He adopted his wife's daughter from her first marriage, Ann Bentley, who later married Stanley Kramer.
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Former newspaperman, the son of a physician. He was a graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago, having already started out as a cartoonist at the age of 16. He later joined the Disney Organisation, where he worked from 1935 to 1953. He was reputedly the model for 'Doc' in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (which he directed).
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue
1953
producer
The Sword and the Rose
1953
producer
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952
producer
Treasure Island
1950
producer
So Dear to My Heart
1948
associate producer
Song of the South
1946
associate producer
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fantasia 2000
1999
story development - segment "Sorcerer's Apprentice, The"
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1957
TV Series story - 1 episode
Victory Through Air Power
1943
Documentary story direction
Bambi
1942
story direction
Fantasia
1940
story development - segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937
sequence director
Production Manager
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Mickey Mouse Club
1955
TV Series production supervisor - 1 episode
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fantasia 2000
1999
story developer - segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1938
Mussolini Cup
Venice Film Festival
Best Foreign Film
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Known for movies
Bambi (1942) as Writer
Fantasia (1940) as Writer
Fantasia 2000 (1999) as Writer
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) as Director
$1.4 Million
