Bill Justice
William "Bill" Justice (* 9. February 1914 in Dayton , Ohio ; † 10. February 2011 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American animator who from 1937 to 1979 in the course of 42 years for the Walt Disney Company worked .
Life
He attended the John Herron Art Institute until 1935 , which is now part of Indiana University in Indianapolis. In 1937 he was employed by Walt Disney , in the following years he worked on films such as Fantasia (1940), Bambi (1942), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). In Bambi he was responsible for the animation of the rabbit knocker (English: Thumper ). Even the little squirrels and burrows come from his pen.
As a director, he directed several short films, especially in the 1940s and 1950s, including The Grain That Built a Hemisphere from 1943.
From the 1950s he worked as a director on various animated films , three of which were nominated for an Oscar , but not awarded. From 1965 he devoted himself to the attractions of his employer's theme parks . He retired in 1979 and lived in Granada Hills, California with his wife Kim. With Justice for Disney he has published a book about his work at Disney and last lived in a retirement home where he died of natural causes. He leaves behind a daughter and a granddaughter .
Awards
- 1992: Golden Award from the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Awards
- 1996: Awarded a Disney Legend
- 2001: Winsor McCay Award from the Annie Awards
Web links
- Bill Justice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Disney Legends: Biography of Bill Justice (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bill-justice-20110211,0,6806641.story
- ↑ a b Portrait on news.de ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Awards for Bill Justice in the IMDb
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Justice, Bill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Justice, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American animator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dayton , Ohio, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 2011 |
| Place of death | Santa Monica , California, United States |