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Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death from natural causes.[1][2][3] He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.

Ollie Johnston
Johnston in 1989
Born	Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. (1912-10-31)October 31, 1912 Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Died	April 14, 2008(2008-04-14) (aged 95) Sequim, Washington, U.S.
Nationality	American
Other names	Oliver M. Johnston, Jr. Oliver M. Johnston Oliver Johnston
Alma mater	Stanford University University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Animator
Years active	1935–1981 (at Disney) 1982–1993 (book author)
Known for	One of Disney's Nine Old Men
Spouse	Marie E. Johnston ​ ​ (m. 1943; died 2005)​
Children	2

Career

Johnston was an animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1934 to 1978, and became a directing animator beginning with Pinocchio, released in 1940. He contributed to most Disney animated features, including Fantasia and Bambi. His last full work for Disney came with The Rescuers, in which he was caricatured as one of the film's characters, the cat Rufus. The last film he worked on was The Fox and the Hound. His work includes Mr. Smee (in Peter Pan), the Stepsisters (in Cinderella), the District Attorney (in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), and Prince John (in Robin Hood). According to the book The Disney Villain, written by Johnston and Frank Thomas, Johnston also partnered with Thomas on creating characters such as Ichabod Crane (in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad), Sir Hiss (in Robin Hood), and story consultant in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

Johnston co-authored, with Frank Thomas, the reference book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, which contained the 12 basic principles of animation. This book helped preserve the knowledge of the techniques that were developed at the studio. The partnership of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston is fondly presented in the documentary Frank and Ollie, produced by Thomas' son Theodore, who in 2012 also produced another documentary, Growing up with Nine Old Men, included in the Diamond Edition of the Peter Pan DVD.

Personal life

Born in Palo Alto, California to Oliver, a Stanford professor, and Florence Johnston, Johnston had two older sisters, Winifred and Florence.[4] Johnston attended Palo Alto High School[5] and Stanford University, where he worked on the campus humor magazine Stanford Chaparral with fellow future animator Frank Thomas, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. Johnston then transferred to the Chouinard Art Institute in his senior year.[6] Ollie married a fellow Disney employee, ink and paint artist Marie Worthey, in 1943. Marie Johnston died May 20, 2005 at the age of 87.[7]

Ollie's lifelong hobby was live steam trains. Starting in 1949, he built the 4+3⁄4 in (121 mm) gauge[8] La Cañada Valley Railroad, a miniature backyard railroad with three 1:12-scale locomotives at his home in Flintridge, California.[9] The locomotives are now owned by his sons. This railroad was one of the inspirations for Walt Disney to build his own backyard railroad, the Carolwood Pacific Railroad, which inspired the building of the railroad in Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Ollie was a founding Governor of the Carolwood Pacific Historical Society along with his fellow Disney animator and railfan, Ward Kimball. The 1:4-scale Victorian depot from Ollie's backyard was restored and moved to a location near Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn within the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles.[10]

In the 1960s, Ollie acquired and restored a full-size, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge Porter steam locomotive originally built in 1901, which he named the Marie E. He also built the Deer Lake Park & Julian Railroad (DLP&J) at his vacation estate in Julian, California in order to run the locomotive with a small gondola and caboose pulled behind it.[11][12] The Marie E. first ran on the DLP&J in 1968.[13] the DLP&J was 0.5 miles (0.80 km) long and utilized the railroad ties from the defunct Viewliner Train of Tomorrow attraction in Disneyland.[13][14] Johnston sold the vacation estate and the narrow gauge train in 1993.[13] The engine and its consist were later sold to John Lasseter (of Pixar Studios fame) around 2002. On May 10, 2005, it ran on the Disneyland Railroad during a private early morning event organized by Lasseter to honor Johnston, who was able to take the throttle of the Marie E. one last time.[15] This was the first time that the Walt Disney Company permitted outside railroad equipment to run at any Disney Resort.[15] The engine is still fully operational and presently runs on the Justi Creek Railway, located within the vineyards of Lasseter Family Winery, also owned by Lasseter.[15]

In the 1980s and 90s, Johnston served on the advisory board of the National Student Film Institute and often was a presenter at the annual film festival's award ceremonies.[16][17] Brad Bird paid a tribute to Ollie Johnston with an animated cameo of Johnston in the 2004 Pixar film The Incredibles, as well as a cameo in his 1999 film The Iron Giant, where Johnston played a train engineer.[18] Both cameos also included Frank Thomas.

On November 10, 2005, Ollie Johnston was among the recipients of the prestigious National Medal of Arts, presented by President George W. Bush in an Oval Office ceremony.

The last surviving member of Disney's Nine Old Men, Ollie Johnston died of natural causes on April 14, 2008, at the age of 95.

