Thomas Harold Codrick was an American animator, layout artist, and art director, who worked at Disney for 35 years.[1]
Born in Washington, D.C.; Codrick joined the Disney Studio in 1932 as an animator for various animated shorts. He soon became an art director for animated features, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. Codrick supervised a great deal of artists and animators to expand new concepts and styles for animated storytelling.[2] He even was head of a studio subsidiary in Quantico, which included Art Babbitt, Nick George, Don Lusk, and Jack Whitaker.[3]
His career was briefly interrupted by World War II and he joined the U.S. Marine Corps where he advanced to the rank of Major. After the war, he returned to studio where became a key layout man for the two decades with features, such as Melody Time, Alice in Wonderland, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, and The Jungle Book. Additionally, he worked on several episodes of the Disneyland anthology series.
He passed away in 1969.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1934 | Camping Out | Animator (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Art Director |
| 1940 | Pinocchio | Character modeling (uncredited) |
| Fantasia | Art Director: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" | |
| 1941 | The Art of Skiing | Layout artist (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Bambi | Art Director |
| 1943 | Victory Through Air Power | Art direction: animation |
| The Winged Scourge | Layout artist (uncredited) | |
| 1948 | Melody Time | |
| 1949 | The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad | Layout artist: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| 1950 | Cinderella | Layout artist |
| 1951 | Alice in Wonderland | |
| 1953 | Peter Pan | |
| 1954–1967 | The Magical World of Disney | Layout artist Stylist Self: "A Story of Dogs" |
| 1955 | Lady and the Tramp | Layout |
| 1956 | The Golden Equator | Background artist (uncredited) |
| 1959 | Sleeping Beauty | Layout artist |
| 1967 | The Jungle Book | |
| 1970 | The Aristocats | Layout artist (uncredited) |
Gallery
Trivia
- His second wife Betty Price was married to fellow layout artist Hugh Hennesy before they divorced. Oddly enough, Tom remarried again years later.
- For Bambi, Tom Codrick had been painting realistic-looking forests until Tyrus Wong showed him soft-edged, oriental paintings of a mystical forest, and he realized that this was just what was needed to make Bambi a different, artistic picture.[4]
References
- ↑ https://1937fan.blogspot.com/2012/09/they-made-magic-tom-codrick.html
- ↑ https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/team-effort-inspecting-some-new-artistic-treasures-display
- ↑ https://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/disney-artists-write-home-during-wwii-11113.html
- ↑ https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/tyrus-wong-and-art-bambi
