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Hamilton Luske (October 16, 1903 – February 19, 1968) was an American film director. He directed many Disney films and shorts from 1936 until his death in 1968. He won an Academy Award in 1965.
Born in Chicago, Illinois on October 16, 1903 and died in Bel Air, California on February 19, 1968 at age 64.
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Hamilton Luske Biography / Wiki
| Name | Hamilton Luske |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1903-10-16 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 64 |
| Deathday | 1968-02-19 |
Hamilton Luske Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Himself | 1940-07-31 | This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche… |
Hamilton Luske Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Fantasia | Director | 1940-04-11 | Walt Disney’s timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience… |
| Lady and the Tramp | Director | 1955-06-22 | Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at… |
| Pinocchio | Director | 1940-02-23 | Lonely toymaker Geppetto has his wishes answered when the Blue Fairy arrives to bring his wooden puppet Pinocchio to life. Before becoming a real boy,… |
| Cinderella | Director | 1950-02-22 | Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother’s wand, Cinde… |
| The Reluctant Dragon | Director | 1941-06-19 | Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be f… |
| Mickey and the Beanstalk | Director | 1947-09-27 | A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley’s most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the a… |
| Alice in Wonderland | Director | 1951-07-28 | On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the burro… |
| One Hundred and One Dalmatians | Director | 1961-01-25 | When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fas… |
| So Dear to My Heart | Director | 1948-11-29 | The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his ‘champion’ lamb, Danny. Jeremiah’s dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcom… |
| Willie the Operatic Whale | Director | 1946-08-15 | The Metropolitan Opera is looking for the sea monster reported in newspaper headlines, because this monster sings beautifully! The “monster” is actual… |
| Food Will Win the War | Director | 1942-07-20 | World War II propaganda film on the importance of American farming. A morale booster film stressing the abudance of American agricultural output…. |
| Fun and Fancy Free | Director | 1947-09-27 | Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: “Bongo,†about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and “Mickey and the Beanstalk,†a take on … |
| The Litterbug | Director | 1961-06-21 | Donald and his nephews are litterbugs: they drop garbage everywhere they go – even when they are out for a drive in Donald’s car – until they are stop… |
| Donald in Mathmagic Land | Director | 1959-06-26 | Disney used animation here to explain through this wonderful adventure of Donald how mathmatics can be usuful in our real life. Through this journey D… |
| The Pelican and the Snipe | Director | 1944-01-07 | A snipe that lives with a pelican in a lighthouse must continually keep his pelican friend from harm when he flies in his sleep…. |
| Donald and the Wheel | Director | 1961-06-21 | A father tells his son the invention of the wheel was most important; to prove it, the two hipsters visit the inventor caveman Donald Duck. There foll… |
| Ben and Me | Director | 1953-11-11 | A revisionist version of American history as a small mouse comes to live with Benjamin Franklin and turns out to be responsible for many of his ideas;… |
| Pedro | Director | 1943-02-19 | Pedro, a small airplane from Chile, engaging in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with near disastrous results…. |
| Disneyland, U.S.A | Director | 1956-12-20 | A tour of the Disneyland theme park…. |
| Scrooge McDuck and Money | Director | 1967-03-23 | Scrooge McDuck teaches Huey, Dewey and Louie the basics about money & its history, economics and investing…. |
| How to Catch a Cold | Director | 1951-08-01 | An average guy gets lessons from his common sense on how to treat a cold (mainly, rest and avoid behaviors that would spread it) and how to keep from … |
| Once Upon a Wintertime | Director | 1948-05-27 | A short segment of the feature film Melody Time, re-released as a separate entity five years afterwards…. |
| Trees | Director | 1948-05-27 | A Walt Disney short film…. |
| Mickey’s Elephant | Director | 1936-10-10 | A friend shipped Mickey a baby elephant named Bobo as a playmate for Pluto. Pluto’s first introduction is to Bobo’s trunk, through a fence. He’s not t… |
| Our Friend the Atom | Director | 1957-01-23 | Dr. Heinz Haber, a noted scientist in the field of atomic energy, hosts this look at the possibility of an exciting new power source. He starts by com… |
