Wolfgang ReithermanFilmography

The Rescuers

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Two fantasy novels by Margery Sharp were combined for in the Disney animated feature The Rescuers. The title characters are a pair of mice, Bernard and Miss Bianca. A little girl named Penny has been kidnapped by Miss Medusa. When the human law enforcement officials fail to locate the child Read More

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an hour-long compendium of the three Disney "Winnie" animated short subjects produced between 1966 and 1974. Sterling Holloway provides the voice of A.A. Milne's whimsical pooh-bear in all three cartoons, the first two of which are directed by Wolfgang Reithermann Read More

Robin Hood

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Brian Bedford, Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov, Roger Miller, George Lindsey, Phil Harris, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: Robin Hood is one of the first animated films produced by the Walt Disney Company after Walt Disney's death in 1967. For the film, the studio's animators took the Disney tradition of adding human-like animal sidekicks to established tales (Cinderella, Pinnochio) a step further by making Robin Read More

The Aristocats

Crew: Director, 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

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Winnie The Pooh & the Blustery Day was the second Disney animated featurette based on characters created by A. A. Milne. It was released December 20, 1968, two years and ten months after the first Disney "Pooh Corner" tales, Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree. As in the earlier film, Sterling Read More

The Jungle Book

Crew: Director

Actors: Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) Read More

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

Crew: Director

Synopsis: "Bears love honey and I'm a Pooh bear," sings Winnie the Pooh setting the stage for the goings-on in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, the first of four Disney featurettes based upon the A.A. Milne characters. Indeed, Pooh has rather an insatiable desire for honey, and when he spies a group of Read More

The Sword in the Stone

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 1963's The Sword in the Stone is Disney's animated take on Arthurian legend. In the midst of the Dark Ages, when England has no rightful ruler, a sword imbedded in a stone mysteriously appears in a London churchyard, bearing the inscription "Whoso pulleth out the sword of this stone and anvil is Read More

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: An Adventure in Color and Donald in Mathmagic Land

Crew: Director

Actors: Walt Disney, Paul H. Frees, Clarence Nash

Synopsis: Although advertised as a "premiere," the first episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color was actually a continuation of the ABC anthology series that had run under the titles Disneyland and Walt Disney Presents since 1959. The major changes in the "new" version were twofold: Disney was now Read More

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: The Hunting Instinct

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul H. Frees

Synopsis: At the invitation of Walt Disney himself, erudite cartoon genius Professor Ludwig Von Drake takes over the hosting chores in this episode. Using clips from earlier Disney animated shorts for illustration purposes, Prof. Von Drake explains mankind's need to hunt, all the while conducting his own Read More

101 Dalmatians

Crew: Director

Actors: Rod Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley, Betty Lou Gerson, Martha Wentworth, Ben Wright

Synopsis: This Disney animated classic is based on the children's story by Dodie Smith. The story involves the canine pets of a struggling composer and his wife: Dalmatians Pongo (male) and Perdita (female). Perdita gives birth to fifteen spotted pups, cuing the entrance of the scheming Cruella De Vil. She Read More

Disneyland: A Salute to Father

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this Walt Disney Presents salute to the American father, cartoon hero Goofy appears in the guise of "George", a typical example of Yankee manhood (or is it doghood?). After a brief segment in which bachelor George's head is turned by the pretty girl who will soon become his wife, the episode Read More

Aquamania

Crew: Director

Goliath II

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The protagonist of this Oscar-nominated Disney cartoon featurette is a very tiny elephant named Goliath II--so tiny, in fact, that he is hardly any bigger than one of his father's toenails. Alas, in elephant society the bigger you are the better you are, so Goliath II doesn't amount to much in his Read More

Sleeping Beauty

Crew: Director

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

Disneyland: How to Relax

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In another Disneyland compendium of classic theatrical cartoons, "everydog" Goofy demonstrates mankind's ongoing efforts to avoid work. It all begins when Work is invented--after caveman Goofy discovers that he has opposable thumbs. Throughout the rest of history, and especially during the Read More

Disneyland: The Goofy Adventure Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Pinto Colvig

Synopsis: Originally titled "The Adventure Story", this is one of several Disneyland episodes which splices together vintage theatrical cartoon shorts into a single, cohesive storyline. In the framing sequences, Papa Goofy ("uh-hyuk") tells his young son the story of their illustrious family. In flashback Read More

The Truth About Mother Goose

Crew: Director

Disneyland: The Goofy Sports Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Disneyland host Walt Disney turns over the narration of this mostly animated episode to a new cartoon character, Greek historian Spyros Olympopolus. The factual history of sports is depicted in a semi-comic fashion through clips of vintage Disney cartoons starring the eminent "Everydog" Goofy Read More

Disneyland: Goofy's Cavalcade of Sports

Crew: Director

Synopsis: That inimitable "Everydog" Goofy appears in several guises in this Disneyland compilation of theatrical cartoons. It is explained at the outset that the concept of athletic training was born of necessity, to prepare Early Man to hunt for food and fight wars. It was the Greeks who organized sports Read More

Disneyland: Pluto's Day

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This Disneyland episode opens with host Walt Disney proferring a special award, bestowed upon cartoon star Pluto as "most promising dog actor." Uncle Walt goes on to explain that Pluto has been thus honored not for his great acting ability, but simply because he has the happy knack of being Read More

Lady and the Tramp

Crew: Animator

Actors: Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson

Synopsis: Lady and the Tramp represented two "firsts" for Disney: It was the studio's first Cinemascope animated feature, and it was their first full-length cartoon based on an original story rather than an established "classic". Lady is the pampered female dog belonging to Jim Dear and Darling. When her Read More

Disneyland: From Aesop to Hans Christian Andersen

Crew: Animator

Synopsis: One of the most popular episodes from Disneyland's first season, "From Aesop to Hans Christian Andersen offers choice clips of past Disney cartoon shorts, based on famous fables. Excerpts include scenes from The Tortoise and the Hare, The Country Cousin, The Ugly Duckling, The Brave Little Tailor Read More

Disneyland: The Goofy Success Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of the cleverest of Walt Disney's TV "clip shows", "The Goofy Success Story" originally aired as an episode of the weekly Disneyland anthology. Narrated by Jack Bailey of Queen for a Day fame, the program begins as a cheerful, chuckling vagrant named Dippy Dawg meets a Hollywood talent scout. Read More

Disneyland: A Story of Dogs

Synopsis: This early episode of TV's Disneyland anthology was essentially a glorified promotional trailer for Walt Disney's upcoming animated theatrical feature Lady and the Tramp. Shown hard at work on the project at the Disney studio were supervising director Clyde Geronomi, animation director Wolfgang Read More

Peter Pan

Crew: Animation Director

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

Alice in Wonderland

Crew: Animator

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

The Wind in the Willows

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Wind in the Willows was originally released as the second half of the 1949 Disney animated feature Ichabod and Mr. Toad. While the first portion of the film was devoted to a sprightly adaptation of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", the second portion was a cartoonization of one of Read More

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

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

The Reluctant Dragon

Crew: Animator

Actors: Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant, Claud Allister, Barnett Parker

Synopsis: The very first Disney feature to include live-action footage, this behind-the-scenes documentary about the studio's animation process includes the cartoon short of the title, which in later years was often exhibited separately from this film. Robert Benchley stars as himself, a visitor to the Read More

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

Pinocchio

Crew: Animator

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

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

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

Goofy over Sports

Crew: Director