Kim Irvine
Author: Didier Ghez, Walt's People: Volume 12 - Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him, Volume 12, 2008-08-06, 2008-09-10, Chapter 36,pp. 497-519,EN
Talk about pertaining to the Disney family! Imagineer Kim Irvine is the daughter of Disney Legend Leota Toombs Thomas and Disney animator Harvey Toombs. She also happens to be the daughter-in-law of Dick Irvine, one of WED’s key executives until his retirement in 1973.
In 1970, at age sixteen, Kim began her career at WED, where she worked alongside many of the Imagineering legends such as John Hench, Mary Blair, Marc Davis, and Claude Coats.
John Hench became Kim’s mentor, as he relied on her more and more for her color expertise, a skill for which John was the undisputed master. This skill would serve Kim well over the ensuing decades when she led the art direction at Disneyland. […]
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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 (John Culhane)
- 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
- 37 - Burny Mattinson (Didier Ghez)
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Kim Irvine (interviewee)Added: 2014-11-25