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Ub Iwerks (1901–1971)

Director | Animation Department | Producer

Ub Iwerks worked as a commercial artist in Kansas City in 1919 when he met Walt Disney who was in the same profession. When Disney decided to form an animation company, Ub Iwerks was the first employee he had due to his skill at fast drawing as well as being a personal friend. When Charles Mintz raided Disney's animation studio and stole the rights to their character Oswald the Rabbit... See full bio »

Born:

Ubbe Ert Iwwerks
in Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Died:

(age 70) in Burbank, California, USA
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1942 Boys Anti-Tank Rifle (documentary short) (uncredited)
 
1941 The Reluctant Dragon (cartoon sequences - uncredited)
 
1940 Wise Owl (short)
 
1940 Ye Olde Swap Shoppe (short)
 
1940 The Egg Hunt (short)
 
1940 Blackboard Revue (short)
 
1940 A Busy Day (short)
 
1940 Baby Checkers (short)
 
1940 Beauty Shoppe (short)
 
1939 Crop Chasers (short)
 
1939 Nell's Yells (short)
 
1939 The Gorilla Hunt (short)
 
1938 Midnight Frolics (short)
 
1938 Snowtime (short)
 
1938 The Frog Pond (short)
 
1938 Showtime (short)
 
1938 The Horse on the Merry-Go-Round (short)
 
1937 Porky's Super Service (short)
 
1937 Foxy Pup (short)
 
1937 Porky and Gabby (short)
 
1937 Merry Mannequins (short)
 
1937 Scrappy's Trip to Mars (short)
 
1937 Skeleton Frolics (short)
 
1936 Two Lazy Crows (short)
 
1936 Happy Days (short) (uncredited)
 
1936 Little Boy Blue (short) (uncredited)
 
1936 Dick Whittington's Cat (short) (uncredited)
 
1936 Tom Thumb (short) (uncredited)
 
1936 Ali Baba (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 Humpty Dumpty (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 Simple Simon (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 Balloon Land (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 The Three Bears (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 Sinbad the Sailor (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 Summertime (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 Mary's Little Lamb (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 Old Mother Hubbard (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 The Brementown Musicians (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 Little Black Sambo (short) (uncredited)
 
1935 The Microbe Army (short)
 
1934 Jack Frost (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 Don Quixote (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 The King's Tailor (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 The Headless Horseman (short) (as Ub. Iwerks)
 
1934 Viva Willie (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 The Good Scout (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 Jungle Jitters (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 Cave Man (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 The Queen of Hearts (short)
 
1934 Rasslin' Round (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 Reducing Creme (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 Puss in Boots (short)
 
1934 Insultin' the Sultan (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 The Brave Tin Soldier (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 The Little Red Hen (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 Robin Hood, Jr. (short) (uncredited)
 
1934 Hell's Fire (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Davy Jones' Locker (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Jack and the Beanstalk (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Stratos-Fear (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Spite Flight (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Soda Squirt (short)
 
1933 Play Ball (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Pale-Face (short)
 
1933 Chinaman's Chance (short)
 
1933 Bulloney (short)
 
1933 Techno-Cracked (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Flip's Lunch Room (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 Coo Coo the Magician (short) (uncredited)
 
1933 The Air Race (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 Funny Face (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 Nurse Maid (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 The Music Lesson (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 Phoney Express (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 The Goal Rush (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 Circus (short)
 
1932 Stormy Seas (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 Room Runners (short)
 
1932 The Office Boy (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 'The Bully' (short) (uncredited)
 
1932/I School Days (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 Puppy Love (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 What a Life (short)
 
1932 Fire! Fire! (short) (uncredited)
 
1932 The Milkman (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 Spooks (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 Africa Squeaks (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 Jail Birds (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 The Village Specialist (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 Movie Mad (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 The New Car (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 Ragtime Romeo (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 Laughing Gas (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 The Soup Song (short) (uncredited)
 
1931 The Village Smitty (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 Cuckoo Murder Case (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 The Village Barber (short)
 
1930 Flying Fists (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 Fiddlesticks (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 Arctic Antics (short)
 
1930 Autumn (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 Summer (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 Little Orphan Willie (short) (uncredited)
 
1930 Puddle Pranks (short)
 
1929 Hell's Bells (short)
 
1929 The Jazz Fool (short)
 
1929 The Plowboy (short)
 
1929 Mickey's Follies (short)
 
1929 Mickey's Choo-Choo (short)
 
1929 The Karnival Kid (short)
 
1929 The Barnyard Battle (short)
 
1929/I The Opry House (short)
 
