Person
Don DaGradi
Directing · 1911–1991 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Disney writer who started out as a layout artist on 1940s cartoons including "Der Fuehrer's Face" in 1943. He eventually moved into animated features with the film Lady and the Tramp in 1955. He also worked as a color and styling or sequence consultant on many other motion pictures for Disney. His greatest achievement was for his visual screenplay for Mary Poppins in 1964 for which he shared an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with Bill Walsh. Don DaGradi died August 4, 1991, in Friday Harbor, Washington. He was named a Disney Legend posthumously, only months after his death. - Wikipedia
Known for
Sleeping Beauty
Production Designer
Lady and the Tramp
Story
Mary Poppins
Screenplay
Dumbo
Art Direction
The Parent Trap
Sequence Artist
The Love Bug
Screenplay
The Three Caballeros
Layout
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Screenplay
Fun and Fancy Free
Layout
Duck Pimples
Layout
Filmography
- 1997The Love BugWriter
- 1992Goofy at the Olympic GamesAnimation
- 1971Bedknobs and BroomsticksScreenplay
- 1971Scandalous JohnScreenplay
- 1968The Love BugScreenplay
- 1968Blackbeard's GhostScreenplay
- 1966Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.Screenplay
- 1964Mary PoppinsScreenplay
- 1961The Parent TrapSequence Artist
- 1959Darby O'Gill and the Little PeopleMatte Painter
- 1959Sleeping BeautyProduction Designer
- 1955Lady and the TrampStory
- 1955Music LandLayout Supervisor
- 1954Two for the RecordLayout Supervisor
- 1950The Brave EngineerLayout
- 1947Fun and Fancy FreeLayout
- 1945Hockey HomicideLayout
- 1945Duck PimplesLayout
- 1944The Three CaballerosLayout
- 1944How to Be a SailorLayout
- 1943Victory VehiclesLayout
- 1943Der Fuehrer's FaceLayout
- 1942How to FishLayout
- 1941DumboArt Direction
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