Ub Iwerks

Biography

Ubbe Ert Iwerks, known as Ub Iwerks, was an American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician who co-created the characters Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney. The works Iwerks produced alongside Disney went on to win numerous awards, including multiple Academy Awards.

Birthday

Mar 24, 1901

Place of birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Deathday

Jul 7, 1971

Also known as

U. B. Iwerk
Ubbe Ert Iwwerks
'Ub' Iwerks
U.B. Iwerks
Ub. Iwerks
Ubbe Iwerks
Ubbe Ert Iwerks

Credited in

As cast

Alice's Wonderland
As Self
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
As Self (archive footage)

As crew

See How They Won
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Role: Director
A Busy Day
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Role: Director
A Busy Day
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Role: Producer
A Busy Day
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Role: Writer
Hell's Bells
Role: Director
Little Boy Blue
Role: Director
Alice the Fire Fighter
Role: Animation
Summer
Role: Director
The Merry Dwarfs
Role: Animation
Jack Frost
Role: Director
Autumn
Role: Director
Alice's Day at Sea
Role: Animation
Skeleton Frolic
Role: Director
Trolley Troubles
Role: Animation
Porky and Gabby
Role: Director
Porky's Super Service
Role: Director
Puppy Love
Role: Director
The Goal Rush
Role: Director
Nurse Maid
Role: Director
Alice's Wonderland
Role: Cinematography
Alice's Wonderland
Role: Animation
Room Runners
Role: Director
The Music Lesson
Role: Director
School Days
Role: Director
Stormy Seas
Role: Director
The Pony Express
Role: Director
Fire! Fire!
Role: Director
The Office Boy
Role: Director
The Milkman
Role: Director
Funny Face
Role: Director
The Bully
Role: Director
What a Life
Role: Director
Play Ball
Role: Director
Stratos Fear
Role: Director
Jack and the Beanstalk
Role: Director
Chinaman's Chance
Role: Director
Spite Flight
Role: Director
The Air Race
Role: Director
Pale-Face
Role: Director
Techno-Cracked
Role: Director
Flip's Lunch Room
Role: Director
Bulloney
Role: Director
Coo Coo the Magician
Role: Director
Soda Squirt
Role: Director
Perri
Role: Special Effects
The Soup Song
Role: Director
Spooks
Role: Director
Ragtime Romeo
Role: Director
Africa Squeaks
Role: Director
The Cuckoo Murder Case
Role: Director
The Village Specialist
Role: Director
Jail Birds
Role: Director
Movie Mad
Role: Director
The Village Smitty
Role: Director
Laughing Gas
Role: Director
Balloon Land
Role: Producer
Balloon Land
Role: Director
Insultin' the Sultan
Role: Director
The King's Tailor
Role: Director
The Good Scout
Role: Director
Viva Willie
Role: Director
Don Quixote
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Role: Director
Puddle Pranks
Role: Director
Rasslin' Round
Role: Director
Puss in Boots
Role: Director
The Little Red Hen
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Role: Director
Flying Fists
Role: Director
Hell's Fire
Role: Director
The Queen of Hearts
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Role: Director
The Brave Tin Soldier
Role: Director
The Headless Horseman
Role: Director
Little Orphan Willie
Role: Director
Fiddlesticks
Role: Director
The Village Barber
Role: Director
Circus
Role: Director
Ali Baba
Role: Director
Happy Days
Role: Director
Old Mother Hubbard
Role: Director
The Microbe Army
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Role: Director
Summertime
Role: Director
Mary's Little Lamb
Role: Director
Simple Simon
Role: Director
Little Black Sambo
Role: Director
The Brementown Musicians
Role: Director
Sinbad the Sailor
Role: Director
Tom Thumb
Role: Director
Vintage Mickey
Role: Director
The Three Bears
Role: Director
Humpty Dumpty
Role: Director
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Role: Director
Tommy Tucker's Tooth
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Role: Animation
The Frog Pond
Role: Director
The Horse on the Merry-Go-Round
Role: Director
Midnight Frolics
Role: Director
Nell's Yells
Role: Director
Beauty Shoppe
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Role: Director
Merry Mannequins
Role: Director
Foxy Pup
Role: Director
Carnival Courage
Role: Director
All Wet
Role: Director
Westward Ho, The Wagons!
Role: Special Effects
Dick Whittington's Cat
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Role: Director
Davy Jones' Locker
Role: Director
The Barnyard Battle
Role: Director
Great Guns
Role: Animation
Oh, Teacher!
Role: Animation
The Mechanical Cow
Role: Animation
All Wet
Role: Animation
The Banker's Daughter
Role: Animation
Rickety Gin
Role: Animation
Rival Romeos
Role: Animation
Africa Before Dark
Role: Animation
Ride 'Em Plow Boy
Role: Animation
Sagebrush Sadie
Role: Animation
Ozzie of the Mounted
Role: Animation
Plane Crazy
Role: Animation
The Gallopin' Gaucho
Role: Animation
Poor Papa
Role: Animation
The Ocean Hop
Role: Animation
The Barn Dance
Role: Animation
The Skeleton Dance
Role: Animation
Mickey's Choo-Choo
Role: Animation
Steamboat Willie
Role: Animation
Empty Socks
Role: Director
The Egg Hunt
