Winsor McCay Award Recipients

1. Max Fleischer

Producer | The Tantalizing Fly

Max Fleischer was an American animator, inventor, and film producer from Krakow. As an inventor, Fleischer is primarily known for inventing the rotoscope, an animation technique that allowed animators to draw realistic images and movements, based on live-action images. He later co-founded the ...

2. Dave Fleischer

Director | Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Dave Fleischer was an American film producer and director of animated films. He co-founded the animation studio Fleischer Studios (1929-1942) with his brother Max Fleischer. Dave is primarily remembered for directing the studio's only two feature films: "Gulliver's Travels" (1939) and "Mr. Bug Goes...

3. Walter Lantz

Producer | Jolly Little Elves

Walter Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and film director from New Rochelle, New York. He was the eponymous founder of the animation studio Walter Lantz Productions (1928-1972). The studio was initially famous for continuing the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film series from ...

4. Tex Avery

Director | I Love to Singa

Tex Avery was a descendant of Judge Roy Bean and Daniel Boone, but all his grandma ever told him about it was "Don't ever mention you are kin to Roy Bean. He's a no good skunk!!" After graduating from North Dallas High School in 1927, Avery moved to Southern California in 1929 and got a job in the ...

5. Friz Freleng

Producer | ABC Afterschool Specials

Friz Freleng was born Isadore Freleng on August 21, 1906 in Kansas City, Missouri. With no formal training in drawing, his first job as an animator was with United Film Advancement Services in 1924 at the age of 17. The first work Friz is credited with was for Disney Studios where he worked as an ...

6. Chuck Jones

Actor | Gremlins

Starting as a cel washer, Chuck Jones worked his way up to animator and then director at the animation division of Warner Bros. He is famous for creating such beloved cartoon characters as Wile E. Coyote, Henery Hawk, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Ralph Wolf, Road Runner, Sam Sheepdog, Sniffles,...

7. Art Babbitt

Animation_department | Dumbo

Art Babbitt (born Arthur Harold Babitsky) was an American animator and animation director from Omaha, Nebraska. He worked in several animation studios over his long career, but is mostly remembered for his early work for the Walt Disney Animation Studios. During the 1930s, Babbitt redesigned and ...

8. Winsor McCay

Writer | Gertie the Dinosaur

Like many pioneers, the work of 'Winsor McCay' has been largely superseded by successors such as Walt Disney and Max Fleischer but he more than earns a place in film history for being the American cinema's first great cartoon animator. He started out as a newspaper cartoonist, achieving a national ...

9. Walt Disney

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Flora Disney (née Call) and Elias Disney, a Canadian-born farmer and businessperson. He had Irish, German, and English ancestry. Walt moved with his parents to Kansas City at age seven, where he spent the majority of ...

10. John Hubley

Animation_department | Of Stars and Men

John Hubley was born on May 21, 1914 in Marinette, Wisconsin, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Of Stars and Men (1961), The Hole (1962) and A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (1966). He was married to Faith Hubley and Claudia Lenora (Ross) Sewell. He died on February...

11. Faith Hubley

Animation_department | Yes We Can

Faith Hubley (née Faith Chestman) was born in 1924 in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan. She left home without completing high school to go to Hollywood to pursue a career in filmmaking. She began as a messenger at Columbia Studios, but eventually worked as a sound-effects and music editor. ...

12. Norman McLaren

Producer | Neighbours

Norman McLaren is one of the most awarded filmmakers in the history of Canadian cinema, and a pioneer in both animation and filmmaking. Born in Scotland, he entered the Glasgow School of Fine Arts in 1932 to study set design. His early experiments in animation included actually scratching and ...

13. Robert Cannon

Director | Willie the Kid

Robert 'Bobe' Cannon began his career at Leon Schlesinger Productions in 1934, assisting ace animators Robert Clampett and Chuck Jones. After a two-year apprenticeship he graduated to full animator. Cannon became an integral part of that anarchic Warner Brothers in-house cartoon outfit, known as '...

