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Eric Larson

Eric Larson

Animation Department

Born to Peter and Nora Larson. In 1915 his family moved to Salt Lake City, where he became interested in journalism and also secretly took drawing lessons. In 1925, he entered the University of Utah, later moving to Los Angeles to look for a job in journalism and writing, unfortunately unsuccessfully. He then decided to rekindle his ambition to become an artist, and was offered a job at Walt Disney Productions in 1933, as an `in-betweener'. Later the same year, he married Gertrude Jannes (although sadly, the couple remained childless). Animator Hamilton Luske recognized Larson's talent and promoted him to assistant animator; Luske, who had joined the studio two years previously, later became his mentor. Further promotion followed, with Eric as animator on Walt Disney's first feature length cartoon, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937); along with future veteran animators Milt Kahl and James Algar, he animated the forest animals that followed Snow White throughout. In 1940, he was promoted to animation director for Pinocchio (1940), and in that film he created the kitten, Figaro, who became one of his favorite characters. In Fantasia (1940), he created the centaurs and the horses in the "Pastoral Symphony" segment of the musical feature.  By 1942, he had become a supervising animator for Bambi (1942) along with fellow workers Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, and Milt Kahl, with whom he had worked on Snow White. In Bambi, he created Friend Owl, and subsequently worked on birds for the next two assignments, creating the mad Aracuan Bird in The Three Caballeros (1944), and Sasha the Bird in Make Mine Music (1946). Larson also worked on Fun and Fancy Free, Song of the South, Melody Time, and So Dear to My Heart (1949). He later became part of the Animation Board, and Walt Disney appointed him as one of his Nine Old Men, who consisted of Les Clark, Woolie Reitherman, Eric Larson, Ward Kimball, Milt Kahl, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, John Lounsbery and Marc Davis; all considered to be Walt's most trusted associates.  -From IMDB

Born: September 3, 1905 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Died: October 25, 1988 (Age 83)

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Eric Larson  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
7.9
ActorSelf (archive footage)2007
Movie
7.6
ActorSelf (archive footage)2009
Short Film
7.6
ActorSelf (archive footage)2010
Movie
7.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1961
Movie
7.4
Visual EffectsAnimation1951
Movie
7.2
CrewSupervising Animator1942
Movie
7.4
DirectingAnimation Director1950
Movie
7.6
Visual EffectsAnimation1940
Movie
7.4
DirectingAnimation, Animation Director1955
Movie
7.9
Visual EffectsAnimation1964
Movie
5.9
Visual EffectsAnimation1948
Movie
4
ArtSet Designer2003
Movie
7.4
DirectingAnimation, Animation Director1953
Movie
7.3
DirectingAnimation, Animation Director1940
Movie
7.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1959
Movie
7.4
Visual EffectsAnimation1937
Movie
6.8
DirectingAnimation Director1946
Movie
7.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1970
Movie
7.6
Visual EffectsAnimation1977
Movie
7.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1963
Movie
6.4
Visual EffectsAnimation1944
Short Film
6.6
Visual EffectsAnimation1946
Short Film
6.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1962
Short Film
6.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1945
Short Film
5.9
Visual EffectsAnimation1935
Short Film
6.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1938
Short Film
6.5
Visual EffectsAnimation1969
Short Film
7.4
Visual EffectsAnimation1951
Short Film
6.8
Visual EffectsAnimation1948
Short Film
6.9
Visual EffectsAnimation Production Assistant1935
Short Film
7
Visual EffectsAnimation1935
Short Film
6.3
Visual EffectsAnimation1948
Short Film
7.6
Visual EffectsAnimation1946
Short Film
6.2
Visual EffectsAnimation1945
Short Film
7.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1939
Short Film
6.9
Visual EffectsAnimation Production Assistant1935
Short Film
6.7
Visual EffectsAnimation1938
Short Film
6.8
Visual EffectsAnimation1936
Short Film
6.8
Visual EffectsAnimation1945
Short Film
6.6
Visual EffectsAnimation, Animation Production Assistant1934
Short Film
6.7
Visual EffectsAnimation1935
Short Film
6.1
Visual EffectsAnimation1968
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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