Johnston, Ollie

Johnston, Ollie
▪ 2009
Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. 
      American animator

born Oct. 31, 1912, Palo Alto, Calif.

died April 14, 2008, Sequim, Wash.
was a member of Walt Disney's “Nine Old Men,” a group of top-notch animators. Johnston began his lifelong career (1935–78) with Disney working on such shorts as Mickey's Garden (1935). He soon advanced into feature animations, creating such memorable characters as the dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the Blue Fairy scenes in Pinocchio (1940), the stepsisters in Cinderella (1950), Mr. Smee in Peter Pan (1953), Pongo and Perdita in 101 Dalmatians (1961), the dancing penguin waiters in Mary Poppins (1964), Mowgli and Baloo in The Jungle Book (1967), and Rufus the cat in The Rescuers (1977). Johnston was also a coauthor of what some considered the bible of animation, Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (1981). Johnston was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2005.

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