Jack Cutting; Pioneer Disney Animator

Jack Cutting, 80, an animator who hired on at Walt Disney’s fledgling cartoon studio in 1929 when he was 21, joining the 19 artists who then constituted the studio. Cutting, who headed the foreign department of Disney studios where he supervised the translations and dubbing of voices, was director of the 1939 Academy Award-winning cartoon “The Ugly Duckling.” He retired in 1975 and died in North Hollywood last Wednesday.