Winston HiblerFilmography

The Castaway Cowboy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patrick Sullivan Burke, Nephi Hannermann, Kahana, Lee Wood, James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, Eric Shea, Elizabeth Smith

Synopsis: James Garner stars as a genial cowboy in this wholesome slice of Disney family fare. Garner is Lincoln Costain, a cowboy in the 1850s who finds himself shanghaied and shipwrecked on a Hawaiian island. He runs into luckless widow Henrietta MacAvoy (Vera Miles) and helps her turn her struggling Read More

The Island at the Top of the World

Crew: Producer

Actors: Niels Hinrichsen, Gunnar Ohlund, Erik Silju, Rolf Soder, David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Mako, David Gwillim

Synopsis: This Disney family adventure, directed by Robert Stevenson in his Jules Verne mode, concern a group of explorers who travel to the Arctic Circle in 1908 to explore the uncharted wastes of the North Pole. Sir Anthony Ross (Donald Sinden), a rich Londoner, organizes an Arctic exploration team in Read More

The Bears and I

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patrick Wayne

Synopsis: Winston Hibler, who produced many of those Disney "True Life Adventures" of the 1950s, was at the controls of The Bears and I. Patrick Wayne plays Bob Leslie, a Vietnam veteran who heads to the Canadian Rockies when he's discharged. Here he adopts three bear cubs, whose mother has been killed. Read More

One Little Indian

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Garner, Vera Miles, Clay O'Brien

Synopsis: In this comical Disney western, a cavalry rider goes AWOL in the midst of a raid to save the lives of a band of Indian women and children. He then takes off across the New Mexican desert astride a camel. En route, he meets a young white boy who was raised by an Indian. The Indian is trying to find Read More

Napoleon and Samantha

Crew: Producer

Actors: Johnny Whitaker, Michael Douglas

Synopsis: In this heartwarming family-oriented adventure from Disney, an adorable orphan named Napoleon (Johnny Whitaker) is sent to live on his grandfather's Oregon farm. There he is befriended by a college student (Michael Douglas) who has come to the spread to work as a goat herder during the summer. One Read More

Chandar, the Black Leopard of Ceylon

Crew: Director

The Aristocats

Crew: Producer

Actors: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: The Aristocats was the first Disney Studios animated feature to be produced after Walt Disney's death. A wealthy woman leaves her vast fortune to her four cats: the well-bred Duchess and her kittens, Berlioz, Toulouse, and Marie. Jealous butler Edgar, eager to get his mitts on the cats' legacy Read More

King of the Grizzlies

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Yesno, Chris Wiggins, Hugh Webster, Jack Van Evera

Synopsis: Moki (John Yesno) is the Indian foreman at a ranch owned by The Colonel (Chris Higgins). He watches as a baby grizzly bear becomes his playful friend before going off on his own. Years later, the bear returns as a menacing adult and threatens the cattle protected by Moki. When the Colonel wants to Read More

The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Lloyd Bochner, Fred Clark, Ellen Janov

Synopsis: Advertising executive Fred Bolton (Dean Jones) is under pressure from his boss Tom Dugan (Fred Clark) to come up with a new ad campaign for a wealthy client. Fred's daughter Helen (Ellen Janov) loves to ride horses, so her father buys her one to tie the equine into the profitable advertisement. Read More

Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar

Crew: Co-producer, Director

Actors: Rex Allen, Ron Brown, Bryan Russell, Linda Wallace, Jim Wilson, Clifford Peterson

Synopsis: A wayward cougar in the Northwoods wanders into a lumber camp in this animal adventure story from Disney Studios. Charlie is torn between his affection for humans and the call of the wild. Rex Allen provides his usual folksy narration in this documentary-styled feature directed by Winston Hibler. Read More

Follow Me, Boys!

