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name: "Ford Beebe Jr."
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ford-beebe-jr"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "20 September 1913"
died: "22 February 2006"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
updated: "2026-09-17T05:58:20.266053+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ford Beebe Jr.

Director. Born 20 September 1913 in San Diego, California, USA. Died 22 February 2006.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 20 September 1913, San Diego, California, USA
- **Died:** 22 February 2006
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28109058, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1968474/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1094239

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Fantasia*](https://film.one/film/fantasia.md) (80)

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## Biography

Ford Beebe Jr. (1913–2006) was an American film director and assistant director. He worked on several Walt Disney productions in the late 1930s and early 1940s, serving as assistant director on *Pinocchio* (1940) and as a director of the 'Pastoral Symphony' segment of *Fantasia* (1940).

He also contributed as assistant director to *The Reluctant Dragon* (1941) and directed uncredited shorts including *The Thrifty Pig* (1941) and *Donald's Decision* (1942). Later credits include directing *Wilderness Journey* (1969) and *DTV: Rock, Rhythm & Blues* (1984), and field producing *Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar* (1967). He was the son of director Ford Beebe.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Fantasia* (1940), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/fantasia.md)
- *Pinocchio* (1940), Fi1m 88, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/pinocchio.md)

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