T. Hee

Thornton Francis "T." Hee was an American animator, director, and teacher. He taught character design and caricature. He is always credited as T. Hee.
Hee worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1935-36 as a character designer. He designed many of the celebrity caricatures used in The Coo Coo Nut Grove (1936) and The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937). A 1936 Christmas card that he drew, featuring caricatures of the Schlesinger animators, was used to design the gremlins in the 1944 animated short, Russian Rhapsody.
Hee joined the Walt Disney Company around 1937. He is most recognized for directing the Dance of the Hours segment of Fantasia. He left after the strike, but returned to work there twice, from 1940 to 1946, and again from 1958 to 1961. Hee also worked for United Productions of America (1951 to 1958) and Terrytoons (1961 to 1963).
Hee was one of the co-founders, along with Jack Hannah, of the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. He later served as chairman of the Film Arts Department.
Hee provided the illustrations used during the opening credits of The Life of Riley television show of the 1950s.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1938	Mother Goose Goes Hollywood	story - uncreditedcharacter designer - uncredited
1940	Pinocchio 	sequence director
1940	Fantasia 	segment director: "Dance of the Hours" - uncredited
1941	The Reluctant Dragon 	story "Reluctant Dragon" sequencecaricatures: title sequence - uncreditedlyrics: "The Reluctant Dragon"
1943	Victory Through Air Power 	story adaptation
1946	Make Mine Music 	story"Willie the Operatic Whale"
1947	Fun and Fancy Free 	story - uncredited"Mickey and the Beanstalk"
1959	The Shaggy Dog 	title designer
1961	The Parent Trap 	special titles
1961	The Magical World of Disney	Himself ("The Title Makers/Nature's Half Acre")
==Gallery==
T. hee 1941.jpg|T. Hee in 1941, sitting next to Ward Kimball
WEDCrew.0.jpg|A 1965 group photograph of Disney artists in the WED parking lot in Glendale, California, from left to right: Herbert Ryman, Ken O'Brien, Collin Campbell, Marc Davis, Al Bertino, Wathel Rogers, Mary Blair, T. Hee, Blaine Gibson, X. Atencio, Claude Coats, and Yale Gracey.
==External links==
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*A Timely Letter From T. Hee
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