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Les Clark is a Actor, Director, Co-Director and Animation American born on 17 november 1907 at Ogden (USA)

Les Clark

Les Clark
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Nationality USA
Birth 17 november 1907 at Ogden (USA)
Death 12 september 1979 (at 71 years) at Santa Barbara (USA)

Les Clark est un animateur et réalisateur américain né le 17 novembre 1907 à Ogden, Utah (États-Unis), décédé le 11 septembre 1979 à Santa Barbara (Californie). Il était membre de la légendaire équipe des "Nine Old Men" des studios Disney.

Biography

Après sa naissance dans l'Utah, sa famille s'installe dans l'Idaho où il fait sa scolarité et part ensuite en Californie. Le Clark finit ses études à l'université de Venice.

À l'été 1925, il trouve un travail de serveur dans un restaurant sur Hollywood Boulevard près du studio d'Hyperion Avenue, dans lequel viennent manger les employés Disney. Ses aptitudes graphiques lui permettent de dessiner les menus de la vitrine. Il obtient son diplôme universitaire en 1927 et présente ses dessins à Walt Disney, qui l'engage le 23 février 1927. Son premier crédit est Alice's Picnic réalisé en mars.

Les Clark est engagé aux Studios Disney pour aider à la production des Alice Comedies. Il apparaît pour la première fois au générique de Alice's Picnic. Il participe ensuite à un court de la série Oswald le lapin chanceux sur laquelle il est intervalliste. Il passe rapidement sur la production des Mickey Mouse puis des Silly Symphonies. Son premier poste d'animateur est sur La Danse macabre (1929).

Il est le plus ancien et le seul des "Nine Old Men" à avoir travaillé avec Ub Iwerks sur le personnage de Mickey Mouse depuis sa création avec Steamboat Willie. Cette ancienneté lui a permis de se spécialiser dans l'animation de Mickey Mouse.

Par la suite, il supervisa l'animation de la plupart des longs-métrages jusqu'à La Belle et le Clochard (1955) puis se tourna vers la réalisation de nombreux courts-métrages et documentaires éducatifs. Ce serait Walt Disney qui après l'avoir nommé réalisateur de séquence sur La Belle au bois dormant qui lui confia cette tâche. À partir du milieu des années 1960, il se consacre à la télévision. Il prend sa retraite en 1975 et décède en 1979.

En 1989, il est nommé à titre posthume une Disney Legends.

Best films

Cinderella (1950)
(Animation Director)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
(Animation)
Pinocchio (1940)
(Animation)
Peter Pan (1953)
(Animation Director)
Fantasia (1940)
(Animation)
Song of the South (1946)
(Animation)

Usually with

Walt Disney
Walt Disney
(124 films)
Wilfred Jackson
Wilfred Jackson
(58 films)
Johnny Cannon
Johnny Cannon
(64 films)
Pinto Colvig
Pinto Colvig
(45 films)
Ben Sharpsteen
Ben Sharpsteen
(44 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Les Clark (132 films)

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Actor

Waking Sleeping Beauty, 1h26
Directed by Don Hahn
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Roy E. Disney, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Frank Wells, Howard Ashman, Steven Spielberg
Roles Himself (archive footage)
Rating74% 3.741843.741843.741843.741843.74184
The film covers the fall and rebirth of Disney's animation division, the effects the new corporate team of Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, and Jeffrey Katzenberg had on the division, the competition with Don Bluth's animation studio, the pivotal roles of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the CAPS system, the introduction of the home video format, and the new-found success the studio had from 1989-1999.
A-Haunting We Will Go, 1h8
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Elisha Cook, Jr., Sheila Ryan, Don Costello, Edward Gargan
Roles Dante's stage assistant
Rating61% 3.097513.097513.097513.097513.09751
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are two hobos roaming the Arizona countryside. After being arrested for loitering, they spend a night in jail in town. When they are released the day after they are ordered to leave town immediately. Since the men lack every kind of transportation, they come up with the desperate idea of traveling as escort to a coffin and an undertaker’s railroad transport of a corpse out of town to Dayton, Ohio. The corpse will still be in the coffin, of course, but they at least get the transport for free.
Swanee River, 1h24
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart, Chick Chandler, Russell Hicks
Roles Specialty
Rating62% 3.142793.142793.142793.142793.14279
The family of Stephen Foster (Ameche) insists that he accept a seven-dollar-a-week shipping clerk job in Cincinnati, but he prefers to write songs. Stephen's prospective father-in-law Andrew McDowell has no faith in Stephen, who wants to write "music from the heart of the simple people of the South." The struggling composer is content to sell "Oh! Susanna" for fifteen dollars to minstrel singer E. P. Christy and allows Christy to take credit as its writer.
Steamboat Willie, 7minutes
Directed by Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Musical films, Mise en scène d'une souris, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, Les Clark, Wilfred Jackson
Rating74% 3.7437153.7437153.7437153.7437153.743715
Mickey Mouse pilots a river steamboat, suggesting that he himself is the captain. He cheerfully whistles "Steamboat Bill" and sounds the boat's three whistles. Soon the real captain appears (Pete) and angrily orders Mickey off the bridge. Mickey blows a raspberry at Pete, and then Pete attempts to kick him but Mickey rushes away in time and Pete kicks himself in the rear accidentally. Mickey rushes down the stairs, slips on a bar of soap on the boat's deck and lands in a bucket of water. A parrot makes fun of him, and Mickey throws the bucket over the bird.

