Donald Virgil Bluth (born September 13 1937) is an American animator and independent studio owner.

He was born in El Paso, Texas and became one of the chief animators at Disney. Along with fellow animators Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy, he set out in 1979 to start his own animation studio, Don Bluth Productions. His style is rougher and more lively than that of Disney films, and his films tend to have a mystical element to them.

At Disney in the 1970s, Bluth was an animator on Robin Hood, The Rescuers, and Pete's Dragon. His last involvement with Disney was the 1978 short The Small One; he drew a few scenes for The Fox and the Hound, but left early in production and brought several other Disney animators with him to form a rival studio. This new studio demonstrated its ability in its first production, a short film titled Banjo the Woodpile Cat, and this led to work on an animated segment of the live-action film Xanadu (1980) and then to its first feature-length animation, The Secret of NIMH (1982). Many consider this film to be Bluth's masterpiece.

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Don Bluth hates cats oh my god does he hate cats.
BRB WATCHING DON BLUTH. Yaaay, insomnia, YAY MY CHILDHOOD.
Pitselly (johnny dangerously) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:57:52 -0000
BRB WATCHING DON BLUTH. Yaaay, insomnia, YAY MY CHILDHOOD.
Watching "secret of nihm" with my cat. This is my favorite Don Bluth film.
KuroichiPhoenix (Joel) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:37:43 -0000
Watching "secret of nihm" with my cat. This is my favorite Don Bluth film.
@mercedesmy OMG American Tail is horribly depressing. All of Don Bluth's stuff is: Secret of Nimh anyone?
Metafrantic (Metafrantic) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:53:25 -0000
@mercedesmy OMG American Tail is horribly depressing. All of Don Bluth's stuff is: Secret of Nimh anyone?

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