13 Facts About Ed Love

Edward H Love was an American animator who worked at various studios during the Golden age of American animation.

Ed Love is well known for animating Walt Disney Animations' shorts Mickey's Trailer and Fantasia.

Ed Love was born on May 24,1910, in Tremont, Pennsylvania.

Ed Love discovered an opening as a Disney cartoonist in the local newspaper.

Ed Love was interested, used a phone book to find an animator, and learned how to animate in four months.

Ed Love walked into Walt Disney's office, unscheduled, and showed him a stop-motion animation sample of Mickey Mouse playing the violin.

Ed Love was initially paid $18 a week and animated Goofy and Pluto more frequently than other characters.

Ed Love worked with the effects manager but not with other animators.

Ed Love would come back to Disney in 1936 after the studio folded due to lack of funding.

Ed Love left the studio for good after participating in the Disney animators' strike 1941.

Ed Love would move to commercial animation in the 1950s for companies such as Paul Fennell's studio, but returned to work full-time at Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1959 for their television shows, such as Yogi Bear, The Flintstones and The Jetsons.

Ed Love would continue to work in the industry, in which he worked on shows like the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog pilot, up until the 1990s, where he mainly served as an animation director.

Ed Love died of heart failure on May 6,1996, in Valencia, California at age 85.