Dick Landey ( Eng. Dick Lundy ; , - , or ) is an American animator and director. Contrary to popular belief, he is not the creator of Donald Duck , but only made a significant contribution to the development [3] of the screen image. [four]
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| Birth name | Richard James Lundy Richard James Lundy |
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| Profession | animator , film director |
| Career | 1928-1945, 1950, 1959-1980 (as a multiplier) 1939-1954 (as a director) |
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Biography
Richard James Lundy was born on August 14, 1907 in Sault Sainte-Marie ( Michigan , USA ). His father's name was James, his mother - Minnie, he was the only child in the family. Shortly after the birth of Richard, his family moved to Detroit , where the father of the family got a job as an inspector at the Burroughs Adding machine Company . When the boy was ten years old, his parents divorced, and Richard and his mother moved to the city of Port Huron , but soon returned to Detroit, where Minny got a job as a waitress. In 1928, Richard went to Los Angeles , in the center of the film industry in America, to begin to fully engage in his favorite business - animation [5] .
Immediately upon his arrival in Los Angeles, Landi was hired by Walt Disney Animation Studios in the “ink and paint department”. After a couple of months, he was promoted: he began working as an “inbitwinner” , that is, as an assistant multiplier, who drew the intermediate frames between the main frames. Six months later he became a full-fledged animator of Disney's studio [3] . In 1933, in the animated film "The Three Little Pigs ", Dick Landi, who had a special gift in the image of dancing, did all the scenes with the pigs dancing to the sound of his brisk song. [4] In 1939, Landi was first entrusted to become a cartoon director (they were “ ”) [6] , he did an excellent job with this task and over the next decade and a half he directed to about fifty cartoons.
In 1943, Landi left Disney and got a job at , the most successful work at this studio, The Poet & Peasant and Musical Moments from Chopin (both nominated for an Oscar), and Woody the Giant Killer and Playful Pelican. [4] In 1949, he moved to the little-known studio Wolff Productions , where he worked in television advertising. The following year, Landi returned to full-fledged animation, this time at . In 1959, he again changed jobs by going to Hanna-Barbera . In 1973, the 66-year-old animator retired, but over the next seven years he worked a little more as a freelancer [6] : he became a multiplier for nine episodes of two animated series (1974 and 1977) and one cartoon (1980).
Dick Lundy passed away on April 7, 1990 in the city of San Diego ( California ).
Personal life
Dick Lundy was married twice. In 1932 he married his colleague named Juanita Sheridan (1906–1974). Two years later, a divorce followed [7] .
The second time Lundy married in 1939, a girl named Ann [5] .
Selected Filmography
During his career, Dick Lundy made a multiplier in about 110 cartoons and directed at about 50.
Multiplier
- Uncredited
- 1928 - Steamboat Willie Steamer
- 1930 - The Prisoners / The Chain Gang
- 1930 - / Monkey Melodies
- 1930 - The Gorilla Mystery
- 1931 - / The China Plate
- 1931 - Blue / Blue Rhythm
- 1931 - / Mickey's Orphans
- 1931 - The / The Ugly Duckling
- 1932 - / Mickey in Arabia
- 1932 - Flowers and Trees
- 1932 - / Babes in the Woods
- 1932 - Mickey's Good Deed / Mickey's Good Deed
- 1933 - / Building a Building
- 1933 - Three Little Pigs
- 1933 - Mickey's Gala Premier
- 1934 - The Grasshopper and the Ants / The Grasshopper and the Ants