Filmography

Year	Title	Credits	Characters	Notes
1934	Two-Gun Mickey (Shot)	inbetween artist		uncredited
1935	Mickey's Garden (Shot)	inbetween artist		uncredited
1936	Mickey's Rival	assistant animator		uncredited
	More Kittens	assistant animator		uncredited
1937	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	assistant animator		uncredited
	Little Hiawatha (short)	Animator		uncredited
1938	Brave Little Tailor (short)	Animator		uncredited
1939	Mickey's Surprise Party (short)	Animator: "Mickey" and "Minnie"		uncredited
	The Practical Pig (short)	Animator		uncredited
	The Pointer (short)	Animator: "Mickey looking for Bear"		uncredited
1940	Pinocchio	Animator	Pinocchio	Credited as Oliver M. Johnston
	Fantasia	Animation Supervisor - Segment "The Pastoral Symphony"		Credited as Oliver M. Johnston Jr.
1942	Bambi	Supervising Animator	Bambi, Thumper	Credited as Oliver M. Johnston Jr.
	All Together (short)	Animator		uncredited
	How to Play Baseball (short)	Animator		uncredited
1943	Victory Through Air Power (Documentary)	Animator		Credited as Oliver M. Johnston Jr.
	Reason and Emotion (Short)	Animator		uncredited
	The Winged Scourge (Documentary short)	Animator		uncredited
	Chicken Little (short)	Animator		uncredited
1945	The Three Caballeros	Animator	Panchito Pistoles, José Carioca, Donald Duck
1946	Make Mine Music	Animator	Peter
	Song of the South	Directing Animator	Br’er Rabbit, Br’er Fox, Br’er Bear
1948	Melody Time	Directing Animator	Johnny Appleseed, Johnny’s Angel, Little Toot
1949	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad	Directing Animator	Angus Macbadger, Rat, Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones, Katrina Van Tassel
1950	Cinderella	Directing Animator	Anastasia Tremaine, Drizella Tremaine
1951	Alice in Wonderland	Directing Animator	Alice, King Of Hearts
1952	Susie the Little Blue Coupe (Short)	Animator
1953	Peter Pan	Directing Animator	Wendy Darling, Mr. Smee, Captain Hook
	Ben and Me (Short)	Animator
1955	Lady and the Tramp	Directing Animator	Lady, Jock And Trusty, The Tramp
1959	Sleeping Beauty	Directing Animator	Flora, Fauna And Merryweather
1961	One Hundred and One Dalmatians	Directing Animator	Pongo, Pertida, Nanny, Dalmatian Puppies
1963	The Sword in the Stone	Directing Animator	Merlin, Archimedes
1964	Mary Poppins	Animator	The Penguin Waiters
1967	The Jungle Book	Directing Animator	Bagheera, Mowgli, Shanti, Baloo
1968	Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (Short)	Animator	Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Winnie the Pooh and Piglet
1970	The Aristocats	Directing Animator	Marie, Toulouse, Abigail And Amelia Gabble, Uncle Waldo
1973	Robin Hood	Directing Animator	Robin Hood, Little John, Prince John, Sir Hiss
1974	Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (Short)	Directing Animator	Pooh and Piglet
1977	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	Animator
	The Rescuers	Directing Animator	Miss Bianca and Bernard, Penny, Orville
1981	The Fox and the Hound	Supervising Animator	Young Tod, Young Copper
1987	The Chipmunk Adventure	Special Thanks
1992	Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland	Story Consultant		Credited as Oliver Johnston
1995	Frank and Ollie (Documentary)	Himself
1999	The Iron Giant	Additional Voices / Animator	Himself
2004	The Incredibles	Additional Voices / Special Thanks	Himself

Books by Johnston

• Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life
• Too Funny for Words: Disney's Greatest Sight Gags (ISBN 0-89659-747-4)
• Walt Disney's Bambi—the Story and the Film (ISBN 1-55670-160-8)
• The Disney Villain (ISBN 1-56282-792-8)

See also

• Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

References

Bibliography

• Amendola, Dana (2015). All Aboard: The Wonderful World of Disney Trains (1st ed.). Disney Editions. ISBN 978-1-4231-1714-8.
• Broggie, Michael (2014). Walt Disney's Railroad Story: The Small-Scale Fascination That Led to a Full-Scale Kingdom (4th ed.). The Donning Company Publishers. ISBN 978-1-57864-914-3.

External links

• Frank and Ollie's official site
• Ollie Johnston at IMDb
• Disney Legends
• Ollie's backyard railroad
• "Ollie Johnston: Last of the Red-Hot Animators" by John Canemaker - Wall Street Journal - April 22, 2008; Page D9
• Carolwood Pacific Historical Society Web site

На других языках

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[es] Ollie Johnston

Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (Palo Alto, California; 31 de octubre de 1912-Sequim, Washington; 14 de abril de 2008)[1] fue un animador estadounidense. Pionero en la animación en aquel país, fue uno de los Nueve Ancianos de Disney. Su trabajo fue reconocido con el National Medal of Arts en 2005.

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[ru] Джонстон, Олли

Оливер Мартин Джонстон—младший (англ. Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr., 31 октября 1912, Пало-Алто — 14 апреля 2008, Сквим) — американский аниматор, один из девяти выдающихся аниматоров студии Дисней[8][9][10][11]. Был удостоен награды «Легенды Диснея» в 1989 году, а его работы — Национальной медали США в области искусств в 2005 году.

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