| After You’ve Gone | Director | 1946-04-25 | The swinging sounds of Benny Goodman’s quartet are accentuated in this animated fantasy…. |
| Walt Disney’s Fables – Vol.3 | Director | 2003-09-15 | Three classic stories from the Disney team. ‘Donald in Mathmagicland’ is an award-winning short film, featuring everyone’s favourite duck. ‘Ben and Me… |
| Walt Disney’s Fables – Vol.6 | Director | 2004-05-31 | Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a doci… |
| Understanding Stresses and Strains | Director | 1968-01-01 | This film suggests the usage of common sense to minimize the normal stresses and strains of everyday life…. |
| Make Mine Music | Director | 1946-06-30 | In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of nine musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites a… |
| Peter Pan | Director | 1953-02-05 | Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, Wendy, Michael and John follow Peter Pan to a magical world where childhood lasts forever. But while in Ne… |
| Melody Time | Director | 1948-05-27 | In the grand tradition of Disney’s great musical classics, Melody Time features seven timeless stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unf… |
| Saludos Amigos | Director | 1942-08-24 | Live-action segments show members of the Disney staff touring South America and recording their impressions in sketches. These segue into four animate… |
| Kids Is Kids | Director | 1961-12-10 | Prof. Ludwig Von Drake shares his knowledge on the subject of child psychology. He is particularly studying Donald Duck (whom Von Drake refers to as “… |
| Mickey’s Surprise Party | Director | 1939-02-18 | Minnie is baking cookies. When she leaves for a short while, her dog Fifi accidentally drops popcorn kernels in the dough. Mickey and Pluto come over … |
| Disneyland After Dark | Director | 1962-04-15 | Taking a look at Disneyland following nightfall, including nighttime entertainment and appearances by many celebrities of the day…. |
| Disneyland Around the Seasons | Director | 1966-12-18 | Walt takes viewers on yet another tour of Disneyland to point out some of the newest additions to the park, including New Orleans Square, It’s a Small… |
| The Liberty Story | Director | 1957-05-29 | Walt Disney presents a combination live-action and animated drama of America’s historical fight for freedom. Includes a segment from Johnny Tremain, d… |
| Perilous Assignment | Director | 1959-11-06 | Behind-the-scenes of the filming of Third Man on the Mountain on location in Zermatt, Switzerland, where the cast and crew endure many hardships…. |
| Disneyland Goes to the World’s Fair | Director | 1964-05-17 | Walt Disney shows the viewing audience dinosaurs that will be used at the 1964 New York World’s Fair in which Disneyland will play an important part a… |
| Back Stage Party | Director | 1961-12-17 | Party, enterianment, and Behind the scenes… |
| Disneyland ’59 | Director | 1959-06-15 | Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland’s 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disn… |
| Disneyland 10th Anniversary | Director | 1965-01-03 | Walt Disney introduces Julie Reems,Miss Disneyland Tencennial,who is to travel as Disneyland’s official ambassador,and he shows Julie the imagineering… |
| Pacifically Peeking | Director | 1968-10-06 | Moby Duck leads a study of life on several South Pacific islands, including Pitcairn, Fiji, and Hawaii…. |
| Fly With Von Drake | Director | 1963-10-13 | Ludwig Von Drake covers the history of aviation through live action and animated clips…. |
| Music Land | Director | 1955-06-11 | Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation (“The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY”; “Offering hits re-released from ‘Make Mine Music’ an… |
| Contrasts in Rhythm | Director | 1955-03-11 | An animated segment from the film Melody Time which includes the two shorts “Bumble Boogie” and “Trees”…. |
| Operation Undersea | Director | 1954-12-08 | … |
Hamilton Luske Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Gala Day at Disneyland | Producer | 1960-01-21 | The gala dedication ceremonies at the opening of three new major attractions at Disneyland—Matterhorn Bobsleds, Submarine Voyage, and the new Monora… |
| The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle | Associate Producer | 1967-06-21 | Eagles are the channel to the spirit world for a Hopi Indian boy who defies tribal law and frees a sacred, sacrificial eagle. He is banished from his … |
| I Captured the King of the Leprechauns | Production Supervisor | 1959-05-29 | Behind the scenes of Darby O’Gill and the Little People…. |
| Disneyland Around the Seasons | Producer | 1966-12-18 | Walt takes viewers on yet another tour of Disneyland to point out some of the newest additions to the park, including New Orleans Square, It’s a Small… |
| Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates | Associate Producer | 1962-01-07 | Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes in… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Supervising Animator | 1937-12-08 | A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jeal… |
