Don DaGradi

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1911-03-01

Deathday 1991-08-04 (80 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Donald DaGradi, Donald Da Gradi, Don Da Gradi

Don DaGradi

Biography

Disney writer who started out as a layout artist on 1940s cartoons including "Der Fuehrer's Face" in 1943. He eventually moved into animated features with the film Lady and the Tramp in 1955. He also worked as a color and styling or sequence consultant on many other motion pictures for Disney. His greatest achievement was for his visual screenplay for Mary Poppins in 1964 for which he shared an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with Bill Walsh. Don DaGradi died August 4, 1991, in Friday Harbor, Washington. He was named a Disney Legend posthumously, only months after his death. - Wikipedia

Known For

Director

1950
1945
Duck Pimples

as Layout

1945
Hockey Homicide

as Layout

1944
1944
1943
1943
1942
How to Fish

as Layout

Writer

1997
The Love Bug

as Writer

1971
1971
Scandalous John

as Screenplay

1968
Blackbeard's Ghost

as Screenplay

1968
The Love Bug

as Screenplay

1966
1964
Mary Poppins

as Screenplay

1955

Visual Effects

1992
1955
Music Land

as Layout Supervisor

1954
Two for the Record

as Layout Supervisor

Producer

1959
Sleeping Beauty

as Production Designer

Art

1941
Dumbo

as Art Direction

Crew

1961
The Parent Trap

as Sequence Artist