Movies Animator Gary Mooney dies

Tom Morrow · 08-08-2008, 08:42 PM

Animator Gary Mooney dies

Gary Mooney 1930-2008

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Bob Kurtz reports that veteran animator Gary Mooney passed away on Tuesday August 5th at age 78. The cause was cancer. Kurtz called Mooney, who animated many commercials and movie titles for the producer, “The best draftsman I ever worked with”. Mooney’s work can be seen in films ranging from Disney’s Lady and The Tramp and Sleeping Beauty to John Hubley’s The Hole and The Hat. He also animated on Jay Ward’s George of the Jungle, Total Television’s Underdog and the Taarna sequence in Heavy Metal
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disney_man · 08-10-2008, 01:00 PM

If he were 50 or younger, I would have gone emo.

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