Don DaGradi (March 1, 1911 – August 4, 1991) was an American writer for

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who started out as a layout artist on 1940s cartoons including "

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" in 1943. He eventually moved into animated features with the film ''

Lady and the Tramp ''Lady and the Tramp'' is a 1955 American animated musical romance film produced by Walt Disney and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. The 15th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and ...

'' in 1955. He also worked as a color and styling or sequence consultant on many other motion pictures for Disney. His greatest achievement was for his visual screenplay for ''

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'' in 1964 for which he shared an

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nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with Bill Walsh. Don DaGradi died August 4, 1991, in Friday Harbor, Washington. He was named a

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posthumously, only months after his death. DaGradi lived in Friday Harbor, WA with his wife Betty and two children. In the 2013 film '' Saving Mr. Banks'', DaGradi is portrayed by actor

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Filmography

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Dumbo ''Dumbo'' is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth Disney animated feature film, it is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, ...

'' (1941) - production designer *'' The Olympic Champ'' (1942) (short) - layout artist *'' How to Fish'' (1942) (short) - layout artist *''

'' (1942) (short) - layout artist *'' Victory Vehicles'' (1943) (short) - layout artist *''

Victory Through Air Power ''Victory Through Air Power'' is a 1942 non-fiction book by Alexander P. de Seversky. It was made into a 1943 Walt Disney animated feature film of the same name. Theories De Seversky began his military life at a young age. After serving in ...

'' (1943) (documentary) - art direction *''

How to Be a Sailor ''Goofy'' is a series of American animated comedy short films produced by Walt Disney Productions. The series started in 1939 with ''Goofy and Wilbur'' and ended in 1953 with '' How to Sleep''. An additional short, ''How to Hook Up Your Home Thea ...

'' (1944) (short) - layout artist *''

The Three Caballeros ''The Three Caballeros'' is a 1944 American live-action/animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944. It was released in the United States on ...

'' (1944) - layout artist *''

Duck Pimples ''Duck Pimples'' is a 1945 animated whodunit short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon parodies radio crime stories and film noir dramas. Plot Donald Duck's imagination, enhanced by scary st ...

'' (1945) (short) - layout artist *''

Hockey Homicide ''Hockey Homicide'' is a cartoon made by Walt Disney Productions in 1945, featuring Goofy. Plot Narrator Doodles Weaver explains the rules of ice hockey in satirical format. The narration's emphasis on good sportsmanship is countered by the v ...

'' (1945) (short) - layout artist *''

Make Mine Music ''Make Mine Music'' is a 1946 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the eighth Disney feature animated film, released on April 20, 1946. During World War II, much of Walt Disn ...

'' (1946) - layout artist *'' Fun & Fancy Free'' (1947) - layout artist *'' The Legend of Johnny Appleseed'' (1948) (short) - layout artist *'' The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad'' (1949) - color and styling *''

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'' (1950) - color and styling *''The Brave Engineer'' (1950) (short) - layout artist *'' Alice in Wonderland'' (1951) - color and styling *'' Susie the Little Blue Coupe'' (1952) (short) - story *''

Peter Pan Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythi ...

'' (1953) - color and styling *''A Story of Dogs'' (1954) - special art work *''

'' (1955) - story *''Adventures in Fantasy'' (1957) (TV) - layout artist *''Four Fabulous Characters'' (1957) (TV) - layout artist *''

Sleeping Beauty ''Sleeping Beauty'' (french: La belle au bois dormant, or ''The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest''; german: Dornröschen, or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess cu ...

'' (1959) - writer *''

Darby O'Gill and the Little People ''Darby O'Gill and the Little People'' is a 1959 American fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, adapted from the ''Darby O'Gill'' stories of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh. Directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Lawrence ...

'' (1959) - special art styling *''

Pollyanna ''Pollyanna'' is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. The book's success led to Porter's soon writing a sequel, ''Pollyanna Grows Up'' (1915). Eleven more ''Pollyanna'' sequels, know ...

'' (1960) - sequence consultant *'' Kidnapped'' (1960) - story sketches *'' The Parent Trap'' (1961) - sequence consultant *''

The Absent Minded Professor ''The Absent-Minded Professor'' is a 1961 American science fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the short story "A Situation of Gravity" by Samuel W. Taylor, originally published in the May 22, 1943 issue of '' ...

'' (1961) - sequence consultant *'' Son of Flubber'' (1963) - writer *''

'' (1964) - writer *''

Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. ''Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.'' is a 1966 American comedy film released and scripted by Walt Disney,Zibart, Eve : "Today in History Disney", Emmis Books, 2006, and starring Dick Van Dyke as a U.S. Navy pilot who becomes a castaway on a tropical islan ...

'' (1966) - writer *''

Blackbeard's Ghost ''Blackbeard's Ghost'' is a 1968 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, and Suzanne Pleshette. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and Bill Walsh. It is based upon the 1965 nove ...

'' (1968) - writer *''

The Love Bug ''The Love Bug'' is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and the first in a franchise by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution that starred an anthropomorphic pearl-white, fabric-sunroofed 19 ...

'' (1968) - writer *'' Scandalous John'' (1971) - writer *''

Bedknobs and Broomsticks ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' is a 1971 American live-action animated musical fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Bill Walsh for Walt Disney Productions. It is loosely based upon the books '' The Magic Bedknob; or, How t ...

'' (1971) - writer

References

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