14. Hugh Harman

Producer | The Old Mill Pond

Hugh Harman was one of the pioneers of animation. While not a great animator, (compared to co-worker, Rudolf Ising) he was present during the early days. He began his work with Walt Disney in 1922, working on Disney's early Laugh-o-Gram toons. When that company went bankrupt, Harman and partner ...

15. Rudolf Ising

Producer | The Milky Way

While animation was still in its infancy during the early twenties, Walt Disney managed to recruit the brightest and best talent nationwide and imported it into Hollywood. Two of these pioneers artists were close friends Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising. They had first tasted success by helping to ...

16. Michael Maltese

Soundtrack | Son of the Mask

During the heyday of cartoon slapstick in Hollywood, one basic tenet held precedence: namely, that an inseparable connection existed between perennial antagonists like Tom and Jerry, Sylvester and Tweetie, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam (or Elmer Fudd). In other ...

17. George Pal

Producer | The War of the Worlds

George Pal was born on February 1, 1908, in Cegled, Austria-Hungary. Later, when he was still a child, his stage-entertainer parents divorced, and he was raised by his grandparents.

In 1928, Pal graduated from the Budapest Academy of Arts with a degree in Architecture and highly developed drawing ...

18. Ward Kimball

Animation_department | Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Ward Kimball joined Disney Studios in 1934 as an animator. He eventually became involved in all aspects of animation production, most notably as the designer of Jiminy Cricket for the film "Pinocchio." He was also responsible for the redesign of Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney recognized Kimball's ...

19. William Hanna

Producer | ABC Afterschool Specials

William Hanna was an animator, film director, and television producer. He was the co-founder of the company Hanna-Barbera, with his longtime partner Joseph Barbera.

Hanna was born in an Irish-American family, son of William John Hanna (1873-1949) and his wife Avice Joyce Denby. He was born in ...

20. Joseph Barbera

Producer | ABC Afterschool Specials

Joseph Roland Barbera was an American animator, film director, and television producer. He was the co-founder of the company Hanna-Barbera, with his longtime partner William Hanna.

Barbera was born in an Italian-American family. His parents were barbershop-owner Vincent Barbera (1889-1965) and ...

21. Mel Blanc

Actor | Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Mel Blanc, known as "The Man of Thousand Voices" is regarded as the most prolific actor to ever work in Hollywood with over a thousand screen credits. He developed and performed nearly 400 distinct character voices with precision and a uniquely expressive vocal range. The legendary specialist from ...

22. Oskar Fischinger

Cinematographer | Frau im Mond

Oskar Fischinger was born on June 22, 1900 in Gelnhausen, Hesse, Germany. He was a director, known for Woman in the Moon (1929), Orgelstäbe (1927) and A Quarter Hour of City Statistics (1933). He was married to Elfriede Fischinger. He died on January 31, 1967 in Hollywood, California, USA.

23. Bill Scott

Actor | Rocky and His Friends

Bill Scott was born on August 2, 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Bullwinkle Show (1959), Hoppity Hooper (1964) and The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy (1966). He was married to Dorothy Scott. He died on November 29, 1985 in Tujunga, California, USA.

24. Milt Kahl

Animation_department | Lady and the Tramp

Milt Kahl was a veteran animator from San Francisco. He became one of "Disney's Nine Old Men", a board of supervising animators who headed the production staff of the Walt Disney Animation Studios from c. 1945 to 1977.

In 1909, Kahl was born in San Francisco. His parents were the saloon bartender ...

25. Jay Ward

Writer | George of the Jungle

Jay Ward (born as Joseph Ward Cohen Jr.) was an American creator and producer of animated television series. He was the eponymous founder of the animation studio Jay Ward Productions (1948-), one of the earliest American studios to market its productions to television audiences. Ward co-created "...

26. Ub Iwerks

Visual_effects | The Birds

Ub Iwerks worked as a commercial artist in Kansas City in 1919 when he met Walt Disney who was in the same profession. When Disney decided to form an animation company, Ub Iwerks was the first employee he had due to his skill at fast drawing as well as being a personal friend.

When Charles Mintz ...

