Ward Kimball
Ward Kimball Walrath (* 4. March 1914 in Minneapolis , † 8. July 2002 in Los Angeles ) was an American director and animation - Animator and jazz trombonist and bandleader . He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men .
Life
Kimball became a magazine illustrator after high school and studied at the Santa Barbara School of Art in California . From 1934 he worked at Walt Disney Studios and participated in the character animation of well-known Disney characters such as Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio (1940) , Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Alice in Wonderland (1949) and Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella (1950) . Also served Ward for Disney as a director of short films Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953), which the first Cinemascope -Zeichentrickfilm was, and It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969), the one with the Oscar (Best Animated Short Film) was awarded . In his garden he ran the Grizzly Flats Railroad in 1942 , which inspired Walt Disney to build similar railways. In 1954 he entered into an episode of the television series You Bet Your Life by Groucho Marx on. During the 1950s he produced films for the Disneyland television series , such as the Oscar-nominated short documentary Man in Space (with Wernher von Braun ); In the 1960s he worked on the script for the fantasy film musical Babes in Toyland and was busy designing theme parks such as World of Motion before retiring in 1972. In 1989 he received the Disney Legends Award in the Animation & Imagineering category .
During his time at Disney, he led the Dixieland jazz band Firehouse Five Plus Two with friends from Disney employees such as Frank Thomas . With the band he presented a few singles ( Goes to Sea ) and long-playing records and appeared in clubs, colleges and at jazz festivals from the 1940s on. In the line-up of Kimball, Johnny Lucas (trumpet), Clarke Mallery (clarinet), Frank Thomas (piano), Harper Goff (banjo), Ed Penner (bass, sousaphone), Jim McDonald (drums), the first recordings were made in Hollywood in 1949 the label Good Time Jazz ( Firehouse Stomp ).
Discographic notes
- Firehouse Five - Vol. 5: Firehouse Five Plus Two Goes South! (Good Time Jazz, 1954)
- Firehouse Five Plus Two - At Disneyland
- Firehouse Five Plus Two - Crashes a Party (Good Time Jazz)
- Firehouse Five Plus Two - Dixieland Favorites (Good Time Jazz)
- Firehouse Five Plus Two - Around The World (Fantasy)
Filmography (selection)
- 1934: The Wise Little Hen (The Wise Little Hen) - Animation
- 1935: The Tortoise and the Hare (The Tortoise and the Hare) - Animation
- 1936: Toby Schildkröt Beats Them All (Toby Tortoise Returns) - screenplay
- 1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) - Animation
- 1938: Ferdinand the Bull - animation
- 1938: Mother Goose Goes Hollywood animation
- 1939: Donald on the hunt for celebrities (The Autograph Hound) animation
- 1940: Pinocchio - animation direction
- 1940: Fantasia animation
- 1941: Dumbo, the flying elephant (Dumbo) - animation direction
- 1942: Mickey's Birthday Party animation
- 1942: Three Caballeros in Samba Fever (Saludos Amigos) - animation
- 1943: Victory Through Air Power animation
- 1943: Reason and Emotion - Animation
- 1944: Drei Caballeros (The Three Caballeros) animation
- 1946: Make Mine Music
- 1946: Willi the Operatic Whale - animation
- 1947: Disney's Brave Heroes (Fun & Fancy Free) animation
- 1948: Music, Dance and Rhythm (Melody Time) - Directing Animator
- 1949: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow animation
- 1949: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad) - Directing Animator
- 1950: Cinderella (Cinderella) - Directing Animator
- 1951: Alice in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland) - Directing Animator
- 1953: Peter Pan - Directing Animator
- 1953: The Music Lesson (Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom) - Animation
- 1955: Man in Space (episode 20 of the Disneyland series )
- 1956–1966: Disneyland (TV series) animation
- 1964: Mary Poppins - animation
- 1967: Scrooge McDuck and Money animation
- 1969: It's Tough to Be a Bird - director
- 1971: The daredevil witch in her flying bed (Bedknobs and Broomsticks) - animation
Web links
- Ward Kimball in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Disney Legends ( Memento from May 23, 2006 on the Internet Archive )
- Animation Blast: Remembering Ward Kimball ( January 13, 2007 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Ward Kimball in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kimball, Ward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kimball, Ward Walrath (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American director and animator, as well as jazz trombonist and band leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minneapolis |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 2002 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |