American artist, animator and film director (1890–1990)
Grim Natwick
Natwick, 1969
Born
Myron Nordveig[1]
(1890-08-16)August 16, 1890
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died
October 7, 1990(1990-10-07) (aged 100)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Occupations
Artist
animator
film director
Spouses
Ida Wittenberg
(m. 1917; died 1925)
Christine Ferris
(m. 1929; div. 1934)
[2]
Children
1
Relatives
Mildred Natwick (first cousin)
Awards
Inkpot Award (1978)[3]
Signature
Myron "Grim" Natwick (néNordveig; August 16, 1890 – October 7, 1990)[1] was an American artist, animator, and film director. Natwick is best known for drawing the Fleischer Studios' most popular character, Betty Boop.[4]
^ abWilliams, Richard (2009). The Animator's Survival Kit: Expanded Edition. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-86547-897-8.
^"Myron Henry "Grim" Natwick". RagPiano.com. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
^Inkpot Award
^Myron "Grim" Natwick (Hollywood Cartoon Hall of Fame) Archived May 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
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animator and cartoonist GrimNatwick. Natwick attended the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore and later graduated from Bennett College. Natwick began performing on...
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The GrimNatwick Film Festival is an annual film festival, inaugurated in 2010. The three-day festival is held every summer in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin...
illustrator and comics artist (De Dierenmars), (d. 1973). August 16: GrimNatwick, American animator and film director (Fleischer Studios, designed Betty...
redesign is attributed to GrimNatwick, who made a name for himself at the Fleischer Studios with the creation of Betty Boop. Natwick also had a hand in changing...
cels, and thus to employ a full range of greys. New animators such as GrimNatwick, Shamus Culhane, and Rudy Zamora began entering the Fleischer Studio...
Harris (died 1982), Errol Le Cain (died 1989), Emery Hawkins (died 1989), GrimNatwick (died 1990), and Art Babbitt (died 1992), and actors Felix Aylmer (died...
the Fleischer brothers, Walter Lantz, Paul Terry, Shamus Culhane and GrimNatwick among others. The studio was founded sometime before 1912 by John Randolph...
Vernon Stallings, Walter Lantz, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack King, John Foster, GrimNatwick, Burt Gillett and Isadore Klein. World War I proved the death-knell for...
traditional animation, stop-motion animation, or CGI/computer animation. "GrimNatwick in New York – Part One: The Early Years", an exhibit of the ASIFA-Hollywood...
Animated By Original release date Series Availability Notes 1 Dizzy Dishes GrimNatwick, Ted Sears August 9 Talkartoons Betty Boop Essential Collection (BBEC)...
architect (b. 1893) 1990 – Chiara Badano, Italian beatified (b.1971) 1990 – GrimNatwick, American animator (b. 1890) 1991 – Harry W. Brown, American colonel...
voice Sonny. Sonny was designed by Gene Cleaves. Animation pioneer "Grim" Natwick (of Fleischers' Betty Boop team) also contributed to the early images...
feature" in Technicolor. Disney animators such as Bill Tytla, Ub Iwerks, GrimNatwick, Fred Moore, Ward Kimball, Les Clark, John Sibley, Marc Davis, Wolfgang...
exploitation of her personality and image. Before his death, cartoonist GrimNatwick admitted he had designed a young girl based upon a photo of Kane. Margie...
Fleischer Starring Margie Hines Billy Murray Walter Van Brunt Animation by GrimNatwick Ted Sears Production companies Paramount Pictures Fleischer Studios Distributed...
such as Disney and Fleischer Studios, along with cartoonists Ub Iwerks, GrimNatwick, and Willard Bowsky. Chad Moldenhauer called Fleischer Studios "the magnetic...
Kneitel on the Betty Boop cartoons. While much credit has been given to GrimNatwick for her creation, her transformation into the cute cartoon girl was due...
mentioned that she was 12 years old. In 1930, Fleischer Studios' animator GrimNatwick introduced a caricature of Helen Kane—a singer known since 1923 for her...
Barré Studio, Frank Moser. Another was his fellow student in Chicago, GrimNatwick (later to achieve fame at Disney). As he developed more and more of Hearst's...
Fusion, Randy Grochoski, Ed King, Ted Martine, Bob Mills, Lee Mishkin, GrimNatwick, Russ Sholl, Jim Scott, John Sparey, Dean Spille, Spaulding White, Volney...
a continuing character. While she originated under animator Myron "Grim" Natwick, she was transformed into a human female under Seymour Kneitel and Berny...