James Algar details
Roles: Actor, Animator, Director, Producer, Teleplay By, Screenwriter
Date of Birth: June 11, 1912
Active Years: 1937-1999
Filmography: Bambi (1942), Fantasia (1940), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), The Vanishing Prairie (1954), Nature's Half Acre (1951), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)
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An animator with the Walt Disney studios in the mid 1930s, Algar directed sequences from several Disney features of the early '40s, most notably the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Fantasia. In the '50s he began directing features in Disney's "True-Life Adventure" series, including The Living Desert and The Vanishing Prairie, and in the 1960s he produced or co-produced several Disney films, among them The Incredible Journey and The Gnome-Mobile. He also helmed many episodes of the television series "The Wonderful World Of Disney." by All Movie Guide