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charlie Ruggles, Elliott Reid, Kurt Russell

Synopsis: Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old reliable "kid hanging over cliff by rope" bit. Corny, sentimental and obvious though it may be, the film is a delight to watch, especially whenever Fred MacMurray dominates the Read More

The Ugly Dachshund

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Charlie Ruggles, Kelly Thordsen, Parley Baer

Synopsis: Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette star in this Walt Disney family comedy as Mark and Fran Garrison, a dog-loving couple with different tastes in canines. When their dachshund gives birth to puppies, kindly veterinarian Dr. Pruitt (Charlie Ruggles) convinces Mark to take a Great Dane puppy home with Read More

Those Calloways

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon de Wilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn

Synopsis: Originally trade-previewed as Those Crazy Calloways, Disney's Those Calloways is a lengthy, anecdotal film about a highly individualistic New England family. Patriarch Cam Calloway (Brian Keith) is regarded as a crank by the local villagers because of his dream to build a bird sanctuary that will Read More

Yellowstone Cubs

Crew: Co-producer

Synopsis: Originally released in 1963, this Disney nature documentary follows the charming adventures of Tuffy and Tubby, two cubs living in Yellowstone National Park. Separated from their mother, the two young bears roam the wilderness alone, and cause a stir when they come across groups of tourists and Read More

Big Red

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Gilles Payant, Emile Genest

Synopsis: Big Red is one of several Disney pictures filmed in Canada during the 1960s. Orphaned Gilles Payant goes to work for wealthy Walter Pidgeon, who raises prize dogs. Pidgeon's particular favorite among his canines is Big Red, who unfortunately resists all efforts to be trained. Young Payant manages Read More

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: Chico, the Misunderstood Coyote

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bill Pace, Slim Sanford, Joy Hale, Winston Hibler, Ray Teal

Synopsis: Based on a story by Ernest Thompson-Seton, this episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color focuses on a Coyote cub whose parents have been killed by ranchers. Chico's natural fear of humans is compounded when he is captured and bundled off to a run-down zoo, where he is exhibited as a "wild Read More

Disneyland: Wonders of the Water Worlds

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: This episode of Walt Disney Presents illustrates the importance of water in the lives of humans, animals, fish, fowl and plant life. Much of the footage is gleaned from underwater photography originally intended for Disney's "True-Life Adventure" short-subject series, notably the scenes of bears Read More

Disneyland: Disneyland '61 and Olympic Elk

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Another of Walt Disney Presents' "hybrid" episodes, this one is comprised of two previously released short subjects. The first is '60s Gala Day at Disneyland, a tour of the famous Anaheim theme park. For the purposes of this telecast, new footage is added to showcase Disneyland's most up-to-date Read More

Disneyland: Flash, the Teenaged Otter

Crew: Producer

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: Filmed almost entirely at a Wisconsin game preserve, this episode of Walt Disney Presents was based on a book by Emil Liers. The program chronicles the early life and adventures of two otters, Flash and Fleta, and their close-knit family. Upon reaching their rebellious teen years, Flash strikes Read More

Disneyland: Title Makers and Nature's Half Acre

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara

Synopsis: The first half of this 1961 Walt Disney Presents episode shows the work that went behind the delightful animated opening titles of the upcoming Disney theatrical feature The Parent Trap. Famed studio artists Bill Justice, X. Attencio, and T. Hee are seen bringing the titles to life, from Read More

Nikki: Wild Dog of the North

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Coutu, Emile Genest, Uriel Luft, Robert Rivard

Synopsis: One of several feature-length collaborations between Disney Studios and Canada's Calgary productions (others include Big Red and The Incredible Journey), Nikki -- Wild Dog of the North concentrates on the adventures of the eponymous canine and his master, trapper Andre Dupas (Jean Coutu). Nikki, a Read More

Disneyland: Wild Burro of the West

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bill Keys, Bill Pace, Jim Burch, Winston Hibler

Synopsis: Based on Dusty's Return, a novel by Dorothy Childs Hogner, this episode of Walt Disney Presents is all about a homeless Mexican burro named Dusty. After a flirtation with wild burro leader Blackjack, Dusty is stolen by a pair of miners who use her to tote supplies and help round up stolen cattle. Read More

