Wilfred Jackson

Wilfred Jackson was an American animator, arranger, composer, and director, who worked for Disney.
Born in Chicago, Illinois; Jackson attended Otis College of Art and Design in the 1920s before getting hired at the studio. He approached Walt Disney and offered to pay him "tuition" for the experience of learning animation, which in those days could only be acquired on the job. His skills did not impress the young producer but his timing was fortuitous. Jackson worked closely with Ub Iwerks as an assistant while contributing to Steamboat Willie where he proved it was feasible by devising a crude synchronization method that related film speed with the musical beats of a metronome. 
Jackson was promoted to director and worked on many of the Silly Symphonies cartoons, several of which, including The Old Mill, won Academy Awards during the 1930s. Also, he began directing the then ambitious full-length animated features produced by the studio, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Melody Time, and Peter Pan. Jackson most notably animated sequences in Song of the South and the "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria" segment of Fantasia.
In 1953, Jackson suffered a heart attack while directing sequences for Lady and the Tramp and was never able to resume his full-time duties. He was replaced as a director on Sleeping Beauty and worked sporadically on Disney's television shows, like the Disneyland anthology series. In 1959, he took an extended leave of absence that ended with his official retirement in 1961.
Jackson died at age 82 in 1988. In 1998, Jackson was posthumously honored as a Disney Legend and, as of 2007, part of his composition in Steamboat Willie is included in the intro sequence of animated features.
==Filmography==
Year 	Title 	Credits
1928 	Steamboat Willie 	AnimatorComposerSongwriter: "Turkey in the Straw"
1929 	The Karnival Kid 	Animator - uncredited
1929 	The Plowboy 	Animator - uncredited
1929 	The Skeleton Dance 	Animator - uncredited
1929 	Mickey's Follies 	Director - uncredited
1930 	The Shindig 	performer: harmonic - uncreditedAnimator
1930 	Autumn 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	Cannibal Capers 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	The Cactus Kid 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	Frolicking Fish 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	The Fire Fighters 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	Arctic Antics 	Animator
1930 	Midnight in a Toy Shop 	Animator - uncreditedDirector
1930 	Night 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	The Chain Gang 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	Monkey Melodies 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	The Gorilla Mystery 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	The Picnic 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	Winter 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	Pioneer Days 	Animator - uncredited
1930 	Playful Pan 	Animator - uncredited
1931 	The Birthday Party 	Animator - uncredited
1931 	The Castaway 	Director
1931 	The China Plate 	Director - uncredited
1931 	The Cat's Out 	Director - uncredited
1931 	Egyptian Melodies 	Director - uncredited
1931 	The Clock Store 	Director
1931 	The Spider and the Fly 	Director
1931 	The Fox Hunt 	Director - uncredited
1931 	The Ugly Duckling 	Director - uncredited
1932 	The Bird Store 	Director - uncredited
1932 	The Grocery Boy 	Director
1932 	Barnyard Olympics 	Director
1932 	Mickey's Revue 	Director - uncredited
1932 	The Bears and Bees 	Director
1932 	Musical Farmer 	Director
1932 	Mickey in Arabia 	Director - uncredited
1932 	The Whoopee Party 	Director - uncredited
1932 	Touchdown Mickey 	Director - uncredited
1932 	The Klondike Kid 	Director - uncredited
1932 	Santa's Workshop 	Director - uncredited
1933 	Mickey's Mellerdrammer 	Director - uncredited
1933 	Father Noah's Ark 	Director - uncredited
1933 	Mickey's Mechanical Man 	Director - uncredited
1933 	Puppy Love 	Director - uncredited
