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Great Women Animators

Ongoing international directory of historical and contemporary female* animators

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Great Women Animators

Category: 1940s Animation

Bea Tamargo

1940s Disney animator

- by - 0 - In 1940s Animation American Animation Studio Animation

Bee Selck

1908-1981, 1940s' Disney animator

- by - 0 - In 1940s Animation American Animation Handdrawn Animation Studio Animation

Christine Jollow

b.1926-?, traditional animator for Halas and Batchelor Studios

- by - 0 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation 1950s Animation Studio Animation

Claire Parker

1906-1981, American engineer and animator known for her contribution

- by - 0 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation 1950s Animation 1960s Animation American Animation Experimental Animation Pinscreen Animation

Eunice Macaulay

b.1923, Canadian Academy Award winning animator and producer.

- by - 0 - In 1940s Animation 1950s Animation 1960s Animation 1970s Animation 1980s Animation Canadian Animation Handdrawn Animation

Evelyn (Eve) Lambart

1914-1999, Canadian stop-motion animator and technical director at the

- by - 0 - In 1940s Animation 1950s Animation 1960s Animation 1970s Animation 1980s Animation Abstract Animation Canadian Animation Experimental Animation Handdrawn Animation Stop Motion Animation Studio Animation

Hermína Týrlová

1900-1993, Czech stop-motion animator practicing 1920s-1980s.

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Irena Dodalová

1900-1989, Czech experimental and stop-motion animator and collaborator of

- by - 0 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation Abstract Animation Czech Animation Experimental Animation Stop Motion Animation Studio Animation

Joy Batchelor

1914-1991, British-American traditional animator whose career spanned 1930s-1980s

- by - 0 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation 1950s Animation 1960s Animation 1970s Animation 1980s Animation American Animation Handdrawn Animation Studio Animation UK Animation

LaVerne Harding

1905-1984, American pioneer animator who worked for Walter Lantz

- by - 0 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation 1950s Animation 1960s Animation 1970s Animation American Animation Handdrawn Animation Studio Animation

Lillian Friedman Astor

1912-1989, American pioneer studio animator who worked with Fleischer

- by - 0 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation American Animation Handdrawn Animation Studio Animation

Lotte Reiniger

1899-1981, German pioneer silhouette animator, best known for her

- by - 0 - In 1920s Animation 1930s Animation 1940s Animation 1950s Animation 1960s Animation German Animation Stop Motion Animation

Martha Sigall

1917-2014, American studio animator and cel painter for Schlesinger

- by - 0 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation 1950s Animation American Animation Studio Animation

Mary Ellen Bute

1906-1983, Pioneer American experimental sound, visual and film artist

- by - 0 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation 1950s Animation Abstract Animation American Animation Experimental Animation

Retta Scott

1916-1990, First woman to receive screen credit as animator

- by - 3 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation 1980s Animation American Animation Studio Animation

Ruthie Tompson

b.1910, Disney studio animator known for her work on

- by - 0 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation 1950s Animation 1960s Animation 1970s Animation American Animation Handdrawn Animation Studio Animation

Stella Harvey

1940s Halas and Batchelor animator

- by - 0 - In 1940s Animation American Animation Handdrawn Animation Studio Animation

Sylvia Moberly-Holland

1900-1974, American pioneer story artist for Disney studios

- by - 1 - In 1920s Animation 1930s Animation 1940s Animation American Animation Studio Animation

The Brumberg Sisters

Valentina (1899-1975) and Zinaida Brumberg (1900-1983), pioneers of early

- by - 0 - In 1930s Animation 1940s Animation 1950s Animation 1960s Animation 1970s Animation Handdrawn Animation Russian Animation Soviet Animation Studio Animation

Tissa David

1921-2012,  Romanian-born traditional animator with a career spanning over

- by - 0 - In 1940s Animation 1950s Animation 1960s Animation 1970s Animation 1980s Animation 1990s Animation American Animation Handdrawn Animation Hungarian Animation Studio Animation

Wally Crook

1914-1961, British studio animator with Halas and Batchelor

- by - 0 - In 1940s Animation 1950s Animation Handdrawn Animation Studio Animation UK Animation