1928 The Gallopin' Gaucho (short)
 
1928 Steamboat Willie (short)
 
1928 Plane Crazy (short)
 
Show ShowAnimation Department (108 titles)
1936 Little Boy Blue (short) (animator - as U.B. Iwerks)
 
1936 Tom Thumb (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1935 Simple Simon (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1935 The Three Bears (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1935 Sinbad the Sailor (short) (animator - as U.B. Iwerks)
 
1935 Mary's Little Lamb (short) (animator)
 
1935 Little Black Sambo (short) (animator - as U.B. Iwerks)
 
1932 The Music Lesson (short) (animator)
 
1932 The Goal Rush (short) (animator)
 
1932 Circus (short) (animator)
 
1932 Stormy Seas (short) (animator)
 
1932 Puppy Love (short) (animator)
 
1932 Fire! Fire! (short) (animator)
 
1932 The Milkman (short) (animator)
 
1931 Spooks (short) (animator)
 
1931 Africa Squeaks (short) (animator)
 
1931 Jail Birds (short) (animator)
 
1931 The Village Specialist (short) (animator)
 
1931 Movie Mad (short) (animator)
 
1931 The New Car (short) (animator)
 
1931 Ragtime Romeo (short) (animator)
 
1931 Laughing Gas (short) (animator)
 
1931 The Soup Song (short) (animator)
 
1930 Cuckoo Murder Case (short) (animator)
 
1930 The Village Barber (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1930 Flying Fists (short) (animator)
 
1930 Fiddlesticks (short) (animator - as 'Ub' Iwerks)
 
1930 The Cactus Kid (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1930 Little Orphan Willie (short) (animator)
 
1930 Minnie's Yoo Hoo (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1930 Puddle Pranks (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1929 The Merry Dwarfs (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1929 Haunted House (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1929 Hell's Bells (short) (animator)
 
1929 Jungle Rhythm (short) (animator)
 
1929 The Skeleton Dance (short) (animator)
 
1929 Wild Waves (short) (animator)
 
1929 The Jazz Fool (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1929 The Plowboy (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1929 Mickey's Follies (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1929 Mickey's Choo-Choo (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1929 The Karnival Kid (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1929 The Barnyard Battle (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1929 When the Cat's Away (short) (animator)
 
1929/I The Opry House (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1929 The Barn Dance (short) (animator)
 
1928 The Gallopin' Gaucho (short) (animator)
 
1928 Steamboat Willie (short) (animator - uncredited)
 
1928 Poor Papa (short) (animator)
 
1928 Plane Crazy (short) (animator)
 
1928 Africa Before Dark (short) (animator)
 
1927 The Ocean Hop (short) (animator)
 
1927/II All Wet (short) (animator)
 
1927 Trolley Troubles (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice in the Big League (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice the Beach Nut (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice the Whaler (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice's Medicine Show (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice in the Klondike (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice's Channel Swim (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice's Picnic (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice's Knaughty Knight (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice's Three Bad Eggs (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice's Circus Daze (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice's Auto Race (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice in the Alps (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice the Collegiate (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice at the Rodeo (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice at the Carnival (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice Foils the Pirates (short) (animator)
 
1927 Alice the Golf Bug (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice the Lumberjack (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice's Brown Derby (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice's Spanish Guitar (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice Helps the Romance (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice Cuts the Ice (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice the Fire Fighter (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice in the Wooly West (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice's Monkey Business (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice Charms the Fish (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice's Orphan (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice's Mysterious Mystery (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice's Little Parade (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice's Balloon Race (short) (animator)
 
1926 Alice on the Farm (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice in the Jungle (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice Rattled by Rats (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice Plays Cupid (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice the Jail Bird (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice Chops the Suey (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice's Tin Pony (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice Picks the Champ (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice Wins the Derby (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice Is Stage Struck (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice Loses Out (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice's Egg Plant (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice Solves the Puzzle (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice Gets Stung (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice the Toreador (short) (animator)
 
1925 Alice Cans the Cannibals (short) (animator)
 
1924 Alice the Piper (short) (animator)
 
1924 Alice and the Three Bears (short) (animator)
 
1924 Alice Hunting in Africa (short) (animator)
 
1924 Alice Gets in Dutch (short) (animator)
 
1924 Alice the Peacemaker (short) (animator)
 
1924 Alice's Day at Sea (short) (animator)
 
1923 Alice's Wonderland (short) (animator)
 
1922 Cinderella (short) (animator)
 
Show ShowProducer (95 titles)
1940 Ye Olde Swap Shoppe (short) (producer - uncredited)
 
