Luske joined the
Walt Disney Productions animation studio in 1931, and he was soon trusted enough by
Walt Disney to be made supervising animator of the first
Disney Princess character,
Snow White in
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He was also an animator on the 1938 short film
Ferdinand the Bull. He directed many Disney films and
animated shorts from 1936 until he died in 1968. In 1965, he won the
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for directing the animated sequence in the
Julie Andrews musical
Mary Poppins (1964). He was born in
Chicago, Illinois, on October 16, 1903, and died in
Bel Air, California, on February 19, 1968, at age 64. Luske was the father of director and actor Tommy Luske, who provided the voice of
Michael Darling in
Peter Pan. ==Filmography as director==