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Oliver Martin "Ollie" Johnston, Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death from natural causes.〔 〕 He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005. He was an animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1978, and became a directing animator beginning with ''Pinocchio'', released in 1940. He contributed to most Disney animated features, including ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''Fantasia'' and ''Bambi''. His last full work for Disney came with ''The Rescuers'', in which he was caricatured as one of the film's characters, the cat Rufus. The very last film he worked on was ''The Fox and the Hound''. Johnston co-authored, with Frank Thomas, the reference book ''Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life'', which contained the 12 basic principles of animation. This book helped preserve the knowledge of the techniques that were developed at the studio. The partnership of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston is fondly presented in the documentary ''Frank and Ollie'', produced by Thomas' son Theodore, who in 2012 also produced another documentary, ''Growing up with Nine Old Men'', included in the Diamond edition of the ''Peter Pan'' DVD. ==Personal life== Born in Palo Alto, California, Johnston attended Stanford University, where he worked on the campus humor magazine ''Stanford Chaparral'' with fellow future animator Frank Thomas, then transferred to the Chouinard Art Institute in his senior year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Walt Disney Company )〕 Ollie married a fellow Disney employee, ink and paint artist Marie Worthey, in 1943. Marie Johnston died May 20, 2005 at the age of 87.〔Wife of Ollie Johnston dies at Age 87〕 Ollie's lifelong hobby was live steam trains. Starting in 1949, he built the gauge〔(Southern California Live Steamers )〕 La Canada Valley Railroad, a miniature backyard railroad with three 1/12 scale locomotives at his home in Flintridge, California.〔(Laughingplace.com - A Visit to Ollie's Railroad )〕 The locomotives are now owned by his sons. This railroad was one of the inspirations for Walt Disney to build his own backyard railroad, the Carolwood Pacific Railroad, which again inspired the building of the railroad in Disneyland. Ollie was a founding Governor of the Carolwood Pacific Historical Society along with his fellow Disney animator and railfan, Ward Kimball. The 1/4 scale Victorian depot from Ollie's backyard was moved and restored to a location near Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn at the area of the Los Angeles Live Steamers club in Griffith Park, Los Angeles.〔Broggie, Michael, ''Walt Disney's Railroad Story,'' 2nd ed., pp. 14-15, 95, 100-4, 112, 143, The Donning Company Publishers, Virginia Beach, VA, 2006.〕 In the 1960s, Ollie acquired and restored a full-size, narrow gauge Porter steam locomotive originally built in 1901, which he named the ''Marie E.'' He also built the one-mile-long Deer Lake Park & Julian Railroad on his 40-acre vacation estate in Julian, California in order to run the locomotive with a small gondola and caboose pulled behind it.〔(Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association - The Last Disney Legend Passes )〕 This engine and its consist were sold to John Lasseter (of Pixar Studios fame) around 2002. On May 10, 2005, it ran on the Disneyland Railroad during a private early morning event organized by Lasseter to honor Johnston, who was able to take the throttle of the ''Marie E.'' one last time. To date, it is the only time The Walt Disney Company has permitted outside railroad equipment to run at any Disney Resort. The engine is still fully operational and presently runs on the private railroad in the Lasseter Family Winery, also owned by Lasseter. Brad Bird paid a tribute to Ollie Johnston with an animated cameo of Johnston in the 2004 Pixar film ''The Incredibles'' (), as well as a cameo in his 1999 film ''The Iron Giant'', where he played a train engineer (). On November 10, 2005, Ollie Johnston was among the recipients of the prestigious National Medal of Arts, presented by President George W. Bush in an Oval Office ceremony. 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「Ollie Johnston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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