Jack Kinney
Directing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jack Ryan Kinney (March 29, 1909 – February 9, 1992) was an American animator, director and producer of animated shorts. Jack Kinney attended John Muir Junior High School in Los Angeles, California (1925), and attended John C. Fremont High School (1926 - 1928) there with Roy Williams. Both Fremont football players, they would later be hired by Walt Disney in 1930 to work at the Walt Disney Studio on Hyperion Avenue. Often referring to himself as Kinney's best friend, Williams would go on to star as the "Big Mooseketeer" with head Mouseketeer Jimmie Dodd on the classic 1950s television program, "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955 - 1958). Kinney began his long career in cartoons at the Walt Disney Studios in 1931 as an animator on several shorts, including Santa's Workshop (released on December 10, 1932), The Band Concert (released on February 23, 1935), and Moose Hunters (released on April 17, 1937). He then became a director of cartoons at Disney, including as a sequence director for both Pinocchio and Dumbo and especially as a director in the shorts department, where he directed many cartoon shorts, mostly those starring Goofy (his brother Dick created the stories for the shorts), although he also directed a few Donald Duck cartoons as well, including the Academy Award-winning wartime propaganda film, Der Fuehrer's Face. He also served as director of most of the "package films" during the 1940s, including The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In the mid-1950s, he supervised new animation used to tie some of the old shorts together for Disney's television efforts. In 1959, Jack left Disney to start (with his brother Dick) Jack Kinney Productions, an independent animation studio. Among other work they provided animation for King Features Syndicate's 1960 Popeye series. In 1988, Kinney published a short memoir, Walt Disney and Assorted Other Characters: An Unauthorized Account of the Early Years at Disney's. Kinney died on February 9, 1992 in Glendale, California at the age of 82. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Kinney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Directing102
movieEverybody Loves Goofy
2003
Director
movieCountdown to Christmas
2002
Director
tvDisney's House of Mouse
2001
Director
movieHere's Goofy!
1987
Director
movieMickey Mouse Disco
1980
Director
movieLet's relax
1974
Director
movieSuperstar Goofy
1972
Director
tvKrazy Kat
1962
Director
movieBarbecue for Two
1960
Director
movieTiger Burger
1960
Director
moviePlumbers Pipe Dream
1960
Director
tvPopeye the Sailor
1960
Director
movieJeep Tale
1960
Director
moviePopeye's Pizza Palace
1960
Director
moviePopeye and the Giant
1960
Director
movie1001 Arabian Nights
1959
Director
movieChips Ahoy
1956
Director
movieThe Goofy Success Story
1955
Director
movieMusic Land
1955
Director
movieContrasts in Rhythm
1955
Director
movieSocial Lion
1954
Director
movieCasey Bats Again
1954
Director
moviePigs Is Pigs
1954
Director
movieTwo for the Record
1954
Director
movieThe Lone Chipmunks
1954
Director
movieDonald's Diary
1954
Director
movieHow to Sleep
1953
Director
movieFootball (Now and Then)
1953
Director
movieHow to Dance
1953
Director
movieFather's Week-End
1953
Director
movieFor Whom the Bulls Toil
1953
Director
movieFather's Day Off
1953
Director
movieMickey's Birthday Party
1953
Director
movieHow to Be a Detective
1952
Director
movieTwo Weeks Vacation
1952
Director
movieTeachers Are People
1952
Director
movieTwo Gun Goofy
1952
Director
movieMan's Best Friend
1952
Director
movieHello Aloha
1952
Director
movieFather's Lion
1952
Director
movieNo Smoking
1951
Director
movieFathers Are People
1951
Director
movieGet Rich Quick
1951
Director
movieTomorrow We Diet
1951
Director
movieCold War
1951
Director
movieHome Made Home
1951
Director
movieCold Storage
1951
Director
movieLion Down
1951
Director
movieHold That Pose
1950
Director
movieMotor Mania
1950
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movieThe Brave Engineer
1950
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movieGoofy Gymnastics
1949
Director
movieTennis Racquet
1949
Director
movieMelody Time
1948
Director
movieBumble Boogie
1948
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movieFun and Fancy Free
1947
Director
movieBongo
1947
Director
movieHow to Ride a Horse
1947
Director
movieCasey at the Bat
1946
Director
movieAll the Cats Join In
1946
Director
movieMake Mine Music
1946
Director
movieHockey Homicide
1945
Director
movieDuck Pimples
1945
Director
movieCaliforny 'Er Bust
1945
Director
movieAfrican Diary
1945
Director
movieTiger Trouble
1945
Director
movieThe Three Caballeros
1944
Director
movieHow to Play Football
1944
Director
movieHow to Play Golf
1944
Director
movieHow to Be a Sailor
1944
Director
movieFigaro and Cleo
1943
Director
movieVictory Vehicles
1943
Director
movieDer Fuehrer's Face
1943
Director
movieHow to Fish
1942
Director
movieHow to Swim
1942
Director
movieThe Olympic Champ
1942
Director
movieHow to Play Baseball
1942
Director
movieEl Gaucho Goofy
1942
Director
movieSaludos Amigos
1942
Director
movieThe Art of Self Defense
1941
Director
movieThe Art of Skiing
1941
Director
movieDumbo
1941
Director
movieBaggage Buster
1941
Director
movieGoofy's Glider
1940
Director
movieBone Trouble
1940
Director
moviePinocchio
1940
Director
Writing13
Visual Effects11
movieMoose Hunters
1937
Animation
movieThe Cookie Carnival
1935
Animation
movieThe Band Concert
1935
Animation
movieMickey's Service Station
1935
Animation
movieTwo-Gun Mickey
1934
Animation
movieThe Hot Choc-late Soldiers
1934
Animation
movieThe China Shop
1934
Animation
movieMickey's Mechanical Man
1933
Animation
movieThe Mail Pilot
1933
Animation
movieBirds in the Spring
1933
Animation
movieSanta's Workshop
1932
Animation
Production4
movieBarbecue for Two
1960
Producer
movieTiger Burger
1960
Producer
moviePopeye's Pizza Palace
1960
Producer
Acting2
Crew2
movieThe Goofy Adventure Story
1957
Sequence Lead
movieDumbo
1941
Sequence Supervisor
Art1
movieGoofy at the Olympic Games
1992
Art Direction