The Resume

(June 26, 1909-May 22, 1985)
Born in Munich, Germany
Nicknamed ‘Woolie’
Member of the Nine Old Men of Disney
Produced and directed the Disney films ‘One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961),’ ‘The Sword in the Stone (1963),’ ‘The Jungle Book (1967),’ ‘The Aristocats (1970),’ ‘Robin Hood (1973),’ and ‘The Rescuers (1977)’
Animated on ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937),’ ‘Fantasia (1940),’ ‘Pinocchio (1940),’ ‘Dumbo (1941),’ ‘Cinderella (1950),’ ‘Peter Pan (1953),’ and ‘Lady and the Tramp (1955)’

Why he might be annoying:

He frequently cast his sons in the lead roles of the films he directed.
His run as the head of Disney animation is widely known as the studio’s ‘Dark Age’ (marked by decline in quality and financial disappointment).
His meddling in the artistic direction of ‘The Fox and the Hound’ resulted in Don Bluth quitting Disney and taking a contingent of animators with him to create a rival studio, briefly overtaking them in the 1980’s (it also led to him retiring from Disney the year of the film’s release).
He popularized the practice of using recycled animation for the films he directed (for instance, frames of Baloo and Kaa in Jungle Book were just lazily copied out for select shots of Little John and Sir Hiss in Robin Hood).

Why he might not be annoying:

He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.
He won the Distinguished Flying Cross, for action in North Africa and the South Pacific.
He specialized in extensive action scenes as an animator, usually involving powerful forces of nature (Monstro the Whale in Pinocchio, the Dinosaurs in the Rite of Spring sequence of Fantasia, and the Headless Horseman’s pursuit of Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow).
He directed ‘Aquamania,’ one of the last Goofy animated shorts.
He became the first filmmaker to solely direct a Disney animated feature film in 1963.
He won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.
He died in a single car accident near his home in Burbank at the age of 75.
He was posthumously named a Disney Legend in 1989.

Credit: BoyWithTheGreenHair

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In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying