It did not occur to me until I read the obituary of Ollie Johnston, apparently one of Disney’s finest animators, that behind every good animator lies a good actor.

Ollie Johnston, last of Disney’s elite animators, died on April 14th, aged 95
IF YOU interviewed Ollie Johnston in the last years of his life, sooner or later he would start to change. The trim body, lean as a whippet’s, would begin to prowl and strut, then round on you with an accusing, pointing arm, just like the evil prosecutor in

All these vignettes, performed in his 80s with a young man’s grace, had come from decades of observation. For the plump, elderly Good Fairies in