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Birthday: May 15, 1908
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Joe Grant

Joe Grant (May 15, 1908 – May 6, 2005) was an American artist and writer. Born in New York City, New York, he worked for The Walt Disney Company as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1933 on the Mickey Mouse short, "Mickey's Gala Premiere". He was a Disney legend. He created the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He co-wrote Dumbo. He also led development of Pinocchio and Fantasia. During World War II, Grant worked on war cartoons including the Academy Award winning Der Fuehrer's Face. He left the Disney studio in 1949 and ran a ceramics business and a greeting card business but returned in 1989 to work on Beauty and the Beast. He also worked on Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, Fantasia 2000, and Pixar's Monsters, Inc. among others. The last two films he worked on before his death, Chicken Little and Pixar's Up, were dedicated to him. Grant worked four days a week at Disney until he died, nine days before his 97th birthday. Grant's final project, Lorenzo, for which he conceived the idea and helped storyboard, received an Academy Award nomination in 2005. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
The Pixar Story Self 2007
The Story Behind Walt Disney's 'Fun and Fancy Free' Self 1997
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story Self 1989
The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached Himself (Archive Footage) 2009
The Making of Bambi: A Prince is Born Self - Story Artist, Walt Disney Feature Animation 1994
A Conversation with Joe Grant Himself 2004
The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature Self 2000
Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo Himself (archive footage) 2010
Treasure Island Undetermined child role (uncredited) 1917
Jack and the Beanstalk Undetermined child role (uncredited) 1917
Series Cast Year
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