Eric Larson

Personal Info

Know For

Visual Effects

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-09-03 (83 years old)

Deathday

1988-10-25

Place of Birth

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Eric Larson

Biography

Born to Peter and Nora Larson. In 1915 his family moved to Salt Lake City, where he became interested in journalism and also secretly took drawing lessons. In 1925, he entered the University of Utah, later moving to Los Angeles to look for a job in journalism and writing, unfortunately unsuccessfully. He then decided to rekindle his ambition to become an artist, and was offered a job at Walt Disney Productions in 1933, as an `in-betweener'. Later the same year, he married Gertrude Jannes (although sadly, the couple remained childless). Animator Hamilton Luske recognized Larson's talent and promoted him to assistant animator; Luske, who had jo...

Acting

2007

The Pixar Story

as Self (archive footage)

2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self (archive footage)

2009

1994

The Making of Bambi: A Prince is Born

as Self - Supervising Animator, 'Bambi' (archive footage)

2010

Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo

as Himself (archive footage)

Production

2003

Net Games

as Set Designer

1935

Cock o' the Walk

as Animation

1938

The Whalers

as Animation

1934

Two-Gun Mickey

as Animation

1935

On Ice

as Animation

1935

1936

1939

The Hockey Champ

as Animation

1938

Farmyard Symphony

as Animation

1940

Pinocchio

as Animation

1944

1953

Peter Pan

as Animation

1934

Two-Gun Mickey

as Animation Production Assistant

1955

Lady and the Tramp

as Animation

1946

Peter and the Wolf

as Animation

1948

1948

Little Toot

as Animation

1945

Tiger Trouble

as Animation

1970

The Aristocats

as Animation

1935

Mickey's Service Station

as Animation Production Assistant

1951

1963

1948

Melody Time

as Animation

1959

Sleeping Beauty

as Animation

1935

The Tortoise and the Hare

as Animation Production Assistant

1940

Fantasia

as Animation

1945

African Diary

as Animation

1964

Mary Poppins

as Animation

1944

1953

Peter Pan

as Animation Director

1955

Lady and the Tramp

as Animation Director

1969

1946

A Knight for a Day

as Animation

1940

Pinocchio

as Animation Director

1946

Song of the South

as Animation Director

1950

Cinderella

as Animation Director

1942

Bambi

as Supervising Animator

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