Disney Animator: Ben Sharpsteen
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- Joined Company: 1929
- Projects:
- Worked as an animator on shorts until 1934 when he became a director for the next four
- years. He was a sequence director on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", supervising
- co-director on "Pinocchio", supervising director on "Dumbo", production supervisor on
- "Fantasia", "Fun and Fancy free", "Cinderella", "Alice in Wonderland", and several of
- the True-Life Adventures, and was considered one of the Walt Disney's right-hand men. He
- directed "Water Birds" and served as associate producer or producer on several other of
- the nature and People and Places films, and television shows.
- Left Disney: 1959
- Awards: He received an Oscar for "The Ama Girls."
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