1940 Blackboard Revue (short) (producer - uncredited)
 
1940 A Busy Day (short) (producer)
 
1940 Baby Checkers (short) (producer)
 
1940 Beauty Shoppe (short) (producer)
 
1939 Crop Chasers (short) (producer)
 
1939 Nell's Yells (short) (producer)
 
1939 The Gorilla Hunt (short) (producer)
 
1938 Midnight Frolics (short) (producer)
 
1938 The Frog Pond (short) (producer)
 
1938 Showtime (short) (producer)
 
1938 The Horse on the Merry-Go-Round (short) (producer)
 
1937 Foxy Pup (short) (producer)
 
1937 Merry Mannequins (short) (producer)
 
1937 Scrappy's Trip to Mars (short) (producer)
 
1937 Skeleton Frolics (short) (producer)
 
1936 Two Lazy Crows (short) (producer)
 
1936 Happy Days (short) (producer)
 
1936 Little Boy Blue (short) (producer)
 
1936 Dick Whittington's Cat (short) (producer)
 
1936 Tom Thumb (short) (producer)
 
1936 Ali Baba (short) (producer)
 
1935 Humpty Dumpty (short) (producer)
 
1935 Simple Simon (short) (producer)
 
1935 Balloon Land (short) (producer)
 
1935 The Three Bears (short) (producer)
 
1935 Sinbad the Sailor (short) (producer)
 
1935 Summertime (short) (producer)
 
1935 Mary's Little Lamb (short) (producer)
 
1935 Old Mother Hubbard (short) (producer)
 
1935 The Brementown Musicians (short) (producer)
 
1935 The Microbe Army (short) (executive producer)
 
1934 Jack Frost (short) (producer)
 
1934 Don Quixote (short) (producer)
 
1934 The King's Tailor (short) (producer)
 
1934 The Headless Horseman (short) (producer)
 
1934 Viva Willie (short) (producer)
 
1934 The Good Scout (short) (producer)
 
1934 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (short) (producer)
 
1934 Jungle Jitters (short) (producer)
 
1934 Cave Man (short) (producer)
 
1934 The Queen of Hearts (short) (producer)
 
1934 Rasslin' Round (short) (producer)
 
1934 Reducing Creme (short) (producer)
 
1934 Puss in Boots (short) (producer)
 
1934 Insultin' the Sultan (short) (producer)
 
1934 The Brave Tin Soldier (short) (producer)
 
1934 The Little Red Hen (short) (producer)
 
1934 Robin Hood, Jr. (short) (producer)
 
1934 Hell's Fire (short) (producer)
 
1933 Davy Jones' Locker (short) (producer)
 
1933 Jack and the Beanstalk (short) (producer)
 
1933 Stratos-Fear (short) (producer)
 
1933 Spite Flight (short) (producer)
 
1933 Soda Squirt (short) (producer - uncredited)
 
1933 Play Ball (short) (producer)
 
1933 Pale-Face (short) (producer - uncredited)
 
1933 Chinaman's Chance (short) (producer - uncredited)
 
1933 Bulloney (short) (producer - uncredited)
 
1933 Techno-Cracked (short) (producer)
 
1933 Flip's Lunch Room (short) (producer)
 
1933 Coo Coo the Magician (short) (producer)
 
1933 The Air Race (short) (producer)
 
1933 Willie Whopper (short) (producer)
 
1932 Funny Face (short) (producer)
 
1932 Nurse Maid (short) (producer)
 
1932 The Music Lesson (short) (producer)
 
1932 Phoney Express (short) (producer)
 
1932 The Goal Rush (short) (producer)
 
1932 Circus (short) (producer)
 
1932 Stormy Seas (short) (producer)
 
1932 Room Runners (short) (producer)
 
1932 The Office Boy (short) (producer)
 
1932 'The Bully' (short) (producer)
 
1932/I School Days (short) (producer)
 
