Mel Shaw was named a Disney Legend in 2004 for his contributions to The Walt Disney Company.
13 Facts About Mel Shaw
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Mel Shaw was born on December 19,1914, in Brooklyn, New York.
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Mel Shaw's mother was an opera singer and his father was a lawyer.
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Mel Shaw was the second oldest of four brothers born to his parents.
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Mel Shaw began his career in entertainment industry as a silent film title card creator at Pacific Title and Art, a company owned by film producer, Leon Schlesinger.
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Mel Shaw next worked for Orson Welles in the early 1930s, where Shaw helped to create a storyboard The Little Prince, though the proposed Welles film was never created.
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Mel Shaw was personally recruited by Walt Disney to work on the 1942 animated classic, Bambi.
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Mel Shaw left Disney Studios to enlist in the Army Signal Corps, where he served as a combat photographer during World War II.
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Mel Shaw returned to Disney's animation department in 1974 at the invitation of Walt Disney Studios.
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Mel Shaw returned to work on Disney animated films and mentored a new generation of animators.
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Mel Shaw partnered with former MGM Studios animator Bob Allen to establish a design firm.
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Mel Shaw was among a couple of artists who worked at Disney both during its Golden Age within the late-1930s as well as during the studio's resurgence within the 1990s.
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Mel Shaw died from congestive heart failure on November 22,2012, at the Woodland Care Center in Reseda, California, at the age of 97.