27. Dick Huemer

Writer | Fantasia

Dick Huemer was born on January 2, 1898 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He died on November 30, 1979 in Burbank, California, USA.

28. Carl W. Stalling

Soundtrack | Super 8

Carl Stalling is the most famous unknown composer of the 20th century, almost solely based on his work composing musical scores for animated cartoons. Stalling's first work in music was as house organist in Newman Theatre in Kansas City, where he would accompany the latest silent film with his ...

29. Hans Conried

Actor | Peter Pan

Hans Conried was born in Baltimore and raised both there and in New York City. He studied acting at Columbia University, and played many major classical roles onstage. After having been a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Company, he was heard as Prof. Kropotkin on the radio show "My Friend ...

30. Clyde Geronimi

Director | Cinderella

Clyde Geronimi was born on June 12, 1901 in Chiavenna, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director, known for Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). He died on April 24, 1989 in Newport Beach, California, USA.

31. Bill Melendez

Producer | A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Bill Melendez was born on November 15, 1916 in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. He was a producer and actor, known for A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown (1968). He was married to Helen Antionette Huhn. He died on September 2, 2008 in ...

32. Mae Questel

Actress | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Her Orthodox Jewish family were totally averse to her having an entertainment career. Her parents and grandparents forced her to leave the Theatre Guild school (New York) while still a teenager and had their wills drawn up accordingly so as to discourage this career choice.

Studied drama at Columbia...

33. Otto Messmer

Director | Felix in Hollywood

Cartoonist Otto Messmer was born in Union City (then known as West Hoboken), NJ, on Aug. 16, 1892. He showed an aptitude for drawing as early as grammar school, and his teachers encouraged him to follow that path. After graduating he took a correspondence course in art and attended the Thomas ...

34. Ollie Johnston

Actor | The Iron Giant

Oliver Martin "Ollie" Johnston was an American animator from Palo Alto, California. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, a group of senior animators which supervised production at the Walt Disney Animation Studios from c. 1945 to 1977. By the time of his death in 2008, Johnston was the last ...

35. Frank Thomas

Actor | The Iron Giant

Frank Thomas was born on September 5, 1912 in Santa Monica, California, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Iron Giant (1999), The Incredibles (2004) and The AristoCats (1970). He was married to Jeanette A. Thomas. He died on September 8, 2004 in La Cañada Flintridge, California, USA.

36. Cal Howard

Writer | Gulliver's Travels

Cal Howard was born on March 24, 1911 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Gulliver's Travels (1939), The Adventures of Superpup (1958) and Valentine's Day (1964). He died on September 10, 1993 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

37. Paul Julian

Animation_department | The Hangman

One of the finest background artists employed on creating the Looney Tunes & Merry Melodies cartoons for Warner Brothers began his career as a respected muralist in Southern California. A prodigy as an arts student, Julian graduated from the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute in Pasadena. After ...

38. Laverne Harding

Animation_department | Journey Back to Oz

Laverne Harding was born on October 10, 1905 in Louisiana, USA. She is known for Journey Back to Oz (1972), The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972) and Treasure Island (1973). She died on September 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

39. T. Hee

Director | Pinocchio

T. Hee was born on March 26, 1911 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He was a writer, known for Pinocchio (1940), Variety Girl (1947) and The Parent Trap (1961). He was married to Patti Price. He died on October 30, 1988 in Carbon County, Montana, USA.

40. Bill Peet

Writer | Cinderella

Bill Peet was born on January 29, 1915 in Grandview, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for Cinderella (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Dumbo (1941). He was married to Margaret Brunst. He died on May 11, 2002 in Studio City, California, USA.

41. Bill Tytla

Animation_department | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Often cited as one of the greatest animators of all time, Vladimir 'Bill' Tytla was born of Ukrainian immigrant parentage in Yonkers, New York, in October 1904. His close-knit family strongly supported his artistic inclinations. By the tender age of nine he had become set on his course after ...

