Animation Professionals Over 90 Still Alive
10 years ago, Cartoon Brew had an article about animators from the Golden Age and beyond over a certain age still living.
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/who-are-the-oldest-living-animation-artists-88196.html
Unfortunately, the lion's share of that group have since passed away, save for a handful of names. For this post, I would like to highlight (in age order) those from studios like Disney, Warner Brothers as well as independent bases that are around today who represent the last living links to old school animation. These include artists, directors and writers. Exclusive voice actors or animated music composers are not counted.
Vera Linnecar (b. 1923) Halas/Bachelor, Bob Godfrey
Enid Wizig (b. 1923) Warner Brothers (Update: Passed Away on February 12, 2026)
Joe Hale (b. 1925) Disney (Update: Passed Away on January 29, 2025)
Lillian Schwartz (b. 1927) Independent (Update: Passed Away on October 12, 2024)
Witold Giersz (b. 1927) Independent
Bob Singer (b. 1928) Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera
Yoji Kuri (b. 1928) Independent (Update: Passed Away on November 24, 2024)
Robert Verrall (b. 1928) National Film Board of Canada (Update: Passed Away on January 17, 2025)
Peter Maddocks (b. 1928) Independent (Update: Passed Away on November 20, 2024)
Zdeňka Deitchová (b. 1928) Gene Deitch
Art Leonardi (b. 1929) Warner Brothers, MGM
Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) Paramount, Terrytoons (Update: Passed Away on January 17, 2025)
Don Iwerks (b. 1929) Disney
Phil Roman (b. 1930) Chuck Jones, Fox, Independent
Howard Beckerman (b. 1930) Famous Studios, Terrytoons, Independent (Update: Passed Away on June 29, 2024)
R.O. Blechman (b. 1930) Terrytoons, Independent
Stan Hayward (b. 1930) Bob Godfrey
Joseph Koenig (b. 1930) National Film Board of Canada
Jack Heiter (b. 1930) Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, UPA
Rein Raamat (b. 1931) Independent
Ed Seeman (b. 1931) Paramount (Update: Passed Away on February 14, 2025)
Fred Wolf (b. 1932) Independent
Brian Trueman (b. 1932) BBC (Update: Passed Away on September 1, 2024)
Fumio Kurokawa (b. 1932) Nippon Animation (Update: Passed Away on April 10, 2024)
Yvonne Andersen (b. 1932) Independent
Masaki Tsuji (b. 1932) Mushi, Toen, TMS
Dean Tavoularis (b. 1932) Disney
Doris A. Plough (b. 1932) Disney, Don Bluth, Hanna-Barbera, Fox
Inessa Kovalevskaya (b. 1933) Soyuzmultfilm
Boris Kolar (b. 1933) Independent (no other photo available)
Update (12/23): Adding Virginia Fleener (b. 1922) Disney