- 1934 - Funny Hares / Funny Little Bunnies
- 1934 - The Wise Little Hen / The Wise Little Hen
- 1934 - Orphan's Benefit Concert
- 1934 - / The Dognapper
- 1935 - The Tortoise and the Hare
- 1935 - Mickey's Service Station Service
- 1935 - Musical Country / Music Land
- 1936 - / Three Little Wolves
- 1936 - / Thru the Mirror
- 1936 - The Return of the Toby Tortoise Returns
- 1937 - / Woodland Café
- 1938 - Mickey's Parrot / Mickey's Parrot
- 1939 - Dog Show / Society Dog Show
- 1939 - / Donald's Cousin Gus
- 1940 - / Mr. Duck steps out
- 1940 - Window Cleaners / Window Cleaners
- 1940 - / Mr. Mouse Takes a trip
- 1941 - / Timber
- 1944 - / Commando Duck
- 1944 - / Ski for Two
- 1950 - Destination Moon
- In the credits specified
- 1934 - / Playful Pluto
- 1935 - / Pluto's Judgment Day
- 1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- 1942 - Donald's Gold Mine / Donald's Gold Mine
- 1943 - / Home Defense
- 1944 - / The Beach Nut
- 1959-1960 - / The Huckleberry Hound Show (7 episodes)
- 1959-1961 - The Quick Draw McGraw Show (14 episodes)
- 1960-1966 - The Flintstones ( )
- 1961-1962 - The Yogi Bear Show (5 episodes)
- 1961-1962 - Top / Top Cat (2 episodes)
- 1962-1963 - The Jetsons ( )
- 1964-1965 - / The Magilla Gorilla Show (9 episodes)
- 1966 - The Man, whose name is Flintstone / The Man Called Flintstone
- 1968 - / The Adventures of Gulliver (episode of The Forbidden Pool )
- 1968-1969 - The / The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (5 episodes)
- 1969 - / The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (6 episodes)
- 1970 - / Where's Huddles? (10 episodes)
- 1970 - Scooby Doo, where are you! / Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ( )
- 1972 - The Adventures of the Fritz Cat / Fritz the Cat
- 1972 - / Love, American Style (episode of )
- 1972 - / The Roman Holidays (3 episodes)
- 1972 - The / The New Scooby-Doo Movies ( )
- 1973 - Charlotte's Web / Charlotte's Web
- 1973 - Yogi's Gang (2 episodes)
- 1974 - / ABC Afterschool Special (episode Cyrano )
- 1977 - Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels [8] (8 episodes)
Director
- Uncredited
- 1939 - / Sea Scouts
- 1941 - / A Good Time for a Dime
- 1951 - / Puny Express
- In the credits specified
- 1942 - Donald's Gold Mine / Donald's Gold Mine
- 1943 - A / Donald's Tire Trouble
- 1945 - The Poet & Peasant / Poet and Peasant
- 1946 - / Musical Moments from Chopin
- 1946 - / Bathing Buddies
- 1947 - / Smoked Hams
- 1947 - / The Coo Bird
- 1947 - / Woody the Giant Killer
- 1947 - Well Oiled
- 1947 - / Solid Ivory
- 1947 - Mad Hatter
- 1948 - / Banquet Busters
- 1948 - / Wet Blanket Policy
- 1948 - Playful Pelican / Jolly Pelican
- 1948 - / Wild and Woody!
- 1949 - Druler's Delight / Drooler's Delight
- 1953 - / Barney's Hungry Cousin
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 SNAC - 2010.
- 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Lundy, Richard (Dick) // 2006: - ISBN 978-1 -55783-671-7
- 2 1 2 50 Most Influential Disney Animators - 44. Dick Lundy (Eng.) On the site 50mostinfluentialdisneyanimators.wordpress.com , May 11, 2011
- ↑ 1 2 3 Leonard Moltin . About mice and magic. The history of the American film drawn = Of Mice and Magic. A History of American Animated Cartoons / Translator Khitruk FS . - M .: Publishing house Dedinsky, 2018. - S. 74, 85, 231-237. - 640 s. - ISBN 978-5-6040967-0-3 .
- ↑ 1 2 Century Birthday - Dick Lundy (English) on the site animationwhoandwhere.blogspot.com , August 14, 2007
- ↑ 1 2 A Letter from Dick Lundy (English) on mayersononanimation.blogspot.com , May 18, 2006
- ↑ Donald Duck, Animation Bloggers & Ancestry.Com, or Robin's Rules of Research # 2 & # 3 (eng.) On nestedegg.wordpress.com , April 2, 2010