Art Babbitt

Arthur Harold Babitsky, better known as Art Babbitt (October 8, 1907 – March 4, 1992), was an American animator, best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company.

He received over 80 awards as animation director and animator, but is most famous for creating Goofy. He worked as an animator or animation director on such films as The Three Little Pigs (1933), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Fantasia (1940), and The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), among others.

He animated the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Geppetto in Pinocchio, and the dancing mushrooms in Fantasia.

After leaving the Disney company union and joining the "Screen Cartoonists' Guild", a cartoon animators union, Babbitt was fired from Disney in 1941, an event that eventually led to the 1941 Disney animators' strike. Babbitt then served as one of the union negotiators.

His second wife was Dina Babbitt, a Holocaust survivor. Babbitt died of kidney failure March 4, 1992, at the age of 84.