- Born
- Died
- Floyd Gottfredson was born on May 5, 1905 in Kaysville, Utah, USA. He was married to Mattie Mason. He died on July 22, 1986 in Montrose, California, USA.
- SpouseMattie Mason(1924 - July 22, 1986) (his death, 2 children)
- Gottfredson was born into a large Mormon family in Kaysville, Utah. The three brothers and four sisters traced their roots to their great-grandfather who had immigrated to the United States from Denmark in the 1840s.
- The drawing desk Gottfredson used occupies a corner in a special room at Disney's Publishing department in Burbank.
- As a child, Floyd severely injured his arm in a hunting accident. Housebound during a long recovery, he became interested in cartooning and took several cartooning correspondence courses.
- He is best known as a comic writer who worked on Disney's Mickey Mouse comics from 1930 to 1975.
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