- Jack Kinney
Jack Kinney (
March 29 ,1909 -February 9 ,1992 ) was an Americananimator , director and producer ofanimated short s.Jack Kinney attended John Muir Junior High School in Los Angeles, California (1925), and attended John C. Fremont High School (1926 - 1928) there with Roy Williams. Both Fremont football players, they would later be hired by Walt Disney in 1930 to work at the Walt Disney Studio on Hyperion Avenue. Often referring to himself as Kinney's best friend, Williams would go on to star as the "Big Mooseketeer" with head Mouseketeer Jimmie Dodd on the classic 1950's television program, "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955 - 1958).
Kinney began his long career in cartoons at the Walt Disney Studios in 1931 as an animator on several shorts, including "
Santa's Workshop " (released onDecember 10 ,1932 ), "The Band Concert " (released onFebruary 23 ,1935 ), and "Moose Hunters " (released onApril 17 ,1937 ). He then became a director of cartoons at Disney, including as a sequence director for both "Pinocchio" and "Dumbo " and especially as a director in the shorts department, where he directed many cartoon shorts, mostly those starringGoofy (his brother Dick created the stories for the shorts), although he also directed a few "Donald Duck " cartoons as well, including the Academy Award-winning wartimepropaganda film, "Der Fuehrer's Face ". He also served as director of most of the "package films" during the 1940s, including "The Three Caballeros ", "Make Mine Music ", and "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad ". In the mid-1950s, he supervised new animation used to tie some of the old shorts together for Disney's television efforts.In 1959, Jack left Disney to start (with his brother Dick) Jack Kinney Productions, an independent animation studio. Among other work they provided animation for
King Features Syndicate 's 1960Popeye series.In 1988 Kinney published a short memoir, "Walt Disney and Assorted Other Characters: An Unauthorized Account of the Early Years at Disney's". Kinney died on February 9, 1992 in
Glendale, California at the age of 82.External links
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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4DE1F3EF931A25751C0A964958260 Obituary in the New York Times]
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