Les Clark

A master craftsman and key player in the Golden Age of Animation, Les Clark was born in 1907 in Ogden, Utah, United States. Active between the years of 1927 to 1975, he mainly worked in the animation genre, directing some of Disney's most iconic films, including "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Cinderella," and "Peter Pan," and receiving several awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His distinctive style, characterized by fluid and expressive character animation, helped to define the Disney aesthetic and set the standard for American animation.

Les Clark, with his humble beginnings as a soda-jerk, rose to be one of Disney's Nine Old Men, proving that passion and hard work can indeed carve out fairy tales in real life.