DICK KINNEY
Amazing Animators no. 24
DICK KINNEY
Nato il 15 dicembre 1916 nello Utah, Richard Timothy Kinney, detto Dick, è un formidabile sceneggiatore con 25 anni di esperienza nel cinema di animazione, nel momento in cui si dedica ai fumetti. Nel 1930 Dick, suo fratello maggiore Jack Ryan Kinney (nato nel 1909) e la loro madre Maegrete Ryan si sono già trasferiti a Los Angeles, in California, ed è qui che Dick inizia la sua carriera come intercalatore dell'animazione presso lo studio di Walter Lantz. Lo stesso anno si fa le ossa come sceneggiatore presso lo studio di Hugh Harman e Rudolf Ising, e il 14 marzo dell'anno seguente passa con la stessa mansione allo Studio Disney. Contribuisce, non accreditato, a diversi cortometraggi, ma è soltanto nel settembre 1945 che il suo nome appare nei titoli di testa di No Sail, uno short di Paperino che scrive insieme con Ralph Wright. Ancora del settembre 1945 è Hockey Homicide (1946), che inaugura il suo lungo e fortunato sodalizio con il fratello Jack in veste di regista e con Pippo, decisamente il personaggio che è maggiormente nelle sue corde. Kinney sceneggerà altri 21 cortometraggi con Pippo, tra i quali spiccano Goofy Gymnastics (1949), Lion Down (1951), Fathers Are People (1951), How to Be a Detective (1952) e How to Dance (1953). Kinney contribuisce anche al lungometraggio Make Mine Music (Musica maestro!, 1946), a numerosi altri cortometraggi con Paperino, Pluto, Cip e Ciop e a specials quali Social Lion (1954) e A Cowboy Needs a Horse (1956), prima di lasciare la Disney il 9 giugno 1956.
Successivamente, Kinney lavora come story man indipendente per Walter Lantz (Woody Woodpecker, Hercules, The Beary Family, Chilly Willy, 1956-63), UPA (Mr. Magoo, Dick Tracy, 1956-64), Terrytoons (Deputy Dawg, Hashimoto, Hector Heathcote, 1958-62), Jack Kinney
Productions (Popeye, 1960), Format Films (Alvin and the Chipmunks, 1961) e Bob Clampett/Snowball (Beany and Cecil, 1962).
Nel 1963 Kinney decide di prendersi una pausa dall'animazione per dedicarsi ai comics. Sotto l'egida del manager George Sherman e del direttore artistico Tom Golberg, il Reparto Pubblicazioni dello Studio Disney ha da poco inaugurato lo Studio Program allo scopo di produrre
storie a fumetti da vendere sul mercato internazionale, con l'eccezione degli USA. Insieme con il disegnatore Al Hubbard, Kinney dà vita a diversi personaggi che avranno poi grande successo in tutto il mondo, come il lunatico cugino di Paperino Paperoga (Fethry Duck), il campagnolo Dinamite Bla (Hard Haid Moe), il papero intrallazzone Prospero Chiacchiera (Hustler Duck), la ex fiamma di Zio Paperone Bella Quack (Belle Duck) e l'agente segreto dai piedi palmati 01
Paperbond (Double-O-Duck). È Kinney, nel 1964, a reintrodurre Rockerduck, il rivale di Paperone creato da Carl Barks nel 1961, in Il giro del mondo in 80 stati d'animo, una storia disegnata in
Italia da Romano Scarpa. Lo stesso Scarpa disegnerà pure Super Pippo e i pirati della laguna (1968), la prima storia con l'alter ego super-eroistico di Pippo realizzata per lo Studio Program su
soggetto di Kinney. Ed è ancora Kinney, nel 1968, l'inventore della serie in cui Paperino e Paperoga sono giornalisti per il quotidiano di Zio Paperone, Papersera (The Duckburg Chronicle). In queste storie, disegnate di solito da Tony Strobl, appaiono spesso anche i due maldestri criminali noti nell'originale come Desperate Doe Boys, peraltro introdotti in una storia di Kinney e Hubbard del 1967. Kinney si ispira tavolta alle sceneggiature da lui scritte per l'animazione, come nel caso della storia Pippo pistolero ad... acqua (Mickey Mouse - The Big Bad Gunfighter,
1965), basata in parte sul cortometraggio del 1952 Two-Gun Goofy. Continuerà a sceneggiare con continuità storie a fumetti, anche con personaggi quali Cip e Ciop e Maga Magò, fino al 1973,
l'anno in cui scrive la prima storia con Zia Genoveffa (Aunt Eider Duck), papera anziana e miope i cui nipoti risultano essere sia Paperone, sia Rockerduck.
