Donald "Don" Don DaGradi was an American screenwriter and layout artist, best known for his work with Disney. DaGradi started out as a layout artist on 1940s cartoons, such as Der Fuehrer's Face. He also worked as a color and styling or sequence consultant on many other Disney films. DaGradi is probably best known for his work on Mary Poppins, for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay alongside Bill Walsh. He was posthumously named a Disney Legend in 1991, only months after his death.
In the 2013 film Saving Mr. Banks, DaGradi was portrayed by Bradley Whitford.
Filmography
Feature films
- Dumbo (1941) - Art Director
- Victory Through Air Power (1943) - Art Director
- The Three Caballeros (1944) - Layout artist
- Make Mine Music (1946) - Layout artist
- Fun and Fancy Free (1947) - Layout artist
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) - color and styling
- Cinderella (1950) - color and styling
- Alice in Wonderland (1951) - color and styling
- Peter Pan (1953) - color and styling
- Lady and the Tramp (1955) - story
- Sleeping Beauty (1959) - production design
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) - special art styling
- Kidnapped (1960) - story sketches
- Pollyanna (1960) - sequence consultant
- The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) - sequence consultant
- The Parent Trap (1961) - sequence consultant
- Son of Flubber (1963) - screenplay
- Mary Poppins (1964) - screenplay
- Lt. Robin Crusoe USN (1966) - screenplay
- Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) - screenplay
- The Love Bug (1968) - screenplay
- Scandalous John (1971) - screenplay
- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) - screenplay
Short films
- The Olympic Champ (1942) - Layout artist (uncredited)
- How to Fish (1942) - Layout artist
- Der Fuehrer's Face (1942) - Layout artist (uncredited)
- Victory Vehicles (1943) - Layout artist
- How to Be a Sailor (1944) - Layout artist
- Duck Pimples (1945) - Layout artist
- Hockey Homicide (1945) - Layout artist
- Bongo (1947) - Layout artist
- The Legend of Johnny Appleseed (1948) - Layout artist
- The Brave Engineer (1950) - Layout artist
- Susie the Little Blue Coupe (1952) - Story adaptation
Television
- Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color - (1954-1982)
- Special artwork - 1 episode
- Layout artist - 1 episode
- Story sketches - 2 episodes
- Sequence consultant - 3 episodes
- Writer - 3 episodes
Gallery
DaGradi attending a story meeting for Sleeping Beauty with Eric Larson, Joe Rinaldi, and Marc Davis.
Bradley Whitford as DaGradi in Saving Mr. Banks.
