Don Towsley

Don Towsley May 11 1912 November 25 1986 was an animator working at Walt Disney Animation Studios and later at MGM and Filmation Starting out at Disney Towsley worked on three shorts in the Silly Symphony series animating the band in The Cookie Carnival 1935 a scene of dancing hens ultimately cut from Cock o the Walk 1935 and the introduction and opening scene of Donalds Better Self 1938 In 1938 Towsley became the main animator for the Donald Duck short films following Fred Spencers death Towsley contributed to the 1940 film Pinocchio as part of the team responsible for Jiminy Cricket and Monstro the Whale He also animated the Pastoral Symphony segment of the 1940 film Fantasia In 1943 Towsley along with a team of animators contributed to a wartime animated short film titled Der Fuehrers Face produced by Walt Disney In the 1960s Towsley worked for MGMs Tom and Jerry series including animation work on 1965s Haunted Mouse Towsley joined the Filmation animation studio in 1968 as an associate director He directed episodes of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids 197274 My Favorite Martians 197375 The New Adventures of Gilligan 197477 The US of Archie 197476 The New Adventures of Batman 1977 Sabrina Super Witch 197778 and The New Adventures of Flash Gordon 197980 among others He also directed a sequence in Filmations 1972 film Journey Back to Oz biography from Wikipedia