Basil Davidovich

Basil "Vasili" Davidovich was a Russian-born animator, who did layout work for Walt Disney Animation Studios at different points in his career.
Davidovich began his animation work in the mid-1930s, where worked at both Disney and Warner Bros. Animation. Joining the 1941 Disney strike and a brief stint at Screen Gems, he left the studio for a time and continued to Warner Bros. While there, Davidovich worked under the direction of Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, and Arthur Davis, with former Disney animators: Don Williams, Bill Melendez, and Emery Hawkins, where he would animate various Looney Tunes shorts related to characters, like Bug Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.
When he returned to Disney in the 1950s, Davidovich worked as a layout artist for Disney's anthology series before working on several films, like Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, and Robin Hood.
He died on May 28, 1978 in Santa Barbara and is interned at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1941 	Pluto's Playmate 	animator - uncredited
1941 	A Gentleman's Gentleman 	animator - uncredited
1941 	Dumbo 	animator - uncredited
1955-1970	The Magical World of Disney 	layout artistbackground artist
1957 	The Story of Anyburg, U.S.A. 	layout artist
1957 	The Truth About Mother Goose 	layout artist
1959 	Sleeping Beauty 	layout
1959 	Donald in Mathmagic Land 	layout artist
1960 	Goliath II 	layout artist
1961 	One Hundred and One Dalmatians 	layout artist
1961 	Aquamania 	layout artist
1963 	The Sword in the Stone 	layout
1967 	The Jungle Book 	layout artist
1970 	The Aristocats 	layout artist
1971 	Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	layout - uncredited
1973 	Robin Hood 	layout
1977 	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	layout artist: "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree""Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"
==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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