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 1937. He is most recognized for directing the Dance of the Hours segment of Fantasia. He left after thestrike, but returned to work there twice, from 1940 to 1946, and again from 1958 to 1961. Hee also worked for United Productions of America (1951 to 1958) and Terrytoons (1961 to 1963). Hee was one of the co-founders, along with Jack Hannah, of the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. He later served as chairman of the Film Arts Department. Hee provided the illustrations used during the opening credits of The Life of Riley television show of the 1950s. -Wikipedia
Birthday: March 26, 1911
Death: October 30, 1998
November 13, 1940
March 26, 1953
March 19, 1959
November 10, 1959
December 03, 1937
May 13, 1953
January 24, 1952
June 11, 1955
June 30, 1946
December 23, 1938
February 23, 1940
July 17, 1943
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July 04, 1953
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May 13, 1961
February 11, 1954
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