Norman “Stormy” Palmer, who worked during Disney for 45 years and became closely compared with a studio’s acclaimed True-Life Adventure short-subject array of documentaries, died Mar 23 during his home in Northridge from healthy causes, Disney announced Wednesday. He was 94.

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Palmer also edited a Disney live-action films Ten Who Dared (1960), The Legend of Lobo (1962), The Incredible Journey (1963), The Gnome-Mobile (1967) and The Shaggy D.A. (1976) and had roughly dual dozen credits on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color and other TV shows from a midst 1950s to a early ’80s.

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The True-Life Adventure inlet films supposing early prolongation knowledge for Roy E. Disney, who began his career in a studio’s editorial dialect and went on to turn a studio’s clamp authority and conduct of animation. Palmer served as his mentor.

“Stormy was one of a pivotal players in formulating a classical Disney True-Life Adventures series, and he was a loyal colonize in a margin of inlet documentaries,” pronounced Dave Bossert, writer and artistic executive during Walt Disney Animation Studios and a writer (along with Roy Disney) of a True-Life Adventures DVD collection. “He took tens of thousands of feet of tender footage and was means to qualification it into some of a many riveting, pleasing and interesting inlet films ever created. That array of Oscar-winning films set a bullion customary for years and helped to enthuse a many generations of inlet filmmakers that followed.”

For a 1952 Oscar-winning Water Birds, Palmer used Franz Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” to constraint a mood and supplement party value to a film. He edited other such titles in a True-Life array as Beaver Valley (1950), Nature’s Half Acre (1951), The Living Desert (1953), The African Lion (1955) and White Wilderness (1958).

Palmer also edited a CinemaScope film Grand Canyon, a 1959 Oscar leader for best live-action short.

He late from Disney in 1983.

Palmer was innate Oct. 7, 1918, in Santa Ana, Calif. A fourth-generation Californian, he graduated from Hollywood High School in 1937 and a following year landed an entry-level pursuit during Disney as a staff projectionist. After 6 months, he changed into a editorial department, where he assisted on a 1940 charcterised classics Pinocchio and Fantasia.

During World War II, Palmer worked with famed executive John Ford in a margin print bend of a U.S. Navy and edited films for a Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. He also served an abroad army as an aerial photographer on notice missions.

In 1946, Palmer returned to Disney’s editorial department, where he met Barbara Major from a ink and paint department. They marry on Dec. 4, 1947, and were married for 52 years.

Survivors embody daughters Christine and Lindsey and grandchildren Amanda and Colin. Funeral services and cremation will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations can be done in Palmer’s name to Southern California Hospice Foundation (Simi Valley Branch).