January 3, 1916 – Artist, Director, and Producer Louis “Lou” Debney is Born
Lou Debney as the associate producer for an episode of the Wonderful World of Color
“I stayed with the Cutting Department…it was then, while we were getting started on the preliminary story sketches and everything…that I was set up to be the man that would assemble all the tests from all the sequences in Snow White.”
On January 3, 1916, Louis Debney was born in Los Angeles, California. At the age of 18, Debney was hired by Disney to work in the Cutting Department, then located at the Hyperion Studio. Debney then became an assistant director on the first full-length feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with Ben Sharpsteen. With Sharpsteen’s assistance, Debney worked on the last black and white short film, Two-Gun Mickey, released in 1934. Debney continued to assist in directing several features and short films before becoming a producer for The Mickey Mouse Club and Zorro, and a production coordinator on the Disney anthology series, including The Wonderful World of Disney. Debney passed away at the age of 70 on April 11, 1986.
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