John McLeish
Also Known As: John Fraser McLeish
Biography: John McLeish was born in 1916 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as John Fraser McLeish. He was an actor and writer, known for Fantasia (1940), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) and The Wind in the Willows (1949). He was married to Lila Dorothea Wead. He died on October 30, 1968 in Montreal, Canada. -IMDB
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1916
Age: 109 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 30, 1968
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Dumbo
Overview: Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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Goofy at the Olympic Games
Overview: A French TV special detailing the history of the Olympic Games through Disney's most athletic oddball, Goofy, with clips from classic shorts interspersed.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-01
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He Can't Make It Stick
Overview: An anti-Hitler cartoon. While the soundtrack survives in full, the animation is partly lost.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-11
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River Ribber
Overview: Professor Small and Mr. Tall are on a Mississippi riverboat, where they attempt to race Captain Nobody- a ghost- on his boat. They win the race when Mr. Tall finds his lost lucky rabbit's foot.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-04
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Krazy's Race of Time
Overview: Krazy is sent on a mission to explore planet Mars.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-06
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Simple Siren
Overview: A homely mermaid tries to get a stranded sailor all to herself.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-20
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Tangled Travels
Overview: A collection of spot gags spoofing travelogues complete with narration.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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Symphony Hour
Overview: Mickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an elevator, so they sound like toys. The sponsor hates it, but the audience loves it anyway.
Genres: Animation Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Trombone Trouble
Overview: Pegleg Pete is practicing his trombone, badly. So badly, it's annoying the gods Jupiter and Vulcan and neighbor Donald. Only Donald has the temerity to confront him. He does, and Pete kicks him back home. The gods see this, and decide to give Donald a little bit of power which instantly goes to his head.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-18
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Bellboy Donald
Overview: Donald tries his best to be polite and dignified as a hotel bellboy. But when his first guest is Pete Junior, the job is next to impossible.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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Donald Gets Drafted
Overview: Donald Fauntleroy Duck gets his draft notice and goes in, past all the amazingly enticing recruiting posters, to sign up. First he has to pass the physical. Despite his flat feet, he makes it. Donald wants to fly, but first he has to make it through Sergeant Pete's boot camp. He has a terrible time with close-order drills, and standing at attention without moving when he's over an ant-hill proves a real challenge. Eventually, Donald ends up on endless KP.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-01
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The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall
Overview: Three fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, Dan Backslide, in this spoof of the Rover Boys.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-19
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The Wind in the Willows
Overview: This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of a dapper, automobile loving fellow named Mr. Toad, whose passion becomes a problem when he's framed for stealing cars by a band of rogue weasels.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-10
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Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: An Officer and a Duck
Overview: FEATURED CARTOONS Donald Gets Drafted (1942) The Vanishing Private (1942) Sky Trooper (1942) Fall Out Fall In (1943) The Old Army Game (1943) Home Defense (1943)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-31
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The Ducktators
Overview: A wartime cartoon that satirizes the Axis leaders of World War II.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-01
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The Case of the Screaming Bishop
Overview: Hairlock Combs, a parody of Sherlock Holmes, and his partner Dr. Gotsome bumble through an investigation of a stolen dinosaur skeleton.
Genres: Animation Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-04
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Carnival Courage
Overview: Willoughby Wren gets a job at a circus and, with the help of this magic hat, saves the circus from an escaped gorilla.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-06
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Overview: The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-05
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Motor Mania
Overview: Mild-mannered average guy Mr. Walker (Goofy) turns into violent Mr. Wheeler when he starts driving. Back on his feet, Mr. Walker finds it nearly impossible to cross the street.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-30
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Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
Overview: This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 (but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-'30s). The "How to Ride a Horse" sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure. One of the funniest entries in the series, "Hockey Homicide," contains several studio in-jokes: dueling stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, and referee Clean-Game Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino, Norm Ferguson, and director Jack Kinney.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-03
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How to Fish
Overview: Goofy's demonstration of fishing is fouled up by his clumsy casting and fly fishing, and problems with his boat.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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The Art of Self Defense
Overview: Goofy takes a lighthearted look at self defense through the ages: cavemen, knights, the age of chivalry, and finally boxing.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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The Olympic Champ
Overview: A narrator explains the history of the Olympic Games while Goofy demonstrates events.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-09
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Goofy's Glider
Overview: Yet another sport is made 'easy' for us by Goofy's demonstration how- never, ever, to try anything for real, least of all with a glider-flying machine he launches in ways that would kill anything but a cartoon character, such as a giant catapult and even a canon. Meanwhile Goofy proves totally incapable to control any of its movements in the air, let alone the 'landing' which is too messy even for a bombshell.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-22
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The Art of Skiing
Overview: Goofy, staying at the Sugar Bowl resort, demonstrates the basics of downhill skiing, which the titles and announcer insist is pronounced "SHEEing". The equipment is, of course, of the era. As you can imagine, Goofy has much trouble keeping his skis parallel and pointing downhill. The final ski jump conveniently lands Goofy right back in bed.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-14
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How to Ride a Horse
Overview: Aided by his horse, Percy, Goofy takes horsemanship to a new level. Originally released as a part of The Reluctant Dragon (1941).
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-07
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Goofy Gymnastics
Overview: Inspired by a magazine ad, Goofy sends for a mail order body building course. First is weight lifting; after Goofy finally gets the weights up, a fly lands and sends him crashing through several floors in the apartment building. Chinups: the bar itself goes up and down. Then a rubber-band stretch device, which Goofy quickly tangles up in, sending him crashing through the building and several other pieces of equipment.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-23
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How to Swim
Overview: Goofy's plans to give a swimming lesson and enjoy a day at the beach go awry.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-23
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How to Be a Sailor
Overview: Goofy provides a history of ships and sailing.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-28
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Accidents Resulting from Unfamiliarity in Aircraft, or: The Rover Boys in Peril
Overview: Part of the Flight Safety series of PSAs produced by United Productions of America for the U.S. Navy. Three stalwart brothers learn the importance of familiarizing themselves with aircraft before attempting to fly them.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Pinocchio
Overview: A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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Professor Small and Mr. Tall
Overview: Small and Tall break a mirror on a train trip and their seven years of bad luck start immediately. Stranded by an accident, they have trouble in a ghost town and finally are lost in the desert. The mirror saves them when they piece it back together, and everything is okay until they break the mirror again and their troubles start anew.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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