Joe Grant is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Character Technical Supervisor, Animation and In Memory Of American born on 15 may 1908 at New York City (USA)
Joe Grant
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Nationality USABirth 15 may 1908 at New York City (
USA)
Death 6 may 2005 (at 96 years) at Glendale (
USA)
Joe Grant (May 15, 1908 – May 6, 2005) was a Disney artist and writer.
Biography
Born in New York City, New York, he worked for The Walt Disney Company as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1933 on the Mickey Mouse short, "Mickey's Gala Premiere". He was a Disney legend. He created the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He co-wrote Dumbo. He also led development of Fantasia and Pinocchio.
During World War II, Grant worked on war cartoons including the Academy Award winning Der Fuehrer's Face. He left the Disney studio in 1949 and ran a ceramics business and a greeting card business but returned in 1989 to work on Beauty and the Beast. He also worked on Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Fantasia 2000, Monsters, Inc. and Mulan among others. The last film he worked on before his death, Chicken Little, was dedicated to him.
Grant worked four days a week at Disney until he died, nine days before his 97th birthday. Grant's final project, "Lorenzo", for which he conceived the idea and helped storyboard, received an Academy Award nomination in 2005.
Joe Grant died of a heart attack while working at his drawing board in his studio. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Grant's wife Jenny preceded him in death in 1992 and he was survived by two daughters.
A large collection of his caricatures is owned by the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.
Lady from Lady and the Tramp was based on a pet English Springer Spaniel named Lady owned by Joe Grant, it is said by his daughter on the DVD (Lady and the Tramp) that Walt Disney thought the dog's long fur looked like a dress and suggested creating a story board featuring his dog.
Best films
(1994)
(Visual Development)
(2009)
(In Memory Of)
(1991)
(Visual Development)
(1995)
(Story)
(2005)
(In Memory Of)
(1998)
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