Jack Dunham

Who was Jack Dunham?

Jack Dunham was an American animator and television producer who worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walter Lantz Productions during his career.

Dunham was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, on September 19, 1910.

He began his career by working on animated shorts of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for Walter Lantz at Walter Lantz Productions. Dunham also worked as an animator on several other Walter Lantz Production cartoons, including Night Life Of The Bugs and The Fun House, which were both released in 1936, and Dumb Cluck and Duck Hunt, which were both produced in 1937. He also worked on an episode of Meany, Miny and Moe and The Country Store, which was released in 1937.

Dunham was hired by the Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1937, where he worked as an inbetweener, an industry term for an animator's assistant, on the film, Snow White And the Seven Dwarfs. He later joined management, and remained a unit manager until his departure from Disney in 1947.

Dunham moved to Canada in 1955 for a management position at Associated Screen News of Canada in Montreal. He later enjoyed a career creating both animated and live action commercials in Toronto and Montreal.