Joe Grant, 96; Disney Artist Helped Make Films That Became Classics
LA Times
Joe Grant, one of Walt Disney’s most talented artists and story men, whose career ran from the cartoon “Mickey’s Gala Premiere” (1933) to the Oscar-nominated short “Lorenzo” (2004), died Friday at his home in Glendale from a heart attack while at his drawing table. He was 96.
Grant, who was working at the Disney studio the day before his death, was not an animator but a story man — an artist who helped develop the plot and dialogue of an animated film — and a designer. He worked on numerous shorts, including “Gulliver Mickey” (1934) and “Who Killed Cock Robin” (1935). For “Snow White,” Disney’s first feature, Grant designed the Queen and the Wicked Witch.
