Ken Anderson

Kenneth B. "Ken" Anderson was an American art director, screenwriter, and animator at Walt Disney Productions for 44 years. He studied architecture at the University of Washington, graduating with a B.Arch. in 1934. He was particularly influenced by faculty member Lionel Pries. With the delineation skills he learned in architecture school, he soon secured a position at Disney. He was a key player in some of the most well-known animated films, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and The Jungle Book. He also worked on the development of Disneyland. He was a 1991 winner of the Disney Legends award for Animation & Imagineering.
Anderson died of a stroke at the age of 84.
==Filmography==
===Screenwriter (feature films)===
*Melody Time (1948)
*So Dear to My Heart (1948)
*Cinderella (1950)
*The Jungle Book (1967)
*The Aristocats (1970)
*The Rescuers (1977)
===Art director (feature films)===
*Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
*Pinocchio (1940)
*Symphony No. 6 section of Fantasia (1940)
*The Sword in the Stone (1963)
===Animator===
====Feature films====
*The Reluctant Dragon (1941)
*Song of the South (1946)
*Pete's Dragon (1977)
====Animated shorts====
*The Goddess of Spring (1934)
*Three Orphan Kittens (1935)
===Production designer (feature films)===
*Sleeping Beauty (1959)
*One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
*The Aristocats (1970)
===Story (feature films)===
*Robin Hood (1973)
*The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
===Actor===
*The Story of Three Loves (1953)
===Consultant (feature film)===
*Peter Pan (1953)
===Architect/designer (theme parks)===
*Disneyland and the EPCOT Center
==Gallery==
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