Thursday, March 28, 2013

Longtime Disney Editor Norman Palmer Dies at 94

He worked on several True-Life Adventure nature documentaries, live-action films and TV shows during his 45-year stay at the studio.

Norman “Stormy” Palmer, who worked at Disney for 45 years and became closely associated with the studio’s acclaimed True-Life Adventure short-subject series of documentaries, died March 23 at his home in Northridge from natural causes, Disney announced Wednesday. He was 94.

Palmer also edited the 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 almost two dozen credits on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color and other TV shows from the mid 1950s to the early ’80s.