Bill Roberts - my 415th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Bill Roberts was an animator and illustrator for the Disney Studios during the making of some classic films. He is my 415th pick to be named a Disney Legend. Worked as a magazine illustrator in New York, before joining the Disney Organization in 1932/3. Directed the Rite of Spring segment in Fantasia.

His Filmography includes:

Animation department (25 credits)

 1991 Lifestyles of the Rich and Animated (TV Movie) (animator - segment "Mickey's Polo Team", uncredited)

 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (animator)

 1937 Pluto's Quin-puplets (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1937 Clock Cleaners (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1937 Magician Mickey (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1936 Mother Pluto (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1936 Donald and Pluto (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1936 Alpine Climbers (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1936 Three Little Wolves (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1936 Mickey's Polo Team (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1935 Pluto's Judgement Day (Short) (animator)

 1935 Who Killed Cock Robin? (Short) (animator: "Paul Parrot" - uncredited)

 1935 The Robber Kitten (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1934 The Dognapper (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1934 Mickey Plays Papa (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1934 Gulliver Mickey (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1934 Camping Out (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1934 The Grasshopper and the Ants (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1933 Giantland (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1933 Old King Cole (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1933 Father Noah's Ark (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1933 Mickey's Mellerdrammer (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1932 Babes in the Woods (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1932 Bugs in Love (Short) (animator - uncredited)

 1932 King Neptune (Short) (animator - uncredited)

Director (17 credits)

  The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) (2 episodes, 1955 - 1962) (sequence director - 1 episode, 1970) (segment director - 1 episode, 1963)

- Nature's Strangest Oddballs (1970) ... (sequence director)

- The Truth About Mother Goose (1963) ... (segment director)

- Man Is His Own Worst Enemy (1962)

- Adventures of Mickey Mouse (1955)

 1947 Mickey and the Beanstalk (Short)

 1946 The ABC of Hand Tools (Short)

 1945 The Cold-Blooded Penguin (Short)

 1944 The Three Caballeros (sequence director)

 1943 The Winged Scourge (Documentary short) (uncredited)

 1943 Reason and Emotion (Short) (uncredited)

 1943 The Grain That Built a Hemisphere (Documentary short) (uncredited)

 1942 Donald Duck Visits Lake Titicaca (Short)

 1942 Saludos Amigos (Short) (sequence director)

 1942 Bambi (sequence director)

 1941 Dumbo (sequence director)

 1940 Fantasia (: in most releases - segment "Rite of Spring", uncredited)

 1940 Pinocchio (sequence director)

 1939 Society Dog Show (Short) (uncredited)

 1938 Brave Little Tailor (Short) (uncredited)

 1938 Mickey's Parrot (Short) (uncredited)

 1947 Fun & Fancy Free (animation director)