Shamus Culhane
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-11-12 (88 years old)
Deathday
1996-02-02
Place of Birth
Wareham, Massachusetts, USA
Also known As
Seamus Culhane
James Culhane
Jimmy Culhane
Jimmie Culhane
James H. Culhane
Shamus Culhane
Biography
Culhane worked for a number of American animation studios, including Fleischer Studios, the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, and theWalter Lantz studio. He began his animation career in 1925 working for J.R. Bray studios, and is known for promoting the animation talents of his inker/assistant at the Fleischer Studios in the early 1930s, Lillian Friedman Astor, making her the first female studio animator. While at the Disney studio, he discovered while working on Hawaiian Holiday's crab sequence an animation method that involved stewing for multiple days, before drawing the entire thing in rough sketches all at once, straight ahead, ...
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1930
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1946
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1943
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1936
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1966
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1938
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1977
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1977
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1935
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1933
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1934
as Co-Director
1967
as Story
1925
as Animation
1931
as Co-Director
1967
as Executive Producer
1967
as Executive Producer
1967
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1967
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1966
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1966
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1967
as Executive Producer
1967
as Executive Producer
1931
as Animation
1940
as Animation Director
1980
as Director
1935
as Co-Director
1934
as Co-Director
1944
as Director
1931
as Animation
1931
as Animation Director
1934
as Co-Director
1934
as Co-Director
1931
as Co-Director
1945
as Director
1967
as Director
1967
as Writer
1967
as Director
1930
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