Fred Hellmich

Fred Hellmich was an American character animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios. He often, like many other animators, had been "demoted" to Key Clean-Up Artist in order to crank through the reams of footage waiting to be completed on the feature. He worked on animated films, like Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Rescuers, and The Fox and the Hound.
Outside of Disney, Hallmich worked as an animator for various Hanna-Barbara productions, like The Smurfs, Scoody-Doo, and The Flinstones. He also worked on Alvin & the Chipmunks, Pac-Man, Heavy Metal, Trollkins, Space Stars, Godzilla, and the Ralph Bakshi films The Nine lives of Fritz the Cat, Coonskin, and Heavy Traffic.
While in South Korea, he became ill and died in 1983.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1955	The Mickey Mouse Club 	"Circus Day" - animator
1956	I'm No Fool With a Bicycle 	animator - uncredited
1956	A Cowboy Needs a Horse 	animator
1957	The Truth About Mother Goose 	animator
1959	Sleeping Beauty 	clean up supervisorkey clean up artist - uncredited)
1959	Eyes in Outer Space 	animator
1962	A Symposium on Popular Songs 	animator
1963	The Sword in the Stone 	animator - uncredited
1964	Mary Poppins 	animator - uncredited
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 Honey TreeWinnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
1977	The Rescuers 	Character Animator (Rufus)
1981	The Fox and the Hound 	Character Animator (Adult Cooper, Young Tod)
1985	The Black Cauldron 	Animator (Talyllyn)
Category:Animators
Category:Males
Category:The Fox and the Hound
Category:The Black Cauldron
Category:Winnie the Pooh
Category:Robin Hood
Category:Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Category:The Aristocats
Category:The Jungle Book
Category:The Rescuers
Category:1920s births
Category:1980s deaths
Category:The Sword in the Stone
Category:Mary Poppins
Category:Sleeping Beauty
Category:Mickey Mouse Club
Category:American people
Category:People from New Jersey
Category:Producers
Category:Walt Disney Animation Studios