1933 	Lullaby Land 	Director - uncredited
1933 	The Pied Piper 	Director - uncredited
1933 	The Pet Store 	Director - uncredited
1933 	The Night Before Christmas 	Director - uncredited
1934 	The China Shop 	Director - uncredited
1934 	The Grasshopper and the Ants 	Director - uncredited
1934 	Funny Little Bunnies 	Director - uncredited
1934 	The Wise Little Hen 	Director - uncredited
1934 	Peculiar Penguins 	Director - uncredited
1934 	The Goddess of Spring 	Director - uncredited
1935 	The Tortoise and the Hare 	Director - uncredited
1935 	The Band Concert 	Director - uncredited
1935 	Water Babies 	Director - uncredited
1935 	Mickey's Garden 	Director - uncredited
1935 	Music Land 	Director - uncredited
1936 	Mickey's Grand Opera 	Director - uncredited
1936 	Elmer Elephant 	Director - uncredited
1936 	Mickey's Rival 	Director - uncredited
1936 	Toby Tortoise Returns 	Director - uncredited
1936 	The Country Cousin 	Director - uncredited
1936 	More Kittens 	Director
1937 	Woodland Café 	Director - uncredited
1937 	The Old Mill 	Director - uncredited
1937 	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 	Sequence Director
1938 	Mother Goose Goes Hollywood 	Director - uncredited
1940 	Pinocchio 	Sequence Director
1940 	Fantasia 	Director - Segment "A Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria"live action model for Chernabog
1941 	Dumbo 	Sequence Director
1941 	Golden Eggs 	Director
1942 	The New Spirit 	Director - uncredited
1943 	Saludos Amigos 	Sequence Director - "Aquarela do Brasil" (uncredited)
1946 	A Feather in His Collar 	Director
1946 	Song of the South 	Cartoon Director
1948 	Melody Time 	Cartoon Director - "The Legend of Johnny Appleseed"
1950 	Cinderella 	Director
1951 	Alice in Wonderland 	Director
1952 	The Little House 	Director
1953 	Peter Pan 	Director
1955 	Lady and the Tramp 	Director
1955 	Dateline: Disneyland (TV Special documentary)	Director
1954-1959	The Magical World of Disney 	Himself - 1 Episode / Director - 9 Episodes / Segment Director - 2 Episodes / Sequence Director - 1 Episode / Cartoon Director - 1 Episode
2002 	American Legends (Video) 	Director - Segment "Johnny Appleseed"
==Gallery==
Silly Symphony unit 1929.jpg
Burt gillett and Disney staff.jpg|Seated, Carl Stalling and Ub Iwerks; from left, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, Burt Gillett, Les Clark, Walt Disney, Johnny Cannon, and Jack King. Jackson said of this photo: "I believe Ub had just finished designing the sheet music cover."
Disney staff 1930 (2).jpg|Standing: Cannon, Jackson, Clark, Jack Cutting. Kneeling, from left, Iwerks, W. Disney, Carl Stalling
Disney staff in January 1930.jpg|Left to Right: W. Disney, Stalling, Sharpsteen, Iwerks, Clark, Gillett, Cannon, JacksonStanding: King
Disney staff in January 1930 (2).jpg|Standing, from left: Clark, King, Sharpsteen, Cutting, Gillett, Iwerks, Win Smith, Jackson, William Cottrell, Floyd GottfredsonKneeling, from left, Dick Lundy, Charles Byrne, Carlos Manriquez, Norman Ferguson, Merle Gilson, Chuck Couch, Stalling, Cannon, W. Disney.
Disney staff 1931 (1).jpg|Standing from left: Edmond Seward, Frank Churchill, Otto Englander, Sharpsteen, Bert Lewis, Gilles "Frenchy" de Tremaudan, Clark, Rudy Zamora, Jackson, King, Tom Palmer, Jack Cutting (behind Palmer), Cannon, Ferguson, SmithSeated, from left: David Hand, Ted Sears, Lundy, Gillett, W. Disney
Disney staff 1931 (2).jpg|1931; Standing from left: Smith, Seward, Englander, Zamora, Hand, Palmer, Cutting, W. Disney, Churchill, Cannon, SharpsteenSeated from left: King, Lundy, Sears, Ferguson, de Tremaudan, Jackson, Clark, Gillett, Lewis
Fantasia crew at work.jpeg|Left to right: Paul Satterfield, Jackson, Sharpsteen, James Algar, and Bill Roberts going over storyboards for Fantasia.
Ted Sears and Wilfred Jackson working on Peter Pan 1953.jpg|Jackson working on a storyboard from Peter Pan with Ted Sears.
Wilfred jackson and erdman penner.JPG|Jackson with Erdman Penner in "A Story of Dogs."
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