Ernie Nordli(1912-1968)

Animation Department
Production Designer
Art Director

Ernie Nordli was born on 15 June 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was a production designer and art director, known for Sleeping Beauty (1959), Dumbo (1941) and One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961). He was married to Rosalind E. Couper and Rosalind. He died on 22 April 1968 in San Francisco, California, USA.

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Known for

Sleeping Beauty

7.2

Animation Department(as Erni Nordli)

1959

Dumbo

7.2

Animation Department(uncredited)

1941

Rod Taylor, Sandra Abbott, Cate Bauer, Barbara Beaird, Lisa Daniels, Lisa Davis, David Frankham, Betty Lou Gerson, Mimi Gibson, Barbara Luddy, Mickey Maga, J. Pat O'Malley, Tudor Owen, Thurl Ravenscroft, Rickie Sorensen, Martha Wentworth, Mary Wickes, Frederick Worlock, and Ben Wright in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

7.3

Animation Department(as Erni Nordli)

1961

Fantasia

7.7

Animation Department(uncredited)

1940

Credits

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Animation Department

Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends
8.3
TV Series
- layout artist
- 1990
The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
7.8
TV Series
- layout artist (1986)
- 1986–2000
Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television
6.5
TV Movie
- layout artist: classic cartoons
- 1982
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
7.1
TV Movie
- layout artist: classic cartoons (as Ernest Nordli)
- 1980
Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special
6.8
TV Movie
- layout artist: classic cartoons
- 1977
Chimp & Zee
4.5
Short
- layout artist (uncredited)
- 1968
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
8.5
TV Series
- layout artist
- 1968–1978
The Spy Swatter
5.7
Short
- layout artist (uncredited)
- 1967
The Music Mice-Tro
5.4
Short
- layout artist (uncredited)
- 1967
Quacker Tracker
5.5
Short
- layout artist (uncredited)
- 1967
Highway Runnery
5.6
Short
- layout (as Erni Nordli)
- 1965
Just Plane Beep
5.6
Short
- layout artist (as Erni Nordli)
- 1965
Boulder Wham!
5.7
Short
- layout (as Erni Nordli)
- 1965
Tired and Feathered
5.6
Short
- layout artist (as Erni Nordli)
- 1965
Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner
5.9
Short
- layout artist (as Erni Nordli)
- 1965

Production Designer

Art Director

Personal details

Alternative names
- Ernest Nordli
Born
- June 15, 1912
- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Died
- April 22, 1968
- San Francisco, California, USA(suicide)
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Swedish-American animation background and layout artist, as well as production designer, trained at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. He did his best work for Chuck Jones at Warner Brothers, where he was at times noted for his modernist, UPA-lookalike, stylised backgrounds (as in "Broom-Stick Bunny",1956). Nordlii began in the business animating Donald Duck cartoons for Disney in 1936 and went on to serve as art director/layout artist on "Dumbo" and "Fantasia".