Disneyland: Escape to Paradise and Water Birds

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa

Synopsis: The first portion of this Walt Disney Presents episode is a behind-the-scenes preview of the upcoming Disney theatrical feature Swiss Family Robinson. Hosted by three of the film's stars, John Mills, Dorothy McGuire and Janet Munro, the segment details the difficulties encountered by the Read More

Disneyland: Niok

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: This episode of Walt Disney Presents pays homage to the illustations of artist Heinrich Kley, who specialized in pictures of elephants. Host Walt Disney explains that it was Kley's genius that inspired such animated sequences as the "Dance of the Hours" segment (with its ballet-dancing pachyderms) Read More

Disneyland: Killers of the High Country

Crew: Producer

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: This episode of Walt Disney Presents details the uneasy relationship between human beings and mountain lions (and cougars, pumas, and panthers) in the Rockies. In typical Disney fashion, the story is told from the lion's viewpoint, as we follow cougar cubs Chimbica and Tawny as they learn to Read More

Sleeping Beauty

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton

Synopsis: Disney produced this lavish animated fairy tale, the most expensive cartoon ever made up to its release with a budget of $6 million. When the young princess Aurora is cursed at birth by the evil fairy Maleficent, the baby is kidnapped by a trio of good fairies who raise the girl themselves, hoping Read More

Jungle Cat

Synopsis: A bit of animation is added to this standard Disney wildlife documentary, this time the focus is on the jaguar in Brazil's rain forest. Excellent photography captures a wide range of carnivorous beasts just being carnivorous, though the hunt-and-kill approach to jungle life may have little or no Read More

White Wilderness

Synopsis: This Disney "True-Life Adventure" was filmed on location in the Arctic. Covering the period from the Spring thaw to the winter freeze, the film offers rare and fascinating glimpses of polar bears, walruses, wolves, caribou and ermine. The "suicidal" migration of the lemmings is covered, as is a Read More

Disneyland: Faraway Places: High, Hot and Wet

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: Herbert and Trudie Knapp, the husband-wife team of photographers who were largely responsible for the Disney theatrical-short series "People and Places", are the focus (no pun intended) of this Disneyland episode. The Knapps are shown in the Peruvian Andes, filming an ancient Incan temple; and in Read More

Disneyland: Rusty and the Falcon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jerome Courtland, Morlan Nelson, Rudy Lee, Jay W. Lee, The Mello Men

Synopsis: Filmed independently by Paul Kenworthy Productions, "Rusty and the Falcon" was first shown as an episode of the TV anthology Walt Disney Presents. Based on Charles Ogburn's book The White Falcon and lensed on location in Heber, UT, this is the tale of Rusty (Rudy Lee), a 12-year-old boy who lives Read More

Disneyland: His Majesty - The King of Beasts

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: One would never know it from the publicity packet, but this episode of Walt Disney Presents is actually a 48-minute abridgement of Disney's 75-minute True Life Adventure feature film The African Lion (1955). Filmed by Al and Elma Milotte over a three-year period in East Equatorial Africa, the Read More

Disneyland: The Yellowstone Story and Bear Country

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: On this Disneyland entry, Disney's "True-Life Adventure" film crew treaks into Yellowstone Park, shooting fascinating footage of the Mammoth Hot Springs, the Grand Loop Highway and other attractions all along the way. This segment segues smoothly into a presentation of the Oscar-winning theatrical Read More

Disneyland: Operation Deepfreeze

Crew: Director, Producer, Teleplay By

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: "Operation Deepfreeze" is the second of three Disneyland episodes commemorating the US-Antarctic participation in the International Geophysical Year of 1956. Like the earlier Antarctica, Past and Present", this installment details the activities of Navy Task Force 43, with narrator Winston Hibler Read More

