Jack Kinney

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1909-03-29

Deathday 1992-02-09 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Also Known As John Ryan Kinney

Jack Kinney

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jack Ryan Kinney (March 29, 1909 – February 9, 1992) was an American animator, director and producer of animated shorts. Jack Kinney attended John Muir Junior High School in Los Angeles, California (1925), and attended John C. Fremont High School (1926 - 1928) there with Roy Williams. Both Fremont football players, they would later be hired by Walt Disney in 1930 to work at the Walt Disney Studio on Hyperion Avenue. Often referring to himself as Kinney's best friend, Williams would go on to star as the "Big Mooseketeer" with head Mouseketeer Jimmie Dodd on the classic 1950s television program, "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955 - 1958). Kinney began his long career in cartoons at the Walt Disney Studios in 1931 as an animator on several shorts, including Santa's Workshop (released on December 10, 1932), The Band Concert (released on February 23, 1935), and Moose Hunters (released on April 17, 1937). He then became a director of cartoons at Disney, including as a sequence director for both Pinocchio and Dumbo and especially as a director in the shorts department, where he directed many cartoon shorts, mostly those starring Goofy (his brother Dick created the stories for the shorts), although he also directed a few Donald Duck cartoons as well, including the Academy Award-winning wartime propaganda film, Der Fuehrer's Face. He also served as director of most of the "package films" during the 1940s, including The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In the mid-1950s, he supervised new animation used to tie some of the old shorts together for Disney's television efforts. In 1959, Jack left Disney to start (with his brother Dick) Jack Kinney Productions, an independent animation studio. Among other work they provided animation for King Features Syndicate's 1960 Popeye series. In 1988, Kinney published a short memoir, Walt Disney and Assorted Other Characters: An Unauthorized Account of the Early Years at Disney's. Kinney died on February 9, 1992 in Glendale, California at the age of 82. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Kinney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

2005
2003
2002
1987
Here's Goofy!

as Director

1980
Mickey Mouse Disco

as Director

1972
Superstar Goofy

as Director

1960
Jeep Tale

as Director

1960
1960
1960
1960
1960
Barbecue for Two

as Director

1960
Tiger Burger

as Director

1959
1956
Chips Ahoy

as Director

1956
1955
1955
Music Land

as Director

1955
1954
Donald's Diary

as Director

1954
Pigs Is Pigs

as Director

1954
Social Lion

as Director

1954
The Lone Chipmunks

as Director

1954
Casey Bats Again

as Director

1954
Two for the Record

as Director

1953
Father's Week-End

as Director

1953
Father's Day Off

as Director

1953
How to Dance

as Director

1953
How to Sleep

as Director

1953
1953
1952
Father's Lion

as Director

1952
Hello Aloha

as Director

1952
1952
Man's Best Friend

as Director

1952
1952
Two Weeks Vacation

as Director

1952
Two Gun Goofy

as Director

1951
Cold War

as Director

1951
Fathers Are People

as Director

1951
Get Rich Quick

as Director

1951
Lion Down

as Director

1951
No Smoking

as Director

1951
Tomorrow We Diet

as Director

1951
Cold Storage

as Director

1951
Home Made Home

as Director

1950
Hold That Pose

as Director

1950
Motor Mania

as Director

1950
The Brave Engineer

as Director

1949
Goofy Gymnastics

as Director

1949
Tennis Racquet

as Director

1948
Melody Time

as Director

1948
Bumble Boogie

as Director

1947
Fun and Fancy Free

as Director

1947
1947
Bongo

as Director

1946
1946
Casey at the Bat

as Director

1946
1946
Make Mine Music

as Director

1945
Californy 'Er Bust

as Director

1945
African Diary

as Director

1945
Hockey Homicide

as Director

1945
Tiger Trouble

as Director

1945
Duck Pimples

as Director

1944
How to Play Golf

as Director

1944
How to Be a Sailor

as Director

1944
1944
1943
Der Fuehrer's Face

as Director

1943
Victory Vehicles

as Director

1943
Figaro and Cleo

as Director

1942
1942
How to Swim

as Director

1942
The Olympic Champ

as Director

1942
El Gaucho Goofy

as Director

1942
How to Fish

as Director

1942
Saludos Amigos

as Director

1941
Baggage Buster

as Director

1941
The Art of Skiing

as Director

1941
1941
Dumbo

as Director

1940
Bone Trouble

as Director

1940
Goofy's Glider

as Director

1940
Pinocchio

as Director

Writer

Visual Effects

1937
Moose Hunters

as Animation

1935
The Cookie Carnival

as Animation

1935
The Band Concert

as Animation

1935
1934
The China Shop

as Animation

1934
Two-Gun Mickey

as Animation

1933
Birds in the Spring

as Animation

1933
The Mail Pilot

as Animation

1933
1932
Santa's Workshop

as Animation

Producer

1960
1960
1960
Barbecue for Two

as Producer

1960
Tiger Burger

as Producer

Art

1992
Dingo aux jeux olympiques

as Art Direction

Crew

1957
The Goofy Adventure Story

as Sequence Lead