Ron Clements

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ron Clements
Occupation	Animator
Date Of Birth	Apr 25, 1953(1953-04-25)
Age	71
Birthplace	Sioux City
Country	United States
Birth City	Iowa
Horoscope	Taurus

Ron Clements Biography

Ron Clements is one of the most popular and richest Animator who was born on April 25, 1953 in Sioux City, Iowa, United States.

Ronald Francis Clements (born April 25, 1953) is an American animator, animation director, screenwriter, and producer. He often collaborates with fellow director John Musker.

While working on The Great Mouse Detective, newly appointed Disney CEO and chairman Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg issued invitations to the animation staff for their first held “gong show” session. Demanding only five new ideas, Clements went to a bookstore and discovered Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. Clements wrote and presented a two-page treatment of Mermaid to Disney Studios Chief Jeffrey Katzenberg at a “gong show” idea suggestion meeting, as well as conceptualized the idea of Treasure Planet. At the gong show session, Mermaid was rejected for its similarities to Splash while Planet was rejected by Eisner because Paramount Pictures was developing a Star Trek sequel with a Treasure Island angle (that went eventually unproduced). The next morning, Katzenberg approached Clements and asked him to expand his initial treatment. With Mermaid in production in 1986, Clements and Musker were later joined by Off-Broadway musical composers Howard Ashman and Alan Menken who collaborated on the song and musical score. Released in November 1989, The Little Mermaid was praised as a milestone in rebirth of Disney animation by film critics and collected a domestic gross of $84 million, cumulatively receiving $184.2 million worldwide. When work on Mermaid was wrapped, Clements and Musker re-developed their idea for Treasure Planet, but the studio still expressed disinterest. Instead, the two directors were offered three projects in development: Swan Lake, King of the Jungle, and Aladdin. The directors chose Aladdin because they thought the story would suit a wackier, faster-paced, and more contemporary mood than that found in then- recent Disney animated films.

Ron Clements Net Worth

Ron Clements is one of the richest Animator from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ron Clements 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Clements began his career as an animator for Hanna-Barbera. After a few months there, he was accepted into Disney’s Talent Development Program, an animator training ground and workshop. After that, he served a two-year apprenticeship with famed animator Frank Thomas, a supervising animator of Disney films such as Peter Pan (1953), Lady and the Tramp (1955), and The Aristocats (1970). Clements made his feature debut as a character animator on The Rescuers and Pete’s Dragon in 1977. In 1981, he became the supervising animator on The Fox and the Hound. Future partner John Musker worked as a character animator under him, and Clements later teamed up with Musker as story artists on The Black Cauldron before they were removed from the project. In 1982, Clements proposed adapting the children’s book series Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus into an animated feature and, along with story artist Pete Young, it was pitched to Ron Miller. Because the animators were displeased with the direction of The Black Cauldron was heading, Basil of Baker Street was approved as an alternative project. Burny Mattinson and Musker were assigned as the original directors while Dave Michener was brought in as an additional director. Due to a shortened production schedule and multiple story rewrites, Roy E. Disney assigned Mattinson to serve as director/producer while Clements was brought in as another director.

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Who is Ron Clements Dating?

According to our records, Ron Clements married to Tamara Lee Glumace. As of December 1, 2023, Ron Clements’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Ryan Ranked on the list of most popular Animator. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ron Clements celebrates birthday on April 25 of every year.

Is Ron Clements retired?

Now, with more than 40 years in the business, he’s still not ready to call it quits , even though his longtime writing, producing and directing partner, John Musker, retired from Disney earlier this year. “I’m not retiring quite yet,” Clements cautioned. “I’m working on something, but I’m not supposed to talk about it.

Who is Ron Clements John Musker?

Ronald Francis “Ron” Clements is an American animator, film director, producer, and screenwriter at Walt Disney Animation Studios , who usually works as a director with John Musker.

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Who wrote Treasure Planet?

Robert Louis Stevenson