Larry Lansburgh

Lawrence "Larry" Muzzy Lansburgh (born May 18, 1911 in San Francisco , California , † March 25, 2001 in Burbank , Los Angeles County , California) was an American film producer , film director , screenwriter and cameraman who won two Academy Awards and was nominated for two more Oscars.

biography

Lansburgh began as an assistant director at the Walt Disney Company and worked in the production of the full-length cartoons Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940) and Cinderella (1950) with. In the 1950s he began his work as an author, cameraman and director of documentaries and short films , for example Desert Killer (1952).

At the 1957 Academy Awards , he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film for Cow Dog . The following year he received the Oscar for best short film in 1958 for The Wetback Hound (1956).

Another Oscar he won at the Oscars 1961 in the category Best Documentary for The Horse with the Flying Tail (1961). Finally, he and Brian Lansburgh were nominated again in 1976 for the Oscar for best short film ( Dawn Flight (1976)).

Another work by Lansburgh was the short film Beauty and the Bull (1954). In 1998 he was awarded the title of Disney Legend .

personal data
SURNAME	Lansburgh, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lansburgh, Lawrence Muzzy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American film director, producer, screenwriter and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Francisco , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 2001
Place of death	Burbank , Los Angeles County , California , United States