Don DaGradi

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-03-01 (80 years old)

Deathday

1991-08-04

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Don DaGradi

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

Production

1964

Mary Poppins

as Screenplay

1971

1997

The Love Bug

as Writer

1943

1944

1943

1945

Duck Pimples

as Layout

1950

1968

Blackbeard's Ghost

as Screenplay

1968

The Love Bug

as Screenplay

1966

1955

Music Land

as Layout Supervisor

1942

How to Fish

as Layout

1954

Two for the Record

as Layout Supervisor

1945

1971

Scandalous John

as Screenplay

1955

1959

Sleeping Beauty

as Production Designer

1941

Dumbo

as Art Direction

1961

The Parent Trap

as Sequence Artist

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