Les Clark
Author: John Culhane, Walt's People: Volume 12 - Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him, Volume 12, 1972-02-22, Chapter 4,pp. 35-47,EN
JC: Did you have trouble establishing Mickey’s character? In other words your Mickey, the earlier Mickey, is more of a mean little kid. He will take out a pin and he will give somebody a jab. If the fat guy is trying to go through the door and he can’t go through the door, Mickey punctures him.
LC: Those were some of the earliest ideas of the “Our Gang” comedy series. It could be another character today rather than Mickey.
JC: So you mean Mickey gradually only did Mickey things?
LC: Mickey became a Boy Scout more or less. It got so that in the later years we couldn’t find a story for him. We had established such a goody-goody character. […]
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- 1 - Alice Disney Allen (Dave Smith)
- 2 - Jack Kloepper (Dave Smith)
- 3 - Gordon “Felix” Mills - Betsy Goodspeed talks about her father (Jim Korkis)
- 4 - Les Clark
- 5 - Al Eugster (John Culhane)
- 6 - Piercing the Perce Pearce Mystery (Didier Ghez, George Grant)
- 7 - Evelyn Coats (Alan Coats)
- 8 - Marge Hudson and Evelyn Coats (Alan Coats)
- 9 - Mel Shaw (Paul F. Anderson)
- 10 - Mel Shaw (EMC West)
- 11 - Sylvia Holland - as remembered by Theo Halladay (Didier Ghez)
- 12 - Sammy Fain (David Tietyen)
- 13 - My Family Disney Dynasty - as remebered by Edle Bakke and her family
- 14 - Olive Bosché (Didier Ghez)
- 15 - Bill Bosché (Dave Smith)
- 16 - Charlie Downs (Steve Hulett)
- 17 - The Life and Times of John Dunn - from Animation Blast number 9 (Amid Amidi)
- 18 - Del Connell (Alberto Becattini)
- 19 - Paul Murry Letter sent to Wayne DeWald in 1970 (Jim Korkis)
- 20 - Paul Murry (Donald and Lynda Ault)
- 21 - Paul Murry (George Sherman)
- 22 - The Lurking Camera - written for The Atlantic Monthly (Walt Disney)
- 23 - Film Music and Its Use in Beaver Valley (James Algar)
- 24 - Animals Are Like Other People (Tom McHugh)
- 25 - Warren Garst (Didier Ghez)
- 26 - Jack Couffer (Didier Ghez)
- 27 - Lloyd Beebe (Didier Ghez, Jim Korkis)
- 28 - Lloyd Beebe (Brian Shoemaker)
- 29 - Milt Albright (Didier Ghez)
- 30 - Milt Albright (Michael Mallory)
- 31 - Ralph Kent (Louis A. Mongello)
- 32 - Larry Clemmons (John Culhane)
- 33 - Milt Kahl (Michael Barrier, Milton Gray)
- 34 - John Pomeroy about Milt Kahl (Charles Solomon)
- 35 - Leota Toombs Thomas - Lecture given to the W.E.D.W.A.Y. Chapter of the NFFC (Disneyana Fan Club) (Leota Toombs Thomas)
- 36 - Kim Irvine (Didier Ghez)
- 37 - Burny Mattinson (Didier Ghez)
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Les Clark (interviewee)Added: 2014-11-25