Chuck Couch

Charles Scovil "Chuck" Couch was an American writer and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios during the 1920s through the 1950s.
Couch was born in California and began work at Disney as an inbetweener through childhood friend Fred Moore. He soon moved up to an animator position by age 23 where he supervise inbetweeners, like Art Babbitt. Most of his first animation jobs revolved around the early Mickey Mouse shorts and Silly Symphonies, such as King Neptune, Santa's Workshop, and Birds in the Spring. He briefly left the studio in 1934 for Charles Mintz Productions where he worked on the Scrappy shorts. In 1936, he returned to Disney.
By 1937, Couch began work as a writer for the company. Starting with Little Hiawatha, he soon teamed up with Carl Barks to work with the Donald Duck unit. He was also part of the story team that conceived what would later become Bambi. However, Couch left the studio in 1941, around the time the Disney animators' strike was in full swing. After doing work for Walter Lantz, Couch joined the military.
Outside of Disney, Couch also worked for Warner Bros. and MGM, where he worked worked on the live action musical Dangerous When Wet as an animator. Eventually, he briefly opened his own studio, Chuck Couch Associates which produced Talking of Tomorrow, an industrial film for AT&T explaining the company's switchover to all number dialing, for which Couch was the animation director. A similar feature hi worked on was called was Mike Kazaleh's Mr. Digit and the Battle of Bubbling Brook. Couch later joined Hanna-Barbara Productions in the 1970s where he worked as a story writer for the Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Scooby-Doo franchises and created the Christmas special The Tiny Tree. He retired from the industry by 1985.
Couch died on December 23, 1987 in Santa Monica, California. He is buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1931	The Delivery Boy 	Animator
1931	The Busy Beavers 	Animator
1931	The Cat's Out 	Assistant animator (uncredited)
1931	Egyptian Melodies 	Assistant animator (uncredited)
1931	The Clock Store 	Animator (uncredited)
1931	The Barnyard Broadcast 	Animator (uncredited)
1931	The Spider and the Fly 	Animator (uncredited)
1931	The Fox Hunt 	Assistant animator (uncredited)
1931	The Beach Party 	Assistant animator (uncredited)
1931	The Ugly Duckling 	Assistant animator (uncredited)
1932	The Bird Store 	Animator (uncredited)
1932	The Duck Hunt 	Animator (uncredited)
1932	The Mad Dog 	Assistant animator
1932	The Bears and Bees 	Animator (uncredited)
1932	Just Dogs 	Animator (uncredited)
1932	King Neptune 	Animator (uncredited)
1932	The Klondike Kid 	AnimatorBackground artist (uncredited)
1932	Santa's Workshop 	Animator (uncredited)
1933	Birds in the Spring 	Animator (uncredited)
1933	Mickey's Mellerdrammer 	Animator (uncredited)
1933	Father Noah's Ark 	Animator (uncredited)
1933	The Mail Pilot 	Animator (uncredited)
1933	Mickey's Gala Premier 	Animator (uncredited)
1933	Mickey's Mechanical Man	Animator (uncredited)
1936	Mickey's Circus 	Animator (uncredited)
1937	The Worm Turns 	Animator (uncredited)
1937	Little Hiawatha 	Story (uncredited)
1937	Clock Cleaners 	Animator (uncredited)
1938	Self Control 	Animator (uncredited)
1938	Boat Builders 	Animator (uncredited)
1938	Donald's Better Self 	Animator (uncredited)
1938	Donald's Nephews 	Animator (uncredited)
1939	Sea Scouts 	Story (uncredited)
1940	Donald's Dog Laundry 	Story (uncredited)
1940	Mr. Duck Steps Out 	Story (uncredited)
1941	Early to Bed 	Story
1941	Donald's Camera 	Story
1942	Bambi 	Story development
1948	Melody Time 	AnimatorBackground artistColor and styling (uncredited)
==Gallery==
Disney staff in January 1930 (2).jpg|Standing, from left: Les Clark, Jack King, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Cutting, Burt Gillett, Ub Iwerks, Win Smith, Wilfred Jackson, William Cottrell, Floyd GottfredsonKneeling, from left, Dick Lundy, Charles Byrne, Carlos Manriquez, Norman Ferguson, Merle Gilson, Couch, Carl Stalling, Johnny Cannon, Walt Disney.
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