Don DaGradi
American screenwriter (1911-1991) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 80
Don DaGradi was an American writer for Disney who started out as a layout artist on 1940s cartoons including "Der Fuehrer's Face" in 1943. He eventually moved into animated features with the film Lady and the Tramp in 1955.
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- Robert Stevenson Directed Mary Poppins and Blackbeard's Ghost
- Bill Walsh Produced Blackbeard's Ghost and The Love Bug
- Dallas McKennon Also in Lady and the Tramp and Mary Poppins
- Arthur Malet Don wrote Mary Poppins (1964)
Dick Van Dyke Don wrote Mary Poppins (1964)
David Tomlinson Don wrote Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1973)
Richard Deacon Don wrote Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)- Peter Renaday Don wrote The Love Bug (1968)
Walt Disney Produced Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Akim Tamiroff Don wrote Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966)
Ed Wynn Don wrote Son of Flubber (1964)
Reginald Owen Also in Mary Poppins (1964)
Wilfred Jackson Directed Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Clyde Geronimi Directed Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Elliott Reid Don wrote Son of Flubber (1964)
J. Pat O'Malley Don wrote Mary Poppins and Son of Flubber- Bing Russell Don wrote The Love Bug (1969)
Ned Glass Don wrote The Love Bug (1968)- Thurl Ravenscroft Don wrote Mary Poppins (1964)
Joe Flynn Don wrote The Love Bug and Son of Flubber
Ralph Wright Also in Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Alan Carney Don wrote Blackbeard's Ghost and Son of Flubber
Cyril Delevanti Don wrote Mary Poppins (1965)
Gil Lamb Also in Blackbeard's Ghost and The Love Bug
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He also worked as a color and styling or sequence consultant on many other motion pictures for Disney. His greatest achievement was for his visual screenplay for Mary Poppins in 1964 for which he shared an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with Bill Walsh. Don DaGradi died August 4, 1991, in Friday Harbor, Washington. He was named a Disney Legend posthumously, only months after his death. DaGradi lived in Friday Harbor, WA with his wife Betty and two children.