Disneyland: The Crisler Story; Prowlers of the Everglades

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: The first portion of this Disneyland episode is essentially a trailer for the upcoming "True-Life Adventure" theatrical feature White Wilderness (here referred to by its working title, The Arctic Wilderness. The focus, both literally and figuratively, is on Herb and Lois Crisler, a husband-wife Read More

Disneyland: People of the Desert

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Winston Hibler, Bill Ewing

Synopsis: This Disneyland episode concentrates on two groups of desert dwellers, the Navajo Indians of the American Southwest and the Blue Men of Morocco. Although the two groups are as different as night and day, they have several things in common, including a love of solitude, independence and the wide Read More

Disneyland: To the South Pole for Science

Crew: Director

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: "To the South Pole for Science" is the last in a trio of Disneyland episodes commemorating Operation Deepfreeze, Antarctica's contribution to the International Geophysical Year of November, 1956 to February 1957. During this period, five naval bases are established, with the Disney camera crew Read More

Perri

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Disneyland: Four Fabulous Characters

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jerry Colonna, Dennis Day, The King's Men

Synopsis: This episode of Disneyland consists primarily of four lengthy excerpts from two of Disney's animated features of the 1940s. The Kings' Men Quartet musically narrate the story of those famous feudin' families, the Martins and the Coys, in a sequence originally seen in Make Mine Music (1946). Also Read More

Disneyland: Adventure in Wildwood Heart

Crew: Producer

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: Host Walt Disney invites the viewers into the Disney studio morgue--and no, this isn't where he stores the bodies of such defunct cartoon characters as Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow. Rather, the morgue is the repository of research material used in the creation of the studio's cartoons. As Read More

Disneyland: Cameras in Samoa; The Holland Story

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: This Disneyland episode is essentially a trailer for Disney's upcoming "People and Places" theatrical short Samoa. Photographers Herbert and Trudi Knapp are shown commisserating with the natives of the titular Polynesian Island, recording such time-honored customs as tapa-cloth weaving and Read More

Disneyland: Behind the Cameras in Lapland; Alaskan Eskimo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: In this "Adventureland" segment from the original Disneyland TV series, narrator Winston Hibler details the activities of Disney's documentary camera crew as they go to remote and frigid Lapland to film the migratory habits of the country's huge reindeer herds. It is shown how the nomadic Lapp Read More

Disneyland: A Trip Through Adventureland and Water Birds

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Another of the "progress reports" presented on the TV anthology Disneyland to promote the new theme park of the same name, this episode was designed to bring viewers up to date on the section of the park known as "Adventureland." While there is a great deal of emphasis on "Davy Crockett" tie-ins Read More

Disneyland: Survival in Nature

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Scene from several of Walt Disney's "True-Life Adventure" short subjects were incorporate in this episode of Disneyland. Winston Hibler, a fixture of the short-subject series, served as both director and narrator. Told in a sequential fashion, the narrative illustrates how animals manage to stay Read More

Disneyland: Searching for Nature's Mysteries

Crew: Director

Actors: Winston Hibler

Synopsis: Once again, Disneyland plays host to Winston Hibler, the familiar narrator (and sometimes writer/director) of Disney's "True-Life Adventures" short subject series. Hibler describes the various techniques used for making such up-close-and-personal nature documentaries as the then-upcoming Disney Read More

Secrets of Life

Disneyland: Monsters of the Deep

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: With cheerful shamelessness, Walt Disney managed to use several first-season episodes of his Disneyland TV anthology to plug his newest live-action theatrical feature, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Disney introduces this episode by strolling into his studio's "Monster Room", where reams Read More

The African Lion

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The African Lion is a high-water mark in Walt Disney's "True Life Adventures" series. Filmed by Alfred and Elma Malotte, the team responsible for Disney's earlier Beaver Valley, this 75-minute documentary focuses not only on lions, lionesses and their cubs, but also such African wildlife as the Read More

Disneyland: A Progress Report and Nature's Half Acre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This 1st-season Disneyland episode is a sequel to the series' premiere, with Walt Disney narrating films (mostly taken from a helicopter) of the construction work on the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California. Not surprisingly, the most colorful exhibits are presented to the viewer, with Read More

