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Ken Anderson is a Scriptwriter, Layout, Director of Photography, Background Designer and Animation American born on 17 march 1909 at Seattle (USA)
Kenneth B. Anderson (17 mars 1909 - 13 décembre 1993) était un animateur, scénariste et directeur artistique des studios Disney. Il travailla sur de nombreux films durant une carrière de 44 années chez Disney.
Il retourne finir ses études d'architecture à l'Université de Washington et en sort diplômé d'un B.Arch. Il a particulièrement été influencé par Lionel Pries , membre de la faculté. Avec ses compétences en dessins et à cause de la dépression, il part s'installer à Los Angeles pour vivre de l'animation. Il obtient un poste chez MGM comme dessinateur et travaille sur les décors de plusieurs films dont Le Voile des illusions avec Greta Garbo, What every Woman knows avec Helen Hayes.
En 1934, il postule et obtient un poste aux Studios Disney avant la fin de l'année 1934. Il contribue alors comme animateur sur deux courts métrages des Silly Symphonies, série prévue comme lieu d'expérimentations pour le long métrage Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains (1937). Il rejoint alors l'équipe de layout dédiée à ce long métrage, dessine des études pour l'intérieur de la maison des nains avec Albert Hurter et construit même des maquettes qui a ensuite servi d'inspiration aux animateur, aux artistes de layout à définir les angles de vues...
Il travailla ensuite sur plusieurs autres longs métrages comme directeur artistique ou scénariste, réalisant des esquisses et layout de l'atelier de Geppetto pour Pinocchio (1940) d'après les modèles de Gustaf Tenggren. C'est durant la production de Mélodie du Sud (1946) qu'avec Wilfred Jackson, il développe les storyboard miniatures, réalisés en direct durant les sessions de conception qui servent par la suite au layout.
Dans les années 1950, il utilise ses connaissances en architecture au sein de WED Entreprises et participe à l'élaboration de Disneyland, dont de larges portions de Fantasyland, y compris Storybook Land Canal, Peter Pan's Flight et Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Il développa les codes en usages pour transposer le monde de la Fantaisie dans le monde réel.
En 1961, il supervise Les 101 Dalmatiens et prend la décision d'utiliser le procédé de xérographie, mis au point par Ub Iwerks.
Par la suite, il retourne vers l'animation et devient l'animateur-clé sur le personnage de Shere Khan dans Le Livre de la Jungle (1967), puis d'Elliott dans Peter et Elliott le dragon (1977)
Il prend sa retraite en 1978, mais reste consultant pour la construction du parc Epcot qui ouvrit en 1982.
Ken Anderson a été nommé en 1991 Disney Legend pour ses travaux dans l'animation et l'imagineering.
(1967)
(Story)
(1961)
(Art Direction)
(1950)
(Story)
(1970)
(Scriptwriter)
(1938)
(Art Direction)
(1977)
(Author)
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Birth name Kenneth B. Anderson
Nationality USA
Birth 17 march 1909 at Seattle (USA)
Death 13 january 1993 (at 83 years) at La Cañada Flintridge (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 17 march 1909 at Seattle (USA)
Death 13 january 1993 (at 83 years) at La Cañada Flintridge (USA)
Biography
Ken Anderson est né en 1909 près de Seattle. Il étudie l'architecture en Europe grâce à une bourse universitaire, d'abord à l'école américaine des Beaux-Arts de Fontainebleau (ouverte en 1923) puis à l'Académie américaine de Rome.Il retourne finir ses études d'architecture à l'Université de Washington et en sort diplômé d'un B.Arch. Il a particulièrement été influencé par Lionel Pries , membre de la faculté. Avec ses compétences en dessins et à cause de la dépression, il part s'installer à Los Angeles pour vivre de l'animation. Il obtient un poste chez MGM comme dessinateur et travaille sur les décors de plusieurs films dont Le Voile des illusions avec Greta Garbo, What every Woman knows avec Helen Hayes.
