Biographie

31 juillet 1886 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, États-Unis

16 septembre 1965 · Santa Monica, Californie, États-Unis (infarctus)

Frederick Clinton Quimby

The MGM animation staff, especially Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, despised Quimby when he was head of the animation department. They felt he was a useless bore who had no love or talent in the medium but still fought with the artists continually over their creative ideas. The fact that he always took the credit for the awards won for the cartoons was especially galling. (It should be noted that Academy Award rules at the time required that the producer of the winning cartoon be awarded the Oscar trophy).

Won 4 consecutive Oscars between 1944-1947, in the category Best Short Subject, Cartoons.

Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby on Les Simpson (1989) is named after him.

He has produced one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Le chef d'orchestre illusionniste (1952).