biography
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Dyer, Anson
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originally Ernest Anson-Dyer
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pronunciation:
[diyer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1962)
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| biography:
| Animator, born in Brighton, West Sussex, S England, UK. Hailed as ‘Britain's answer to Walt Disney’, he studied at Brighton Art School, and designed stained glass windows before trying animation with a series of Dicky Dee's Cartoons (1915). For the Cartoon Film Company he produced the bimonthly John Bull's Animated Sketchbook (1916), followed by 10 Kine Komedy Kartoons (1917). In 1935 he began a series of colour cartoons based on the Stanley Holloway character, Old Sam, his biggest popular success. |
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