En 1934, il postule et obtient un poste aux Studios Disney avant la fin de l'année 1934. Il contribue alors comme animateur sur deux courts métrages des Silly Symphonies, série prévue comme lieu d'expérimentations pour le long métrage Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains (1937). Il rejoint alors l'équipe de layout dédiée à ce long métrage, dessine des études pour l'intérieur de la maison des nains avec Albert Hurter et construit même des maquettes qui a ensuite servi d'inspiration aux animateur, aux artistes de layout à définir les angles de vues...
Il travailla ensuite sur plusieurs autres longs métrages comme directeur artistique ou scénariste, réalisant des esquisses et layout de l'atelier de Geppetto pour Pinocchio (1940) d'après les modèles de Gustaf Tenggren. C'est durant la production de Mélodie du Sud (1946) qu'avec Wilfred Jackson, il développe les storyboard miniatures, réalisés en direct durant les sessions de conception qui servent par la suite au layout.
Dans les années 1950, il utilise ses connaissances en architecture au sein de WED Entreprises et participe à l'élaboration de Disneyland, dont de larges portions de Fantasyland, y compris Storybook Land Canal, Peter Pan's Flight et Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Il développa les codes en usages pour transposer le monde de la Fantaisie dans le monde réel.
En 1961, il supervise Les 101 Dalmatiens et prend la décision d'utiliser le procédé de xérographie, mis au point par Ub Iwerks.
Par la suite, il retourne vers l'animation et devient l'animateur-clé sur le personnage de Shere Khan dans Le Livre de la Jungle (1967), puis d'Elliott dans Peter et Elliott le dragon (1977)
Il prend sa retraite en 1978, mais reste consultant pour la construction du parc Epcot qui ouvrit en 1982.
Ken Anderson a été nommé en 1991 Disney Legend pour ses travaux dans l'animation et l'imagineering.
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(1967)(Story)
(1961)(Art Direction)
(1950)(Story)
(1970)(Scriptwriter)
(1938)(Art Direction)
(1977)(Author)
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Filmography of Ken Anderson (20 films)
Scriptwriter
Add to a movie listThe Rescuers (1977)
, 1h17Directed by Art Stevens, Wolfgang Reitherman, Richard Rich, John Lounsbery
Origin USA
Genres Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Politique, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Musical films, Political films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Eva Gabor, Bob Newhart, Geraldine Page, Joe Flynn, Johnny Flynn, Robie Lester
Roles Author
Rating68%
In an abandoned river boat in Devil's Bayou, a young orphan named Penny drops a message in a bottle containing a plea for help into the river. The bottle washes up in New York City, where it is recovered by the Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization inside the United Nations. The Hungarian representative, Miss Bianca, volunteers to accept the case and chooses Bernard, a stammering janitor, as her co-agent. The two visit Morningside Orphanage, where Penny lived, and meet an old cat named Rufus. He tells them about a woman named Madame Medusa who once tried to lure Penny into her car and may have succeeded in abducting Penny this time.
Robin Hood (1973)
, 1h23Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Edward Hansen
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about foxes, Musical films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas, Ken Curtis, Brian Bedford
Roles Writer
Rating74%
Alan-a-Dale introduces the story of Robin Hood and Little John, two outlaws living in Sherwood Forest, where they rob from the rich and give to the poor townsfolk of Nottingham, despite the efforts of the Sheriff of Nottingham to stop them. Meanwhile, Prince John and his assistant Sir Hiss arrive in Nottingham on a tour of the kingdom. Knowing the royal coach is laden with riches, Robin and Little John rob Prince John by disguising themselves as fortune tellers. The embarrassed Prince John then puts a bounty on their heads and makes the Sheriff his personal tax collector, who takes pleasure in collecting funds from the townsfolk including hidden money from the crippled blacksmith Otto and a single farthing from a young rabbit, Skippy, who had just received it as a birthday present. However, Robin Hood, disguised as a beggar, sneaks in and gives back some money to the family, as well as his hat and a bow to Skippy in honor of his birthday.
