- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- The Gentle Giant
- Height6′ 6½″ (1.99 m)
- Claude Coats was born on January 17, 1913 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an art director, known for Lady and the Tramp (1955), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Dumbo (1941). He died on January 9, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Towering height
- Grandfather of David Coats
- Was paid tribute to in the first issue of Slave Labor Graphics' Haunted Mansion comic anthology series as one of the Mansion's architects, who ends up becoming the haunted candle in the Endless Hallway.
- Worked in Walt Disney Imagineering (then known as WED Enterprises) on set design for Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion, actually pushing for a spookier version of the ride before compromising with fellow Imagineer Marc Davis to have the ride feature both scary and more humorous elements.
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