Norm Ferguson | |
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![]() Ferguson in 1942 | |
Born | William Norman Ferguson September 2, 1902 Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
Died | November 4, 1957 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 55)
Occupation | Animator |
Employer(s) | Fables Pictures Inc. (1923–1929) Walt Disney Animation Studios (1929–1953) |
Spouse |
Gladys F. (m. 1924) |
Children | 1 |
William Norman Ferguson (September 2, 1902 – November 4, 1957) was an American animator for Walt Disney Studios and a central contributor to the studio's stylistic development in the 1930s. He is most frequently noted for his contribution to the creation of Pluto, one of the studio's best-known and most enduring characters, and is the artist most closely associated with that character. He is also credited for developing Peg-Leg Pete and the Big Bad Wolf.[1] Ferguson, known at the studio as "Norm" or "Fergy", was the primary animator of the witch in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first in a long line of great Disney feature villains. He was also a sequence director on the film.