Ed Catmull
By the late ’90s we all wondered if Disney would remain Disney, synonymous with beautiful animation and great storytelling. The quality was steadily going down while the “sacred fire” seemed to have deserted the Studio and gone to a company founded only a decade earlier, whose string of successes was unbroken: Pixar Animation Studios. It took the buying of Pixar in 2006 to restore the Disney Studio to its glory. The two men who were at the helm of Pixar since 1986, John Lasseter (today Chief Creative Officer of Disney and Pixar) and Ed Catmull (today President of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios) are behind this resurrection.
However, while John is world famous, Ed Catmull is not. And yet, without Ed, John would not have been hired by the digital division of Lucasfilm (which became Pixar after being bought by Steve Jobs in 1986). Without Ed, without his technological and executive genius, there would have been no Pixar.
It is high time to focus on the role that Dr. Edwin Earl Catmull played and still plays in the making of the new Disney. […]
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- 1 - Ruthie Tompson (Didier Ghez)
- 2 - Walt Pfeiffer (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 3 - Shirley Temple Black (John Culhane)
- 4 - Izzy Klein (John Culhane)
- 5 - Basil Reynolds (Peter Hansen)
- 6 - Eric Larson (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 7 - John Hubley (John Culhane)
- 8 - Jules Engel (Robin Allan)
- 9 - Ed Love - at CalArts (Ed Love)
- 10 - Mike Lah - at CalArts (Mike Lah)
- 11 - Frank Thomas (J.B. Kaufman)
- 12 - Carl Nater (Dave Smith)
- 13 - John Hench - on working with Salvatore Dali on Destino (John Culhane)
- 14 - Ward Kimball (John Canemaker)
- 15 - Ward Kimball (Dave Smith)
- 16 - Frank Armitage (Didier Ghez)
- 17 - Ray Aragon (Robin Allan)
- 18 - Ray Aragon (Didier Ghez)
- 19 - Jacques Rupp (Gord Wilson)
- 20 - George Bruns (David Tietyen)
- 21 - Dale Oliver (John Canemaker)
- 22 - Iwao Takamoto (John Canemaker)
- 23 - Richard Williams (John Canemaker)
- 24 - Brad Bird (Charles Solomon)
- 25 - Don Christensen (Alberto Becattini)
- 26 - Tom Nabbe (Jim Korkis)
- 27 - Roger Broggie (Dave Smith)
- 28 - David Snyder (Didier Ghez)
- 29 - Carl Bongirno (Didier Ghez)
- 30 - Dan MacManus (John Culhane)
- 31 - Ted Kierscey (John Culhane)
- 32 - Glen Keane (John Canemaker)
- 33 - Joe Hale (Didier Ghez)
- 34 - Mark Henn (Jérémie Noyer)
- 35 - Andreas Deja and Mark Henn (Christian Ziebarth)
- 36 - Ed Catmull
