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John Edward Musker (born November 8, 1953) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He often collaborates with fellow director Ron Clements and is best known for writing and directing the Disney animated films The Great Mouse Detective (1986), The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), Hercules (1997), Treasure ...
May 18, 2024 · Cinema. The director who shook up Disney and Hollywood animation with a mermaid, a genie from a lamp and a Polynesian princess. John Musker, who headed up ‘The Little Mermaid’, ‘Aladdin’ and...
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John Musker is an American animated film director who collaborates with Ron Clements. They directed various Disney animated films including The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog and Moana.
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John Edward Musker is an American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter for Walt Disney Animation Studios who generally works with Ron Clements. Musker's career at Disney began with a two-year apprenticeship under animator Frank Thomas.
John Musker is an American animated film director who collaborates with Ron Clements. They directed various Disney animated films including The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog and Moana.
- November 8, 1953
John Musker is a 40-year veteran of Walt Disney Animation Studios where he was an animator, storyboard artist, writer, director, and producer. He studied for two years at CalArts as part of the new Character Animation Program in the mid-seventies, where he learned from Disney and Chouinard veterans like Elmer Plummer, Bill Moore, and Ken O ...
During nearly four decades at Walt Disney Animation Studios, John Musker had never had an assignment quite like this one: spend two weeks in the Pacific searching for a story for the studio’s next animated blockbuster. When he met Tahitian fisherman Papa Mape, Musker knew he had found it.
