Disney's Nine Old Men

Disney's Nine Old Men were the core animators (some of whom later became directors) at The Walt Disney Company who created some of Disney's most famous works, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs onward to The Rescuers. Walt Disney jokingly called this group of animators his "Nine Old Men," referring to Robert S. Allen and Drew Pearson's 1937 book, The Nine Old Men, about the nine justices of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1937, most of whom were over the age of 70 at the time. (The animators, however, were in their thirties and forties.)

All members of the group are now deceased — the last being Ollie Johnston, who died in 2008 — and all have been acknowledged as Disney Legends.