SEQUIM — Oliver “Ollie” Johnston, the man whose pencil brought Bambi, Snow White, Pinocchio and 101 Dalmatians to bright life, died of natural causes Monday in Sequim.
He was 95.
“He lived here almost a year to the day; we moved him up on April 15, 2007,” Mr. Johnston’s elder son, Rick, said Tuesday.
Mr. Johnston was a resident of Dungeness Courte, a long-term care home in Sequim.
Both of his children, Rick and Ken, have lived on nearby Blue Mountain since the late 1990s.
Like their father, they’re former residents of the Los Angeles suburb of La Cañada-Flintridge.
To the millions who wept and belly-laughed through Disney movies such as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1938), “Fantasia” (1942), “Peter Pan” (1953), “The Rescuers” (1977) and many others, Mr. Johnston was a frontiersman of the big screen.
A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Mr. Johnston was the last surviving member of the group of animators Walt Disney himself called the Nine Old Men, though most were in their 20s when they began work in Disney’s studio.Â
