Visual Effects · b. 1912 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Ernie Nordli

Biography

American animation designer and layout artist, most notably for Disney. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Norwegian immigrant Hans Magnus Nordli (1884-1975) and Hedvig Charlotte Esterblom (1888-1976) of Swedish parentage. Nordli, nicknamed "Ernie", was a talented artist whose work had an appealing modern sensibility. He started at Disney in 1936 and served as an art director/layout artist on Dumbo and Fantasia, and worked on many of the studio's shorts through the mid-1940s, including such Donald Duck shorts as The Plastics Inventor and Donald's Double Trouble. He left Disney and in the ...

Other Credits

The Man from Button Willow Production Design 1965 Gay Purr-ee Production Design 1962 The Saga of Windwagon Smith Production Design 1961 How to Have an Accident at Work Layout Supervisor 1959 The Story of Anyburg U.S.A. Layout Supervisor 1957 How to Have an Accident in the Home Layout Supervisor 1956 Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z Layout Supervisor 1956 Rabbit Rampage Layout Supervisor 1955 Baby Buggy Bunny Layout Supervisor 1954 Daddy Duck Layout Supervisor 1948 Sleepy Time Donald Background Designer 1947 Dumb Bell of the Yukon Layout Supervisor 1946 Wet Paint Layout Supervisor 1946 Donald's Double Trouble Layout Supervisor 1946 A Knight for a Day Layout Supervisor 1946 Old Sequoia Layout Supervisor 1945 Cured Duck Layout Supervisor 1945 Donald's Crime Layout Supervisor 1945 The Clock Watcher Layout Supervisor 1945 The Plastics Inventor Layout Supervisor 1944

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