Facts:   - death place: santa barbara county , california    - bgcolour: # 6495ed    - caption: walt stanchfield    - death date: 3 september 2000    - field: animation      - birth date: july 14 , 1919    - name: walt stanchfield    - nationality: american    - influenced: brad bird , john lasseter , don bluth    - birth place: los angeles , california   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of walt stanchfield .
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walt stanchfield -lrb- 1919 -- 2000 -rrb- was an american animator , writer and teacher .stanchfield is known for work on a series of classic animated feature films at walt disney studios and his mentoring of disney animators .walter stanchfield was born in 1919 in los angeles , california .after graduating from high school in 1937 , stanchfield worked as an animator at the charles mintz studio .during world war ii , he served in the u.s. navy .returning to california , he briefly worked at the walter lantz studio before joining walt disney studios to work on the 1949 full-length animated feature `` the adventures of ichabod and mr. toad '' .his career included work on every subsequent disney animated feature , including character animation on `` the jungle book '' in 1967 and `` the aristocats '' in 1970 .his final film for disney was `` the great mouse detective '' in 1986 .in 1987 , stanchfield served as an animation consultant on `` who framed roger rabbit '' .in the 1970s , stanchfield and eric larson created a training program for new animators at disney studios .the program included weekly drawing classes and lectures .stanchfied 's students included numerous prominent animators , such as brad bird , john lasseter , don bluth , joe ranft , john musker , ron clements , glen keane , andreas deja , and mark henn .in 2009 , stanchfield 's lecture notes were compiled into the two-volume set `` drawn to life : 20 golden years of disney master classes '' .