Kinney è intanto tornato a scrivere per l'animazione, contribuendo al lungometraggio della Fine Arts Films Shinbone Alley (1970). Riprende comunque la sua regolare attività di story man
contribuendo ai programmi animati televisivi di Hanna-Barbera The New Tom & Jerry Show (1975) e The Mumbly Cartoon Show (1976). Torna poi, seppur saltuariamente, a sceneggiare storie disneyane per lo Studio Program. L'ultima sembra essere Paperino
addomesticatore di cani (Donald Duck - Pay Up or Get Out), del 1982. Kinney si ritira quindi nella sua casa di Glendale, dove scompare il 14 marzo 1985.
Clockwise: Hard Haid Moe, Mata Harrier and Double-O-Duck, Hustler Duck, Belle Duck, and the Desperate Doe Boys
the Hugh Harman-Rudolf Ising studio, and on March 14 the following year he moved to the Disney Studio. He contributed, though uncredited, to several short films, but it was only in September 1945 that his name appeared in the opening credits of No Sail, a Donald Duck
short he co-wrote with Ralph Wright. Also from September 1945 is Hockey Homicide, which inaugurated his long and fortunate association with his brother Jack as director and with
Goofy, decidedly the character that he best handled. Kinney would write another 21 Goofy shorts, among which Goofy Gymnastics (1949), Lion Down (1951), Fathers Are People (1951), How to Be a Detective (1952), and How to Dance (1953). Kinney also contributed to the animated feature Make Mine Music (1946), as well as to several other shorts starring Donald Duck, Pluto, Chip 'n' Dale, and to such specials as Social Lion (1954) and A Cowboy Needs a Horse (1956), before leaving the Disney Studio on June 9, 1956.
Kinney subsequently worked as a freelance story man for Walter Lantz (Woody Woodpecker, Hercules, The Beary Family, Chilly Willy, 1956-63), UPA (Mr. Magoo, Dick Tracy, 1956-64), Terrytoons (Deputy Dawg, Hashimoto, Hector Heathcote, 1958-62), Jack Kinney Productions (Popeye, 1960), Format Films (Alvin and the Chipmunks, 1961), and Bob Clampett/Snowball (Beany and Cecil, 1962).
In 1963 Kinney decided to take a break from animation to devote himself to comics. Under the aegis of manager George Sherman and art director Tom Golberg, the Disney Studio Publications Department recently inaugurated the Studio Program with the aim of producing comic stories to sell on the international market, with the exception of the United States. Together with artist
Al Hubbard, Kinney gave life to several characters that had great success all over the world, such as Donald Duck's whimsical cousin Fethry Duck, Hard Haid Moe the hillbilly, Hustler Duck the con-man, Uncle Scrooge's former girlfriend Belle Duck, and the web-footed secret agent Double-O-Duck. It was Kinney, in 1964, who reintroduced Rockerduck, a rival of Scrooge's created by Carl Barks in 1961, in Around the World in 80 Daze, a story drawn in Italy by Romano Scarpa. Scarpa would also draw Super Goof - The Watery Menace (1968), the first story starring Goofy's super-heroic alter ego created for the Studio Program on a Kinney script. In 1968, Kinney also created the series in which Donald and Fethry are reporters for Uncle Scrooge's daily paper, The Duckburg Chronicle. In these stories, usually drawn by Tony Strobl, two clumsy criminals known as The
Desperate Doe Boy soften appeared who had been introduced in a 1967 story by Kinney and Al Hubbard. Kinney sometimes drew inspiration from the scripts he wrote for animation, as with Mickey Mouse - The Big Bad Gunfighter (1965), partly based on the 1952 short, Two-Gun Goofy. He would continue to write comics stories, also featuring such characters as Chip 'n' Dale and Mad
Madam Mim, until 1973, the year when he wrote the first story featuring Aunt Eider Duck, an elderly and shortsighted duck lady whose nephews were both Scrooge and Rockerduck.
