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Wilfred Emmons Jackson (January 24, 1906 – August 7, 1988) was an American animator, musical arranger and director best known for his work with Walt Disney Productions. Jackson joined Walt Disney Productions in 1928 as a volunteer washing animation cels. He was soon promoted to an animator and was instrumental in developing the Mickey Mousing ...
Wilfred Jackson was an American animator, arranger, composer, and director, who worked for Disney. Born in Chicago, Illinois; Jackson attended Otis College of Art and Design in the 1920s before getting hired at the studio.
Wilfred Jackson was born on 24 January 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director, known for Cinderella (1950), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He died on 7 August 1988 in Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, USA.
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- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, USA
Wilfred Jackson was a pioneer of synchronizing animation with music and a director of 35 shorts and 11 features for Disney. He worked on classics like Steamboat Willie, Fantasia, and Song of the South, and won three Academy Awards.
Wilfred Jackson was a Disney director who worked on classic animated films such as Snow White, Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland. He also invented a synchronization method for sound cartoons and won three Academy Awards.
- January 24, 1906
- August 7, 1988
Jul 31, 2015 · When Wilfred Jackson directed the entertainment sequence in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he was filmed in mid-1937 dancing with Marjorie Belcher (later known as Marge Champion) as Snow White, with Jackson himself taking the parts of Dopey and Sneezy.
Wilfred Jackson (January 24, 1906 - August 7, 1988) is an American animator, arranger, composer and director best known for his work on the Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies series and the Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria segment of Fantasia from Walt Disney Productions.
