Hal King

Hal King was an American animator, notable for his work at Walt Disney Studios.
King started out like many of his contemporaries as an in-betweener on shorts in the late 1930s before moving to features, like Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, and The Three Caballeros. By the early 1940s, King started working as a full-fledged animator on the Donald Duck series. Many of them were geared towards World War 2 and Hal’s first credit was on wartime cartoon Donald Gets Drafted, directed by Jack King. He also was animating on the postwar package features, such as Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
When working started on Cinderella, Disney’s return to feature-length storytelling in animation, King was brought up to feature-film talent status. He animated some of the mice, especially the girl mice in the song sequence, as well as scenes of the Duke including in the famous ending sequence where Cinderella puts on the glass slipper, bringing the physical emotions of the character. This is a similar trait he would use again in Lady and the Tramp, when Lady learns of Tramp past girlfriends.
He continued to animate other films for the company and served as a great mentor to future animators, like Dale Baer and Ted Kierscey, until after Robin Hood, when his health issues forced him to retire. He briefly returned in the 1980s to help animate the shows Adventures of the Gummi Bears and The Wuzzles before passing away in 1986. King didn’t have much contact with either students or the studio before his passing.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1940 	Pinocchio 	assistant animator - uncredited
1940 	The Riveter 	animator - uncredited
1940 	Tugboat Mickey 	animator - uncredited
1940 	Put-Put Troubles 	animator - uncredited
1940 	Donald's Vacation 	animator
1940 	Pluto's Dream House 	animator - uncredited
1940 	Window Cleaners 	animator - uncredited
1940 	Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip 	animator - uncredited
1940 	Fantasia 	assistant animator - segment "The Pastoral Symphony", uncredited
1940 	The Fire Chief 	animator - uncredited
1941 	Timber 	animator - uncredited
1941 	Pluto's Playmate 	animator - uncredited
1941 	A Gentleman's Gentleman 	animator - uncredited
1941 	Canine Caddy 	animator - uncredited
1941 	The Nifty Nineties 	animator - uncredited
1941 	Early to Bed 	animator
1941 	Dumbo 	animator - uncredited
1942 	Mickey's Birthday Party 	animator - uncredited
1942 	Symphony Hour 	animator - uncredited
1942 	Donald's Snow Fight 	animator - uncredited
1942 	Donald Gets Drafted 	animator - uncredited
1942 	Out of the Frying Pan Into the Firing Line	animator - uncredited
1942 	Bambi 	animator - uncredited
1942 	The Vanishing Private 	animator
1942 	How to Swim 	animator - uncredited
1942 	Bellboy Donald 	animator
1943 	Fall Out-Fall In 	animator
1943 	The Old Army Game 	animator
1943 	Home Defense 	animator
1944 	How to Be a Sailor 	animator - uncredited
1944 	Trombone Trouble 	animator - uncredited
1944 	Contrary Condor 	animator - uncredited
1944 	Commando Duck 	animator - uncredited
1944 	Springtime for Pluto 	animator - uncredited
1944 	First Aiders 	animator - uncredited
1944 	The Three Caballeros 	animator
1945 	Duck Pimples 	animator
1945 	Hockey Homicide 	animator
1946 	Make Mine Music 	animator: "Willie the Operatic Whale""All the Cats Join In""The Martins and the Coys"
1946 	Wet Paint 	animator
1946 	Lighthouse Keeping 	animator
1946 	Defense Against Invasion 	animator - uncredited
1946 	Song of the South 	animator
1947 	Clown of the Jungle 	animator
1947 	Donald's Dilemma 	animator - uncredited
1947 	Fun and Fancy Free 	character animator: "Bongo"
1947 	Mickey's Delayed Date 	animator - uncredited
1948 	Mickey Down Under 	animator - uncredited
1948 	Melody Time 	character animatoranimator: "Once Upon a Wintertime""Blame It on the Samba"
1948 	Pluto's Purchase 	animator - uncredited
1948 	So Dear to My Heart 	animator
1949 	Pueblo Pluto 	animator - uncredited
1949 	Pluto's Sweater 	animator - uncredited
1949 	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 	character animator"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" animator
1949 	Slide, Donald, Slide 	animator - uncredited
1950 	Pluto and the Gopher 	animator - uncredited
1950 	Cinderella 	character animator: Mice
1951 	Dude Duck 	animator - uncredited
1951 	Plutopia 	animator - uncredited
1951 	Test Pilot Donald 	animator
1951 	Alice in Wonderland 	character animator
1951 	R'Coon Dawg 	animator - uncredited
1952 	Susie the Little Blue Coupe 	animator
1952 	Pluto's Party 	animator - uncredited
1952 	Pluto's Christmas Tree 	animator - uncredited
1953 	Peter Pan 	character animator
1953 	The Simple Things 	animator - uncredited
1953 	Ben and Me 	animator
1955 	Lady and the Tramp 	directing animator
1957-1968	The Magical World of Disney 	animator
1959 	Sleeping Beauty 	character animator
1960 	Goliath II 	character animator
1961 	One Hundred and One Dalmatians 	character animator
1961 	Donald and the Wheel 	animator
1963 	The Sword in the Stone 	character animator
1967 	The Jungle Book 	character animator
1970 	The Aristocats 	character animator
1971 	Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	animator
1973 	Robin Hood 	character animator
1977 	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 	animator: "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day""Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree"
1985 	The Wuzzles 	animator - uncredited
1985-1986	Adventures of the Gummi Bears 	animator - uncredited
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