Jack Kinney
Directing
Born: March 29, 1909 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Died: February 9, 1992 (aged 82)
Highest Rated
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
Pinocchio
1940
Dumbo
1941
The Three Caballeros
1944
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949
Fun and Fancy Free
1947
Saludos Amigos
1942
Popeye the Sailor
1960
Melody Time
1948
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1949
Make Mine Music
1946
The Band Concert
1935
Mickey's Trailer
1938
Photos (2)
Movies (1)
Directing (102)
Popeye the Sailor
Director
Disney's House of Mouse
Director
Pinocchio
Director
Dumbo
Director
Snuffy Smith and Barney Google
Director
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Director
Fun and Fancy Free
Director
Melody Time
Director
The Three Caballeros
Director
Krazy Kat
Director
Saludos Amigos
Director
Lion Social
Director
Make Mine Music
Director
The Art of Skiing
Director
How to Play Baseball
Director
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Director
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1
Director
Chips Ahoy
Director
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
Director
Der Fuehrer's Face
Director
Bone Trouble
Director
How to Fish
Director
Disney's American Legends
Director
Duck Pimples
Director
This Is Your Life Donald Duck
Director
Bongo
Director
Motor Mania
Director
How to Play Football
Director
Hello Aloha
Director
How to Be a Detective
Director
Father's Week-End
Director
Everybody Loves Goofy
Director
Victory Through Air Power
Director
Man's Best Friend
Director
How to Swim
Director
The Goofy Success Story
Director
No Smoking
Director
Two Weeks Vacation
Director
Father's Day Off
Director
Countdown to Christmas
Director
How to Be a Sailor
Director
The Olympic Champ
Director
Two for the Record
Director
The Story of Menstruation
Director
Mickey's Birthday Party
Director
Jeep Tale
Director
How to Ride a Horse
Director
1001 Arabian Nights
Director
DTV: Rock, Rhythm & Blues
Director
Popeye's Pizza Palace
Director
Let's relax
Director
The Art of Self Defense
Director
Popeye's Service Station
Director
How to Play Golf
Director
For Whom the Bulls Toil
Director
Music Land
Director
Popeye and the Giant
Director
Goofy Gymnastics
Director
Casey Bats Again
Director
Donald's Diary
Director
The Brave Engineer
Director
Get Rich Quick
Director
Fathers Are People
Director
Football (Now and Then)
Director
Victory Vehicles
Director
Tiger Burger
Director
Tiger Trouble
Director
Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet
Director
Hockey Homicide
Director
How to Dance
Director
All the Cats Join In
Director
Home Made Home
Director
Tennis Racquet
Director
Cold Storage
Director
Teachers Are People
Director
The Martins and the Coys
Director
Cold War
Director
Barbecue for Two
Director
Goofy's Glider
Director
African Diary
Director
The Adventures of Chip 'N' Dale
Director
Lion Down
Director
Two Gun Goofy
Director
Baggage Buster
Director
Hold That Pose
Director
Tomorrow We Diet
Director
The Lone Chipmunks
Director
How to Sleep
Director
Father's Lion
Director
Mickey, les J.O. rigolos
Director
Plumbers Pipe Dream
Director
Casey at the Bat
Director
Here's Goofy!
Director
Pigs Is Pigs
Director
Californy 'Er Bust
Director
Figaro and Cleo
Director
Bumble Boogie
Director
El Gaucho Goofy
Director
Popeye in the Grand Steeple Chase
Director
Contrasts in Rhythm
Director
Superstar Goofy
Director
Mickey Mouse Disco
Director
Writing (13)
Popeye the Sailor
Writer
Melody Time
Writer
Brave Little Tailor
Story
Bone Trouble
Writer
Mickey's Trailer
Story
How to Have an Accident at Work
Story
The Goofy Success Story
Writer
How to Have an Accident in the Home
Story
Canvas Back Duck
Story
Mickey's Parrot
Story
Popeye's Service Station
Writer
Donald and Pluto
Story
Goofy at the Olympic Games
Writer
Producing (4)
Other Crew (14)
Dumbo
Sequence Supervisor
The Band Concert
Animation
Santa's Workshop
Animation
Mickey's Mechanical Man
Animation
Birds in the Spring
Animation
Mickey's Service Station
Animation
The Goofy Adventure Story
Sequence Lead
The Hot Choc-late Soldiers
Animation
Goofy at the Olympic Games
Art Direction
Moose Hunters
Animation
The Cookie Carnival
Animation
Two-Gun Mickey
Animation
The China Shop
Animation
The Mail Pilot
Animation