It is well known that, for a variety of reasons, legendary Disney director and animator Ward Kimball was demoted by Walt Disney from director back to animator in the early-1960s. In 1966, Kimball made ...

Flawed film premises weren’t invented in the last decade. For guidance, Music reached out to Ward Kimball, who had spent nearly forty years as a director, writer and animator at Disney, and had ...

Ward Kimball’s passing was a loss for the world of animation, and even more so for those who knew him (obituary, July 9). I grew up watching many of the cartoons Ward had animated, and I was fortunate ...

Ward Kimball: An article last Sunday about L.A.-based artists referred to Llyn Foulkes’ former father-in-law, one of Disney’s original “Nine Old Men,” as Ward Kimbell. His last name was Kimball. Get ...

While Kimball was a brilliant draftsman, he preferred to work on comical characters rather than realistic human designs. Animating came easily to him and he was constantly looking to do things ...

Pioneering animator Ward Kimball, who helped modernize Mickey Mouse’s look in 1938 and created the character Jiminy Cricket for the Disney classic “Pinocchio,” died Monday of natural causes in Arcadia ...

Ward Kimball, 88, one of the sultans of film animation, who helped parent and polish such characters as Jiminy Cricket and Mickey Mouse for Walt Disney Studios and became one of the legendary "nine ...

Rarely does a single auction encompass the entire history of an art form. But on August 16-19, Heritage will do just that when it presents The History of Animation: The Glad Museum Collection ...

While Kimball was a brilliant draftsman, he preferred to work on comical characters rather than realistic human designs. Animating came easily to him and he was constantly looking to do things ...