Bill Berg - my 451st pick to be named a Disney Legend

Writer and animator Bill Berg is my 45st pick to be given the Disney Legend award.

Berg studied at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles before joining Disney's animation department in 1938 as a trainee. After working his way up to assistant animator, he moved to the story department in 1943 and began writing and sketching Donald Duck cartoon shorts.

In the '50s, he was involved in the creation of the Dumbo ride at Disneyland and wrote many of the "Mickey Mouse Club" TV shows. He also wrote for the popular Jiminy Cricket education films such as "How to Catch a Cold," which were shown in elementary schools, and worked on the 1959 Academy Award-nominated short about mathematics, "Donald Duck in Math Magic Land."

Berg also wrote many "Wonderful World of Disney" TV shows.

Before retiring in 1988, he wrote and sketched the syndicated Disney comic strip "Scamp" for many years.

Filmography

Writer

1944

    Donald's Off Day

1945

    The Eyes Have It

    Hockey Homicide

1946

    Double Dribble

1947

    Crazy with the Heat

    Bootle Beetle

    The Big Wash

1948

    Soup's On

    Tea for Two Hundred

1949

    Donald's Happy Birthday

    Sea Salts

    Winter Storage

    Honey Harvester

    All in a Nutshell

    The Greener Yard

    Slide, Donald, Slide

1950

    Lion Around

    Hook, Lion and Sinker

    Bee at the Beach

    Out on a Limb

1951

    Chicken in the Rough

    Corn Chips

    Test Pilot Donald

    Lucky Number

    Out of Scale

    Bee on Guard

1952

    Donald Applecore

    Two Chips and a Miss

    Pluto's Party

    Pluto's Christmas Tree

1953

    The Simple Things

    Canvas Back Duck

1955

    No Hunting

1956

    How to Have an Accident in the Home

1959

    Donald in Mathmagic Land

    How to Have an Accident at Work

1961

    The Litterbug

    Donald and the Wheel

1967

    Scrooge McDuck and Money

Animator

    (1940) - Pinocchio (animator)

    (1985) - The Black Cauldron (assistant animator)

    (1986) - The Great Mouse Detective (key assistant animator)

    (1987) - Sport Goofy in Soccermania (additional animator)

    (1988) - Oliver & Company (coordinating animator)

    (1989) - The Little Mermaid (character key)