His 70-year run with the company included work on 'Lady and the Tramp,' 'The Jungle Book,' 'The Lion King,' 'Strange World' and 'The Great Mouse Detective.'
How to Hook Up Your Home TheaterThe first of two children, Burnett Mattinson was born in San Francisco on May 13, 1935. Before he was 6, he saw Disney’s, and ever since, “this was my dream — to work in this business,” he recalled. “So, I worked every day, drawing.”
His father, a drummer with Horace Heidt’s Big Band, moved the family to Los Angeles in 1945. By the time he was 12, he was drawing Disney-style cartoons. After high school, his mother dropped him off at Disney studio gate in Burbank. A guard took a look at the teenager’s portfolio and let him in, and Mattinson wound up with an interview and a job in the mailroom. Six months later, with no formal art training, he started work as an in-betweener onand continued in that capacity on.
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