| Ferdinand the Bull | Animation | 1938-11-23 | This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would h… |
| The Goddess of Spring | Animation | 1934-11-03 | The goddess is greeted by dancing flowers and fairies. The devil comes and takes her away to be his queen. She’s despondent, as winter settles in abov… |
| Three Orphan Kittens | Animation | 1935-10-26 | Three orphan kittens are entering a society house in winter and ruin the furniture. But when they’re caught by the maid, the young daughter of the hou… |
| Elmer Elephant | Animation | 1936-03-28 | Little Elmer Elephant has a crush on Tillie Tiger and his affection is reciprocated. Trouble is, the pint-sized pachyderm is beset by bullies who ridi… |
| The Night Before Christmas | Animation | 1933-12-09 | A narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens hi… |
| King Neptune | Animation | 1932-09-10 | After a short introduction, one of Neptune’s mermaids is captured by a pirate ship, and their anchor chain entangles King Neptune; the various sea cre… |
| The Robber Kitten | Animation | 1935-04-12 | A kitten runs off to be a robber with a dog…. |
| The Worm Turns | Animation | 1937-01-02 | Mad scientist Mickey has just brewed up a potion; to test it out, he squirts it on a fly that’s been trapped by a spider, a (regular) mouse being hara… |
| Flowers and Trees | Animation | 1932-07-30 | A jealous stump threatens two trees that are in love by starting a forest fire. When the rain comes and puts out the fire the forest revives and celeb… |
| Babes in the Woods | Animation | 1932-11-19 | Two children wander the forest and get lured into a witch’s house…. |
| Santa’s Workshop | Animation | 1932-12-10 | Santa’s little helpers must hurry to finish the toys before Christmas Day…. |
| Father Noah’s Ark | Animation | 1933-04-08 | Noah, his family (wife, 3 sons, their wives), and various animals all help build the ark. The rains come, and the skunks barely miss the boat (not tha… |
| Lullaby Land | Animation | 1933-08-19 | A baby is transported to Lullaby Land, where pacifiers grow on trees, diapers, bottles, and potty chairs march on parade, and the gingham dog comes to… |
| The Pied Piper | Animation | 1933-09-16 | The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lu… |
| Mickey’s Mellerdrammer | Animation | 1933-03-17 | Mickey Mouse and his friends stage their own production of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin…. |
| The Mail Pilot | Animation | 1933-05-12 | Mickey the mail pilot is entrusted with a chest of money. He battles rain and snow, but his biggest battle is against Pete, who has a plane equipped w… |
| Mickey’s Gala Premier | Animation | 1933-07-01 | Mickey’s film is having a premiere, and all the stars turn out at the Chinese Theatre. Among those shown: Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Jimmy D… |
| Gulliver Mickey | Animation | 1934-05-19 | Mickey is first seen reading Gulliver’s Travels while the mice orphan children are pretending to be sailors. After ruining their game Mickey tries to … |
| The Grasshopper and the Ants | Animation | 1934-02-10 | As in the classic fable, the grasshopper plays his fiddle and lives for the moment, while the industrious ants squirrel away massive amounts of food f… |
| Funny Little Bunnies | Animation | 1934-03-24 | We see bunny rabbits preparing for Easter, by making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets…. |
| The Big Bad Wolf | Animation | 1934-04-14 | The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs…. |
| The Flying Mouse | Animation | 1934-07-14 | To the tune “I Would Like to Be a Bird,” a young mouse fashions wings from a pair of leaves, to the great amusement of his brothers when his attempts … |
| Pluto’s Judgement Day | Animation | 1935-09-27 | Pluto chases a kitten through a window and right into Mickey’s lap. Mickey scolds him, and goes off to wash the kitten. Pluto falls asleep in front of… |
| The Tortoise and the Hare | Animation | 1935-01-05 | The Tortoise and the Hare is an animated short film released on January 5, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jac… |
| Peculiar Penguins | Animation | 1934-09-01 | Penguins dance and play in Antarctica…. |
| Who Killed Cock Robin? | Animation | 1935-06-25 | A robin is shot so the woodland community holds a trial to investigate…. |
| Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies | Animation | 2006-12-19 | Among the many animation treasures celebrated here are the never-before-released ‘Hell’s Bells’ and the original unedited ‘Mother Goose Goes Hollywood… |
| The Ugly Duckling | Animation | 1939-04-07 | An outcast duckling’s search for a family to accept him leads to constant rejection before learning his true identity as a swan…. |
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