Ollie Johnston | Key Disney animator, 95

Ollie Johnston, 95, the last surviving member of the group of animators who made

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi

, and other classic Walt Disney films, died Monday in Sequim, Wash.

Walt Disney lightheartedly dubbed the team of crack animators his "Nine Old Men," borrowing the phrase from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's description of the U.S. Supreme Court's members.

Perhaps the two most accomplished of the nine were Mr. Johnston and Frank Thomas, who died in 2004 at age 92. The pair were hired by Disney for $17 a week at a time when he was expanding the studio to produce full-length feature films. Both worked on the first of those features, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Mr. Johnston's other credits include Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmatians, and Mary Poppins, among others. After he and Thomas retired in 1978, they lectured at schools and film festivals, and cowrote several books including the epic Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life. - AP