Disneyland: The Adventures of Mickey Mouse

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Another of Disneyland's many cartoon compilations, "The Adventures of Mickey Mouse" loosely bastes together several theatrical Mickey Mouse shorts into a story of sorts, with narration by host Walt Disney. The cartoons presented herein include Mickey's first color short, 1935's The Band Concert Read More

Disneyland: Behind the True-Life Cameras--Olympic Elk

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: James Algar,the writer-director of Walt Disney's "True-Life Adventures" short subject series, takes the viewers of the TV anthology Disneyland behind the scenes to show how these remarkable documentaries are made. Segments include photographers Clare and Bill Anderson filming on location in the Read More

The Vanishing Prairie

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The second of Walt Disney's feature-length "True Life Adventures", The Vanishing Prairie concentrates on that portion of the United States bounded by the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River. After a brief tableux of extinct animal species, the film shows us several "endangered" types: The Read More

Disneyland: The Prairie and Seal Island

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Algar, Winston Hibler

Synopsis: James Algar, the producer-director of Disney's "True-Life Adventure" short subject series, explains the techniques used by cameraman to capture images of nature in this early Disneyland episode. These techniques are then shown in application in scenes of animals from the North American prairie. Read More

Disneyland: Operation Undersea

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This Emmy-winning episode of the TV anthology Disneyland was a blatant but entertaining plug for Walt Disney's newest live-action feature Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Host-producer Walt Disney explains that the film's gestation wasn't easy, then proceeds to illustrate his thesis with an Read More

Peter Pan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel

Synopsis: A pet project of Walt Disney's since 1939, this animated version of James M. Barrie's Peter Pan reached full fruition in 1953. Eschewing much of Barrie's gentle whimsy (not to mention the more sinister aspects of the leading character), Disney and his staff fashioned a cheery, tuneful cartoon Read More

The Living Desert

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Living Desert was the first feature-length entry in Disney's "True Life Adventure" series. Co-written and narrated by Winston Hibler, the film opens with a close-up glance of percolating desert geysers, with appropriate musical accompaniment. Among the wildlife specimens depicted herein are Read More

The Olympic Elk

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Olympic Elk was the fourth entry in Disney's "True Life Adventures" series -- and like the first three, it was written and narrated by Winston Hibler and directed by James Algar. Most of the footage was purchased from the husband-wife naturalist team of Herb and Lois Crisler, who spent two years Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna

Synopsis: This Disney feature-length cartoon combines the most entertaining elements of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Chasing after the White Rabbit, who runs into view singing "I'm Late! I'm Late!," Alice falls down the rabbit hole into the topsy-turvy alternate world Read More

Cinderella

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Helene Stanley

Synopsis: Cinderella was Walt Disney's return to feature-length "story" cartoons after eight years of turning out episodic pastiches like Make Mine Music and Three Caballeros. A few understandable liberties are taken with the original Charles Perrault fairy tale (the wicked stepsisters, for example, do not Read More

Beaver Valley

Synopsis: Beaver Valley was the second entry in Walt Disney's popular "True Live Adventures" series. Narrated by Winston Hibler, this 32-minute Technicolor documentary takes the viewer into the wilderness regions of Montana and Minnesota. Cinematographer Alfred Milotte, evidently an extremely patient man Read More

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone, Eric Blore, Pat O'Malley, John Floyardt

Synopsis: Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a two-part Walt Disney cartoon feature based on a pair of well known stories. The first half of the film is an adaptation of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, all about gawky 17th century schoolteacher Ichabod Crane and his love for the beautiful Katrina. The Read More

Melody Time

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Roy Rogers, Dennis Day

Synopsis: Disney was known for combining his musical cartoon shorts into interesting feature-length anthologies and Melody Time is one of the best. But for the fact that all of the featured segments have musical themes, they vary widely in musical and artistic style. Included are the exciting "Bumble Read More