Hal Ambro

Harold "Hal" Ambro was an American animator and film director. He was notable for his work at Walt Disney Studios.
Ambro was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and came to Los Angeles to study art in 1932, braking into animation in 1934 as an animator at Marty Monk Productions before eventually finding work at Charles Mintz Studios.
When he started at Disney, Ambro was hired as an assistant for features, like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi before becoming a full-time animator. Andreas Deja noted that, "Even though he never reached the status of supervising animator there, his animation can often be found in sequences that were [led] by animators, such as Ollie Johnston (the opening section of Johnny Appleseed) and Milt Kahl (Ambro animated almost half of the footage of The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella)." He left in 1966 because, as he told John Canemaker, "there is only so much room at the top of the ladder at Disney."
He then went on to animate, among others, for Chuck Jones (Gay Purree, Mowgli's Brothers, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Horton Hears a Who!, A Very Merry Cricket, The White Seal) and Richard Williams (A Christmas Carol, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure). Ambro noted he "liked the stuff that Chuck was doing," he said, "because it was a cross between Disney animation and Saturday morning shows. He tried to do as good as job as you could, make it look like full animation. And like a lot of the other commercial operators, he was interested in how few cels he could get by with, which is par for the course." Other animated projects he worked on included The Alvin Show, Journey Back to Oz, The Cat in the Hat (1971), Off to See the Wizard, and Spider-Man.
Ambro then ended up at Hanna-Barbera animating on features, such as Charlotte's Web, Heidi's Song, and Rock Odyssey before teaching animation at CalArts.
==Disney Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1937 	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 	assistant animator - uncredited
1940 	Pinocchio 	assistant animator - uncredited
1940 	Fantasia 	assistant animator - segment "The Pastoral Symphony", uncredited
1942 	Bambi 	assistant animator - uncredited
1944 	Contrary Condor 	animator - uncredited
1946 	Make Mine Music 	animator
1946 	Squatter's Rights 	animator - uncredited
1946 	Song of the South 	animator
1947 	Fun and Fancy Free 	animator - uncredited: "Bongo""Mickey and the Beanstalk"
1948 	Melody Time 	character animator"The Legend of Johnny Appleseed" - animator
1948 	So Dear to My Heart 	animator - uncredited
1949 	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad	"The Wind in the Willows" - character animator"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - animator
1950 	Cinderella 	character animator
1951 	Alice in Wonderland 	character animator
1951 	How to Catch a Cold 	animator - uncredited
1953 	Peter Pan 	character animator
1953 	Melody 	animator
1955 	Lady and the Tramp 	character animator
1959-1967	The Magical World of Disney 	animator
1959 	Sleeping Beauty 	character animator
1961 	One Hundred and One Dalmatians 	character animator
1963 	The Sword in the Stone 	character animator
1964 	Mary Poppins 	animator
1967 	The Jungle Book 	character animator - uncredited
1970 	The Aristocats 	animator - uncredited
1971 	Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	animator - uncredited
1973 	Robin Hood 	animator - uncredited
1977 	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	animatorWinnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree - animator
1985-1989	Adventures of the Gummi Bears 	animator
1985 	The Wuzzles 	animator - uncredited
==Gallery==
===Character Gallery===
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Madam Mim.jpg|Madam Mim
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