on Fantasia 2000 and received the Legends Award in 1992.
Dec 13, 2005 · An interview with Joe Grant, who worked on Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and other Disney classics in the 1930s and 1940s. He also returned to the studio in the 1980s and influenced a new generation of animators.
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....
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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”...
