Bill Berg

William "Bill" Berg was an American writer and animator, who worked at Disney for more than five decades.
Bill Berg was born in Tacoma, Washington. He began his profession by studying at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles before joining Disney's animation department in 1938 as an apprentice. After working his way up to assistant animator, he moved to the story department in 1943 and began writing and sketching Donald Duck cartoon shorts, he and sketched the syndicated Disney comic strip "Scamp" for many years.
In the 1950s, he was involved in the creation of the Dumbo ride at Disneyland and wrote many episodes of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series. He also wrote for the popular Jiminy Cricket education films, such as How to Catch a Cold and How to Have an Accident in the Home, which were shown in elementary schools, and worked on the 1959 Academy Award-nominated short about mathematics Donald in Mathmagic Land.
Outside of Disney, he wrote episodes of Off to See the Wizard.
Before retiring in 1988, Berg contributed to the 1989 Disney animated feature film The Little Mermaid. He passed away in March of 2002, at the age of 84, at his home in San Juan Capistrano.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1940 	Pinocchio 	animator - uncredited
1944 	Donald Duck and the Gorilla 	story - uncredited
1944 	Donald's Off Day 	story
1945 	The Eyes Have It 	story
1945 	Hockey Homicide 	story
1946 	A Feather in His Collar 	writer
1946 	Double Dribble 	story
1947 	Crazy with the Heat 	story
1947 	Bootle Beetle 	story
1947 	Fun and Fancy Free 	"Mickey and the Beanstalk": animator - uncredited
1948 	The Big Wash 	story
1948 	Soup's On 	story
1948 	Mickey and the Seal 	story - uncredited
1948 	Tea for Two Hundred 	story
1949 	Donald's Happy Birthday 	story
1949 	Sea Salts 	story
1949 	Winter Storage 	story
1949 	Honey Harvester 	story
1949 	All in a Nutshell 	story
1949 	The Greener Yard 	story
1949 	Slide, Donald, Slide 	story
1950 	Lion Around 	story
1950 	Hook, Lion and Sinker 	story
1950 	Bee at the Beach 	story
1950 	Out on a Limb 	story
1951 	Chicken in the Rough 	story
1951 	Corn Chips 	story
1951 	Test Pilot Donald 	story
1951 	Lucky Number 	story
1951 	Out of Scale 	story
1951 	Bee on Guard 	story
1952 	Donald Applecore 	story
1952 	Two Chips and a Miss 	story
1952 	Pluto's Party 	story
1952 	Pluto's Christmas Tree 	story
1953 	The Simple Things 	story
1953 	Canvas Back Duck 	story
1955 	No Hunting 	story
1955 	The Mickey Mouse Club 	cartoon story: "Circus Day"
1956 	I'm No Fool With a Bicycle 	writer - uncredited
1956 	How to Have an Accident in the Home	story
1956-1968	The Magical World of Disney 	storywritercartoon storyspecial material: "Disneyland 10th Anniversary"
1959 	Donald in Mathmagic Land 	story
1959 	How to Have an Accident at Work 	story
1961 	The Litterbug 	story
1961 	Donald and the Wheel 	story
1967 	Scrooge McDuck and Money 	story
1969 	The Project 	story
1969 	The Game 	story
1969 	The Fight 	story
1970 	New Girl 	story
1970 	Lunch Money 	story
1973 	I'm No Fool with Electricity 	story
1974 	Man, Monsters and Mysteries 	writer
1985 	The Black Cauldron 	assistant animator
1986 	The Great Mouse Detective 	coordinating animator
1987 	Sport Goofy in Soccermania 	additional animator
1988 	The Art of Disney Animation 	Self - Interviewee
1988 	Oliver & Company 	coordinating animator
1989 	The Little Mermaid 	character key
==Gallery==
Disney12.jpg|From left to right: Dale Oliver, Basil Davidovich, Don Duckwall, Don Griffith, Bill Berg, Julius Svendsen, Eric Cleworth, Hal King, Ted Berman, John Lounsbery, and Ollie Johnston
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