Author. Otto Englander gained fame as a story man for at least twenty-two years at the Disney Studios and MGM. He was considered one of the most influential Disney story artists of the golden age, yet one of the less known. Born into an Austrian Jewish household in Yugoslavia, when Yugoslavia was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he came to the U.S. in the 1920s as an art director for the Chester School in New York. He had graduated from the University of Vienna. Besides English, he spoke French, Spanish, German, Italian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, and Portuguese. He is credited as the author on 14 animated films including: "Jack and the Beanstalk" in 1933, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937, the Pastoral Symphony portion of "Fantasia" in 1940 and "Dumbo" in 1941. Englander died of a heart attack
Author. Otto Englander gained fame as a story man for at least twenty-two years at the Disney Studios and MGM. He was considered one of the most influential Disney story artists of the golden age, yet one of the less known. Born into an Austrian Jewish household in Yugoslavia, when Yugoslavia was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he came to the U.S. in the 1920s as an art director for the Chester School in New York. He had graduated from the University of Vienna. Besides English, he spoke French, Spanish, German, Italian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, and Portuguese. He is credited as the author on 14 animated films including: "Jack and the Beanstalk" in 1933, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937, the Pastoral Symphony portion of "Fantasia" in 1940 and "Dumbo" in 1941. Englander died of a heart attack
Bio by: Linda Davis
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