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Article: Legendary Disney animator Ward Kimball dies at 88; worked on Mickey Mouse, Jiminy Cricket
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- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- July 9, 2002
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Dateline: ARCADIA, California
Animator Ward Kimball, who became one of Walt Disney's trusted "Nine
Old Men" and helped develop or refine such characters as Mickey Mouse
and Jiminy Cricket, has died. He was 88.
Kimball died of natural causes Monday at Arcadia Methodist Hospital,
said Howard E. Green of Disney's Buena Vista Pictures Marketing.
Kimball, who joined the Disney organization in 1934, animated or served
as directing animator on such classics as "Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs," "Pinocchio," "Fantasia" and "Peter Pan."
The top animators hand-picked by Disney to work on his classics during
this era became known ...