- Won 1 Oscar
- 5 wins & 7 nominations total
Known for
Credits
Director
Animation Department
Producer
Personal details
- Alternative names
- Hamilton S. Luske
- Born
- Died
- February 19, 1968
- Bel Air, California, USA(undisclosed)
- Spouse
- Frances Mary CrabbAugust 13, 1928 - February 19, 1968 (his death, 2 children)
Did you know
- TriviaAnimator and animation director who worked for Walt Disney. He graduated from the University of California- Berkley where he majored in business and began working life as a newspaper cartoonist in Oakland. He signed with Disney in 1931, initially drawing Mickey Mouse black & white shorts before moving on as full animator to the Silly Symphony series which was done in colour and had a strong musical component. He established himself as one of the top animators at the studio with the hugely popular cartoons The Tortoise and the Hare (1935) and Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935). On the strength of this he became supervising animator on their first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
- Nickname
- Ham
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