Biography
Disney writer who started out as a layout artist on 1940s cartoons including "Der Fuehrer's Face" in 1943. He eventually moved into animated features with the film Lady and the Tramp in 1955. He also worked as a color and styling or sequence consultant on many other motion pictures for Disney. His greatest achievement was for his visual screenplay for Mary Poppins in 1964 for which he shared an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with Bill Walsh. Don DaGradi died August 4, 1991, in Frid...
Complete Filmography

The Love Bug
1997
Writer
The inimitable VW Beetle is losing all his races and destined for the scrap heap until mechanic Hank takes him over and gives him a new lease of life....

Goofy at the Olympic Games
1992
Animation
A French TV special detailing the history of the Olympic Games through Disney's most athletic oddball, Goofy, with clips from classic shorts intersper...

Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
Screenplay
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when th...

Scandalous John
1971
Screenplay
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

The Love Bug
1968
Screenplay
Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of its own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky riv...

Blackbeard's Ghost
1968
Screenplay
The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their gr...

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
1966
Screenplay
Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and be...

Mary Poppins
1964
Screenplay
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in thei...

The Parent Trap
1961
Sequence Artist
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their ...

Darby O'Gill and the Little People
1959
Matte Painter
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him ...

Sleeping Beauty
1959
Production Designer
Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she g...

Lady and the Tramp
1955
Story
Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at...

Music Land
1955
Layout Supervisor
Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Offering hits re-released from 'Make Mine Music' an...

Two for the Record
1954
Layout Supervisor
Animated sequences are set to two Benny Goodman numbers.

The Brave Engineer
1950
Layout
Casey Jones is one of the best engineers there is and it is his duty to get his cargo to its destination on time via train. He sets off but is set bac...

Hockey Homicide
1945
Layout
A crowd gathers at the skating rink to watch the big championship hockey game of the Pelicans versus the Aardvarks. Although referee "Clean Game" Kinn...

Duck Pimples
1945
Layout
Donald has an unpleasant evening when a mysterious book salesman comes to his door then disappears leaving Donald with a collection of whodunnit novel...

The Three Caballeros
1944
Layout
For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild a...

How to Be a Sailor
1944
Layout
Goofy provides a history of ships and sailing.

Victory Vehicles
1943
Layout
Goofy demonstrates a number of crazy vehicles.

Der Fuehrer's Face
1943
Layout
A marching band of Germans, Italians, and Japanese march through the streets of swastika-motif Nutziland, serenading "Der Fuehrer's Face." Donald Duck...

How to Fish
1942
Layout
Goofy's demonstration of fishing is fouled up by his clumsy casting and fly fishing, and problems with his boat.

Dumbo
1941
Art Direction
Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, ...