Julius Svendsen

Julius Fredrik Svendsen was a Norwegian animator, writer, and story artist, as well as the father of fellow Disney Imagineer, Julie Svendsen. His wife, Carol Joyner was also an employee and fellow collaborator in the Ink and Painting Department.
Svendsen was born in Norway, but his family emigrated and settled in New York in 1923. starting as an artist at Disney around 1940, but briefly left to serve in the U.S. army during World War II from 1942 to 1945. Upon returning to the studio, he worked on films and theatrical shorts with Ward Kimball, such as Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, Man and the Moon, Mars and Beyond, and Man in Space. He also drew for the Disney newspaper with the Disney Treasure Tales comic strips. He did 'The Seven Dwarfs and the Witch-Queen', that appeared in the American Sunday papers from March 2 to April 27, 1958. Later that year, he did a Sunday strip with 'Sleeping Beauty' (August 3 to December 28). Both were written by Floyd Gottfredson. From June 1, 1959 to March 17, 1962, he did the 'Mickey Mouse' daily with text by Roy Williams. Films he would contribute to in the animation department included Peter Pan, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Aristocats, the animated sequences of Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and worked on scripts for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and Robin Hood.
He also drew for the publisher Dell, of comics featuring Walt Disney characters in the late 1940s. Like many artists Mary Blair, John Hench, and Bill Justice, he worked freelance on animating books related to characters from Walt Disney cartoons, like "The Seven Dwarfs Find a House", "Mickey Mouse Club Stamp Book", "Mickey Mouse Flies the Christmas Mail", "Mickey Mouse and the Missing Mouseketeers", and three Sleeping Beauty children's books from the Golden Book collection by publisher Simon & Schuster.
Svendsen died in a boating accident in Granada Hills, California in 1971 and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angles. His wife died a few years later, but their co-collaborative effort, Hulda, a 28-page two-handed booklet, while he was recovering for two months at home following back surgery was published in 1974. Carol had provided the script, Julius the illustration. It was ranked #1 on Best Sellers.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1951 	Alice in Wonderland 	animator - uncredited
1953 	Peter Pan 	animator - uncredited
1953 	Melody 	animator
1953 	Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom 	animator
1954 	Grand Canyonscope 	animator
1955-1968	The Magical World of Disney 	animator
1959 	Eyes in Outer Space 	animator
1961 	One Hundred and One Dalmatians 	character animator
1961 	The Saga of Windwagon Smith 	animator
1962 	A Symposium on Popular Songs 	animator
1964 	Mary Poppins 	animator - uncredited
1967 	Scrooge McDuck and Money 	animator
1970 	The Aristocats 	storycharacter animator
1971 	Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	animator
1973 	Robin Hood 	Posthumous release - story sequences
1977 	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh	Posthumous Release - story: "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"
==Gallery==
Disney TV Unit.jpg|Back Row: Svendsen, Art Stevens, Jack Boyd, Elmer Plummer, Jim SwainFront row: Hamilton Luske, Jimmy Trout, Joe Hale, Mac Stewart, John EmersonSeated: Secretary, Mary Satterwhite
Disney12.jpg|From left to right: Dale Oliver, Basil Davidovich, Don Duckwall, Don Griffith, Bill Berg, Julius Svendsen, Eric Cleworth, Hal King, Ted Berman, John Lounsbery, and Ollie Johnston
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