Don DaGradi

Disney writer who started out as a layout artist on 1940s cartoons including Der Fuehrers Face in 1943 He eventually moved into animated features with the film Lady and the Tramp in 1955 He also worked as a color and styling or sequence consultant on many other motion pictures for Disney His greatest achievement was for his visual screenplay for Mary Poppins in 1964 for which he shared an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with Bill Walsh Don DaGradi died August 4 1991 in Friday Harbor Washington He was named a Disney Legend posthumously only months after his death Wikipedia