Brice Harvey Mack was a background painter and director

Film director

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, known for his extensive work at Disney

Walt Disney Feature Animation

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 in the 1940s and 1950s as a background painter. He was hired for story writing at Disney in the 1950s, and worked on illustrating children's books based on the studio's films.

His first credited appearance was as the background artist for the Rite of Spring sequence in Fantasia

Fantasia (film)

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. He worked on Song of the South

Song of the South

Song of the South is a 1946 American musical film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris. The live actors provide a sentimental frame story, in which Uncle Remus relates the folk tales of the...

, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan

Peter Pan

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, and Lady and the Tramp

Lady and the Tramp

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. His last credit for Disney was in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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. In the 1950s he became the president of ERA Productions

ERA Productions

ERA Productions, Inc. was a commercial studio in the 1950s and 1960s. Due to the Disney animators' strike in 1941, many animators defected eventually to ERA, such as Ed Ardal, Ward Kimball and Virgil "Vip" Partch. The company was helmed by president Brice Mack, a background painter from Disney....

, a small studio which was staffed with animators who had mostly come from Disney after leaving during the strike

Disney animators' strike

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 of 1941, producing and directing animated and live action commercials for the Peterson Company, as well as work for Disney. He later went on to form Unicorn Productions, with which he continued to work on commercials, films and theme park rides, continuing to consult for Disney into the early 1990s, when he retired.

His feature work includes directing the 1978 live action

Live action

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 horror film Jennifer

Jennifer (1978 film)

Jennifer is a 1978 horror film directed by Brice Mack, starring Lisa Pelikan. The story has some similarities to the 1976 classic Carrie, about a social misfit with psychic powers who gets revenge on her cruel classmates. The original music score is composed by Porter Jordan. The film's tagline is:...

, written by Steve Krantz

Steve Krantz

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. Other director credits include "Rosster: Spurs of Death"(1983), "Swap Meet"(1979), and "Half a House"(1979). He was the Executive in Charge of Production for Ruby (film)

Ruby (film)

Ruby is a feature film, released in the United States on March 27, 1992, about Jack Ruby, the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement garage of a Dallas city police station in 1963. The film was directed by John Mackenzie and stars Danny Aiello , Sherilyn...

 and the Producer for "Mara of the Wilderness

Mara of the Wilderness

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Mack was survived by his wife, Ginni, three sons and three grandsons. His son Kevin Mack

Kevin Mack

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 is an Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor

Visual effects supervisor

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