John Lounsbery

{{Infobox person

| name = John Lounsbery

| image =John Lounsbery.jpg

| birth_name = John Mitchell Lounsbery

| birth_date = {{birth date|1911|3|9|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|2|13|1911|3|9|mf=y}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = Animator
Director

| known_for = One of Disney's Nine Old Men

}}

John Mitchell Lounsbery (March 9, 1911 - February 13, 1976) was an American animator and director employed by Walt Disney Productions. He is best known as one of Disney's Nine Old Men, of which he was the shortest lived as well as the first to die.

Life and career

He was born on March 9, 1911, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Colorado. He attended East Denver High School and the Art Institute of Denver. While attending the ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles, an instructor sent him to interview with Walt Disney.

Lounsbery was hired by Disney on July 2, 1935, beginning as an uncredited assistant animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). He went on to work on numerous short features in the 1940s while continuing to serve as part of the animating team on nearly all of Disney's most famous feature-length animated films. In the 1970s, he was promoted to director and directed the short film Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974) and co-directed The Rescuers (1977).

Lounsbery died on February 13, 1976, at age 64. At the time of his death, he was working on The Rescuers and still directing at the Walt Disney Studios. He was named a Disney Legend in 1989 and was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography

Year ! Title ! Credits ! Characters ! Notes
class="wikitable sortable"
rowspan="2"\| 1940	Pinocchio	Animator
Fantasia	Animator - Segment "Dance of the Hours"
1941	Dumbo	Animation Director
1943	Victory Through Air Power (Documentary)	rowspan="5" \| Animator
rowspan="3"\| 1945	The Three Caballeros
The Legend of Coyote Rock (Short)
Canine Patrol (Short)
rowspan="2"\| 1946	Make Mine Music
Song of the South	rowspan="3" \| Directing Animator
1947	Fun and Fancy Free
rowspan="2"\| 1948	Melody Time
So Dear to My Heart	Animator
1949	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad	rowspan="3" \| Directing Animator
1950	Cinderella
1951	Alice in Wonderland
1952	Lambert the Sheepish Lion (Short)	Animator
rowspan="2"\| 1953	Peter Pan	Directing Animator
Ben and Me (Short)	Animator
1955	Lady and the Tramp	Directing Animator
1955 – 1982	The Magical World of Disney (TV Series)	Animator / Director - 13 Episodes
1959	Sleeping Beauty	rowspan="3" \| Directing Animator
1960	Goliath II (Short)
rowspan="2"\| 1961	One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Aquamania (Short)	Animator
1963	The Sword in the Stone	Directing Animator
1964	Mary Poppins	rowspan="2" \| Animator
1966	Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (Short)
1967	The Jungle Book	Directing Animator
1968	Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (Short)	Animator
1970	The Aristocats	Directing Animator
1971	Bedknobs and Broomsticks	Animator
1973	Robin Hood	Directing Animator
1974	Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (Short)	Director
rowspan="2"\| 1977	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	Animator / Director
The Rescuers	Director
1984	DTV: Golden Oldies (Video)	Animator
2011	Mini Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (TV Series short)	Director - 14 Episodes