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Bill Justice is a Director, Title Designer, Animation and Title Graphics American born on 9 february 1914 at Dayton (USA)

Bill Justice

Bill Justice
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Nationality USA
Birth 9 february 1914 at Dayton (USA)
Death 10 february 2011 (at 97 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

William Barnard "Bill" Justice (February 9, 1914 – February 10, 2011) was an animator and engineer for the Walt Disney Company.

Justice joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator in 1937 and worked on such features as 1940's Fantasia, 1944's The Three Caballeros, 1951's Alice in Wonderland, and 1953's Peter Pan. He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from 1942's Bambi and chipmunks Chip 'n Dale. He was the director of 1957's The Truth About Mother Goose, 1959's Noah's Ark, and 1962's A Symposium On Popular Songs, all of which were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Short Subject, Cartoon. In total, Justice worked on 57 shorts and 19 features.

In 1965, Justice joined Walt Disney Imagineering, where he programmed figures for several Disney attractions such as Pirates of the Caribbean, the Haunted Mansion, and Country Bear Jamboree.

Justice retired from the Disney Company in 1979 and was named a Disney Legend in 1996. He is the author of Justice for Disney, which chronicles his years with the company.

Justice died of natural causes at a nursing home in Santa Monica, California, one day after his 97th birthday. He is survived by his wife, Kim, his daughter, Melissa Justice, and a granddaughter.

Biography

Bill Justice rejoint les studios Walt Disney comme animateur en 1937 et travailla sur de grands succès comme Fantasia en 1940, Les Trois Caballeros en 1944, Alice au Pays des Merveilles en 1951 et Peter Pan en 1953. Il est également connu comme l'animateur de Panpan, le lapin de Bambi en 1942 et de Tic et Tac.

Il a aussi dirigé A Cowboy Needs a Horse (1956), The Truth About Mother Goose (1957), Noah's Ark (1959) et en 1962, A Symposium On Popular Songs, les trois derniers nominés aux Oscars. Au total, il a travaillé sur 57 courts métrages et 19 longs métrages.

En 1965, il rejoint Walt Disney Imagineering où il a travaillé sur différentes attractions telles que Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion et Country Bear Jamboree. Il est aussi le concepteur de nombreux costumes de personnages des parcs Disney ainsi que des chars des parades dont la Main Street Electrical Parade.

Bill Justice, qui a pris sa retraite de The Walt Disney Company en 1979 et a été nommé Disney Legends en 1996. Il résida à Granada Hills à Los Angeles, en Californie. Il est l'auteur de Justice for Disney, chronique qui raconte ses années avec l'entreprise.

Il meurt le 10 février 2011 à 97 ans dans une maison de retraite de Santa Monica en Californie.

Best films

Bambi (1942)
(Animation)
The Grain That Built a Hemisphere (1943)
(Director)

Usually with

Walt Disney
Walt Disney
(61 films)
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Clarence Nash
(48 films)
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Jack Hannah
(45 films)
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(36 films)
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Nick George
(25 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bill Justice (65 films)

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Director

Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark (1959)

Directed by Bill Justice
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Children's films
Actors Jerome Courtland, Paul Frees, Jimmy MacDonald
Rating61% 3.088243.088243.088243.088243.08824
Noé, aidé par ses trois fils et leurs femmes, construit une arche qui accueille un couple de chaque espèce animale pendant le déluge qui durera 40 jours.
The Truth About Mother Goose, 15minutes
Directed by Bill Justice, Wolfgang Reitherman
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors John Dehner, Kevin Corcoran
Rating70% 3.52663.52663.52663.52663.5266
Little Jack Horner sur le voleur d'une tarte qui contenait un présent pour Henri VIII Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary sur Marie Stuart
Jack and Old Mac
Directed by Bill Justice
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Children's films
Rating56% 2.8466352.8466352.8466352.8466352.846635
Ce film mêle deux comptines : La maison de Jack et la ferme du vieux McDonald mais la ferme est ici remplacée par un groupe de musique.
A Cowboy Needs a Horse, 7minutes
Directed by Bill Justice
Origin USA
Genres Animation, Western
Themes Children's films
Rating63% 3.152413.152413.152413.152413.15241
Ce court dessin-animé raconte le rêve d'un petit garçon (Charly) passionné par la vie de Cow-boy à l'époque des pionniers, dans le Far West américain. Accompagné par une musique de George Bruns, l'enfant parvient, le temps d'un rêve, à se fondre en véritable Cow-boy avec sa monture (d'où le titre A cowboy Needs a Horse signifiant Tout Cow-boy a besoin d'un cheval). Il fume ainsi le Calumet avec un chef indien après avoir emprisonné à l'aide d'un lasso toute sa tribu, arrête un gangster, empêche un train de dérailler sur un pont détruit à la dynamite par des bandits, ou encore sauver une jeune fille kidnappée par un malfrat.
The Winged Scourge, 10minutes
Directed by Walt Disney, Bill Justice, Bill Roberts
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Animation
Themes Politique, Political films, Children's films
Actors Art Baker
Rating62% 3.1441353.1441353.1441353.1441353.144135
Les sept nains apprennent à lutter contre la malaria en éliminant le vecteur de transmission, les moustiques.

Art

The Shaggy Dog, 1h44
Directed by Charles Barton, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Tim Considine, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Title Designer
Rating63% 3.197043.197043.197043.197043.19704
Wilbur "Wilby" Daniels is a boy who is misunderstood by his father, Wilson. Wilson thinks Wilby is crazy half the time because of his elder son's often dangerous inventions. As a retired mailman who often ran afoul of canines, he is allergic to dogs, and he simply cannot understand why his younger son, Montgomery "Moochie" would want a dog.