Kinney had meanwhile gone back to writing for animation, contributing to the Fine Arts Films feature Shinbone Alley (1970). However he resumed his regular story man role contributing to
Hanna-Barbera's animated television programs The New Tom & Jerry Show (1975) and The Mumbly Cartoon Show (1976). He then returned, albeit occasionally, to scripting Disney stories for the Studio Program. The last one appears to have been Donald Duck - Pay Up or Get Out (1982). Kinney then retired to his home in Glendale, where he passed away on March 14, 1985.
FILMOGRAFIA /FILMOGRAPHY
Studio: WALTER LANTZ c.1937
Intercalatore / Inbetweener
00/00/1937-00/00/1938 Oswald the Rabbit
Studio: HARMAN-ISING 1938
Sceneggiatore / Story
00/00/1938-00/00/1939
Studio: DISNEY 14 Mar 1939-1941/1945-9
June 1956
Sceneggiatore / Story
18/04/1941 Baggage Buster [Goofy]
07/09/1945 No Sail [Donald and Goofy]
21/09/1945 Hockey Homicide [Goofy]
20/04/1946 Make Mine Music [Section: The Martins and the Coys]
01/11/1946 Frank Duck Brings 'Em Back Alive [Donald Duck]
31/10/1947 Foul Hunting [Goofy]
28/11/1947 Chip an' Dale [Donald Duck]
26/08/1949 Tennis Racquet [Goofy]
23/09/1949 Goofy Gymnastics [Goofy]
10/02/1950 Pluto and the Gopher [Pluto]
03/03/1950 The Brave Engineer [Special]
19/05/1950 Primitive Pluto [Pluto]
30/06/1950 Motor Mania [Goofy]
09/06/1950 Puss-Café [Pluto]
21/07/1950 Pests of the West [Pluto]
11/08/1950 Food for Feudin' [Pluto]
22/09/1950 Camp Dog [Pluto]
03/11/1950 Hold That Pose [Goofy]
05/01/1951 Lion Down [Goofy]
09/02/1951 Cold Storage [Pluto]
23/03/1951 Home Made Home [Goofy]
27/04/1951 Cold War [Goofy]
29/06/1951 Tomorrow We Diet [Goofy]
31/08/1951 Get Rich Quick [Goofy]
21/10/1951 Fathers Are People [Goofy]
23/11/1951 No Smoking [Goofy]
04/01/1952 Father's Lion [Goofy]
29/02/1952 Hello Aloha [Goofy]
16/05/1952 Two Gun Goofy [Goofy]
27/06/1952 Teachers Are People [Goofy]
12/12/1952 How to Be a Detective [Goofy]
28/03/1953 Father's Day Off [Goofy]
09/05/1953 For Whom the Bulls Toil [Goofy]
20/06/1953 Father's Week End [Goofy]
11/07/1953 How to Dance [Goofy]
05/04/1954 Donald's Diary [Donald Duck]
07/04/1954 The Lone Chipmunks [Chip 'n' Dale]
18/06/1954 Casey Bats Again [Special]
15/10/1954 Social Lion [Special]
23/09/1955 Up a Tree [Donald Duck]
24/02/1956 Chips Ahoy [Donald Duck]
18/07/1956 Jack and Old Mack [Special]
06/11/1956 A Cowboy Needs a Horse [Special]
Studio: WALTER LANTZ 1956-1957
Sceneggiatore / Story
22/10/1956 Niagara Fools [Woody Woodpecker]
11/02/1957 Red Riding Hoodlum [Woody Woodpecker]
03/06/1957 The Unbearable Salesman [Woody Woodpecker]
01/07/1957 International Woodpecker [Woody Woodpecker]
Studio: UPA 1957
Sceneggiatore / Story
11/09/1957 Magoo's Cruise [Mr. Magoo]
26/09/1957 Magoo Saves the Bank [Mr. Magoo]
Studio: WALTER LANTZ 1957
Sceneggiatore / Story
08/12/1957 Plumber of Seville [Hercules]
Studio: UPA 1957-1958
Sceneggiatore / Story
02/10/1958 Love Comes to Magoo [Mr. Magoo]
06/10/1958 Gumshoe Magoo [Mr. Magoo]
Studio: WALTER LANTZ 1958
Sceneggiatore / Story
