Global InformationTyrus Wong information
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| Born | Wong Gen Yeo October 25, 1910 Taishan, Qing Dynasty |
| Died | December 30, 2016 (aged 106) Sunland-Tujunga, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park Hollywood Hills, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Tyrus Yu Wong, Look Tai Yow |
| Alma mater | Otis College of Art and Design |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer, set designer, artist, storyboard artist, kite maker |
| Years active | 1930s-2016 |
| Employer(s) | Walt Disney Animation Studios (1938–1941) Warner Bros. Cartoons (1941-1964) Walter Lantz Productions (1941-1968) MGM Cartoons (1941-1958) Warner Bros. Pictures (1942–1968) Hanna-Barbera (1957-1968) DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (1963-1968) |
| Works | Bambi (1942) |
| Spouse | Ruth Kim (m. 1937, died 1995) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | CAM Historymakers Award, 2001 Disney Legends Award, 2001 Winsor McCay Award, 2005 |
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| Simplified Chinese | 黄齐耀 | ||||||||||
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Tyrus Wong (October 25, 1910 – December 30, 2016) was a Chinese-born American artist. He was a painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer and kite maker, as well as a set designer and storyboard artist. One of the most-influential and celebrated Asian-American artists of the 20th century,[1] Wong was also a film production illustrator, who worked for Disney and Warner Bros. He was a muralist for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), as well as a greeting card artist for Hallmark Cards. Most notably, he was the lead production illustrator on Disney's 1942 film Bambi, taking inspiration from Song dynasty art. He also served in the art department of many films, either as a set designer or storyboard artist, such as Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Rio Bravo (1959), The Music Man (1962), PT 109 (1963), The Great Race (1965), Harper (1966), The Green Berets (1968), and The Wild Bunch (1969), among others.
Wong retired from the film industry in the late 1960s, but continued his work as an artist, spending most of his time designing kites. He also continued to paint, sketch, and design ceramics well into his 90s. He was the subject of the 2015 documentary film, Tyrus, by filmmaker Pamela Tom (譚宇瓊). Wong died on December 30, 2016, at the age of 106.
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