---
name: "Webb Smith"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/webb-smith"
roles: ["Screenwriter"]
born: "18 January 1887"
died: "16 March 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 87
updated: "2026-09-17T05:52:42.992557+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."
---

# Webb Smith

Screenwriter. Born 18 January 1887 in West Liberty, Iowa, USA. Died 16 March 1951.

## Details

- **Work:** Screenwriter
- **Born:** 18 January 1887, West Liberty, Iowa, USA
- **Died:** 16 March 1951
- **Active:** 1938–1941
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 85 (1), 1940s 88 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3566990, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810324/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5456

## 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

Webb Smith was an American writer and story man who worked at Walt Disney Studios from the early 1930s. He contributed to numerous animated shorts and features, including story work on *Three Little Pigs* (1933), *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* (1937) and *Pinocchio* (1940).

Smith is credited with developing the modern storyboard process at Disney, in which sequential sketches were pinned to boards to visualise narrative flow. He later worked on *Fantasia* (1940), *Dumbo* (1941) and *Saludos Amigos* (1942) before leaving the studio in 1942.

*Sources: imdb.com, disney.fandom.com, d23.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Dumbo* (1941), Fi1m 87, Story Developer — [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

- *Saludos Amigos* (1942), Writer
- *Three Little Pigs* (1933), Writer
- *On Ice* (1935), Writer
- *Three Blind Mouseketeers* (1936), Storyboard, Screenplay
- *Babes in the Woods* (1932), Story
- *The Pied Piper* (1933), Story
- *Don Donald* (1937), Story
- *The Night Before Christmas* (1933), Storyboard

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