Disney Animation Milton Quon who worked on Disney Movies such as “Fantasia” and “Dumbo,” has recently died of natural causes at his home in Torrance, Ca., on June 18. He was 105.
Milton was one of the last living artists who worked with Walt Disney during the Golden Age of Animation, he was “drawing right up until his last days,” his son noted.
Milton joined Walt Disney Studios back in 1939 after graduation and was the third Chinese-American to be hired at the studios. He worked on the “Waltz of the Flowers” and the “Arabian Dance” scenes in Fantasia (1940) and was the first assistant animator on Dumbo (1941).
Quon was born back on Aug. 22, 1913, in Los Angeles, he was the eldest of eight children and the only son of immigrants who had come to the U.S. from Canton, China.
Photo Credit Milton Quon
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