Don Bluth

Born: 1937-09-13

Donald Virgil "Don" Bluth is an American animator and independent studio owner. He is best known for his departure from The Walt Disney Company in 1979 and his subsequent directing of animated classics such as The Secret of NIMH (1982), An American Tail (1986),The Land Before Time (1988), and All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), as well as his involvement in the laserdisc game Dragon's Lair. He is also often credited for providing competition to Disney, and forcing them to improve from their streak of lackluster film efforts to the films that would make up the Disney Renaissance.


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Waking Sleeping Beauty

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2009-09-05

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The...

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Going Back to Xanadu

as uncredited
Released: 2008-01-01

A documentary about the movie Xanadu.

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Space Ace

as Commander Borf
Released: 1983-12-21

Commander Borf plans to reduce all of humankind to infants and take over the planet. Only two...

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