Ruthie Thompson, the animator of the cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", has passed away at the age of 111, in Los Angeles. The news of the death of the Disney legend has been quickly spread in the media, accompanied by excerpts from roles in her films.
According to the Walt Disney Company, Thompson died in his sleep this Sunday, at her home in Los Angeles.
Thompson was born July 22, 1910 in Portland, Maine, and grew up in Boston before moving to Oakland when he was eight years old. She then moved to Los Angeles in 1924 after her mother divorced and remarried.
Ruthie Thompson began her career as an animator at Disney when she created the cartoons for the cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. Thompson became part of the company for four decades, until the mid-1970s.
Her Los Angeles home was very close to the Disney Brothers studio. Thompson first met them when he was a child. At the time, they invited him to see them while working for Les Clark and Ub Iwerks.
Ruthie Thompson also worked on the cartoons "Pinocchio", "Dumbo", "Bambi" and "Sleeping Beauty", becoming one of the first three women to join the International Union of Photographers in 1952.
Walt offered her a job at the Ink Department in 1937 for the studio's first animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs .
In 2000, as the employee with the longest history with Walt and Roy O. Disney, Thompson was named "Disney Legend".
