Known for
Directing
Born
November 12, 1908
Birthplace
Wareham, Massachusetts, USA
Died
February 2, 1996 (aged 87)
Culhane worked for a number of American animation studios, including Fleischer Studios, the Ub Iwerks studio, Walt Disney Productions, and theWalter Lantz studio. He began his animation career in 1925 working for J.R. Bray studios, and is known for promoting the animation talents of his inker/assistant at the Fleischer Studios in the early 1930s, Lillian Friedman Astor, making her the first female studio animator. While at the Disney studio, he discovered while working on Hawaiian Holiday's crab sequence an animation method that involved stewing for multiple days, before drawing the entire thing in rough sketches all at once, straight ahead, without invoking the left side of the brain. He wa...
1980
Writer, Director
1977
Writer, Director
1977
Production Consultant
1976
Director, Writer
1970
Director
1969
1967
Executive Producer, Story
1967
Director, Story
1967
Executive Producer
1967
Story, Executive Producer
1967
Executive Producer
1967
Executive Producer
1967
Executive Producer
1967
Director
1967
Director
1967
Director, Writer
1967
Director, Executive Producer
1967
Director, Executive Producer
1967
Director, Executive Producer
1967
Executive Producer
1967
Story, Director
1967
Director
1967
Director
1967
Director
1966
Director