Eric Gurney interview and letters to Eric Gurney
Story artist Eric Gurney was born on March 16, 1910, in Winnipeg, Man- itoba, Canada. He was hired by Disney as an apprentice inbetweener on March 7, 1938. While in the Animation Department he worked on sev- eral Pluto shorts, including Pantry Pirate (1940), A Gentleman’s Gentleman (1941), Canine Caddy (1941), Lend a Paw (1941), The Sleep Walker (1942), and Pluto and the Armadillo (1943), as well as on the Donald short Sky Trooper (1942). At some point during World War II, he was transferred to the Story Department, where he worked on many stories for other Pluto shorts, including Springtime for Pluto (1944), The Legend of Coyote Rock (1945), Dog Watch (1945), Figaro and Frankie (1946), Bath Day (1946), Mail Dog (1947), Pluto’s Surprise Package (1947), Pluto’s Sweater (1947), Rescue Dog (1947), Cat Nap Pluto (1948), Pueblo Pluto (1949), Sheep Dog (1949), and Bubble Bee (1949). He was also involved in the “Peter and the Wolf” and “Casey at the Bat” sequences for Make Mine Music (1946). He resigned from the Disney Studio on August 15, 1947, and soon became a successful book illustrator. He passed away on November 17, 1992, in Tucson, Arizona.
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- Parent entry
- 1 - Letters of Otto Englander (Otto Englander)
- 2 - Jack Campbell [biography] (Steven Hartley)
- 3 - Van Kaufman (Mark Langer)
- 4 - Ward Kimball (Mark Langer)
- 5 - Bill Hurtz (Mark Langer)
- 6 - Fini Rudiger-Littlejohn (Michael Barrier)
- 7 - Fini (Josephine) Rudiger-Littlejohn (Helmut G. Asper)
- 8 - Eric Gurney interview and letters to Eric Gurney
- 9 - Wilfred Jackson (Dave Smith)
- 10 - Eric Larson (John Culhane)
- 11 - Burny Mattinson (EMC West)
- 12 - Letter by George Harding Foster to Harrison B. Kinney (George Harding Foster)
- 13 - Marc Davis (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston)
- 14 - Claude Coats and Evie Coats (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston)
- 15 - Wathel Rogers (Dave Smith)
- 16 - Bob Otto (Michael Broggie)
- 17 - Marvin Davis and Marjorie Davis (Michael Broggie, Gary Oakland)
- 18 - Marty Sklar (Chuck Schmidt)
- 19 - Marty Sklar (Michael Broggie)
- 20 - Joe Fowler (Jay Horan)
- 21 - Rock Hall (Jim Korkis)
- 22 - Pat Burke (Alain Littaye)
