1927 in animation
Events in 1927 in animation.
Events
August
August 22: Walt Disney releases Alice in the Big League, it's the final film in the Alice Comedy series.September
September 5: Walt Disney releases Trolley Troubles, which marks the official debut of his first successful animated star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.Films released
- 9 January – Felix the Cat Dines and Pines
- 10 January – Alice the Golf Bug
- 23 January – Pedigreedy
- 24 January – Alice Foils the Pirates
- February – Felix the Cat Stars in Stripes
- 6 February – Icy Eyes
- 7 February – Alice at the Carnival
- 21 February – Alice at the Rodeo
- 4 March – Cracked Ice
- 6 March – Felix the Cat Sees 'Em in Season
- 7 March – Alice the Collegiate
- 20 March – Barn Yarns
- 21 March – Alice in the Alps
- 3 April – Germ Mania
- 4 April – Alice's Auto Race
- 18 April – Alice's Circus Daze
- 27 April – Sax Appeal
- 1 May – Eye Jinks
- 2 May – Alice's Knaughty Knight
- 6 May – When Snow Flies
- 12 May – One Man Dog
- 15 May – Roameo
- 16 May – Alice's Three Bad Eggs
- 29 May – Felix the Cat Ducks His Duty
- 30 May – Alice's Picnic
- 12 June – Dough-Nutty
- 13 June – Alice's Channel Swim
- 26 June – "Loco"Motive
- 27 June – Alice in the Klondike
- 10 July – Art for Heart's Sake
- 11 July – Alice's Medicine Show
- 14 July – The Travel-Hog
- 22 July – Small Town Sheriff
- 25 July – Alice the Whaler
- 7 August – Jack From All Trades
- 8 August – Alice the Beach Nut
- 21 August:
- *A Hole In One
- *The Non-Stop Fright
- 22 August – Alice in the Big League
- 4 September – Wise Guise
- 5 September – Trolley Troubles
- 18 September – Flim Flam Films
- 19 September – Oh Teacher
- 2 October – Felix the Cat Switches Witches
- 3 October – The Mechanical Cow
- 16 October – No Fuelin
- 17 October – Great Guns!
- 20 October – Daze and Knights
- 31 October – All Wet
- 13 November – Uncle Tom's Crabbin
- 14 November – The Ocean Hop
- 27 November – Whys and Other Whys
- 28 November – The Banker's Daughter
- 11 December – Felix the Cat Hits the Deck
- 12 December – Empty Socks
- 25 December – Felix the Cat Behind in Front
- 26 December – ''Rickety Gin''
Births
January
January 6: Stan Vanderbeek, American film director and animator,.January 17:- * Eartha Kitt, American singer, actress, comedian, dancer and activist,.
- * John Sparey, American animator, scene planner and director,.January 24: Marvin Kaplan, American actor,.January 28: Betty Harford, American actress,.January 29: Peter Fernandez, American actor, voice director and writer,.January 31: Norm Prescott, American animation producer,.
February
February 2: Ann Gillis, American actress,.February 5: Lee Mishkin, American animator, storyboard artist and director,.February 7:- * Laurie Johnson, English composer,.
- * Dušan Vukotić, Yugoslav-Croatian cartoonist and animator,.February 15: Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian,.February 19: Fred Ladd, American writer and producer,.February 25: Dick Jones, American actor,.February 26: Witold Giersz, Polish animator.
March
March 1: Harry Belafonte, Jamaican-American Calypso signer,.March 3: Ib Steinaa, Danish comics artist and animator,.March 13:- * Zvonimir Lončarić, Croatian animator, sculptor and painter,.
- * Dan Wallin, American sound engineer,.March 16: Dick Beals, American actor,.March 18: George Plimpton, American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor and occasional amateur sportsman,.March 25: Robert Balser, American animator, producer and director,.March 31: William Daniels, American actor.
April
April 2:- * Hisashi Katsuta, Japanese actor,.
- * Ken Sansom, American actor,.April 5: Chao-Li Chi, Chinese actor,.April 10: Brumsic Brandon Jr., American comics artist and animator,.April 16: Peter Mark Richman, American actor,.April 23: Lew Ott, American animator, character designer, background artist and production designer,.April 25: Albert Uderzo, French comics artist,.April 30: Stephen Kandel, American television writer,.
May
May 4: Terry Scott, English actor,.May 5: Pat Carroll, American actress and comedian,.May 11: Bernard Fox, Welsh actor,.May 30: Clint Walker, American actor and singer,.June
June 2: W. Watts Biggers, American writer,.June 8: Jerry Stiller, American actor and comedian,.June 15: Ottó Foky, Hungarian animator and film director,.June 20:- * Attila Dargay, Hungarian animator, film director and comics artist,.
- * Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, Russian animator and comics artist,.
July
July 2: Brock Peters, American actor,.July 13: Lillian Schwartz, American artist and pioneer of computer-mediated art,.July 15: Carmen Zapata, American actress,.July 21: Willy Moese, German comics artist and animator,.August
August 14: Roger Carel, French actor,.August 16: Constantin Mustatea, American animator,.September
September 12:- * Franco Latini, Italian actor,.
- * Freddie Jones, English actor,.September 15: Norm Crosby, American actor and comedian,.September 16:
- * Alison de Vere, English animator, background designer and director,.
- * Peter Falk, American actor,.September 19: William Hickey, American actor,.September 24: Arthur Malet, English actor,.September 27: Romano Scarpa, Italian comics artist, writer and animator,.
October
October 1: Tom Bosley, American actor,.October 4: Oto Reisinger, Croatian animator, illustrator, cartoonist and comics artist .October 7: Giorgio Bordini, Italian comics artist, animator and illustrator,.October 13: Vladmir Delac, Yugoslavian comics artist and animator,.October 17: Wolf Koenig, Canadian film director and animator,.October 18: George C. Scott, American actor,.October 20: Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, television personality, advice columnist and writer,.October 23: Mizuho Suzuki, Japanese actor,.November
November 7: John Coates, English film producer,.November 26: Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian entertainer,.November 27: Dean Spille, American animator, layout artist and background artist,.November 30: Robert Guillaume, American actor and singer,.December
December 5: Shirley Silvey, American animator,.December 9: Alan Zaslove, American animator and animation producer,.December 26: János Kass, Hungarian animator, illustrator, graphic designer and film director,.Specific date unknown
- Jane Conger Belson Shimane, American experimental filmmaker.