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Jack Cutting (animator)
Jack A. Cutting (January 19, 1908 – August 17, 1988) was an American international content supervisor and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he worked for 46 years.[1] BiographyCutting was born on January 9, 1908, in New York City.[1] He attended the Otis College of Art and Design, where he met Tyrus Wong, Wilfred Jackson, and John Hench and graduated in 1929.[1] A friend referred him to the fledgling Walt Disney Studios, where he was hired to a group of 19 animators in August/September 1929.[1][2] He worked alongside Walt Disney himself and made $18.00 a week, oftentimes working overtime without pay.[1] He worked in several different departments, starting as an animator, moving up to director, then to assistant director; he was also Dave Hand's assistant.[3][4] When the United States entered World War II, Disney submitted the necessary paperwork to waive his employees of their service so the company could direct training films for the army.[1] Cutting headed the Editorial Department for a year during the war.[1] Cutting was one of the several employees who played polo with Walt Disney; he also was sent to "scout for merry-go-rounds in Europe" after Disney had the idea for a theme park.[5][6][1] In 1939, his film The Ugly Duckling won the 1940 Oscar in Best Short Subject (Cartoons).[4][7] After Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released, Cutting convinced Roy Disney to let him work with the man hired to dub the film; he quickly became a dubbing assistant and by 1938 was head of the Foreign Department at Disney.[1] In this role, he supervised translation and dubbing efforts all over the world, traveling often to work with different teams.[2][4][1] He oversaw the dubbing of and found voice actors for the Swedish Dumbo, the French Mary Poppins, and the Japanese One Hundred and One Dalmatians in Japanese.[1] He was among the frontrunners for synchronizing sound and image.[4] He held his position in the Foreign Department until his retirement in 1975.[2][1] Cutting and his wife Camille lived in Paris while Cutting worked with European markets.[3] They had at least one son, Phil.[8][4] Cutting died on August 17, 1988, in North Hollywood, California.[1][2] Filmography
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