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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-03-24 (124 years old)

Place of Birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Ub Iwerks

Biography:

Ubbe Ert Iwerks, known as Ub Iwerks, was an American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician who co-created the characters Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney. The works Iwerks produced alongside Disney went on to win numerous awards, including multiple Academy Awards.

Known For

Acting

2022

Mickey: The Story of a Mouse as Self (archive footage)

1923

Directing

2018

Celebrating Mickey as Director

2005

Vintage Mickey as Director

1945

Carnival Courage as Director

1942

Stop That Tank! as Director

1940

A Busy Day as Director
Beauty Shoppe as Director
The Egg Hunt as Director
Wise Owl as Director
Blackboard Revue as Director
Baby Checkers as Director

1939

Nell's Yells as Director
The Gorilla Hunt as Director
Crop Chasers as Director

1938

The Frog Pond as Director
Midnight Frolics as Director
Snowtime as Director

1937

Skeleton Frolic as Director
Porky and Gabby as Director
Merry Mannequins as Director
Foxy Pup as Director

1936

Little Boy Blue as Director
Ali Baba as Director
Happy Days as Director
Tom Thumb as Director

1935

See How They Won as Director
Balloon Land as Director
The Microbe Army as Director
Summertime as Director
Simple Simon as Director
Mary's Little Lamb as Director
Old Mother Hubbard as Director
Little Black Sambo as Director
The Three Bears as Director
Sinbad the Sailor as Director
Humpty Dumpty as Director

1934

Jack Frost as Director
The King's Tailor as Director
The Good Scout as Director
Viva Willie as Director
Hell's Fire as Director
The Little Red Hen as Director
Puss in Boots as Director
Don Quixote as Director
Rasslin' Round as Director
Davy Jones' Locker as Director
Jungle Jitters as Director
The Cave Man as Director
Robin Hood, Jr. as Director
Reducing Creme as Director

1933

Stratos Fear as Director
Chinaman's Chance as Director
Play Ball as Director
Flip's Lunch Room as Director
Bulloney as Director
The Air Race as Director
Pale-Face as Director
Spite Flight as Director
Techno-Cracked as Director
Soda Squirt as Director

1932

The Goal Rush as Director
Puppy Love as Director
Nurse Maid as Director
Room Runners as Director
The Office Boy as Director
Fire! Fire! as Director
The Music Lesson as Director
The Milkman as Director
School Days as Director
Phoney Express as Director
What a Life as Director
Funny Face as Director
The Bully as Director
Circus as Director

1931

Stormy Seas as Director
Spooks as Director
Ragtime Romeo as Director
The Soup Song as Director
Africa Squeaks as Director
Movie Mad as Director
The Village Smitty as Director
Jail Birds as Director
Laughing Gas as Director
The New Car as Director

1930

Summer as Director
Autumn as Director
Puddle Pranks as Director
Flying Fists as Director
Fiddlesticks as Director
The Village Barber as Director

1929

Hell's Bells as Director
Springtime as Director
The Karnival Kid as Director
Plane Crazy as Director
The Opry House as Director

1928

Steamboat Willie as Director

1927

All Wet as Director
Empty Socks as Director

Writing

1940

A Busy Day as Writer
The Egg Hunt as Story
Baby Checkers as Writer

1939

Crop Chasers as Writer

1938

Snowtime as Writer

1928

Production

1940

A Busy Day as Producer

1939

Crop Chasers as Producer

1936

Happy Days as Producer

1935

Balloon Land as Producer
Little Black Sambo as Producer
Old Mother Hubbard as Producer

1934

Jack Frost as Producer
Reducing Creme as Producer

1933

1931

Spooks as Producer

1930

Flying Fists as Producer

1921

Visual Effects

1963

The Birds as Visual Effects

1961

The Parent Trap as Visual Effects

1957

Tricks of Our Trade as Visual Effects

1956

Samoa as Visual Effects
Sardinia as Visual Effects

1955

Lady and the Tramp as Visual Effects

1954

Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter as Animation Director
The Disneyland Story as Visual Effects
The Donald Duck Story as Visual Effects

1953

Peter Pan as Visual Effects

1951

Alice in Wonderland as Visual Effects

1950

Cinderella as Visual Effects

1946

Song of the South as Visual Effects

1931

Spooks as Animation

1930

Summer as Animation
Autumn as Animation

1929

The Merry Dwarfs as Animation
Plane Crazy as Animation
The Barn Dance as Animation
The Skeleton Dance as Animation
Mickey's Choo-Choo as Animation
Springtime as Animation
Hell's Bells as Animation

1928

Rival Romeos as Animation
Africa Before Dark as Animation
Sagebrush Sadie as Animation
Ride 'Em Plow Boy as Animation
Poor Papa as Animation
Steamboat Willie as Animation

1927

Trolley Troubles as Animation
Oh, Teacher! as Animation
The Mechanical Cow as Animation
Great Guns as Animation
All Wet as Animation
Rickety Gin as Animation
The Ocean Hop as Animation
Alice the Golf Bug as Animation
Alice at the Rodeo as Animation
Alice in the Alps as Animation
Alice's Auto Race as Animation
Alice's Picnic as Animation
Alice the Beach Nut as Animation

1926

Alice Cuts the Ice as Animation
Alice's Brown Derby as Animation

1925

Alice Plays Cupid as Animation

1924

Alice's Day at Sea as Animation
Alice the Piper as Animation
Alice's Fishy Story as Animation

1923

Alice's Wonderland as Animation

1922

Crew

1991

The Dating Game as Thanks

1957

Perri as Special Effects

1956

Westward Ho, The Wagons! as Special Effects

1928

Hungry Hoboes as Cinematography

1923

Alice's Wonderland as Cinematography

Art

1960

Jungle Cat as Special Props

1929

The Skeleton Dance as Background Designer
El Terrible Toreador as Background Designer