Dick Huemer

Personal Info

Known For Visual Effects

Gender Male

Birthday 1898-01-02

Deathday 1979-11-30 (81 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Dick Heumer

Dick Huemer

Biography

While as an artist-illustrator living in The Bronx, New York, Huemer first began his career in animation at the Raoul Barré cartoon studio in 1916. He joined the Fleischer Studio in 1923 where he developed the Koko the Clown character. Later he moved to Hollywood and worked as an animator and director for the Charles Mintz studio. He subsequently moved to the Disney Studio, where he remained for the duration of his career, except for a 3-year hiatus from 1948-51 when he pioneered animated TV commercials and created the The Adventures of Buck O'Rue comic strip.[1] Some of Huemer's most creative work was done in partnership with Joe Grant; examples include Fantasia (story director), Dumbo (screenplay), and several propaganda films to advance the U.S. war effort during World War II. Atypically, Huemer and Grant submitted Dumbo to Walt Disney not as a completed storyboard, but as a series of storyboard "chapters," each ending in a cliffhanger. This was intended to pique Disney's enthusiasm for the project, and it worked. Dick was at the Disney organization from April 16, 1933 to February 28, 1973.

Known For

Visual Effects

1946
1938
1937
Don Donald

as Animation

1937
Lonesome Ghosts

as Animation

1937
Little Hiawatha

as Animation

1936
Mickey's Rival

as Animation

1936
Mickey's Elephant

as Animation

1936
Mickey's Polo Team

as Animation

1936
Alpine Climbers

as Animation

1936
1935
Mickey's Garden

as Animation

1935
Broken Toys

as Animation

1935
The Band Concert

as Animation

1935
1935
Water Babies

as Animation

1935
Music Land

as Animation

1934
The Wise Little Hen

as Animation

1934
1934
The China Shop

as Animation

1934
Peculiar Penguins

as Animation

1933
Lullaby Land

as Animation

1933
The Pied Piper

as Animation

1933
Puppy Love

as Animation

1930
The Glow Worm

as Animation Director

1924
The Storm

as Animation

Director

2003
1939
Goofy and Wilbur

as Director

1938
The Whalers

as Director

1938
Moth and the Flame

as Assistant Director

1933
The Match Kid

as Director

1933
The World's Affair

as Director

1933
False Alarm

as Director

1933
Beer Parade

as Director

1933
Sandman Tales

as Director

1933
Technoracket

as Director

1933
Sassy Cats

as Director

1933
Hollywood Babies

as Director

1933
1933
Scrappy's Party

as Director

1933
Movie Struck

as Director

1932
Camping Out

as Director

1932
The Black Sheep

as Director

1932
The Flop House

as Director

1932
Battle of the Barn

as Director

1932
The Bad Genius

as Director

1932
The Treasure Runt

as Director

1932
Railroad Wretch

as Director

1932
1932
Fare Play

as Director

1932
The Pet Shop

as Director

1932
1931
The Little Pest

as Director

1931
Showing Off

as Director

1931
Sunday Clothes

as Director

1931
Minding The Baby

as Director

1931
Hallowe'en

as Director

1931
The Milkman

as Director

1931
Yelp Wanted

as Director

1931
Down South

as Director

1931
Circus Time

as Director

1931
The Dog Snatcher

as Director

1930
Toby the Showman

as Director

1930
Toby the Fiddler

as Director

1930
The Museum

as Director

1925
Christmas Seals Ad

as Director

Writer

1957
1955
Music Land

as Writer

1953
Melody

as Story

1951
1946
1946
1943
1943
1943
Pedro

as Writer

1943
1942
1942
Saludos Amigos

as Writer

1941
Dumbo

as Screenplay

1940
Fantasia

as Story

1933
Sassy Cats

as Story

1933
1933
1932
The Flop House

as Writer

1932
1932
Fare Play

as Story

1932
1932
The Pet Shop

as Writer

1931
1931
1931
Circus Time

as Writer

1931
1930
1930
The Museum

as Writer

Actor

2010
Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo

as Himself (archive footage)