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Ken Anderson

 
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  • Occupation: Writer
  • Active: '40s-'70s
  • Major Genres: Children's/Family, Fantasy
  • Career Highlights: Pinocchio, Fantasia, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • First Major Screen Credit: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Biography

Ken Anderson had a long and productive career at Disney studios. During the 44 years he worked there, Anderson was an animator, a writer, a designer, and an architect. Prior to joining Disney, he had studied in Europe to be an architect. He began in the film industry as a sketch artist for MGM's art department. He then moved to Disney where he helped animate such short films as The Goddess of Spring (1934) and the Academy Award winning Three Orphan Kittens (1935). He worked as the art director on Disney's earliest two full-length animated features, and also directed the "Pastoral" section of Fantasia (1940). He also was art director on The Reluctant Dragon (1941) and Song of the South (1946). As a screenwriter, he collaborated on Cinderella (1950), The Jungle Book (1967), and The Rescuers (1977). In addition to working on animated features, Anderson was also as major designer at Disneyland. He continued working on the theme parks following his retirement from the animation department in 1978. In 1992, he published a children's book, Nessie and the Little Blind Boy of Loch Ness. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Ken (Kenneth B.) Anderson (March 17, 1909 – January 13, 1993) was an art director, writer, and animator at Disney for 44 years.

Anderson studied architecture at the University of Washington, graduating with a B.Arch. in 1934. He was particularly influenced by faculty member Lionel Pries.

With the delineation skills he learned in architecture school, he soon secured a position at Disney. Anderson was a key player in some of the most well-known animated films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, One Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Jungle Book. He also worked on the development of Disneyland. Ken is a 1991 winner of the Disney Legends award for Animation & Imagineering.

Ken Anderson died from a stroke at the age of 84.

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Filmography

Screenwriter

Art Director

Animator

Production Designer

Short Story Author

Actor

Consultant

Architect/Designer

Honors

  • Winsor McCay Award 1982
  • Disney Legend (Animation & Imagineering) 1991

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Further reading

  • Allan, Robin, Walt Disney and Europe: European Influences on the Animated Feature Films of Walt Disney, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 1999.
  • Canemaker, John, Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists, Hyperion, New York 1996 (especially pages 168-182, a full chapter devoted to Ken Anderson).

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