Milt Kahl

Biography

Milton Erwin Kahl was an American animator born on March 22, 1909, in San Francisco, California. A key member of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, Kahl refined character sketches and designed the final look for many iconic Disney characters in his distinctive angular style inspired by Ronald Searle and Picasso. His influence can be seen in works by contemporary masters such as Andreas Deja and Brad Bird, whom he mentored at Disney in the early 1970s.