42. John Whitney Sr.

Director | Matrix I

John Whitney Sr. was born on April 8, 1917 in Pasadena, California, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Matrix I (1971), Matrix II (1971) and Matrix III (1972). He died on September 22, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

43. Ken Harris

Animation_department | The Return of the Pink Panther

Ken Harris was for 26 years one of the outstanding animators at Warner Brothers. He had no formal art school qualifications -- which effectively precluded him from working for Disney -- having started his career as a sports cartoonist for the "Los Angeles Examiner" and the "Evening Express". His ...

44. Ken Anderson

Writer | Cinderella

Ken Anderson was born on March 17, 1909 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was a writer, known for Cinderella (1950), Robin Hood (1973) and The AristoCats (1970). He was married to Polly Anderson. He died on December 13, 1993 in La Cañada Flintridge, California, USA.

45. Bruno Bozzetto

Director | Allegro non troppo

Bruno Bozzetto was born on March 3, 1938 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Allegro non troppo (1976), La cabina (1973) and Self Service (1974).

46. June Foray

Actress | Mulan

Legendary voice actress June Foray was born June Lucille Forer on September 18, 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Maurice Forer and Ida Edith Robinson, who wed in Hampden, Massachusetts. Her father, who was Jewish, emigrated from Novgorod, Imperial Russia, while her Massachusetts-born mother ...

47. Don Graham

48. Marc Davis

Animation_department | Sleeping Beauty

Marc Davis was an American animator from Bakersfield, California. He was a member of Disney's Nine Old Men, a group of senior animators who supervised the Walt Disney Animation Studios from c. 1945 to 1977. Davis was nicknamed as "Disney's Ladies' Man", because he was often asked to design and/or ...

49. Eric Larson

Director | Sleeping Beauty

Eric Cleon Larson was born on September 3, 1905 in Cleveland, Utah, to Peter and Nora Larson. In 1915 his family moved to Salt Lake City, where he became interested in journalism and also secretly took drawing lessons. In 1925, he entered the University of Utah, later moving to Los Angeles to look ...

50. Fred Moore

Animation_department | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Fred Moore was born on September 7, 1911 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Dumbo (1941) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He died on November 25, 1952 in Burbank, California, USA.

51. Clarence Nash

Actor | The Three Caballeros

He began imitating birds and various barnyard animals as a child growing up in Watonga, Oklahoma. In his teens his family moved to Southern California where he got a promotional job with a dairy company and in between jobs performed animal imitations at various Los Angeles schools. In 1934 hearing ...

52. Wolfgang Reitherman

Director | The AristoCats

Wolfgang Reitherman was a German-born American animator who was one of Disney's Nine Old Men.

He began working for Disney in 1933, along with future Disney legends Ward Kimball and Milt Kahl. The three worked together on a number of classic Disney shorts.

Reitherman directed several Disney animated ...

53. Leo Salkin

Animation_department | Man on the Moon

Leo Salkin was born on February 1, 1913 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a producer and writer, known for Man on the Moon (1999), Omnibus (1952) and The Music Machine: An Adventure in Agapeland (1990). He died on October 13, 1993 in Burbank, California, USA.

54. Stephen Bosustow

Producer | Gerald McBoing-Boing

Stephen Bosustow was born on November 6, 1911 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He was a producer and writer, known for Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950), When Magoo Flew (1954) and Rooty Toot Toot (1951). He died on July 4, 1981.

55. Wilfred Jackson

Director | Cinderella

Wilfred Jackson was born on January 24, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director, known for Cinderella (1950), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He died on August 7, 1988 in Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, USA.

56. Daws Butler

Actor | Hey There, It's Yogi Bear

Daws Butler spent the greater part of his career as one of the premier voice-over actors in Hollywood- providing the voices for such well- known characters as Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick-Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Jinks the cat, Dixie the mouse, Augie Doggie, Peter Potamus, Wally Gator, ...

57. David Hand

Director | Bambi

David Hand was born on January 23, 1900 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Bambi (1942), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and The Cuckoo. He was married to Josephine Hale Marks. He died on October 11, 1986 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.

58. Jack Kinney

Director | Dumbo

Jack Kinney was born on March 29, 1909 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Dumbo (1941), Pinocchio (1940) and The Magical World of Disney (1954). He was married to Eva Jane Sinclair and Virginia Schulte. He died on February 9, 1992 in Glendale, California, USA.

