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name: "Paul Satterfield"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-satterfield-11428"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "27 March 1896"
died: "14 August 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
updated: "2026-09-17T05:58:19.508222+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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# Paul Satterfield

Director. Born 27 March 1896 in Georgia, USA. Died 14 August 1981.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 27 March 1896, Georgia, USA
- **Died:** 14 August 1981
- **Active:** 1940–1942
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28439679, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0766402/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11428

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

Paul Satterfield was an American animator and director. He began his career at Walt Disney Productions as an animator on several animated shorts in the late 1930s, including *Farmyard Symphony* (1938), *Boat Builders* (1938), *Ugly Duckling* (1939) and *Beach Picnic* (1939).

Satterfield directed the 'Rite of Spring' segment of the animated feature *Fantasia* (1940). He later served as sequence director on *Bambi* (1942). His other credits include directing the short *A World is Born* (1955, uncredited) and writing the short *Wheels of Progress* (1953).

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Bambi* (1942), Fi1m 86, Co-Director — [page](https://film.one/film/bambi.md)
- *Fantasia* (1940), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/fantasia.md)

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