Don Williams

Donald "Don" Harold Murphy Williams (21 April 1906 - 17 June 1980)^[1] was an animator who worked at MGM, Walter Lantz, Paramount, Hanna Barbera, Warner Bros., Walt Disney, Columbia Pictures, and DePatie Freleng Enterprises. He had a solitary drawing style with the characters having thick eyebrows, and he also drew stylish strokes with facial movement.

Career[]

Williams began his career in animation in the 1930s at Walter Lantz's studio and shortly after, he was recruited to work for Leon Schlesinger Productions. In August 1936, Williams was hired at Walt Disney’s studio and left in February 1938. Later, he found a job at Cartoon Films Limited, formally Ub Iwerks’ studio in Beverly Hills, which produced theatrical entertainment shorts and commercials.

Throughout the 1940s, Williams went through brief stays at cartoon studios such as MGM, Walter Lantz, Screen Gems, and Warner Bros. After an almost eight-year hiatus from the industry, he returned to animation to work for various TV/commercial outlets such as Hanna-Barbera. In 1963, Williams was hired at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises where he was the studio’s lead animator on their theatricals, television specials, interstitials and commercials. He continued to work there until his death in 1980 around the same time as when DePatie-Freleng was entering transformation into Marvel Productions. He last credited project was The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat which was released two years after his passing.^[2]^[3]

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IMDb

[1] Tralfaz

[2] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7n2LsXcd08&ab_channel=tinycrow

[3] ttps://www.patreon.com/posts/animator-reel-43928741

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