Pioneering animator Ward Kimball, who helped modernize Mickey Mouse's look in 1938 and created the character Jiminy Cricket for the Disney classic "Pinocchio," died Monday of natural causes in ...

Ward Kimball, the iconoclast Disney director and animator, was born on this day in 1914. And thus, it seems like a fitting day to announce that a new biography about his life and work — If It ...

Kimball (1914 – 2002) became an animator for Walt Disney’s studios in 1934, ... Ward Kimball is aboard his 1914 Fire Truck, with his family in front of the Grizzly Flats Station.