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name: "Ken Anderson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ken-anderson"
roles: ["Production designer","Writer"]
born: "17 March 1909"
died: "13 January 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 81
updated: "2026-09-17T06:11:26.712595+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."
---

# Ken Anderson

Production designer and writer. Born 17 March 1909 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Died 13 January 1993.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer, Writer
- **Born:** 17 March 1909, Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Died:** 13 January 1993
- **Active:** 1938–1967
- **Also known as:** Kenneth Bliss Anderson, Kenneth Anderson
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 85 (1), 1940s 88 (1), 1950s 72 (1), 1960s 81 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q953696, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027011/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57334

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*One Hundred and One Dalmatians*](https://film.one/film/one-hundred-and-one-dalmatians.md) (82)

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## Biography

Ken Anderson was an American animator, art director, production designer and writer. He worked at Walt Disney Productions for 44 years and was described by Walt Disney as his 'Jack of all Trades'.

Born in Seattle, Anderson studied architecture at the University of Washington, graduating with a B.Arch. in 1934. He joined Disney in the 1930s and contributed to numerous films in roles including layout, art direction and story development. His credits include story work on *Cinderella* (1950) and *The Jungle Book* (1967), and production design on *One Hundred and One Dalmatians* (1961). He also worked on the development of Disneyland.

Anderson received the Disney Legends award in 1991 for Animation & Imagineering. He died in La Cañada Flintridge, California, in 1993.

*Sources: disney.fandom.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, d23.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *The Jungle Book* (1967), Fi1m 80, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/the-jungle-book.md)
- *One Hundred and One Dalmatians* (1961), Fi1m 82, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/one-hundred-and-one-dalmatians.md)
- *Cinderella* (1950), Fi1m 72, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/cinderella-1950.md)
- *Pinocchio* (1940), Fi1m 88, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/pinocchio.md)
- *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1938), Fi1m 85, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs.md)

## Also known for

- *The Aristocats* (1970), Screenplay
- *Robin Hood* (1973), Characters, Writer
- *The Rescuers* (1977), Story
- *The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh* (1977), Story
- *Ferdinand the Bull* (1938), Layout
- *Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree* (1966), Story
- *The Practical Pig* (1939), Layout

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