Arthur Babbitt Filmography

Occupation:: Animator, Animation Director
Biography:: Master animator Arthur Babbitt is the artist who created the enduring Disney character Goofy. He began his career in the early '30s working as an animator at Terrytoons. He then moved to Disney and worked there during the studio's golden era of animation before WW II. At the studio he became noted...Read More

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Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure

Crew: Animator

Actors: Didi Conn

Synopsis: This animated children's film tells the story of the two popular dolls who go off to find a pretty French doll who has been stolen by pirates. Many songs from popular children's composer Joe Raposo ensue, including: "I Look and What Do I See!," "No Girl's Toy," "Rag Dolly," "Poor Babette," "A Read More

1977
The Four Poster

Crew: Animator

Actors: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer

Synopsis: Jan de Hartog's two-person stage play The Fourposter has always seemed to attract married acting couples, a tradition established by the play's first Broadway stars Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. The film version featured Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, who (you guessed it) were man and wife at the Read More

1952
Fun and Fancy Free

Crew: Animator

Actors: Edgar Bergen, Dinah Shore, Luana Patten

Synopsis: A blend of live-action and animation, Fun and Fancy Free is comprised of two distinct tales linked by additional footage featuring Jiminy Cricket. Disney had been planning to use each story for separate feature films but the involvement of the United States in WWII disrupted his plans and the Read More

1947
Dumbo

Crew: Animation Director, Animator

Actors: Sterling Holloway, Edward S. Brophy, Herman Bing, Verna Felton, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: The shortest of Disney's major animated features Dumbo involves a baby elephant with unusually large ears. Ostracized from the rest of the circus animals, poor Dumbo is even separated from his mother, who is chained up in a separate cage after trying to defend her child. Only brash-but-lovable Read More

1941
Pinocchio

Crew: Animator

Actors: Dick Jones, Cliff Edwards, Christian Rub, Walter Catlett, Frankie Darro, Charles Judels, Mel Blanc, Don Brodie, Evelyn Venable

Synopsis: When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto (Christian Rub) builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio (Dick Jones), is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish. Read More

1940
Fantasia

Crew: Animator

Synopsis: Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas musical piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Mickey Mouse was starred in this eight-minute effort, while the orchestra was under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. Disney and Read More

1940
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Crew: Animator

Synopsis: It was called "Disney's Folly." Who on earth would want to sit still for 90 minutes to watch an animated cartoon? And why pick a well-worn Grimm's Fairy Tale that every schoolkid knows? But Walt Disney seemed to thrive on projects which a lesser man might have written off as "stupid" or Read More

1937
The Three Little Pigs

Crew: Animator

Synopsis: Originally produced in 1933 and the winner of an Academy Award for Best Cartoon Short Subject, Three Little Pigs tells the classic fairy tale of two hasty pigs, one smart one, and the Big Bad Wolf they're all trying to escape from. Featuring the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?," the Read More

1933