John Ryan Kinney was an American animator, director and producer of animated shorts.
21 Facts About Jack Kinney
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Jack Kinney attended John Muir Junior High School in Los Angeles, California, and John C Fremont High School, at the latter with Roy Williams.
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Jack Kinney directed the first film in the Donald Duck series to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
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Two other films directed by Jack Kinney were nominated for the same award.
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Jack Kinney joined the Walt Disney studio on February 9,1931.
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Jack Kinney initially inked films for both the Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony series of the studio.
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Jack Kinney served as a story director in films featuring Mickey Mouse and Pluto.
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Jack Kinney served as a sequence director on 10 of the Disney theatrical feature films.
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Jack Kinney was the primary director of the Goofy series, with his debut being the second entry in the series, Goofy's Glider, all the way up to the final regular entry in the series, How to Sleep, directing a total of 39 entries in the series.
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Jack Kinney directed two entries in the Pluto series, as well as directing four entries in the Donald Duck series, including Der Fuehrer's Face, a wartime satire of Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany, which became the only Donald Duck short to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, as well being listed as Number 22 in the 1994 book, The 50 Greatest Cartoons.
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Jack Kinney supervised new animation used to tie some of the old shorts together for the Walt Disney anthology television series, which was broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company.
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On March 13,1958, Jack Kinney departed from the Disney studio.
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Jack Kinney served at the Disney company for 27 years.
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Jack Kinney directed an animated feature film for the UPA studio.
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Jack Kinney resurfaced as a story writer for The New Three Stooges, a television series which featured both live-action and animated segments.
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Jack Kinney was next hired as a story director by Hanna-Barbera, serving in this position from 1978 to 1982.
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Jack Kinney worked on several saturday-morning cartoons by the company.
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In 1983, Jack Kinney was awarded a Winsor McCay Award, in recognition for his lifetime of contribution to the art of animation.
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In 1988, Jack Kinney published a short memoir, Walt Disney and Assorted Other Characters: An Unauthorized Account of the Early Years at Disney's.
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Jack Kinney died on February 9,1992, in Glendale, California at the age of 82.
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Jack Kinney's death was reported as a death by natural causes.