Ub Iwerks
b. 1901 — d. 1971 (aged 70)
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Director
Writer
American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician, who co-created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney. The works Iwerks produced alongside Disney went on to win numerous awards, including multiple Academy Awards. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His father, Eert Ubbe Iwerks, emigrated to the U.S. in 1869 from the village of Uttum in East Frisia (northwest Germany, today part of the municipality of Krummhörn). Ub's full name can be seen on early "Alice" shorts that he signed. Several years later he simplified his name to "Ub Iwerks", sometimes written as "U. B. Iwerks."
Known For
Filmography
🎞️
★ 6.9
The Vanishing of S.S. Willie
2024 Writer
📺
★ 8.1
Mickey Mouse
2013 Writer
📺
★ 8.5
ToonHeads
1992 Director
🎞️
★ 4.8
All Together
1942 Director
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★ 5.5
Stop That Tank!
1942 Director
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★ 6.7
The Reluctant Dragon
1941 Director
🎞️
★ 6.5
The Carpenters
1941 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.1
The Wise Owl
1940 Director
Writer
🎬
🎞️
★ 6.0
Beauty Shoppe
1940 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 5.6
Blackboard Revue
1940 Director
Writer
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🎞️
★ 5.7
Ye Olde Swap Shoppe
1940 Director
Writer
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🎞️
★ 6.4
The Egg Hunt
1940 Director
Writer
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🎞️
★ 4.1
Baby Checkers
1940 Director
Writer
🎬
🎞️
★ 5.0
A Busy Day
1940 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 5.6
Nell's Yells
1939 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.8
Crop Chasers
1939 Director
Writer
🎬
🎞️
★ 6.4
The Gorilla Hunt
1939 Writer
Director
🎞️
★ 6.5
Midnight Frolics
1938 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 7.5
The Horse on the Merry-Go-Round
1938 Director
Writer
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🎞️
★ 6.2
Snowtime
1938 Writer
Director
🎞️
★ 6.3
The Frog Pond
1938 Director
Writer
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★ 6.9
Skeleton Frolic
1937 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.3
Porky and Gabby
1937 Director
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★ 6.9
Porky's Badtime Story
1937 Director
🎞️
★ 6.3
Porky's Super Service
1937 Director
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★ 6.9
Merry Mannequins
1937 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.1
The Foxy Pup
1937 Writer
Director
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🎞️
★ 6.6
Scrappy's Trip to Mars
1937 Director
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★ 5.7
Little Boy Blue
1936 Director
🎞️
★ 6.2
Tom Thumb
1936 Director
🎞️
★ 6.2
Ali Baba
1936 Director
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★ 6.6
Dick Whittington's Cat
1936 Director
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★ 5.7
Happy Days
1936 Director
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🎞️
★ 6.7
Two Lazy Crows
1936 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 7.1
Balloon Land
1935 Director
🎞️
★ 5.4
Little Black Sambo
1935 Director
🎞️
★ 6.6
Humpty Dumpty
1935 Director
🎞️
★ 6.3
Sinbad the Sailor
1935 Director
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★ 6.9
Summertime
1935 Director
🎞️
★ 6.3
The Three Bears
1935 Director
🎞️
★ 5.8
Old Mother Hubbard
1935 Director
🎞️
★ 5.5
Mary's Little Lamb
1935 Director
🎞️
★ 5.8
Simple Simon
1935 Director
🎞️
★ 6.3
The Brementown Musicians
1935 Director
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🎞️
★ 5.7
The Microbe Army
1935 Director
Writer
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🎞️
★ 5.4
See How They Won
1935 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.6
Jack Frost
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 5.5
The Headless Horseman
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.0
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.4
The Brave Tin Soldier
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.0
The Little Red Hen
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.0
Don Quixote
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.5
Hell's Fire
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 5.9
The Queen of Hearts
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.2
The King's Tailor
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 5.8
Insultin' the Sultan
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.3
Puss in Boots
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 5.7
Viva Willie
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.1
The Good Scout
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 5.9
Rasslin' Round
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.9
Davy Jones' Locker
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 5.0
Jungle Jitters
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.3
Reducing Creme
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.0
Robin Hood, Jr.
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 5.9
Cave Man
1934 Director
🎞️
★ 6.6
Jack and the Beanstalk
1933 Director
🎞️
★ 6.2
Soda Squirt
1933 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.5
Stratos-Fear
1933 Director
🎞️
★ 6.6
The Air Race
1933 Director
🎞️
★ 6.1
Coo Coo the Magician
1933 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.7
Techno-Cracked
1933 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.4
Chinaman's Chance
1933 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 5.6
Flip's Lunch Room
1933 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.1
Pale-Face
1933 Director
Writer
🎬
🎞️
★ 5.9
Bulloney
1933 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 5.9
Spite Flight
1933 Director
🎞️
★ 5.4
Play Ball
1933 Director
🎞️
★ 6.9
Room Runners
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.1
Funny Face
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.6
The Office Boy
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.1
The Music Lesson
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.2
What a Life
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.0
The Goal Rush
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.2
The Bully
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 5.8
School Days
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.2
Stormy Seas
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.1
Circus
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.2
Nurse Maid
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 5.9
The Milkman
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.3
Fire! Fire!
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.2
Phoney Express
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 5.7
Puppy Love
1932 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.8
Spooks
1931 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.2
Movie Mad
1931 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 5.9
The Soup Song
1931 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.0
The Village Smitty
1931 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.3
Ragtime Romeo
1931 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.2
The New Car
1931 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 6.4
Laughing Gas
1931 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 5.8
Africa Squeaks
1931 Director
Writer