David Swift, my 145th pick to be named a Disney Legend, was an American screenwriter,
animator, director, and producer.
He began his career at The Walt
Disney Studio as an office boy and rose to be an assistant animator under Ward
Kimball in 1938.. He worked on such classic animated Disney films as
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia and Peter Pan. He also
worked on The Reluctant Dragon and The Nifty Nineties.
Swift eventually switched careers
from animation to screenwriting and made his directing debut with the Disney
film Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills. After Pollyanna, Swift wrote and
directed the film The Parent Trap, again starring Mills.
In the late 1970's, Swift returned
to Disney and wrote the screenplay for the Jodie Foster movie Candleshoe. He
was originally set to direct the picture, before being taken off the project
and replaced with Norman Tokar.
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