59. Michael Lah

Director | Tom and Jerry Classic Collection Volume 3

Michael Lah was born on September 1, 1912 in Illinois, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Tom and Jerry Classic Collection Volume 3 (1953), Tom and Jerry Classic Collection Volume 4 (1956) and Journey Back to Oz (1972). He died on October 13, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

60. Robert McKimson

Director | Baggy Pants & the Nitwits

Robert McKimson was born on October 13, 1910. He started his career in animation, along with many others, as an artist for Walt Disney's Oswald the Rabbit in 1928. After Disney went to produce Mickey Mouse cartoons, Hugh Harman & Rudolph Ising went to Warner Brothers to direct and co-produce ...

61. Richard Williams

Animation_department | Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The son of commercial artists, Richard Williams studied at the Ontario College of Art and first worked in animation for Disney Studios in Burbank. His tenure there had a strong influence on his later work but proved somewhat stifling to his own creative flair. In 1955, aged 22, Williams moved to ...

62. Hamilton Luske

Director | Cinderella

Hamilton Luske was an American animator and film director from Chicago, who spend most of his career at the Walt Disney Animation Studios. He served as the supervising director of several of Disney's films. He was also the supervising animator for the character of Snow White in the feature film "...

63. Robert Abel

Tron

One of the genuine visionaries of Digital Computer Graphics and Visual Effects. From the early 1970s through the mid-80s, the Hollywood-based studio Robert Abel & Associates (RA&A) pushed the leading -- sometimes bleeding -- edge of visual effects. Working primarily in television advertising, (the ...

64. Preston Blair

Animation_department | Bambi

Preston Blair was born on October 24, 1908 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Bambi (1942), Pinocchio (1940) and Fantasia (1940). He died on April 19, 1995 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.

65. Joe Grant

Writer | Fantasia

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. He died on May 6, 2005 in Glendale, California, USA.

66. John Halas

Producer | Heavy Metal

John Halas was born on April 16, 1912 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a producer and director, known for Heavy Metal (1981), Automania 2000 (1963) and Animal Farm (1954). He was married to Joy Batchelor. He died on January 21, 1995 in London, England, UK.

67. Sterling Holloway

Actor | The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Popular American character actor of amusing appearance and voice whose long career led from dozens of highly enjoyable onscreen performances to world-wide familiarity as the voice of numerous Walt Disney animated films. Born in the American Deep South to grocer Sterling P. Holloway Sr. and Rebecca ...

68. James MacDonald

Actor | Cinderella

James MacDonald was born on May 19, 1906 in Crewe, Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and The Black Hole (1979). He was married to Sarah Roberta Cullen. He died on February 1, 1991 in Glendale, California, USA.

69. Phil Monroe

Animation_department | The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

Phil Monroe was born on October 31, 1916 in Long Beach, California, USA. She was a director and writer, known for The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie (1979), Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983) and Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988). She was married to Beverly Lynn Rogers. She died on July 13, ...

70. Ben Washam

Director | Great Performances

American animator, noted for the crisp, angular style and sleek, fluid movement of his characters. A gent of considerable wit and good humour, Washam made significant contributions to Warner Brothers cartoons under the auspices of Chuck Jones between 1941 and 1963. Two of his trademarks were Bugs ...

71. Frédéric Back

Art_department | L'homme qui plantait des arbres

Frédéric Back was born on April 8, 1924 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He was a director, known for The Man Who Planted Trees (1987), Crac (1980) and The Mighty River (1993). He was married to Ghylaine Paquin. He died on December 24, 2013 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

72. Shamus Culhane

Animation_department | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

James "Shamus" Culhane was the only animator to work on all of the first four animated feature-length Walt Disney cartoons. In a career that spanned six decades, he worked for 18 cartoon studios, including his own. In the mid-'0s his early hand-drawn animation was combined with computer animation ...

