Richard "Dick" Lundy was an Americananimator and film director best known for creating Donald Duck. He worked for a number of studios, including Walt Disney Productions (where he worked on Steamboat Willie, among many other films), Walter Lantz, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and is most notable for directing Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, and Barney Bearcartoons. An animator is one who is involved in the process of animation. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Donald Duck is an animated cartoon and comic-book character from Walt Disney Productions. ... Walt Disney Productions is the former name of The Walt Disney Company, which it held from 1929 to 1986. ... Steamboat Willie, released on November 18, 1928, is an animated cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... Woody Woodpecker in the 1948 short Wacky-Bye Baby, directed by Dick Lundy. ... Andy Panda was a series of animated cartoon short subjects produced by Walter Lantz and released by Universal Pictures from 1939 to 1949. ... Barney Bear was a series of animated cartoon short subjects produced by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ...
Donald's appearance in the cartoon, as created by animatorDickLundy, is similar to his modern look — the colors are the same, as is the blue sailor shirt and hat — but his features are more elongated, his body plumper, and his feet bigger.
The sons of his sister Della Duck (his sister in the animated shorts), the triplets were sent to spend some time with him as guests while their father recovered at the hospital from their latest prank.
Until this point, the development of both the animated and the comic strip version of Donald was the result of a combined effort by a number of different creators, rather than a single one.
Donald's famous voice, one of the most identifiable voices in all of animation, was until 1985 performed by voice actor Clarence "Ducky" Nash.
Donald's appearance in the cartoon, as created by animatorDickLundy, is similar to his modern look — the feather and beak colors are the same, as is the blue sailor shirt and hat — but his features are more elongated, his body plumper, and his feet bigger.
Animator Ben Sharpsteen also minted the classic Mickey, Donald, and Goofy comedy in 1935, with the cartoon Mickey's Service Station.
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