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Eric Larson
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Born September 3, 1905Died October 25, 1988 (83 years)
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
Eric Larson Filmography
| 2009 | Waking Sleeping Beauty · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached · as Himself (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | The Pixar Story · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1994 | The Making of 'Bambi' · as Self - Supervising Animator, 'bambi' (archive Footage) |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1977 | The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh · as Animation |
| 1970 | The AristoCats · as Animation |
| 1969 | It's Tough to Be a Bird · as Animation |
| 1964 | Mary Poppins · as Animation |
| 1963 | The Sword in the Stone · as Animation |
| 1961 | One Hundred and One Dalmatians · as Animation |
| 1959 | Sleeping Beauty · as Sequence Director |
| 1959 | Sleeping Beauty · as Animation |
| 1955 | Lady and the Tramp · as Animation |
| 1953 | Peter Pan · as Animation |
| 1951 | Lambert the Sheepish Lion · as Animation |
| 1951 | Alice in Wonderland · as Animation |
| 1950 | Cinderella · as Animation Director |
| 1948 | Melody Time · as Animation |
| 1946 | Song of the South · as Animation Director |
| 1946 | Peter and the Wolf · as Animation |
| 1946 | A Knight for a Day · as Animation |
| 1945 | The Flying Gauchito · as Animation |
| 1945 | Tiger Trouble · as Animation |
| 1944 | The Three Caballeros · as Animation |
| 1940 | Fantasia · as Animation |
| 1940 | Pinocchio · as Animation |
| 1939 | The Hockey Champ · as Animation |
| 1938 | Farmyard Symphony · as Animation |
| 1938 | The Whalers · as Animation |
| 1937 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · as Animation |
| 1936 | Three Little Wolves · as Animation |
| 1935 | On Ice · as Animation |
| 1935 | Who Killed Cock Robin? · as Animation |
| 1935 | The Tortoise and the Hare · as Animation Production Assistant |
| 1934 | Two-Gun Mickey · as Animation |