---
name: "Samuel Armstrong"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/samuel-armstrong"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "5 February 1893"
died: "29 September 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 84
updated: "2026-09-17T05:57:28.096246+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."
---

# Samuel Armstrong

Director. Born 5 February 1893 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Died 29 September 1976.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 5 February 1893, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- **Died:** 29 September 1976
- **Active:** 1938–1942
- **Also known as:** Sam Armstrong
- **Works often with:** [Ben Sharpsteen](https://film.one/person/ben-sharpsteen.md), [Bill Roberts](https://film.one/person/bill-roberts.md), [Norm Ferguson](https://film.one/person/norman-ferguson.md), [Walt Disney](https://film.one/person/walt-disney.md), [Wilfred Jackson](https://film.one/person/wilfred-jackson.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 85 (1), 1940s 84 (3)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3471034, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035899/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5691

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Dumbo*](https://film.one/film/dumbo.md) (87), [*Fantasia*](https://film.one/film/fantasia.md) (80)

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## Biography

Samuel Armstrong, also credited as Sam Armstrong, was an American animation director and background artist. He joined Walt Disney Studios in 1934, initially in the publicity department before moving to backgrounds, where he contributed to several Silly Symphonies shorts and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

He directed segments of Fantasia (1940), including 'Toccata and Fugue in D Minor' and 'The Nutcracker Suite', and served as sequence director on Dumbo (1941) and Bambi (1942). Armstrong left Disney in 1941. He later worked as a layout artist at Warner Bros. on Looney Tunes shorts in the late 1950s.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Bambi* (1942), Fi1m 86, Co-Director — [page](https://film.one/film/bambi.md)
- *Dumbo* (1941), Fi1m 87, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/dumbo.md)
- *Fantasia* (1940), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/fantasia.md)
- *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1938), Fi1m 85, Background Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs.md)

## Gallery

- ![Dumbo (1941)](https://film.one/media/title/12283/still-62554117546b.jpg) *Dumbo* (1941)
- ![Fantasia (1940)](https://film.one/media/title/12281/still-23022b72de9c.jpg) *Fantasia* (1940)

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