Born in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, in 1895 and dying in 1980, Ben Sharpsteen was one of Walt Disney's key animators and supervisors from the 1920s. He supervised the animation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and co-directed Pinocchio (1940) with Hamilton Luske. He directed Dumbo (1941), a short, emotional film about a baby elephant with large ears, which won the Grand Prix for animation at Cannes in 1947. He later headed Disney's True-Life Adventures documentary series.
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