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Donald Virgil "Don" Bluth (born September 13, 1937) is an American animator, film director, producer, writer, production designer, video game designer and animation instructor who is known for directing animated films, including ''The Secret of NIMH'' (1982), ''An American Tail'' (1986), ''The Land Before Time'' (1988), ''All Dogs Go to Heaven'' (1989) and ''Anastasia'' (1997), and his involvement in the laserdisc game ''Dragon's Lair''. He is also known for competing with former employer Walt Disney Productions during the years leading up to the films that would make up the Disney Renaissance. He is the older brother of illustrator Toby Bluth. ==Early life and the Disney years== Bluth was born in El Paso, Texas, the son of Emaline (née Pratt) and Virgil Ronceal Bluth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://mormonsinbusiness.org/mormon_businessmen/don-bluth )〕 His great-grandfather was Helaman Pratt, an early leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He is of Swedish, English, Scottish, and German descent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Ancestors of Mitt Romney )〕 As a child in El Paso he rode his horse to the town movie theater to watch Disney films; Bluth said later, "then I'd go home and copy every Disney comic book I could find". At the age of six his family moved to Payson, Utah where he lived on a family farm. In 1954 at the age of 17 his family moved to Santa Monica, California, where he attended part of his final year of high school before returning to Utah and graduating from Springville High School. Bluth attended Brigham Young University in Utah for one year and after got a job at The Walt Disney Company. He started in 1955 as an assistant to John Lounsbery for ''Sleeping Beauty''. In 1957 Bluth left Disney only two years after being hired. Afterwards Bluth spent two and a half years in Argentina on a mission for the LDS Church. He returned to the United States where he opened the Bluth Brothers Theater with his younger brother Fred, though he occasionally worked for Disney. Bluth returned to college and got a degree in English Literature from Brigham Young University. Bluth returned to the animation business and joined Filmation in 1967 working on layouts for ''The Archies'' and other projects. He returned full-time to Disney in 1971 where he worked on ''Robin Hood'', ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'', ''The Rescuers'' and directing animation on ''Pete's Dragon''. His last involvement with Disney was the 1978 short ''The Small One'', ''The Wuzzles'' and ''Jungle Jack''. Then he made and produced his first short, ''Banjo the Woodpile Cat'' (1979), which takes place in his hometown Payson, Utah during the 1940s as Banjo travels to Salt Lake City to find the urban world. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don Bluth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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