Ollie Johnston, the last of Walt Disney's 'Nine Old Men' has died.
He was a directing animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935-1978. He contributed to many films including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio. His last full work for Disney came with The Rescuers, which was the last film of the second golden age of Disney animation that had begun in 1950 with Cinderella. In The Rescuers, he was caricatured as one of the film's characters, the cat Rufus.
Johnston was also immortalized in Pixar's "The Incredibles."
Disney's Nine Old Men were the core animators (some of whom later became directors) who created the Disney studio's most famous works, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs onward to The Rescuers. Walt Disney jokingly called this group of animators his "Nine Old Men," referring to what Franklin D. Roosevelt called the nine judges of the US Supreme Court, even though the animators were in their thirties and forties at the time.
He was a directing animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935-1978. He contributed to many films including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi and Pinocchio. His last full work for Disney came with The Rescuers, which was the last film of the second golden age of Disney animation that had begun in 1950 with Cinderella. In The Rescuers, he was caricatured as one of the film's characters, the cat Rufus.
Johnston was also immortalized in Pixar's "The Incredibles."
Disney's Nine Old Men were the core animators (some of whom later became directors) who created the Disney studio's most famous works, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs onward to The Rescuers. Walt Disney jokingly called this group of animators his "Nine Old Men," referring to what Franklin D. Roosevelt called the nine judges of the US Supreme Court, even though the animators were in their thirties and forties at the time.
As someone on the DIS pointed out, there are fewer and fewer links to Walt Disney in the world.
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