30/12/1958 The Bongo Punch [Pepe and Pepito]
Studio: UPA 1958
Sceneggiatore / Story
09/01/1959 Bwana Magoo [Mr. Magoo]
05/03/1959 Magoo's Homecoming [Mr. Magoo]
07/05/1959 Magoo's Lodge Brother [Mr. Magoo]
Studio: TERRYTOONS 1958
Sceneggiatore / Story
01/07/1959-00/00/1959 The Hector Heathcote Show [TV
Show]
Studio: UPA 1959
Sceneggiatore / Story
01/12/1959 1001 Arabian Nights
Studio: JACK KINNEY PRODUCTIONS 1959
Sceneggiatore / Story
00/00/1960 Barbecue for Two [Popeye]
Studio: TERRYTOONS 1959
Sceneggiatore / Story
00/04/1960 The Famous Ride [Hector Heathcote]
Studio: UPA 1959-1960
Sceneggiatore / Story
00/00/1960 Inside Magoo [Mister Magoo]
00/00/1960-00/00/1960 Mister Magoo [TV Show - 33 episodes]
00/09/1961-00/00/1961 The Dick Tracy Show 61 [TV Show - 30 episodes]
Studio: FORMAT FILMS 1960
04/10/1961-00/00/1961 The Alvin Show [TV Show]
Studio: TERRYTOONS 1960
Sceneggiatore / Story
00/00/1961 The Unsung Hero [Hector Heathcote]
00/00/1961 So Sorry, Pussicat [Hashimoto]
00/00/1961 Railroaded to Fame [Hector Heathcote]
00/00/1961 Night Life in Tokyo [Hashimoto]
00/00/1961 Honorable Cat Story [Hashimoto]
Studio: WALTER LANTZ 1961-1962
Sceneggiatore / Story
19/12/1961 Doc's Last Stand [Doc]
Studio: SNOWBALL 1960-1961
00/00/1962-00/00/1962 Beany and Cecil [TV Show: Matty's Funday Funnies]
Studio: WALTER LANTZ 1961-1962
Sceneggiatore / Story
06/03/1962 Room and Bored [Woody Woodpecker]
27/03/1962 Fowled-Up Family [The Beary Family]
29/05/1962 Careless Caretaker [Woody Woodpecker]
12/06/1962 Mother's Little Helper [The Beary Family]
Studio: TERRYTOONS 1962
Sceneggiatore / Story
00/10/1962 First Flight Up [Hector Heathcote]
Studio: TERRYTOONS 1962
Sceneggiatore / Story
00/02/1963 Th' Catfish Poachin' Pelican [The Deputy Dawg Show]
06/04/1963 Hex Marks the Spot [The Deputy Dawg Show]
20/04/1963 Mountain Melvin Meets Hairy Harry [The Deputy Dawg Show]
Studio: WALTER LANTZ 1962
Sceneggiatore / Story
05/03/1963 Stowaway Woody [Woody Woodpecker]
16/04/1963 Charlie's Mother-in-Law [The Beary Family]
Studio: COLUMBIA 1962
Sceneggiatore / Story
00/09/1963 The Three Stooges Scrapbook
Studio: WALTER LANTZ 1962-1963
Sceneggiatore / Story
30/07/1963 Goose in the Rough [The Beary Family]
30/08/1963 The Tenant's Racket [Woody Woodpecker]
24/09/1963 Pesky Pelican [Chilly Willy]
12/11/1963 Goose Is Wild [The Beary Family]
Studio: UPA 1963-1964
Sceneggiatore / Story
19/09/1964--24/04/1965 The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo [TV Show]
Studio: DE TIEGE 1964
Sceneggiatore / Story
03/04/1965 The Man from Button Willow
Studio: FINE ARTS FILMS 1969
07/04/1971 Shinbone Alley
Studio: HANNA-BARBERA c. 1974-1975
06/09/1975--13/12/1975 The New Tom and Jerry Show [TV Show]
11/09/1976--18/12/1976 The Mumbly Cartoon Show [TV Show]
FUMETTOGRAFIA / COMICOGRAPHY
Editore/Publisher: WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS
NOTA: Tutte le storie seguenti sono state create negli USA per il
mercato internazionale / NOTE: All of the following stories were created in the
U.S. to be sold on the international market.
