Tom Palmer(1902-1972)
- Animation Department
- Director
- Writer
Born in New York City under signs of Tammany Hall. He always drew and after studying at the Academy and other clubs. Got his start around the late 1910's/Early 1920's at the Barre/Bowers Studio animating for Mutt and Jeff Cartoons. Later went to Hollywood to animate for the Robert Winkler studio animating Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts before animating for the early Walter Lantz Oswalds before moving to Disney and got promoted to director at the Newly-Formed Leon Schlesinger Productions studio in 1933. Unfortunately, His "Buddy" Cartoons nearly killed the studio and he Later moved back to New York to animate and direct for the Van Beuren Studio following Disney animator Burt Gillett with him. After the studio closed in 1936, He later went back to work for Disney and after that. Went to the Fleischer Studio in Miami with his last animation credit being as a "Directing Animator" in 1939's "Gulliver's Travels"