The Aristocats (1970)
, 1h18Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Edward Hansen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about cats, Films about dogs, Jazz films, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Scatman Crothers, Hermione Gingold, Robie Lester, Gary Dubin
Rating71%
In Paris in 1910, mother cat Duchess and her three kittens, Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse, live with retired opera diva Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, and her English butler, Edgar. While preparing her will with lawyer Georges Hautecourt, Madame declares her fortune to be left to her cats until their deaths, and thereafter to Edgar. Edgar hears this through a speaking tube, and plots to eliminate the cats. Therefore, he sedates the cats by sleeping pills in their food, and enters the countryside to abandon them. There, he is ambushed by two hounds, named Napoleon and Lafayette, and the cats are stranded in the countryside, while Madame Adelaide, Roquefort the mouse, and Frou-Frou the horse discover their absence. In the morning, Duchess meets an alley cat named Thomas O'Malley, who offers to guide her and the kittens to Paris. The group briefly hitchhike in a milk cart before being chased off by the driver. Later, while crossing a railroad trestle, the cats narrowly avoid an oncoming train, but Marie falls into a river and is saved by O'Malley; himself rescued by two English geese, Amelia and Abigail Gabble, who accompany the cats to Paris. Edgar returns to the country to retrieve his possessions from Napoleon and Lafayette, as the only evidence that could incriminate him.
The Jungle Book (1967)
, 1h18Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about music and musicians, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Wolves in film, Mise en scène d'un ours, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un tigre, L'enfance marginalisée, Musical films, Buddy films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, Sebastian Cabot
Roles Story
Rating75%
Mowgli, a young orphan boy, is found in a basket in the deep jungles of India by Bagheera, a black panther who promptly takes him to a mother wolf who has just had cubs. She raises him along with her own cubs and Mowgli soon becomes well acquainted with jungle life. Mowgli is shown ten years later, playing with his wolf siblings.
, 23minutesDirected by Wolfgang Reitherman
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Mise en scène d'un ours, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Sterling Holloway, Junius Matthews, Bruce Reitherman, Sebastian Cabot, Hal Smith, Howard Morris
Roles Story
Rating79%
The story opens with Pooh Bear going through his morning exercise, during which he accidentally rips the stitching on his bottom. After repairing his torn rump, Pooh goes to his pantry for some breakfast, but finds he is fresh out of honey. He hears a bee fly by and decides to climb the honey tree, but while climbing the branch he is standing on breaks and he falls, landing in a gorse bush. Needing help, Pooh heads to Christopher Robin's house. Pooh gets Christopher Robin's magical blue balloon to try to get the honey from the honey tree. He rolls himself in a muddy puddle to disguise himself as a little black raincloud, and then uses the balloon to float up next to the hive. Once he reaches the bee hive he takes a giant handful of honey with bees still in it. He eats the honey then spits out the bees, one of which is the queen bee who falls into the mud below. The queen bee proceeds to sting Pooh's bottom which jams his rear into the hive. A now scared Pooh admits to Christopher Robin these are the wrong sorts of bees and the angry bees end up pushing him out the hive and chasing Pooh and Christopher Robin. The two barely manage to escape the angry swarm by diving into the mud puddle.
Cinderella (1950)
, 1h14Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical, Animation, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about the labor movement, Les fées, Musical films, Political films, Children's films, Films about marriage, Films about royalty
Actors Ilene Megan Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Rhoda Williams, Jimmy MacDonald, Luis van Rooten
Roles Story
Rating72%
Cinderella is the beloved child of a widowed aristocrat. Anxious for his daughter to have a mother's love, he remarries to Lady Tremaine, with two daughters: Drizella and Anastasia. After her father dies unexpectedly, Lady Tremaine is revealed to be a cruel and selfish woman, and Cinderella is abused and mistreated by her stepfamily, who take over the estate and ultimately reduce her to being a scullery maid in her own home. Despite this, Cinderella grows into a kind and gentle young woman, befriending the animals in the barn and the mice and birds who live around the chateau.