Chip 'n' Dale - S 63049, S 64090, S 67116 (1963/64/67).
Donald Duck - S 64008, S 64024, S 64029, S 64129, S 64136, S 65035, S 65181, S 66088, S 66024, S 66041, S 66089, S 66092, S 66101, S 66107, S 67035, S 67048, S 67056, S 67119, S 67165, S 67184, S 68023, S 68027, S 68040, S 68054, S 68059, S 68068, S 68098, S 68115, S 68139, S 68144, S 68188, S 68205, S 68207, S 69011, S 70018, S 70056, S 70063, S 70084, S 70091, S 70095, S 70099, S 70107, S 70128, S 70132, S 70133, S 70135, S 70157, S 70160, S 71112, S 71183, S 72090, S 72142, S 82020 (1964-72/82).
Double-O-Duck - S 66086, S 66111 (1966).
Fethry Duck - S 64051, S 64066, S 64083, S 64092, S 64095, S 64102, S
64105, S 64106, S 64108, S 64109, S 64130, S 64132, S 65022, S 65024, S 65049, S
65072, S 65203, S 66011, S 66040, S 66080, S 66082, S 66090, S 66148, S 67018, S
67049, S 67152, S 67161, S 67185, S 67190, S 68032, S 68041, S 68049, S 68067, S
68145, S 68146, S 68154, S 70039, S 70046 (1964-70).
Hard Haid Moe - S 68129 (1968).
Goofy - S 63050, S 64044, S 66149, S 66159, S 66160, S 66172, S 66174 (1963/64/66).
Huey, Dewey and Louie - S 68019, S 71101, S 73228 (1968/71/73).
Mad Madam Mim - S 65139, S 66068, S 66074, S 66136, S 66138 (1965-66).
Mickey Mouse - S 66131, S 66134, S 69088, S 72197, S 72224 (1966/69/72).
Super Goof - S 68063, S 68088, S 68199 (1968).
Uncle Scrooge - S 63118, S 64007, S 64014, S 64018, S 64020, S 64022, S 65008, S 65065, S 65080, S 65111, S 65122, S 65156, S 65162, S 65187, S 66032, S 66079, S 66095, S 66113, S 66124, S 67004, S 67007, S 67011, S 67013, S 67017, S 67023, S 67040, S 67088, S 67107, S 67148, S 67153, S 67168, S 67175, S 67186, S 68028, S 68058, S 68070, S 68082, S 68115, S 68137, S 68147, S 69018, S 69039, S 69041, S 69087, S 69091, S 70011, S 70022, S 70047, S 70096, S 70097, S 70139, S 70163, S 70187, S 70189 S 71039, S 71050, S 71347, S 73211, S 73242 (1963-73).
LIBRI ILLUSTRATI / ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Editore/Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER/GOLDEN PRESS/WESTERN PRINTING
A Little Golden Book - Peter Pan and the Indians #D26 (1952) [Colori/Color art: Brice Mack. Ristampato come/Reprinted as #D74, 1958].