31 Facts About Bill Tytla

Volodymyr Peter "Bill" Tytla was a Ukrainian-American animator known for his work in Walt Disney Animation Studios, Paramount's Famous Studios, and Terrytoons.

Bill Tytla was inducted as a Disney Legend in 1998.

Bill Tytla was known as the creator of Little Audrey for Paramount Pictures.

Volodymyr Peter Bill Tytla was born on October 25,1904, in Yonkers, New York.

In 1914, when Bill Tytla was 9, he visited Manhattan to attend Gertie the Dinosaur, an animated vaudeville act by Winsor McCay.

Bill Tytla never forgot it, and some say it changed his life forever.

Bill Tytla attended the New York Evening School of Industrial Design while still in high school.

In 1920, at age 16, Bill Tytla was working for the Paramount animation studio in New York.

The simplistic nature of cartoons at the time did not challenge Bill Tytla who dreamed of becoming a fine artist.

Bill Tytla took up his studies again at the Art Students League of New York and studied under Boardman Robinson.

True to his nature of never wanting to be second best, Bill Tytla came to the conclusion that he could never top these masters and destroyed most of his work.

Bill Tytla returned to the United States with the attitude that he could become a great master of animation by incorporating his rich knowledge of art.

For two years Art tried to entice Bill Tytla to come out to Hollywood, but Bill Tytla did not want to leave his family and a well-paying job during the Great Depression.

Bill Tytla was very impressed and accepted the job even at a lower salary than he was being paid at Terrytoons.

Bill Tytla's work did not go unnoticed by Walt Disney who soon came to realize what he had in Tytla.

Bill Tytla continued to send money home and purchased for his family 150 acre of farmland in East Lyme, Connecticut.

Bill Tytla was an eager participator in these classes which have been credited with some of the phenomenal leaps in the quality of animation during this period.

Bill Tytla was one of the first animators assigned to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Bill Tytla was next assigned to animate Stromboli, an explosive puppeteer and kidnapper in Pinocchio.

Bill Tytla did not just get inside Stromboli, he was Stromboli and he lived that part.

However, Bill Tytla already had a pretty good idea of what he wanted to do and did not like Bela's interpretation of the character.

Not one to want to be typecast Bill Tytla requested as his next assignment Dumbo, the baby elephant ridiculed and rejected because of his big ears.

Bill Tytla returned to the studio, but "there was too much tension and electricity in the air," according to Adrianne Bill Tytla.

Bill Tytla resigned from the Disney studio on February 24,1943, an action he regretted for the remainder of his life.

Bill Tytla soon left Terrytoons but would continue to act as a director for the rest of his animation career.

Bill Tytla left Famous Studio during the early 1950s to work for Tempo Productions.

Bill Tytla, however took time to visit his former colleagues at Disney in 1954.

Bill Tytla is credited as director for episodes of four different series:.

Bill Tytla took time to create one last short for Terrytoons, First Flight Up.

However, during this time Bill Tytla became ill and a lot of the actual animation was completed by animation director Robert McKimson, Hawley Pratt and Gerry Chiniquy.

Bill Tytla was invited, but worried if anyone would remember him.