{{Short description|American animator and director}} {{more citations needed|date=November 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Lee Mishkin | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=y|1927|2|5}} | birth_place = | birth_name = | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=y|2001|6|19|1927|2|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.awn.com/news/passing/academy-award-winning-animator-lee-mishkin-passes-away|title = Academy Award Winning Animator Lee Mishkin Passes Away}}</ref> | death_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S. | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Animator & Director | years_active = 1949–1991 | notable_works = Is It Always Right to Be Right? | spouse = | children = }}
'''Lee Mishkin''' (February 5, 1927 – June 19, 2001) was an American animator and director. He directed the short animated film ''Is It Always Right to Be Right?'', which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1970.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/list/Bs3X3pR4kc8/ {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref> He was the founder of the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts (VanArts), an art school focusing on animation, design, acting and photography. During the 1980s and 1990s Mishkin served on the advisory board of the National Student Film Institute.<ref>{{cite book|title=National Student Film Institute/L.A: The Sixteenth Annual Los Angeles Student Film Festival|date=June 10, 1994|location=The Directors Guild Theatre|pages=10–11|ref=Program}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Los Angeles Student Film Institute: 13th Annual Student Film Festival|date=June 7, 1991|location=The Directors Guild Theatre|page=3|ref=Program}}</ref> On June 19, 2001, Mishkin died in his sleep of heart failure.
==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Title !! Notes |- | 1960 || ''King Leonardo and His Short Subjects'' ||Layout Artist |- | 1961-1962 || ''Calvin and the Colonel'' ||Visual Adaptation - 12 episodes |- | 1962 || ''Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol'' ||Production Designer |- | 1964-1965 || ''The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo'' ||Character Designer - 7 episodes |- | 1965 || ''The New Three Stooges'' ||Layout Artist - 49 episodes |- | 1966 || ''The Super 6'' ||Writer |- | 1970 || ''Why We Have Taxes, or The Town That Had No Policeman'' (short) ||Director |- | 1970 || ''Why People Have Laws, or Shiver, Gobble & Snore'' (short) ||Director |- | 1970 || ''How the First Letter Was Written'' (short) ||Director |- | 1970 || ''How the Elephant Got His Trunk'' (short) ||Director |- | 1970 || ''Is It Always Right to Be Right?'' (short) ||Director |- | 1974 || ''Butterfly Ball'' ||Director |- | 1977 || ''Halloween Is Grinch Night'' ||Animator |- | 1978 || ''Yogi's Space Race'' ||Animator |- | 1979 || ''The Little Rascals Christmas Special'' ||Animator |- | 1981 || ''Faeries'' ||Producer<br />Writer<br />Director<br />Animator |- | 1987 || ''Bionic Six'' ||Director |- | 1987 || ''Sparky's Magic Piano'' ||Director |- | 1990 || ''Jetsons: The Movie'' ||Animator |- |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.vanarts.com Vancouver Institute of Media Arts] * {{IMDb name|0592767}}
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