Jack Kinney

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Jack Ryan Kinney March 29 1909 February 9 1992 was an American animator director and producer of animated shorts Jack Kinney attended John Muir Junior High School in Los Angeles California 1925 and attended John C Fremont High School 1926 1928 there with Roy Williams Both Fremont football players they would later be hired by Walt Disney in 1930 to work at the Walt Disney Studio on Hyperion Avenue Often referring to himself as Kinneys best friend Williams would go on to star as the Big Mooseketeer with head Mouseketeer Jimmie Dodd on the classic 1950s television program The Mickey Mouse Club 1955 1958 Kinney began his long career in cartoons at the Walt Disney Studios in 1931 as an animator on several shorts including Santas Workshop released on December 10 1932 The Band Concert released on February 23 1935 and Moose Hunters released on April 17 1937 He then became a director of cartoons at Disney including as a sequence director for both Pinocchio and Dumbo and especially as a director in the shorts department where he directed many cartoon shorts mostly those starring Goofy his brother Dick created the stories for the shorts although he also directed a few Donald Duck cartoons as well including the Academy Awardwinning wartime propaganda film Der Fuehrers Face He also served as director of most of the package films during the 1940s including The Three Caballeros Make Mine Music and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad In the mid1950s he supervised new animation used to tie some of the old shorts together for Disneys television efforts In 1959 Jack left Disney to start with his brother Dick Jack Kinney Productions an independent animation studio Among other work they provided animation for King Features Syndicates 1960 Popeye series In 1988 Kinney published a short memoir Walt Disney and Assorted Other Characters An Unauthorized Account of the Early Years at Disneys Kinney died on February 9 1992 in Glendale California at the age of 82 Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Kinney licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia