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Vinton, Will

LC control no.n 98008903
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Personal name headingVinton, Will
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Variant(s)Vinton, William Gale
Birth date1947-11-17
Death date2018-10-04
Place of birthMcMinnville (Or.)
Place of deathPortland (Or.)
Field of activityClay animation films
Profession or occupationAnimators
Found inMartin the cobbler [MP] 1977: credits (directed and produced by Will Vinton)
New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 10, 2018 (in obituary published Oct. 9: Will Vinton; b. William Gale Vinton, Nov. 17, 1947, McMinnville, Or.; d. Thursday [Oct. 4, 2018], Portland, Or., aged 70; used his and a partner's revolutionary stop-motion animation process, Claymation, to win an Academy Award with an early cartoon and to create memorable commercial characters like the California Raisins)
Associated languageeng