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Winston Hibler

Highest Rated: 98% Cinderella (1950)

Lowest Rated: 50% The Island at the Top of the World (1974)

Birthday: Oct 8, 1910

Birthplace: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Winston Hibler was a writer, director, producer, narrator, and Disney Legend who made numerous contributions to the glory days of The Walt Disney Studios from the 1940s until his death in 1976. His earliest official credit came as a story writer for Disney's animated musical take on the folk hero "Johnny Appleseed." Throughout the '50s, Hibler contributed as part of typically eight-man story writing teams for such animated Disney classics as "Cinderella," "Peter Pan," and "Sleeping Beauty"; he also composed songs heard in the latter two films. In 1954, "Hib," as he was known to his colleagues, began writing and directing for the inaugural season of "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color," the entertainment behemoth's early foray into television, which featured both animated and live-action biography programs. Hibler not only wrote and directed for the series but also produced and even narrated several episodes between the mid-'50s and mid-'70s. In 1955, still under the Disney umbrella, Hibler wrote, directed, and narrated the documentary short "Men Against the Arctic," which won an Academy Award for the studio. In addition to his projects for "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color," Hibler also produced numerous feature films for Disney throughout the '60s and '70s, among them the 1968 Dean Jones-starring family comedy, "The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit," and the 1974 drama "The Bears and I."

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Highest rated movies

98% 80% Cinderella Watchlist 90% 80% Sleeping Beauty Watchlist 84% 78% Alice in Wonderland Watchlist
64% 70% The Aristocats
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50% 46% The Island at the Top of the World
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The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures
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The Aristocats
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24% The Castaway Cowboy
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38% One Little Indian
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Cinderella
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Filmography

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Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Best of Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures Narrator - 1975
50% 46% The Island at the Top of the World Producer - 1974
No Score Yet 24% The Castaway Cowboy Producer - 1974
No Score Yet 27% The Bears and I Producer - 1974
No Score Yet 38% One Little Indian Producer - 1973
No Score Yet 44% Napoleon and Samantha Producer - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chandar, the Black Leopard of Ceylon Director - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lefty, the Ding-A-Ling Lynx Director - 1971
64% 70% The Aristocats Producer $17.3M 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Aristocats Producer - 1970
No Score Yet 62% Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar Director - 1967
No Score Yet 77% Follow Me, Boys! Producer - 1966
No Score Yet 73% The Ugly Dachshund Producer - 1966
No Score Yet 52% Those Calloways Producer - 1964
No Score Yet 46% Big Red Producer - 1962
No Score Yet 38% The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon Producer - 1960
No Score Yet 80% Jungle Cat Narrator - 1960
90% 80% Sleeping Beauty Writer $11.6M 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sleeping Beauty Writer - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sleeping Beauty Writer - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Seven Cities of Antarctica Director - 1958
No Score Yet 65% Perri Narrator - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Men Against the Arctic Narrator,
Director,
Screenwriter
- 1955
No Score Yet 87% Vanishing Prairie Narrator - 1954
No Score Yet 72% The Living Desert Narrator - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bear Country Narrator - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Alaskan Eskimo Writer - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Water Birds Narrator,
Screenwriter
- 1952
84% 78% Alice in Wonderland Screenwriter - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beaver Valley Narrator - 1950
98% 80% Cinderella Writer $33.5M 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cinderella Writer - 1950
No Score Yet 60% Cinderella Writer - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cinderella Writer - 1950
No Score Yet 82% The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Screenwriter - 1949
No Score Yet No Score Yet Seal Island Narrator - 1948