Visual effects

Scooby-Doo! Meets the Boo Brothers, 1h33
Directed by Ray Patterson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Ghost films, Comedy horror films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Sorrell Booke, Rob Paulsen, Ronnie Schell, Jerry Houser
Roles Animation
Rating69% 3.4590053.4590053.4590053.4590053.459005
Shaggy discovers that his uncle Col. Beauregard has died and left him his country estate, which is on a plantation and is apparently frequented by ghosts. Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy head for the estate in order to claim Shaggy's inheritance. However, on their arrival they are pursued by a headless horseman and by the alleged ghost of the Colonel who taunts them telling to leave or else.
Babes in Toyland, 1h46
Directed by Jack Donohue
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Christmas films, Musical films, Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran
Roles Visual Effects
Rating60% 3.0475953.0475953.0475953.0475953.047595
The film begins as if it were a stage play presented by Mother Goose (and her wise-cracking, talking goose companion, Sylvester) about two nursery rhyme characters, Mary, Mary Quite Contrary and Tom the Piper's Son, who are about to be married. At the same time, the miserly and villainous Barnaby is hiring two crooks, Gonzorgo and Rodrigo, to throw Tom into the sea and steal Mary's sheep, thus depriving her of her means of support, and forcing her to marry Barnaby instead. (Mary has just come into a huge inheritance of which she is obviously unaware, but somehow–it is never explained how–Barnaby knows about it and intends to get it for himself.) After bopping Tom on the head with a hammer and tying him in a bag, the two henchmen, dimwitted Gonzorgo and silent Roderigo, pass by a gypsy camp. They decide to sell Tom to the Gypsies instead of drowning him in order to collect a double payment.
Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark (1959)

Directed by Bill Justice
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Children's films
Actors Jerome Courtland, Paul Frees, Jimmy MacDonald
Roles Animation
Rating61% 3.088243.088243.088243.088243.08824
Noé, aidé par ses trois fils et leurs femmes, construit une arche qui accueille un couple de chaque espèce animale pendant le déluge qui durera 40 jours.
Hooked Bear, 6minutes
Directed by Jack Hannah
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Jimmy MacDonald, Bill Thompson
Roles Animation
Rating71% 3.5723653.5723653.5723653.5723653.572365
Fishing season has begun and park ranger J. Audubon Woodlore goes out on the lake to check on the anglers. Humphrey the Bear is trying to catch some fish, but cannot seem to hold onto one once he catches it. Woodlore sees the fish disappearing before his eyes, so he decides to stock the lake some more. As he heads to the fish hatchery, he sees Humphrey with a few fishing nets and rods, and asks him what he is doing. When the bear tells him that he is going to catch some fish, Woodlore takes the rods and nets and tells him to "Go fish like a bear!" At the hatchery, Woodlore fills a tub with water and inserts some fish eggs into it. In a matter of seconds, several fishes pop up out of the water like plants out of soil. When the ranger gets to the lake to dump the fish, he finds Humphrey in there, trying to eat one of the small fishes, which is then consumed by a much larger fish. Humphrey manages to remove the small fish from the mouth of the large fish, and then uses it to lure five other large fishes that jump out of the water, but then Woodlore appears to measure the fish, while at the same time punishing Humphrey by hitting him on the head, causing him to sink into the depths of the lake. When Humphrey grabs some more fish and emerges from the lake, he discovers a fish larger than any of the others; this turns out to be a fish balloon with which a young boy is playing. Humphrey pops the balloon, and both the boy and Woodlore kick the bear in the knee. Humphrey then tries to think of another way to foil the anglers; noticing the boy from before walking along the lake with a toy boat, he removes the bottom from the boat, ties it onto his head like a hat, and then submerges himself into the lake so that the hat looks like a shark fin to the anglers, causing them to flee in terror. Humphrey then takes all of the anglers' bags of fish, but upon seeing the ranger, he loads the fish into Woodlore's helicopter, giving him more of a full load than he was expecting. He then decides to stuff himself into the plane, which proves to be too small for him and the fish, and then all of the fish in the helicopter, along with Humphrey, are deposited into the lake. Woodlore then gets a telephone call from the chief of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, who tells him to quit stocking the lake, as fishing season had ended the previous day. The ranger then takes out his scissors and cuts the rods of various anglers, and then locates Humphrey and informs him that fishing season is over. He then paints a red X over the "Fishing Season" sign and flips it over to reveal the message "Hunting Season Open." At this, Humphrey gets hunted, with shots firing at him from all directions, and running about as the cartoon closes.
Up a Tree
Up a Tree (1955)
, 6minutes
Directed by Jack Hannah
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un canard, Children's films
Actors Clarence Nash, Jimmy MacDonald
Roles Animation
Rating72% 3.630713.630713.630713.630713.63071
The cartoon begins with Donald attempting top a tall tree on a hill. The tree turns out to be the home of chipmunks Chip and Dale, who repeatedly foil Donald's attempts to his frustration as Donald has no idea what is going on at first. Eventually he discovers the chipmunks are deliberately sabotaging his work, and finally decides to chop the entire tree down in retaliation. The tree falls and flips end over end landing on a log flume. Using a pike pole, Donald catches a ride on the log and heads for the sawmill.
Beezy Bear
Beezy Bear (1955)
, 6minutes
Directed by Jack Hannah
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un canard, Children's films
Actors Clarence Nash, Jimmy MacDonald, Bill Thompson
Roles Animation
Rating69% 3.4887753.4887753.4887753.4887753.488775
Donald est apiculteur mais un ours venant du parc national voisin essaie de lui voler son miel...