Jack Kinney
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1909-03-29
Day of Death
1992-02-09 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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 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.
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Known For
Acting
(1959)
Crew
Plight of the Bumblebee
Director
(2012)
(2005)
Mickey, les J.O. rigolos
Director
(2004)
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Director
(2003)
Everybody Loves Goofy
Director
(2003)
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.1
Director
(2002)
(2002)
Countdown to Christmas
Director
(2001)
Disney's American Legends
Director
(1998)
Mickey's Family Album
Writer
(1992)
Goofy at the Olympic Games
Art Direction, Writer
(1987)
Here's Goofy!
Director
(1980)
Mickey Mouse Disco
Director
(1980)
The Adventures of Chip 'N' Dale
Director
(1974)
Let's relax
Director
(1972)
Superstar Goofy
Director
(1963)
A Square Peg in a Round Hole
Director
(1960)
Jeep Tale
Director
(1960)
Plumbers Pipe Dream
Director
(1960)
Popeye and the Giant
Director
(1960)
Popeye's Pizza Palace
Director, Producer
(1960)
Popeye's Service Station
Director, Writer, Producer
(1960)
This Is Your Life Donald Duck
Director
(1960)
Barbecue for Two
Director, Producer
(1960)
Tiger Burger
Director, Producer
(1960)
(1960)
The Mad Hermit of Chimney Butte
Director
(1959)
1001 Arabian Nights
Director
(1959)
(1957)
The Goofy Adventure Story
Sequence Lead
(1956)
(1956)
Chips Ahoy
Director
(1956)
The Goofy Sports Story
Director
(1955)
The Goofy Success Story
Director, Writer
(1955)
Music Land
Director
(1955)
Contrasts in Rhythm
Director
(1954)
Donald's Diary
Director
(1954)
Pigs Is Pigs
Director
(1954)
Social Lion
Director
(1954)
The Lone Chipmunks
Director
(1954)
Casey Bats Again
Director
(1954)
Two for the Record
Director
(1953)
Father's Day Off
Director
(1953)
Father's Week-End
Director
(1953)
How to Dance
Director
(1953)
How to Sleep
Director
(1953)
For Whom the Bulls Toil
Director
(1953)
Canvas Back Duck
Story
(1953)
Football (Now and Then)
Director
(1953)
Mickey's Birthday Party
Director
(1952)
Father's Lion
Director
(1952)
Hello Aloha
Director
(1952)
How to Be a Detective
Director
(1952)
Man's Best Friend
Director
(1952)
Teachers Are People
Director
(1952)
Two Weeks Vacation
Director
(1952)
Two Gun Goofy
Director
(1951)
Cold War
Director
(1951)
Fathers Are People
Director
(1951)
Get Rich Quick
Director
(1951)
Lion Down
Director
(1951)
No Smoking
Director
(1951)
Tomorrow We Diet
Director
(1951)
Cold Storage
Director
(1951)
Home Made Home
Director
(1950)
Hold That Pose
Director
(1950)
Motor Mania
Director
(1950)
The Brave Engineer
Director
(1949)
(1949)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Director
(1949)
Goofy Gymnastics
Director
(1949)
Tennis Racquet
Director
(1948)
Melody Time
Writer, Director
(1948)
Bumble Boogie
Director
(1947)
Fun and Fancy Free
Director
(1947)
How to Ride a Horse
Director
(1947)
Bongo
Director
(1946)
(1946)
Casey at the Bat
Director
(1946)
The Martins and the Coys
Director
(1946)
All the Cats Join In
Director
(1946)
Make Mine Music
Director
(1946)
The Story of Menstruation
Director
(1945)
African Diary
Director
(1945)
Californy 'Er Bust
Director
(1945)
Hockey Homicide
Director
(1945)
Tiger Trouble
Director
(1945)
Duck Pimples
Director
(1944)
How to Play Golf
Director
(1944)
How to Be a Sailor
Director
(1944)
How to Play Football
Director
(1944)
The Three Caballeros
Director
(1943)
Victory Through Air Power
Director
(1943)
Der Fuehrer's Face
Director
(1943)
Victory Vehicles
Director
(1943)
Figaro and Cleo
Director
(1942)
How to Play Baseball
Director
(1942)
How to Swim
Director
(1942)
The Olympic Champ
Director
(1942)
El Gaucho Goofy
Director
(1942)
How to Fish
Director
(1942)
Saludos Amigos
Director
(1941)
Baggage Buster
Director
(1941)
The Art of Skiing
Director
(1941)
The Art of Self Defense
Director
(1941)
Dumbo
Director
(1940)
Bone Trouble
Director, Writer
(1940)
Goofy's Glider
Director
(1940)
Pinocchio
Director
(1938)
Mickey's Trailer
Story
(1938)
Mickey's Parrot
Story
(1938)
Brave Little Tailor
Story
(1937)
Moose Hunters
Animation
(1936)
Donald and Pluto
Story
(1935)
The Cookie Carnival
Animation
(1935)
The Band Concert
Animation
(1935)
Mickey's Service Station
Animation
(1934)
The China Shop
Animation
(1934)
Two-Gun Mickey
Animation
(1934)
The Hot Choc-late Soldiers
Animation
(1933)
Birds in the Spring
Animation
(1933)
The Mail Pilot
Animation
(1933)
Mickey's Mechanical Man
Animation
(1932)
Santa's Workshop
Animation