73. William T. Hurtz

Director | Rocky and His Friends

William T. Hurtz was born on April 7, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director, known for The Bullwinkle Show (1959), Super Chicken (1967) and Look Who's Driving (1954). He was married to Mary ?. He died on October 14, 2000 in Van Nuys, California, USA.

74. Irven Spence

Director | Rugged Rangers

Irven Spence was born on April 24, 1909 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He was an assistant director, known for Rugged Rangers (1942), Rats in Spats (1941) and The Lord of the Rings (1978). He died on September 21, 1995 in Dallas, Texas, USA.

75. Emery Hawkins

Director | The Egg Cracker Suite

Emery Hawkins was born on April 30, 1912 in Jerome, Arizona, USA. He was a director, known for The Egg Cracker Suite (1943), The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) and Manolin Torero (1954). He died in June 1989 in Taos, New Mexico, USA.

76. John Lounsbery

Animation_department | Lady and the Tramp

John Lounsbery was an American animator and animation director from Cincinnati, Ohio. He eventually became one of "Disney's Nine Old Men", a group of senior animators who were in charge of the Walt Disney Animation Studios from c. 1945 to 1977. Lounsbery died in 1976, with his death leading to the ...

77. Paul Driessen

Director | The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg

Paul Driessen was born on March 30, 1940 in Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands. He is a director and writer, known for The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2000), 3 Misses (1998) and The End of the World in Four Seasons (1995).

78. Jack Hannah

Director | Disneyland

Jack Hannah was born on January 5, 1913 in Nogales, Arizona, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Magical World of Disney (1954), Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil (1959) and Superstar Goofy (1972). He died on June 11, 1994 in Burbank, California, USA.

79. Bill Littlejohn

Animation_department | Mrs. Doubtfire

Bill Littlejohn was born on January 27, 1914 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is known for Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Watership Down (1978) and Heavy Metal (1981). He was married to Fini Rudiger. He died on September 17, 2010 in Malibu, California, USA.

80. Maurice Noble

Animation_department | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

American layout designer Maurice Noble was proudly old-school, a self-proclaimed champion of the 'golden years' of animation. Working in the industry for more than six decades, he reached the peak of his profession with Disney and Warner Brothers and openly rejected the stylised approach to ...

81. Kendall O'Connor

Animation_department | Lady and the Tramp

Kendall O'Connor was born on June 7, 1908 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He was an art director, known for Lady and the Tramp (1955), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Dumbo (1941). He was married to Mary Alice O'Connor. He died on May 27, 1998 in Burbank, California, USA.

82. Norman Ferguson

Director | Dumbo

Norman Ferguson was born on September 2, 1902 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and production manager, known for Dumbo (1941), Pinocchio (1940) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). He was married to Gladys F.. He died on November 4, 1957 in Los Angeles, ...

83. Ralph Bakshi

Director | Wizards

Ralph Bakshi worked his way up from Brooklyn and became an animation legend. He was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, Israel, the son of Mina (Zlotin) and Eliezar Bakshi, and is of Krymchak Jewish descent. He was raised in Brownsville, after his family came to New York to escape World War II. ...

84. Robert Clampett

Director | Time for Beany

Born in San Diego, California, the young Robert Clampett was monumentally moved as a child by the film The Lost World (1925), inspiring him to create a sea-serpent sock-puppet that he used in puppet shows to entertain the neighborhood kids. This led him to create a stuffed Mickey Mouse toy, which ...

85. Tissa David

Animation_department | The Cosmic Eye

Tissa David was born on January 5, 1921 in Kolozsvár, Hungary. Tissa is known for The Cosmic Eye (1986), Bonjour Paris (1953) and The Soldier's Tale (1984). Tissa died on August 21, 2012 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

86. Kihachirô Kawamoto

Director | Shisha no sho

Kihachirô Kawamoto was born on January 11, 1925 in Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Shisha no sho (2005), The Trip (1973) and A Poet's Life (1974). He died on August 23, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan.

87. Virgil Ross

Animation_department | Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase

Virgil Ross was a legendary animator who worked chiefly at Warner Brothers during the 'Golden Years of Animation'. Having moved through the ranks of the pioneering studios (as a trainee for Charles Mintz, in 1930, for $6 a week salary, and for Walter Lantz -- briefly -- in 1935), Ross joined Tex ...

