Dan Lee

Dan Lee (May 19 1969- January 15, 2005) was a Canadian animator, best known as the creator of the title character from Finding Nemo.

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He was born in Montreal in 1969, the youngest of four children of Chinese immigrants and grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. He graduated from the animation program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. He worked on television cartoons and commercials for several studios, including Kennedy Cartoons in Toronto and Colossal Pictures in San Francisco before joining Pixar in June 1996.

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In August 2003 he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died in 2005, at the age of 35 in Alta Bates Summit Hospital, Berkeley, California, USA.

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Filmography:

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• Toy Story 2 (1999) ... as Sketch Artist
• A Bug's Life (1998) ... as Sketch Artist
• Monsters Inc (2001) ... as Additional Character Design

External link:

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• Dan Lee at IMDB.com

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