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Julius Fredrik Svendsen was a Norwegian animator, writer, and story artist, as well as the father of fellow Disney Imagineer, Julie Svendsen. His wife, Carol Joyner was also an employee and fellow collaborator in the Ink and Painting Department.

Svendsen was born in Norway, but his family emigrated and settled in New York in 1923. starting as an artist at Disney around 1940, but briefly left to serve in the U.S. army during World War II from 1942 to 1945. Upon returning to the studio, he worked on films and theatrical shorts with Ward Kimball, such as Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, Man and the Moon, Mars and Beyond, and Man in Space. He also drew for the Disney newspaper with the Disney Treasure Tales comic strips. He did 'The Seven Dwarfs and the Witch-Queen', that appeared in the American Sunday papers from March 2 to April 27, 1958. Later that year, he did a Sunday strip with 'Sleeping Beauty' (August 3 to December 28). Both were written by Floyd Gottfredson. From June 1, 1959 to March 17, 1962, he did the 'Mickey Mouse' daily with text by Roy Williams. Films he would contribute to in the animation department included Peter Pan, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Aristocats, the animated sequences of Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and worked on scripts for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and Robin Hood.

He also drew for the publisher Dell, of comics featuring Walt Disney characters in the late 1940s. Like many artists Mary Blair, John Hench, and Bill Justice, he worked freelance on animating books related to characters from Walt Disney cartoons, like "The Seven Dwarfs Find a House", "Mickey Mouse Club Stamp Book", "Mickey Mouse Flies the Christmas Mail", "Mickey Mouse and the Missing Mouseketeers", and three Sleeping Beauty children's books from the Golden Book collection by publisher Simon & Schuster.

Svendsen died in a boating accident in Granada Hills, California in 1971 and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angles. His wife died a few years later, but their co-collaborative effort, Hulda, a 28-page two-handed booklet, while he was recovering for two months at home following back surgery was published in 1974. Carol had provided the script, Julius the illustration. It was ranked #1 on Best Sellers.

Filmography[]

Year Film Position
1951 Alice in Wonderland Animator - uncredited
1953 Peter Pan Animator - uncredited
Melody Animator
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom Animator
1954 Grand Canyonscope Animator
1955-1968 The Magical World of Disney Animator
1959 Eyes in Outer Space Animator
1961 One Hundred and One Dalmatians Character Animator
The Saga of Windwagon Smith Animator
1962 A Symposium on Popular Songs Animator
1964 Mary Poppins Animator - uncredited
1967 Scrooge McDuck and Money Animator
1970 The Aristocats Story
Character Animator
1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks Animator
1973 Robin Hood Posthumous release - Story sequences
1977 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Posthumous Release - Story: "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"

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