1932 Puppy Love (short) (producer)
 
1932 What a Life (short) (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Fire! Fire! (short) (producer)
 
1932 The Milkman (short) (producer)
 
1931 Spooks (short) (producer)
 
1931 Africa Squeaks (short) (producer)
 
1931 Jail Birds (short) (producer)
 
1931 The Village Specialist (short) (producer)
 
1931 Movie Mad (short) (producer)
 
1931 The New Car (short) (producer)
 
1931 Ragtime Romeo (short) (producer)
 
1931 Laughing Gas (short) (producer)
 
1931 The Soup Song (short) (producer)
 
1931 The Village Smitty (short) (producer)
 
1930 Cuckoo Murder Case (short) (producer)
 
1930 The Village Barber (short) (producer)
 
1930 Flying Fists (short) (producer - as 'Ub' Iwerks)
 
1930 Fiddlesticks (short) (producer - as 'Ub' Iwerks)
 
1930 Little Orphan Willie (short) (producer)
 
1930 Puddle Pranks (short) (producer)
 
Show ShowVisual Effects (40 titles)
1964 Mary Poppins (special processes - uncredited)
 
1963 The Birds (special photographic advisor)
 
1961 The Parent Trap (special photographic effects)
 
1961 101 Dalmatians (special processes)
 
1959 Jungle Cat (documentary) (special processes)
 
1959 Sleeping Beauty (special processes)
 
1958 White Wilderness (documentary) (special processes)
 
1954-1957 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV series) (special processes - 28 episodes)
– Adventure in Wildwood Heart (1957) (special processes)
– The Fourth Anniversary Show (1957) (special processes)
– The Liberty Story (1957) (special processes)
– The Yellowstone Story/Bear Country (1957) (special processes)
– More About the Silly Symphonies (1957) (special processes)
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1957 Johnny Tremain (special processes)
 
1956 Disneyland, U.S.A. (documentary short) (special processes)
 
1956 Westward Ho, the Wagons! (special processes)
 
1956 Secrets of Life (documentary) (special process)
 
1956 The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure (TV series) (special processes - 19 episodes)
– The Tower Treasure (1956) (special processes)
– Boys in Danger (1956) (special processes)
– Never Say Die (1956) (special processes)
– The Tower's Secret (1956) (special processes)
– The Final Search (1956) (special processes)
See all 19 episodes »
 
1956 Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (special processes)
 
1956 The Great Locomotive Chase (special processes)
 
1955 Men Against the Arctic (documentary short) (special process)
 
1955 The Mickey Mouse Club (TV series) (special processes - 3 episodes)
– Episode #1.5 (1955) (special processes)
– Episode #1.4 (1955) (special processes)
– Episode #1.3 (1955) (special processes)
 
1955 The African Lion (documentary) (special process)
 
1955 Lady and the Tramp (special processes)
 
1955 Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (special processes)
 
1954 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (special processes)
 
1954 The Vanishing Prairie (documentary) (special process)
 
1953 The Living Desert (documentary) (special process)
 
1953 Prowlers of the Everglades (documentary short) (special process)
 
1953 Peter Pan (special processes)
 
1953 Bear Country (documentary short) (special process)
 
1952 Water Birds (documentary short) (special process)
 
1952 The Olympic Elk (documentary short) (special process)
 
1951 Nature's Half Acre (documentary short) (special process)
 
1951 Alice in Wonderland (special processes)
 
1950 One Hour in Wonderland (TV special) (special processes)
 
1950 Beaver Valley (documentary short) (special process)
 
1950 Cinderella (special processes)
 
1949 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (special processes)
 
1948 So Dear to My Heart (special process)
 
1948 Melody Time (special processes)
 
1947 Fun & Fancy Free (process effects)
 
1946 Song of the South (special processes)
 
1946 Make Mine Music (process effects)
 
1944 The Three Caballeros (process effects: live action sequences)
 
Show ShowSpecial Effects (7 titles)
1963-1965 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV series) (special effects - 8 episodes)
– The Three Lives of Thomasina: Part 3 (1965) (special effects)
– The Three Lives of Thomasina: Part 2 (1965) (special effects)
– The Three Lives of Thomasina: Part 1 (1965) (special effects)
– Toby Tyler: Part 2 (1964) (special effects)
– Toby Tyler: Part 1 (1964) (special effects)
See all 8 episodes »
 
1964 The Three Lives of Thomasina (special effects)
 
1960 Ten Who Dared (special effects)
 
1960 Pollyanna (special effects)
 
1960 Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (special effects)
 
1957 Perri (special effects)
 
1941 The Reluctant Dragon (special effects)
 
Show ShowWriter (2 titles)
1935 The Microbe Army (short)
 
1928 Steamboat Willie (short) (uncredited)
 
Show ShowActor (1 title)
1923 Alice's Wonderland (short)
 
Show ShowCinematographer (1 title)
1923 Alice's Wonderland (short) (as Ubbe Iwerks)
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (2 titles)
2005 From Kansas City to Hollywood (video documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1999 The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (documentary)
Himself
 
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