+ James Algar, animator on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and an animation director on "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" ("Fantasia") and sequences of "Bambi" and "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad".
+ Ken Anderson (pictured left), art director on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"; character designer Shere Khan in "The Jungle Book" and Elliott in "Pete's Dragon"; and production designer on such films as "Sleeping Beauty", "101 Dalmatians", and "The Aristocats".+ Tony Anselmo, joined Disney as an animator, but became the voice of Donald Duck after the death on Clarence Nash, the original voice of the character.
+ Art Babbitt, animator of the Wicked Queen from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Geppetto in "Pinocchio", the stork in "Dumbo", and the mushrooms in "The Nutcracker Suite" segment in the "Fantasia".
+ Marc Davis, known as one of Disney's Nine Old Men. Animator on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and character designer of Young Bambi and Thumper. Also known for animating such female characters as Cinderella, Tinker Bell, and Cruella de Vil. Davis died in January, 2000.
+ Andreas Deja (pictured left), began at Disney as a conceptual artist for "The Black Cauldron", also animated Mickey Mouse in "The Prince and the Pauper", and was supervising animator on Gaston ("Beauty and the Beast"), Jafar ("Aladdin"), and Scar ("The Lion King").+ Eyvind Earle, background artist and color stylist on such films as "Peter Pan" and "Lady and the Tramp". He is also credited with giving the 1959 animated feature "Sleeping Beauty" its medieval look.. Earle first rose to prominence at the studio in 1953, when an animated short that he worked on, "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom", won both an Academy Award and a Cannes Film Festival Award.
+ Norm Ferguson, directing animator on such films from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" to "Peter Pan". He was responsible for the witch in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and Honest John and Gideon in "Pinocchio", and was known for his animation of Pluto.
+ Mark Henn, animated Mickey Mouse in "Mickey's Christmas Carol" and worked on Oliver and the Artful Dodger in "Oliver & Company". In 1989 he moved to Florida to help establish the feature animation studio there. He animated Ariel in "The Little Mermaid", Belle in "Beauty and the Beast", and young Simba in "The Lion King".
+ Ub Iwerks (pictured left), was an animator and special effects artist. Iwerks helped Disney in the creation of the Mickey Mouse character. Iwerks animated the Mickey Mouse film "Plane Crazy" all by himself and is renowned for drawing 700 drawings in a day, which is seven times the amount of drawings a current Disney animator produces in a week. He animated most of the Mickey Mouse cartoon and also painted the backgrounds and drew the posters. Iwerks also invented a multihead optical printer, used to combine live action and animation in "Melody Time" and "Song of the South". He also modified the Xerox process transfer pencil animation to cel without hand inking. Two Academy Award were won by Ub Iwerks, for designing an improved optical printer for special effects and for collaborating on the perfection of color traveling matte photography.
+ Glen Keane (pictured right), began his career as an animator on "The Rescuers". He animated the fight scene with the bear in "The Fox and the Hound", and was directing animator on Ariel in "The Little Mermaid", Beast in "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "Pocahontas", and "Tarzan".+ John Musker, began his career at Disney as an animator on such films as "The Small One", "The Fox and the Hound" and "The Black Cauldron". He co-directed with Ron Clements, "The Great Mouse Detective", "The Little Mermaid", and "Aladdin".
+ Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman, was one of Disney's "Nine Old Men". Director of such features as "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Sword in the Stone". After Disney's death in 1966, Reitherman took over producing and director of all of the animated features until his retirement in 1980.
+ Gary Trousdale (pictured left) made his feature-directing debut with the Academy Award©-winning "Beauty and the Beast". Trousdale has been with Feature Animation since 1984, and has contributed to the following films, "Oliver & Company", "The Little Mermaid", and "The Rescuers Down Under". Co-directed with Kirk Wise on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Atlantis: The Lost Empire".+ Kirk Wise received his first feature-directing credit on the Academy Award©-winning "Beauty and the Beast" adn in 1996 re-teamed with Don Hahn and Gary Trousdale on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", and has contributed to the following films, "The Great Mouse Detective", "Oliver & Company", and "Atlantis: The Lost Empire".
+ Ollie Johnston (pictured right), is known as one of Disney's "Nine Old Men". He worked on 24 animated features beginning with "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", many as directing animator.Bill Justice, animator on "Fantasia", "Bambi", "Alice in Wonderland", "Peter Pan" and others. He developed characters such as Thumper and Chip and Dale.
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