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American film director
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Male
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Birth:
16 October 1903(Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, U.S.A.)
Death:
19 February 1968(Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California)
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San Francisco Bay Area
The details
Biography
Introduction
Hamilton Luton Luske (October 16, 1903 – February 19, 1968) was an American animator and film director. He joined the Walt Disney Productions animation studio in 1931 and he was soon trusted enough by Walt Disney to be made supervising animator of Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
He directed many Disney films and animated shorts from 1936 until his death in 1968. He won the Academy Award for Best Special Visual Effects for Mary Poppins in 1965.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 16, 1903, and died in Bel Air, California, on February 19, 1968, at age 64.
Filmography as director
- Pinocchio (1940)
- Fantasia (1940)
- The Reluctant Dragon (1941)
- Saludos Amigos (1942)
- Make Mine Music (1946)
- Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
- Melody Time (1948)
- So Dear to My Heart (1948)
- Cinderella (1950)
- Alice in Wonderland (1951)
- Peter Pan (1953)
- Ben and Me (1953)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959)
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
- Mary Poppins (1964)