# Ward Kimball

> American animator (1914-2002)

**Wikidata**: [Q2118269](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2118269)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Kimball)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/ward-kimball

## Summary

Ward Kimball was born on March 4, 1914, in Minneapolis [1][2][3][4][5][6] and died on July 8, 2002, in Los Angeles [1][2][7][8][4][5][9]. A citizen of the United States , he attended Covina High School, Santa Barbara School of the Arts, and Santa Barbara High School [5]. He worked for The Walt Disney Company from 1934 to 1973 [5].His professional roles included bandleader, conductor, jazz musician, screenwriter, character animator, and television director [5]. He performed in the jazz genre  and was a member of the Firehouse Five Plus Two [10][11][5][12].Kimball received the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, the Disney Legends award, the Winsor McCay Award, and the Inkpot Award [10][11][5][12].


## References

1. Integrated Authority File
2. [Ward Kimball, 88; Key Disney Animator. 2002](http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jul/09/local/me-kimball9)
3. Who's Who in Animated Cartoon
4. [Disney Legends: Ward Kimball. Disney D23](https://d23.com/ward-kimball/)
5. BnF authorities
6. RKDartists
7. [Source](http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99154199722903941/catalog)
8. Union List of Artist Names
9. [Source](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1970)
10. [Disney Legends: Ward Kimball. Disney D23](https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/ward-kimball/)
11. [Source](https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot)
12. International Standard Name Identifier
13. MusicBrainz
14. Virtual International Authority File
15. Discogs
16. [Source](https://50mostinfluentialdisneyanimators.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/2-ward-kimball/)
17. Ward Kimball. RKDartists
18. SNAC
19. [The Animation Guild In Memoriam](http://animationguild.org/in-memoriam/)
20. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
21. Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (1981 Abbeville Press ed.)
22. BabelNet
23. The Movie Database
24. www.acmi.net.au
25. Cinemathèque québécoise Linked Open Data