Joe Grant

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1908-05-15

Deathday 2005-05-06 (96 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Joe Grant

Biography

Joe Grant (May 15, 1908 – May 6, 2005) was an American artist and writer. Born in New York City, New York, he worked for The Walt Disney Company as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1933 on the Mickey Mouse short, "Mickey's Gala Premiere". He was a Disney legend. He created the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He co-wrote Dumbo. He also led development of Pinocchio and Fantasia. During World War II, Grant worked on war cartoons including the Academy Award winning Der Fuehrer's Face. He left the Disney studio in 1949 and ran a ceramics business and a greeting card business but returned in 1989 to work on Beauty and the Beast. He also worked on Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, Fantasia 2000, and Pixar's Monsters, Inc. among others. The last two films he worked on before his death, Chicken Little and Pixar's Up, were dedicated to him. Grant worked four days a week at Disney until he died, nine days before his 97th birthday. Grant's final project, Lorenzo, for which he conceived the idea and helped storyboard, received an Academy Award nomination in 2005. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For

Writer

2004
Lorenzo

as Writer

1998
Mulan

as Story

1995
Pocahontas

as Story

1960
1951
1943
1943
1943
1943
Pedro

as Writer

1942
1942
Saludos Amigos

as Writer

1941
Dumbo

as Screenplay

1940
Pinocchio

as Characters

1940
Fantasia

as Story

1938
Wynken, Blynken & Nod

as Storyboard

1936
More Kittens

as Story

1936
1936
Three Little Wolves

as Storyboard

1936
Toby Tortoise Returns

as Storyboard

1936
Three Little Wolves

as Screenplay

1935
Broken Toys

as Characters

1935

Actor

2010
Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo

as Himself (archive footage)

2009
2007
1994
The Making of Bambi: A Prince is Born

as Self - Story Artist, Walt Disney Feature Animation

1917
Treasure Island

as Undetermined child role (uncredited)

1917
Jack and the Beanstalk

as Undetermined child role (uncredited)

Visual Effects

1994
The Lion King

as Character Designer

1994
The Lion King

as Visual Development

1991
Beauty and the Beast

as Visual Development

1933

Crew

2009
Up

as In Memory Of

2007
The Pixar Story

as In Memory Of

2005
Chicken Little

as In Memory Of

Producer

1946
Make Mine Music

as Production Executive

1938
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

as Character Technical Supervisor