---
name: "Kathleen Gavin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kathleen-gavin"
fi1m_id: "kathleen-gavin"
imdb_id: "nm0310549"
tmdb_id: 71795
wikidata_id: "Q28823959"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T20:35:21.691648+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."
---

# Kathleen Gavin

## Identity

Kathleen Gavin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kathleen-gavin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kathleen-gavin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0310549
- **TMDB ID:** 71795
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28823959
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28823959, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0310549/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71795

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 1988–1993
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 61 (1), 1990s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28823959, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0310549/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71795

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Oliver & Company*](https://film.one/film/oliver-and-company.md) (61)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kathleen Gavin is a film producer who worked extensively in animation at Walt Disney Feature Animation. She served as production manager on the 1988 animated feature *Oliver & Company* and as associate producer on *The Rescuers Down Under* (1990).

Gavin was co-producer on Tim Burton’s *The Nightmare Before Christmas* (1993) and associate producer on *Cats Don't Dance* (1997). She held senior production roles at Disney, including oversight of *Toy Story* (1995) and other projects, before retiring in 2006 after a twenty-year career with the studio.

*Sources: imdb.com, waltdisney.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Nightmare Before Christmas* (1993), Fi1m 82, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-nightmare-before-christmas.md)
- *Oliver & Company* (1988), Fi1m 61, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/oliver-and-company.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Nightmare Before Christmas* (1993), Co-Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-nightmare-before-christmas.md)
- *The Rescuers Down Under* (1990), Associate Producer
- *Oliver & Company* (1988), Producer — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/oliver-and-company.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/kathleen-gavin