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name: "Otto Englander"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/otto-englander"
roles: ["Screenwriter"]
born: "17 February 1906"
died: "13 October 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 87
updated: "2026-09-17T05:52:40.910850+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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# Otto Englander

Screenwriter. Born 17 February 1906 in Yugoslavia. Died 13 October 1969.

## Details

- **Work:** Screenwriter
- **Born:** 17 February 1906, Yugoslavia
- **Died:** 13 October 1969
- **Active:** 1938–1941
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 85 (1), 1940s 88 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3357801, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257481/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5451

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*](https://film.one/film/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs.md) (85)

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## Biography

Otto Englander was a Bosnian-born American writer and story artist. Born on 17 February 1906 in Tuzla, he moved to the United States in the 1920s, studied at the Chester School of Art in New York and worked as an art director before entering animation in Los Angeles. He contributed to Walt Disney Productions from the early 1930s, writing stories for Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies shorts and serving on the story team for the studio's first feature, *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937).

Englander received story credits on *Pinocchio* (1940), *Fantasia* (1940) and *Dumbo* (1941). In 1942 he moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with writer Webb Smith, where he worked on the *Barney Bear* series. He returned to Disney in 1957 and contributed to the studio's anthology television series until his death on 13 October 1969 in Los Angeles.

*Sources: disney.fandom.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Dumbo* (1941), Fi1m 87, Story Editor, Story Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/dumbo.md)
- *Pinocchio* (1940), Fi1m 88, Adaptation — [page](https://film.one/film/pinocchio.md)
- *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1938), Fi1m 85, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs.md)

## Also known for

- *Clock Cleaners* (1937), Story
- *The Wise Little Hen* (1934), Story
- *Three Blind Mouseketeers* (1936), Story
- *Goofy and Wilbur* (1939), Writer
- *Don Donald* (1937), Story

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