Lester Novros

Personal Info

Known For Visual Effects

Birthday 1909-01-27

Deathday 2000-09-10 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Passaic - New Jersey - USA

Also Known As Les Novros

Lester Novros

Biography

He studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He was also an active member of the Art Students League of New York, and studied at the prestigious Prado Museum inMadrid, Spain. His curiosity in the study of movement lead to an interest in motion pictures. In 1936 he was recruited by the Walt Disney Company to come to Hollywood to work on feature animation projects. Novros was an "in betweener" on the Disney classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), and received a credit for art direction for the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence of Fantasia (1940). - Wikipedia Entry

Known For

Visual Effects

1948
Because of Eve

as Animation

1939
The Pointer

as Animation

1939
Beach Picnic

as Animation

1938
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

as Animation Production Assistant

Director

1979
Planet Mars

as Director

1976
Universe

as Director

1957

Producer

Writer

1979
Planet Mars

as Writer