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Wilfred Jackson (January 24, 1906 – August 7, 1988) was an American animator, arranger, composer and director best known for his work on the Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies series of cartoons and the Night on Bald Mountain / Ave Maria segment of Fantasia from Walt Disney Productions.
YearTitleCredits1937Sequence Director1940Sequence Director1940Director – Segment " Night on Bald ...1941Sequence DirectorWilfred 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 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 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 directed the first Mickey Mouse short in Technicolor.
- January 24, 1906
- August 7, 1988
Wilfred Jackson. Legends Award Category: Animation. Year Inducted: 1998. Walt Disney first came to rely upon Wilfred Jackson’s genius and sense of perfection in 1928, the year Mickey Mouse was born. It was the age of silent movies, but Walt had a notion to marry music and animation.
Wilfred Jackson passed away on August 7, 1988, in Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, United States. He was posthumously named a Disney Legend in 1998. One of the characteristics of the Disney studio was, none of us tried to keep what we had from anybody else.
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.
