A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
William Opal Roberts
William Roberts
Birthplace:
Kentucky, USA
Born:
August 2, 1899
Died:
March 18, 1974
Worked as a magazine illustrator in New York, before joining the Disney Organization in 1932/3.
Animation:
1932 Babes in the Woods
1932 Bugs in Love
1932 King Neptune
1933 Father Noah's Ark
1933 Mickey's Mellerdrammer
1933 Old King Cole
1934 Gulliver Mickey
1934 Mickey Plays Papa
1934 The Big Bad Wolf
1934 The Dognapper
1934 The Grasshopper and the Ants
1935 Pluto's Judgement Day
1935 The Robber Kitten
1935 Who Killed Cock Robin?
1936 Alpine Climbers
1936 Donald and Pluto
1936 Mickey's Polo Team
1936 Mother Pluto
1936 Three Little Wolves
1937 Clock Cleaners
1938 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Co-Director:
1932 Babes in the Woods
1932 Bugs in Love
1932 King Neptune
1933 Father Noah's Ark
1933 Mickey's Mellerdrammer
1933 Old King Cole
1934 Gulliver Mickey
1934 Mickey Plays Papa
1934 The Big Bad Wolf
1934 The Dognapper
1934 The Grasshopper and the Ants
1935 Pluto's Judgement Day
1935 The Robber Kitten
1935 Who Killed Cock Robin?
1936 Alpine Climbers
1936 Donald and Pluto
1936 Mickey's Polo Team
1936 Mother Pluto
1936 Three Little Wolves
1937 Clock Cleaners
1938 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1942 Bambi
Director:
1932 Babes in the Woods
1932 Bugs in Love
1932 King Neptune
1933 Father Noah's Ark
1933 Mickey's Mellerdrammer
1933 Old King Cole
1934 Gulliver Mickey
1934 Mickey Plays Papa
1934 The Big Bad Wolf
1934 The Dognapper
1934 The Grasshopper and the Ants
1935 Pluto's Judgement Day
1935 The Robber Kitten
1935 Who Killed Cock Robin?
1936 Alpine Climbers
1936 Donald and Pluto
1936 Mickey's Polo Team
1936 Mother Pluto
1936 Three Little Wolves
1937 Clock Cleaners
1938 Brave Little Tailor
1938 Mickey's Parrot
1938 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1939 Society Dog Show
1940 Fantasia
1940 Pinocchio
1941 Dumbo
1942 Bambi
1942 Lake Titicaca
1942 Saludos Amigos
1943 Reason and Emotion
1944 The Amazon Awakens
1944 The Cold-blooded Penguin
1944 The Flying Gauchito
1944 The Three Caballeros
1946 The ABC of Hand Tools
1947 Fun and Fancy Free
1947 Mickey and the Beanstalk
1955 A World Is Born
1962 Man Is His Own Worst Enemy
1998 Mickey's Family Album
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.