Joe Grant

Joe Grant May 15 1908 May 6 2005 was an American artist and writer Born in New York City New York he worked for The Walt Disney Company as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1933 on the Mickey Mouse short Mickeys Gala Premiere He was a Disney legend He created the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs He cowrote Dumbo He also led development of Pinocchio and Fantasia During World War II Grant worked on war cartoons including the Academy Award winning Der Fuehrers Face He left the Disney studio in 1949 and ran a ceramics business and a greeting card business but returned in 1989 to work on Beauty and the Beast He also worked on Aladdin The Lion King Pocahontas Mulan Fantasia 2000 and Pixars Monsters Inc among others The last two films he worked on before his death Chicken Little and Pixars Up were dedicated to him Grant worked four days a week at Disney until he died nine days before his 97th birthday Grants final project Lorenzo for which he conceived the idea and helped storyboard received an Academy Award nomination in 2005 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia