George Scribner

George Scribner (born September 28, 1952) is an artist, director and animator that is best known for having directed the 1988 animated Walt Disney Animation Studios film Oliver & Company.
== Biography==
Scribner was born and raised in the Republic of Panama, where he attended grade schools and drew his way through most of his classes. After attending The Bolles School in Florida, he majored in film at Emerson College in Boston and moved to Los Angeles to pursue animation and joined Hanna-Barbera Productions. He became an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios in the mid 1980s and it is in 1988 that he directed Oliver & Company. He also directed the featurette The Prince and the Pauper, starring Mickey Mouse in a duo role playing both himself and the Prince. After working on numerous other features, he was originally going to co-direct The Lion King.
He is currently an animation contractor for Walt Disney Imagineering where he has directed Mickey's PhilharMagic (uncredited), Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years and Magic Lamp Theatre (Tokyo).
Scribner recently completed documenting the expansion of the Panama Canal through a series of paintings that capture both the magnitude of the project as well as the unique culture and stories of the people of Panama. The paintings can be found on his official website listed below.
He worked as a director on an early version of the Pomp and Circumstance sequence for Fantasia 2000 where Donald Duck was to deliver jewel to the children of the Princes and Princesses of the Disney films. The idea was shelved.
While working at Hanna-Barbera he was story director on The Smurfs, The Biskitts, Challenge of the GoBots and Rock Odyssey.
Scribner is an accomplished painter who is known for painting ocean scenes.
He recently appeared in the 2010 documentary film Waking Sleeping Beauty.
He is a native to Panama City.
==Filmography==
===Television===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1980 	Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over	assistant animator 	TV special
1981 	ABC Weekend Specials 	animator 	Episode: "The Puppy Saves the Circus"
1981 	Trollkins 	animator 	
1981 	The Smurfs 	animator 	
1981 	The Kwicky Koala Show 	animator 	
1981 	A Chipmunk Christmas 	animator 	TV special
1983 	The Biskitts 	layout artist 	
1984 	The Transformers 	storyboard artist 	
1985 	Challenge of the GoBots 	story director 	
1985–1987	CBS Storybreak 	storyboard designer	
===Film===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1981	American Pop 	animator 	
1981	Heavy Metal 	animator 	segment: "Taarna"
1982	Heidi's Song 	character animator 	
1985	The Black Cauldron 	animator 	
1987	Rock Odyssey 	animator 	
1988	Oliver & Company 	director 	
1990	The Prince and the Pauper	director 	
1994	The Lion King 	additional story material	
2003	Mickey's PhilharMagic 	director/producer 	
2010	Waking Sleeping Beauty 	himself 	
Category:1952 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Panama City
Category:American animators
Category:American film directors
Category:American animated film directors
Category:Emerson College alumni
Category:Panamanian emigrants to the United States
Category:Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Category:Bolles School alumni