Actor
John Canemaker
Biography

John Canemaker has won an Academy Award, an Emmy and a Peabody Award for his animation and is an internationally-renowned animation historian and teacher. A key figure in American independent animation, Canemaker’s work has a distinctive personal style emphasizing emotion, personality and dynamic visual expression. His film, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, won an Oscar in 2005 for Best Animated Short, as well as an Emmy. A 28-minute autobiographical essay about a troubled fathe ...

Known For
Acting
2021 -- Cartoon Carnival | Self
2015 -- Tyrus: The Tyrus Wong Story | Himself
2010 -- Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino | Himself
2010 -- Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo | Himself
2008 -- Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930 | Himself
2008 -- Walt & El Grupo | Self
2007 -- Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920 | Himself
2006 -- Lady's Pedigree: The Making of Lady and the Tramp | Self
2005 -- From Rags to Riches: The Making of Cinderella | Self
2005 -- The Art of Mary Blair | Self
2001 -- Celebrating Dumbo | Himself
2001 -- Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All | Himself
2000 -- The Fantasia Legacy: The Concert Feature | Self
1995 -- Frank and Ollie | Himself
1990 -- Earthday Birthday | (voice)
1980 -- Byron B. Blackbear and the Scientific Method | (voice)
1977 -- Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat | Narrator
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