Ruthie Tompson, who began her career at the Walt Disney Studios as a painter in the Ink and Paint Department during the first golden age of Disney animation, died peacefully in her sleep at her home ...

Ruthie Tompson liked to tell people that she and Mickey Mouse "grew up together." And that wasn't an exaggeration: The legendary animator spent nearly 40 years with the Walt Disney Company, working on ...

The iconic animator worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, Mary Poppins, The Rescuers, and more with The Walt Disney Company Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for ...

Ruthie Tompson, one of the last living artists who worked on Disney’s early features, died in her sleep on Sunday. She was 111. In her four decades at The Walt Disney Company, Tompson worked across ...

Disney bid farewell to legendary animator Ruthie Tompson (pictured with Nancy Sherwood and Ann Tucker), who died at 111 on Sunday. As one of their first female artists, Tompson's early work was ...

Ruthie Tompson, a longtime Disney animation supervisor and now the oldest resident at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Country House and Hospital, turns 110 in COVID-19 lockdown on Wednesday. By ...

Iger was speaking of Ruthie Tompson, who passed away on Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills. She was 111 years old. The Disney icon’s relationship to the studio dates to ...