88. Art Clokey

Director | Gumby 1

Art Clokey was born on October 12, 1921 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Gumby: The Movie (1995), Gumby Adventures (1988) and The Gumby Show (1956). He was married to Gloria Clokey and Ruth Clokey. He died on January 8, 2010 in Los Osos, California, USA.

89. Hicks Lokey

Animation_department | Dumbo

Hicks Lokey was born on April 5, 1904 in Alabama, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Dumbo (1941), Fantasia (1940) and Space Ghost (1966). He was married to Ruth Louise Dangler. He died on November 4, 1990 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

90. Don Messick

Actor | The Last Unicorn

Don Messick is a legendary voice actor who spent his entire adult-hood in entertainment. He started out wanting to be a ventriloquist. Thankfully for cartoon lovers that career didn't pan out. How do you think his potential career would've stacked up against Edgar Bergen and later, Paul Winchell? ...

91. Osamu Tezuka

Writer | Tenrankai no e

Tezuka Osamu was born on November 3, 1928 in Toyonaka, Japan as the first child of Fumiko & Yutaka Tezuka. At 5, he & his family moved to the village of Kohama in Hyogo prefecture (present day city of Takarazuka). When he was 7, he entered Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka. Due to his diminutive ...

92. Lester Novros

Producer | Universe

Lester Novros was born on January 27, 1909 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Universe (1976), Fantasia (1940) and Cosmos (1974). He was married to Esther ?. He died on September 10, 2000 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.

93. Ray Harryhausen

Actor | Spies Like Us

When it comes to motion-picture special effects, there is only one name that personifies movie magic: Ray Harryhausen. From his debut films with George Pal to his final film, Harryhausen imbued magic and visual strength to motion-picture special effects as no other technician has, before or since.

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94. Herbert Klynn

Director | Hee Haw

As an animation artist at UPA, Mr. Klynn helped create several award winning cartoon shorts, including "Mr. Magoo," "Gerald McBoing-Boing," "Madeline" and "Christopher Crumpet." He had previously worked as an animation director for the U.S. Army Signal Corps motion picture unit in Los Angeles ...

95. Bob Kurtz

Animation_department | Jurassic Park

Bob Kurtz is known for Jurassic Park (1993), Minority Report (2002) and George of the Jungle (1997).

96. Yuri Norstein

Animation_department | Skazka skazok

Born to Jewish parents and raised in a Moscow suburb, Yuri Norstein painted as a hobby and trained as a carpenter before studying animation. He directed his first film in 1968 and made a series of short films notable for their attention to atmosphere and fine detail, using a multiplane camera to ...

97. Joe Siracusa

Music_department | G.I. Joe

Joe Siracusa was born on February 3, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an editor, known for G.I. Joe (1985), The Transformers (1984) and Baggy Pants & the Nitwits (1977). He was married to Eleanor Cristino. He died on November 13, 2021 in Tarzana, California, USA.

98. Ruth Kissane

Animation_department | Watership Down

Ruth was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Hugh Hershey Kissane and Ruth Elizabeth (Forry) Kissane. She was a highly respected animator in Hollywood. She worked in all the major studios, including Disney, Playhouse Pictures, Bill Melendez Productions, Film Roman, and Chuck Jones Enterprises. Ruth was best...

99. Les Clark

Director | Sleeping Beauty

Leslie James "Les" Clark was an American animator from Ogden, Utah. He served as one of Disney's Nine Old Men, a group of senior animators who supervised the Walt Disney Animation Studios from c. 1945 to 1977. Clark was skilled in timing his animation to musical scores, and in conveying emotion in ...

100. Stan Freberg

Actor | Lady and the Tramp

Stan Freberg grew up in Los Angeles, California. From an early age he was a big fan of radio and sound. He was blessed with the double abilities of being an amazing mimic and possessing a razor-sharp satirical mind. In the early 1940s he began to do voice work for both the Warner Brothers' cartoons...