{"id":4656,"date":"2008-04-28T21:07:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T21:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2008-04-28T21:07:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T21:07:36","slug":"behind-every-animator-lies-an-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4656","title":{"rendered":"Behind every Animator lies an Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ollie_Johnston-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> <i>It did not occur to me until I read the obituary of Ollie Johnston, apparently one of Disney&#8217;s finest animators, that behind every good animator lies a good actor. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Ollie Johnston, last of Disney&#8217;s elite animators, died on April 14th, aged 95<\/b><\/p>\n<p>IF YOU interviewed Ollie Johnston in the last years of his life, sooner or later he would start to change. The trim body, lean as a whippet&#8217;s, would begin to prowl and strut, then round on you with an accusing, pointing arm, just like the evil prosecutor in<\/p>\n<p>All these vignettes, performed in his 80s with a young man&#8217;s grace, had come from decades of observation. For the plump, elderly Good Fairies in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It did not occur to me until I read the obituary of Ollie Johnston, apparently one of Disney&#8217;s finest animators, that behind every good animator <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4656\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ollie_Johnston.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"160\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}