So Dear to My Heart (1948)
, 1h19Directed by Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Beulah Bondi, Burl Ives, Harry Carey, John Beal
Rating66%
Set in Indiana in 1903, the film tells the tale of Jeremiah Kincaid (Bobby Driscoll) and his determination to raise a black-wool lamb that had been rejected by its mother. Jeremiah names the lamb Danny for the famed race horse, Dan Patch (who is also portrayed in the film). Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving—yet tough—grandmother Granny (Beulah Bondi). Jeremiah's confidant, Uncle Hiram (Burl Ives), is the boy's steady ally. Inspired by the animated figures and stories, the boy perseveres.
Melody Time (1948)
, 1h15Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Films about birds, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Roy Rogers, Dennis Day, Frances Langford, Bob Nolan, Pinto Colvig, Bobby Driscoll
Rating61%
Mélodie Cocktail a pour maître de cérémonie un masque ayant la voix de Buddy Clark. Chacune des séquences, dont le titre s'anime grâce à un pinceau sur une partition de musique, est chantée par un artiste des années 1940-50.
Director
The Practical Pig (1939)
, 8minutesDirected by Dick Rickard
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about pigs, Wolves in film, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Billy Bletcher, Dorothy Compton, Pinto Colvig, Mary Moder
Roles Layout
Rating68%
Après que ses deux frères aient été capturés, le troisième petit cochon invente une machine pour capturer le grand méchant loup.
Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
, 7minutesDirected by Ford Beebe, Dick Rickard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Bullfighting films, Children's films
Actors Don Wilson, Walt Disney, Milt Kahl
Roles Layout
Rating70%
In the beginning, there are a lot of bulls, romping around together and butting their heads. There was only one bull who wasn't doing that, and that was Ferdinand. All he wanted to do was go under a shady tree and smell the flowers all day. Then one day his mother noticed that he wasn't playing with the other bulls. His mom asked him why he wasn't butting his head with the other bulls. He replied that all he wanted to do was to sit and smell the flowers. Luckily, his mother was very understanding. Over the years, Ferdinand grew and grew until he was as big as the tree. The other bulls wanted to accomplish one goal in life: to be in the bullfights in Madrid, Spain, but not Ferdinand. Then one day, five strange-looking men were here to see the bulls. When the bulls noticed them, they fought as rough as possible, hoping that they would get picked, but not Ferdinand who went back to smell the flowers. Just as Ferdinand was sitting, he accidentally sat on a bumblebee. That made him go crazy and on a rampage, knocking the other bulls out and crashed into a tree, making it fall down. The five men cheered as they took Ferdinand to Madrid. There was a lot of excitement when the day of the bullfight came. On posters, they called him Ferdinand the Fierce. At the ring came out banderilleros, picadores and the matador who was being cheered on. When he was bowing, a woman in the audience gave him a bouquet of flowers which landed in his hand. Then the moment came where Ferdinand came out. He was wondering what was he doing there. The banderilleros and picadores were scared and hid, but the matador was scared stiff because Ferdinand was so big and strong. But Ferdinand looked up in the stands and saw all of the beautiful hats that the women were wearing, each decorated with lovely, fragrant flowers. He couldn't stop staring at all the beautiful hats. The matador was very angry that Ferdinand wasn't charging at him. But Ferdinand was not interested in fighting; he was only interested in admiring the beautiful flowers. Eventually, he was led out of the arena smelling the flowers and taken back home where he continued to sit under the tree and smell the flowers.