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Role: Director
The Gorilla Hunt
Role: Director
Ye Olde Swap Shoppe
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Role: Story
The Egg Hunt
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Role: Story
The Gorilla Hunt
Role: Story
Ye Olde Swap Shoppe
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Role: Director
The Skeleton Dance
Role: Background Designer
El Terrible Toreador
Role: Animation
The Skeleton Dance
Role: Layout
El Terrible Toreador
Role: Background Designer
El Terrible Toreador
Role: Layout
Springtime
Role: Animation
Springtime
Role: Director
Hell's Bells
Role: Animation
Summer
Role: Animation
Autumn
Role: Animation
Mickey's sleepless night
Role: Animation
Scrappy's Trip To Mars
Role: Director
Steamboat Willie
Role: Writer
Alice in Wonderland
Role: Visual Effects
Cinderella
Role: Visual Effects
Peter Pan
Role: Visual Effects
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Role: Visual Effects
Alice Plays Cupid
Role: Animation
Alice Charms the Fish
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Role: Animation
Alice's Brown Derby
Role: Animation
Alice the Collegiate
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Role: Animation
Alice in the Alps
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Role: Animation
Alice the Golf Bug
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Role: Animation
Alice's Three Bad Eggs
Role: Animation
Alice the Lumberjack
Role: Animation
Alice's Spanish Guitar
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Role: Animation
Alice Foils the Pirates
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Role: Animation
Alice Wins the Derby
Role: Animation
Alice's Knaughty Knight
Role: Animation
Alice Hunting in Africa
Role: Animation
Alice's Auto Race
Role: Animation
Alice at the Rodeo
Role: Animation
Alice Cuts the Ice
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Role: Animation
Alice the Piper
Role: Animation
Alice at the Carnival
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Role: Animation
Alice in the Klondike
Role: Animation
Alice's Channel Swim
Role: Animation
Alice's Medicine Show
Role: Animation
Alice the Beach Nut
Role: Animation
Lady and the Tramp
Role: Visual Effects
Alice's Picnic
Role: Animation
Alice in the Big League
Role: Animation
Coo Coo the Magician
Role: Producer
Hungry Hoboes
Role: Cinematography
Steamboat Willie
Role: Layout
Tricks of Our Trade
Role: Visual Effects
Bizarre Cartoons Of The Past
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Role: Director
Samoa
Role: Visual Effects
Blackboard Revue
Role: Director
Wise Owl
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Role: Director
Mickey & Minnie 10 Classic Shorts (Volume 1)
Role: Director
Song of the South
Role: Visual Effects
Jungle Jitters
Role: Director
The Cave Man
Role: Director
Robin Hood, Jr.
Role: Director
Reducing Creme
Role: Director
Happy Days
Role: Producer
Little Black Sambo
Role: Producer
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
Role: Producer
Old Mother Hubbard
Role: Producer
The Headless Horseman
Role: Producer
Stop That Tank!
Role: Director
Jack and the Beanstalk
Role: Producer
Jack Frost
Role: Producer
The Karnival Kid
Role: Director
The Gallopin' Gaucho
Role: Director
Reducing Creme
Role: Producer
Flying Fists
Role: Producer
Plane Crazy
Role: Director
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
Role: Visual Effects
Steamboat Willie
Role: Director
Baby Checkers
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Role: Director
Baby Checkers
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Role: Writer
Sardinia
Role: Visual Effects
The New Car
Role: Director
Spooks
Role: Animation
Spooks
Role: Producer
Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter
Role: Animation Director
Newman Laugh-O-Grams
Role: Producer
Cartoons That Time Forgot: The Ub Iwerks Collection Volume 1
Role: Director
Cartoons That Time Forgot: The Ub Iwerks Collection Volume 2
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Role: Director
Cartoons That Time Forgot: The Ub Iwerks Collection Volume 2
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Role: Animation
Cartoons That Time Forgot: The Ub Iwerks Collection Volume 1
Role: Animation
Celebrating Mickey
Role: Director
The Parent Trap
Role: Visual Effects
The Dating Game
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Role: Thanks
Jungle Cat
Role: Special Props
The Opry House
Role: Director
Crop Chasers
Role: Writer
Crop Chasers
Role: Director
Crop Chasers
Role: Producer
The Disneyland Story
Role: Visual Effects
The Donald Duck Story
Role: Visual Effects
Snowtime
Role: Writer
Snowtime
Role: Director
Alice's Fishy Story
Role: Animation
The Navajos: Children of the Gods
Role: Special Effects
Alice Cans the Cannibals
Role: Animation
The Birds
Role: Visual Effects
Mickey’s Slayhouse
Role: Characters
Man and the Moon
Role: Visual Effects
Flip The Frog in Spooks
Role: Director
The Cuckoo Murder Case
Role: Story
The Cuckoo Murder Case
Role: Producer
The Cuckoo Murder Case
Role: Animation
Alice Gets Stung
Role: Animation