Nine Old Men - President
Franklin D.
Roosevelt had referred to the justices who sat
on the Supreme Court as the Nine Old Men;
Walt Disney countered that he had his Nine Old
Men too. These nine animators, who in the mid-
1950s handled the key directing animator tasks
at the Studio, were Les Clark, Marc Davis,
Ollie Johnston, Milt Kahl, Ward Kimball, Eric
Larson, John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman,
and Frank Thomas.
