Birthday
1911/03/26
Day of death
1998/10/30 (87 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Oklahoma, USA
Also know as
Thornton Hee, Thorton ("T") Hee
American animator, director, and teacher. He taught character design and caricature. Hee worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1935–36 as a character designer. He designed many of the celebrity caricatures used in The Coo Coo Nut Grove (1936) and The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937). A 1936 Christmas card that he drew, featuring caricatures of the Schlesinger animators, was used to design the gremlins in the 1944 animated short Russian Rhapsody. Hee joined The Walt Disney Company around ...Read more
(2007) The Pixar Story
as Self (archive footage)