Jack Kinney

Biography

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…

Directed

1. Pinocchio (1940) — Director
2. Dumbo (1941) — Director
3. The Three Caballeros (1944) — Director
4. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) — Director
5. Fun and Fancy Free (1947) — Director
6. Saludos Amigos (1942) — Director
7. Popeye the Sailor (1960) — Director
8. Melody Time (1948) — Director
9. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949) — Director
10. Make Mine Music (1946) — Director
11. Der Fuehrer's Face (1943) — Director
12. The Art of Skiing (1941) — Director
13. How to Fish (1942) — Director
14. The Olympic Champ (1942) — Director
15. Disney's House of Mouse (2001) — Director
16. How to Play Football (1944) — Director
17. Goofy Gymnastics (1949) — Director
18. How to Play Baseball (1942) — Director
19. How to Swim (1942) — Director
20. Everybody Loves Goofy (2003) — Director
21. Bone Trouble (1940) — Director
22. Motor Mania (1950) — Director
23. Victory Through Air Power (1943) — Director
24. Chips Ahoy (1956) — Director
25. How to Be a Detective (1952) — Director
26. The Art of Self Defense (1941) — Director
27. How to Dance (1953) — Director
28. How to Play Golf (1944) — Director
29. Hockey Homicide (1945) — Director
30. No Smoking (1951) — Director
31. Teachers Are People (1952) — Director
32. Tiger Trouble (1945) — Director
33. Goofy's Glider (1940) — Director
34. Lion Down (1951) — Director
35. Duck Pimples (1945) — Director
36. Home Made Home (1951) — Director
37. Tennis Racquet (1949) — Director
38. How to Be a Sailor (1944) — Director
39. Tomorrow We Diet (1951) — Director
40. Victory Vehicles (1943) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Walt Disney's A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios (1937)
2. A Princess for Magoo (1959)