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{{Short description|American filmmaker and animator (born 1937)}} {{Lead too short|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | birthname = Donald Virgil Bluth | name = Don Bluth | image = Don Bluth by Gage Skidmore.jpg | caption = Bluth in 2025 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|9|13|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[El Paso, Texas]], U.S. | alma_mater = [[Brigham Young University]] | occupation = {{flatlist| * Film director * animator * producer * writer * production designer * animation instructor }} | years_active = 1955βpresent | awards = [[Inkpot Award]] (1983)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot |title=Inkpot Award |publisher=[[Comic Con]] |date=December 6, 2012 }}</ref> | employer = {{plainlist| * [[Walt Disney Animation Studios]] (1955β1979) * [[Filmation]] (1967β1970) * [[Don Bluth Entertainment]] (1979β1995) * [[Fox Animation Studios]] (1994β2000) }} | notable works = {{ubl|''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'' (1982)|''[[An American Tail]]'' (1986)|''[[The Land Before Time (film)|The Land Before Time]]'' (1988)|''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' (1989)|''[[Thumbelina (1994 film)|Thumbelina]]'' (1994)|''[[Anastasia (1997 film)|Anastasia]]'' (1997)|''[[Titan A.E.]]'' (2000)|''[[Dragon's Lair]]'' (1983)|''[[Space Ace]]'' (1984)}} | family = [[Pratt family]] | relatives = [[Toby Bluth]] <small>(brother)</small> | website = {{URL|http://www.donbluth.com/}} }} '''Donald Virgil Bluth''' ({{IPAc-en|b|l|uΛ|ΞΈ}} {{respell|BLOOTH}}; born September 13, 1937)<ref>{{cite book |last=Bendazzi |first=Giannalberto |date=October 2015 |title=Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style β The Three Markets |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=razMCgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 |publisher=CRC Press |section=A Cat in the Heavy Traffic |isbn=978-1-317-51990-4 |quote=Among the directors of feature films, Don Bluth is noteworthy. Born in El Paso, Texas, on 13 September 1937, Bluth went to Disney in 1956 (...).}}</ref> is an American filmmaker, animator, video game designer and author. He came to prominence working for [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] before creating his own film studio in the early 1980s. Bluth is known for directing the animated films ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'', ''[[An American Tail]]'', ''[[The Land Before Time (film)|The Land Before Time]]'', ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'', ''[[Thumbelina (1994 film)|Thumbelina]]'', ''[[Anastasia (1997 film)|Anastasia]]'' and ''[[Titan A.E.]]'', and for his involvement in the [[Laserdisc game|LaserDisc games]] ''[[Dragon's Lair (1983 video game)|Dragon's Lair]]'' and ''[[Space Ace]]''. [[Don Bluth Entertainment|Don Bluth Productions]] hired many animators away from Disney, and Bluth's films were a major competitor to Disney in the 1980s, leading up to the [[Disney Renaissance]].
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