Mickey Plays Papa (1934)
, 9minutesDirected by Burton Gillett
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'une souris, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Walt Disney
Roles Layout
Rating60%
Mickey est en train de lire une histoire d'épouvante au coin du feu avec à ses côtés Pluto. Ils sont surpris par un bruit à l'extérieur. Ce sont les pleurs d'un bébé souris déposé sous le porche d'entrée. Mickey recueille le souriceau et tente de le distraire afin qu'il arrête de pleurer. Il se lance dans une imitation de Charles Chaplin, puis joue à saute-mouton avec un jouet à presser. Mickey réalise ensuite que le petit a simplement faim. Il va donc dans la cuisine et prépare une bouteille de lait. Pendant ce temps, Pluto découvre l'invité et tente à son tour de divertir le bambin. Le chien fait comme son maître et court avec des jouets, mais sans grand résultat. Mickey, de son côté, n'est pas en reste avec la bouteille qui, à cause de la chaleur, lui aspire le nez, le faisant ressembler à Jimmy Durante.
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The Aristocats (1970)
, 1h18Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Edward Hansen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about cats, Films about dogs, Jazz films, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Scatman Crothers, Hermione Gingold, Robie Lester, Gary Dubin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
In Paris in 1910, mother cat Duchess and her three kittens, Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse, live with retired opera diva Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, and her English butler, Edgar. While preparing her will with lawyer Georges Hautecourt, Madame declares her fortune to be left to her cats until their deaths, and thereafter to Edgar. Edgar hears this through a speaking tube, and plots to eliminate the cats. Therefore, he sedates the cats by sleeping pills in their food, and enters the countryside to abandon them. There, he is ambushed by two hounds, named Napoleon and Lafayette, and the cats are stranded in the countryside, while Madame Adelaide, Roquefort the mouse, and Frou-Frou the horse discover their absence. In the morning, Duchess meets an alley cat named Thomas O'Malley, who offers to guide her and the kittens to Paris. The group briefly hitchhike in a milk cart before being chased off by the driver. Later, while crossing a railroad trestle, the cats narrowly avoid an oncoming train, but Marie falls into a river and is saved by O'Malley; himself rescued by two English geese, Amelia and Abigail Gabble, who accompany the cats to Paris. Edgar returns to the country to retrieve his possessions from Napoleon and Lafayette, as the only evidence that could incriminate him.
Art
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
, 1h19Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Films about dogs, Films about dragons, Witches in film, Musical films, Political films, Steampunk films, Buddy films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Films about royalty
Actors Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews, Rickie Sorensen, Sebastian Cabot, Norman Alden, Martha Wentworth
Roles Art Direction
Rating71%
After the King of England, Uther Pendragon, dies, leaving no heir to the throne, a sword appears inside an anvil in London. The sword bears an inscription proclaiming that whoever removes it will be the new king. No one can remove the sword, which is eventually forgotten, leaving England in the Dark Ages.
, 1h19Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about dogs, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Rod Taylor, Cate Bauer, Betty Lou Gerson, J. Pat O'Malley, Ben Wright, Martha Wentworth
Roles Art Direction
Rating72%
Songwriter Roger Radcliffe lives in a bachelor flat in London, along with his dalmatian, Pongo. Bored with bachelor life, Pongo decides to find a wife for Roger and a mate for himself. While watching various female dog-human pairs out the window, he spots the perfect one, a woman named Anita and her female dalmatian, Perdita. He quickly gets Roger out of the house and drags him through the park to arrange a meeting. He and Anita fall in love and get married.
Ben and Me (1953)
, 25minutesDirected by Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Political films, Children's films
Actors Sterling Holloway, Charles Ruggles, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson
Roles Art Direction
Rating73%
In present day, two tour groups are simultaneously visiting a statue of Benjamin Franklin. The human tour group in front of the statue discusses Franklin's life and achievements, while the leader of a mouse tour group which is standing at the top of Franklin's hat reveals the contributions of a mouse named Amos to Franklin's career.