Hamilton Luske

Hamilton Luton Luske was an American animator and film director, who directed many Disney films and shorts from 1936 until his death in 1968, such as Pinocchio, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois; Luske graduated from the University of California- Berkley where he majored in business and began working life as a newspaper cartoonist in Oakland. In 1931, he joined the Disney Studio, where he initially drew Mickey Mouse black & white shorts before moving on as full animator to the Silly Symphony, series which was done in color. He was soon trusted enough by Walt Disney to be made supervising animator of Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Over the years, he and his family contributed to Disney films. Luske used his one-year-old son, Jim as the live action actor for Baby Weems in the film The Reluctant Dragon. His daughter Peggy's Cocker Spaniel, Blondie was used as the model for Lady in Lady and The Tramp. His son Tom was the voice and model for Michael Darling in Peter Pan. Hamilton's wife, Marcel, modeled for the character Persephone in the Silly Symphony, Goddess of the Spring.
In 1965, he won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for directing the animated sequence in Mary Poppins. He was posthumously named a Disney Legend in 1999.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1932 	Flowers and Trees 	Animator (uncredited)
1932 	King Neptune 	Animator (uncredited)
1932 	Babes in the Woods 	Animator (uncredited)
1932 	Santa's Workshop 	animator (uncredited)
1933 	The Mad Doctor 	Animator (uncredited)
1933 	Birds in the Spring 	Animator (uncredited)
1933 	Mickey's Mellerdrammer 	Animator (uncredited)
1933 	Ye Olden Days 	Animator (uncredited)
1933 	Father Noah's Ark 	Animator (uncredited)
1933 	The Mail Pilot 	Animator (uncredited)
1933 	Mickey's Gala Premier 	Animator (uncredited)
1933 	Lullaby Land 	Animator (uncredited)
1933 	The Pied Piper 	Animator (uncredited)
1933 	Giantland 	Animator (uncredited)
1933 	The Night Before Christmas 	Animator (uncredited)
1934 	The Grasshopper and the Ants 	Animator (uncredited)
1934 	Funny Little Bunnies 	Animator (uncredited)
1934 	The Big Bad Wolf 	Animator (uncredited)
1934 	Gulliver Mickey 	Animator (uncredited)
1934 	The Flying Mouse 	Animator (uncredited)
1934 	Peculiar Penguins 	Animator (uncredited)
1934 	The Goddess of Spring 	Animator (uncredited)
1934 	The Dognapper 	Animator (uncredited)
1934 	Two-Gun Mickey 	Animator (uncredited)
1935 	The Robber Kitten 	Animator (uncredited)
1935 	Who Killed Cock Robin? 	Animator: "Jenny Wren" and "Cock Robin" (uncredited)
1935 	Pluto's Judgement Day 	Animator
1935 	Three Orphan Kittens 	Animator
1935 	The Tortoise and the Hare 	Animator (uncredited)
1936 	Orphans' Picnic 	Animator (uncredited)
1936 	Elmer Elephant 	Animator (uncredited)
1936 	Mickey's Elephant 	Director (uncredited)
1937 	The Worm Turns 	Animator (uncredited)
1937 	A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios	Self
1937 	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 	Supervising animator
1938 	How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made 	Self
1938 	Farmyard Symphony 	Animator
1938 	Ferdinand the Bull 	Animator (uncredited)
1939 	Mickey's Surprise Party 	Director (uncredited)
1939 	The Ugly Duckling 	DirectorAnimator (uncredited)
1940 	Pinocchio 	Supervising director
1940 	Fantasia 	Assistant animatorDirector: "The Pastoral Symphony" (uncredited)
1941 	The Reluctant Dragon 	Director (cartoon sequences)
1942 	Food Will Win the War 	Director
1942 	Saludos Amigos 	AnimatorSequence director: "Pedro" (uncredited)
1944 	The Pelican and the Snipe 	Director
1946 	Make Mine Music 	Director: "Willie the Operatic Whale"
1947 	Fun and Fancy Free 	Animation director: "Mickey and the Beanstalk"
1948 	Melody Time 	Cartoon director: "Once Upon a Wintertime"
1948 	Trees 	Director
1948 	So Dear to My Heart 	Cartoon director
1950 	Cinderella 	Director
1951 	Alice in Wonderland 	Director
1951 	How to Catch a Cold 	Director (uncredited)
1953 	Peter Pan 	Director
1953 	Ben and Me 	Supervising director (uncredited)
1954-1970	Disneyland 	DirectorAssociate producerWriter: "Our Unsung Villains"Production supervisor: "I Captured the King of the Leprechauns"
1955 	Contrasts in Rhythm 	Director
1955 	Lady and the Tramp 	Director
1956 	Disneyland, U.S.A. 	Director
1959 	Sleeping Beauty 	Sequence director (uncredited)
1959 	Kodak Presents Disneyland '59 	Director
1959 	Donald in Mathmagic Land 	Supervising director
1961 	One Hundred and One Dalmatians 	Director
1961 	Donald and the Wheel 	Director
1961 	The Litterbug 	Director
1963 	The Sword in the Stone 	Animation Director: Kitchen's Enchanted Dishes, Brooms and Mops (Uncredited)
1964 	Mary Poppins 	Animation director
1967 	Scrooge McDuck and Money 	Director
1968 	Understanding Stresses and Strains 	Director
2022 	Pinocchio 	Special thanks
2023 	Peter Pan & Wendy 	Special thanks
==Gallery==
Disney TV Unit.jpg|Back Row: Julius Svendsen, Art Stevens, Jack Boyd, Elmer Plummer, Jim SwainFront row: Hamilton Luske, Jimmy Trout, Joe Hale, Mac Stewart, John EmersonSeated: Secretary, Mary Satterwhite
Disney directors in the 1950s.jpg|Clyde Geronimi (left) shares a drink with Jack Hannah (center) and Hamilton Luske at a party at the Disney studio's Penthouse Club.
Peter Ellenshaw and Hamilton Luske Mary Poppins.jpg|Luske with Peter Ellenshaw going over art for Mary Poppins.
Eustace Lyett at the Oscars with Peter Ellenshaw and Hamilton Luske.jpg|Alain Delon presents the "Best Visual Effects" Oscar to Eustace Lycett, Peter Ellenshaw, and Luske on April 5, 1965.
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