Director

Man, Monsters & Mysteries, 26minutes
Directed by Les Clark
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Sebastian Cabot, Sterling Holloway
Rating67% 3.3705253.3705253.3705253.3705253.370525
Ce film évoque les monstres dont celui du Loch Ness
Donald's Fire Survival Plan, 11minutes
Directed by Les Clark
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un canard, Children's films
Actors Clarence Nash, Walt Disney
Rating65% 3.268673.268673.268673.268673.26867
Walt Disney explique les précautions à prendre face au problème des incendies et prend Donald et ses neveux pour illustrer ses propos...
Sleeping Beauty, 1h15
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark, Eric Larson
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Vieillesse, Films about dragons, Les fées, Witches in film, Musical films, Political films, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Bill Shirley
Rating71% 3.5953953.5953953.5953953.5953953.595395
After many childless years, King Stefan and Queen Leah, his lovely and beautiful wife, happily welcome the birth of their daughter, Princess Aurora. They proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess and celebrate her birth. At the gathering for her christening she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, a small boy who is the only son of King Hubert, King Stefan's friend, so that their kingdoms will always be united.
Donald in Mathmagic Land, 27minutes
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, Les Clark, Joshua Meador
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about mathematics, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un canard, Children's films
Actors Clarence Nash, Paul Frees
Rating77% 3.884553.884553.884553.884553.88455
Donald Duck explique, grâce à plusieurs aventures dans le monde de l'animation, l'avantage des mathématiques dans le quotidien ainsi que quelques applications pratiques des mathématiques.
Paul Bunyan, 17minutes
Directed by Les Clark
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Dal McKennon, Thurl Ravenscroft, Parley Baer
Rating68% 3.4422753.4422753.4422753.4422753.442275
Following a violent windstorm on the coast of Maine, lumberjack Carl McNab spots a giant cradle on the beach containing a giant baby boy. The town adopts and raises the boy, giving him the name Paul Bunyan. One Christmas, the town gives Paul a double-bladed axe to help chop down timber. Paul's work clears open land and allows for the town's expansion of buildings. Unfortunately, Paul is too big for it and decides to move out west.

Director

Sleeping Beauty, 1h15
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark, Eric Larson
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Vieillesse, Films about dragons, Les fées, Witches in film, Musical films, Political films, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Mary Costa, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen, Bill Shirley
Roles Co-Director
Rating71% 3.5953953.5953953.5953953.5953953.595395
After many childless years, King Stefan and Queen Leah, his lovely and beautiful wife, happily welcome the birth of their daughter, Princess Aurora. They proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess and celebrate her birth. At the gathering for her christening she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, a small boy who is the only son of King Hubert, King Stefan's friend, so that their kingdoms will always be united.

Visual effects

Donald and the Wheel, 17minutes
Directed by Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un canard, Children's films
Actors Clarence Nash, Thurl Ravenscroft, Bill Lee, Bill Lee
Roles Animation
Rating63% 3.188173.188173.188173.188173.18817
Un père explique à son fils que la l'invention de la roue fut la plus importante. Pour le prouver ils vont aller rendre visite à un inventeur dont le rôle est tenu par Donald, alors canard des cavernes...