Volus Jones
Biography
Volus Jones started his career at Disney, first as an in-between artist before graduating to full animator status in the late 1930s. During his time at the studio he became something of a specialist in animating Donald Duck, earning him the nickname "The Duck Man" from his colleagues. He was one of the many animators that took part in the Disney animators' strike of 1941, although unlike a number of his colleagues he remained at the studio for some time afterwards, eventually leaving the company in 1956. Jones spent the next few years working at various studios, and had a spell as an animation director on the early-1960s Popeye, working under former Disney colleague Jack Kinney. In 1967 he arrived at the newly re-opened Warner Bros. studio, but left along with director Alex Lovy the following year, and followed Lovy to the Hanna-Barbera studios. After three years at Hanna-Barbera, Jones went to work for the Walter Lantz studio, but left after just a year when the studio shut down production for good in 1972. Following the closure of Lantz's studio, Jones worked as a freelancer for the remainder of his career. The vast majority of his work was for his previous employers, Hanna-Barbera, but he also animated on the films Heavy Traffic and The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat. His last screen credit was as a director on Challenge of the GoBots in 1985. Wikipedia
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Gender
Male
Birthday
1913-11-17
Place of Birth
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Pluto's Christmas Tree
19527.1 / 10
Working for Peanuts
19536.8 / 10
Grin and Bear It
19546.7 / 10
How to Have an Accident in the Home
19567.0 / 10
Inferior Decorator
19486.4 / 10
Let's Stick Together
19526.5 / 10
Lion Around
19506.1 / 10
Lucky Number
19516.4 / 10
Out of Scale
19517.5 / 10
Out on a Limb
19506.9 / 10
Rugged Bear
19537.2 / 10
Slide Donald Slide
19496.7 / 10
Soup's On
19486.4 / 10
Spare the Rod
19546.1 / 10
Straight Shooters
19476.0 / 10
Test Pilot Donald
19516.5 / 10
The New Neighbor
19536.8 / 10
Toy Tinkers
19496.9 / 10
Trailer Horn
19506.5 / 10
Trick or Treat
19526.9 / 10
Tugboat Mickey
19406.3 / 10
Uncle Donald's Ants
19526.6 / 10
Up a Tree
19557.2 / 10
Winter Storage
19496.7 / 10
Donald Applecore
19526.6 / 10
Tea for Two Hundred
19486.4 / 10
Mr. Duck Steps Out
19406.5 / 10
Bee at the Beach
19506.4 / 10
Bee On Guard
19516.9 / 10
Canvas Back Duck
19536.3 / 10
Chip an' Dale
19476.7 / 10
Clown of the Jungle
19476.2 / 10
Three for Breakfast
19486.5 / 10
Corn Chips
19517.1 / 10
Donald's Garden
19425.7 / 10
Donald's Gold Mine
19425.6 / 10
Donald's Happy Birthday
19496.7 / 10
Don's Fountain of Youth
19536.8 / 10
Dragon Around
19547.0 / 10
Dude Duck
19516.7 / 10
Bearly Asleep
19556.5 / 10
Beezy Bear
19556.7 / 10
Put-Put Troubles
19406.0 / 10
The Flying Squirrel
19546.3 / 10
Two Chips and a Miss
19526.8 / 10
A Gentleman's Gentleman
19416.2 / 10
Gay Purr-ee
19626.6 / 10
Canine Caddy
19416.5 / 10
Popeye's Service Station
19606.0 / 10
Norman Normal
19685.8 / 10
Foul Hunting
19476.2 / 10
Gold Diggin' Woodpecker
19727.0 / 10
Let Charlie Do It
19721.0 / 10
Honey Harvester
19496.4 / 10
A Fish Story
19720.0 / 10
Rain Rain, Go Away
19721.0 / 10
Unlucky Potluck
19722.0 / 10
They're Off
19486.7 / 10
The Greener Yard
19496.3 / 10
Pluto and the Gopher
19506.6 / 10
From All of Us to All of You
19587.7 / 10
Bye, Bye, Blackboard
19728.0 / 10
Barbecue for Two
19603.0 / 10
Bugged by a Bee
19695.0 / 10
Chip 'n Dale: Trouble in a Tree
20057.6 / 10
Chip 'n' Dale: Here Comes Trouble
20046.9 / 10
Chimp & Zee
19684.3 / 10
3 Ring Wing-Ding
19683.3 / 10
Big Game Haunt
19684.0 / 10