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Don Hahn (Donald Paul Hahn) was born on 26 November, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is an American film producer and director (born 1955). Discover Don Hahn's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

Popular As Donald Paul Hahn
Occupation Artist, film producer, film director
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 26 November, 1955
Birthday 26 November
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1955

Donald Paul Hahn (born November 26, 1955) is an American film producer who is credited with producing some of the most successful animated films in recent history, including Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture) and The Lion King.

Hahn is currently executive producer of Disneynature films, and owns his own film production company, Stone Circle Pictures.

Hahn was born in Chicago, Illinois.

His father was a Lutheran minister.

When Hahn was three, his family moved to Bellflower, California, where he went to school and shot his first animated shorts in the high school film club.

His family then moved to Burbank, California, when he was a teenager.

1973

He graduated from North Hollywood High School (where he was a drum major) in 1973, went on to study music at Los Angeles Valley College, and majored in Music and minored in fine art at California State University Northridge.

At both colleges, he was also a drum major as he also was in the Royal Cavaliers Youth Band of Van Nuys, California.

He was a percussionist in the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic Orchestra.

He worked as a drum head tester for Remo Inc. and was the percussion instructor at Notre Dame High School to put himself through college.

He began his career in animation working for Disney Legend Wolfgang Reitherman as an assistant director on The Fox and The Hound.

He worked closely with director Don Bluth on the production of Pete's Dragon and even worked in Bluth's garage on the animated short Banjo the Woodpile Cat.

1980

The film is the true story of the perfect storm of people and circumstances that led to the animation renaissance of the 1980s and 1990s.

1985

He later became production manager of The Black Cauldron (1985) and The Great Mouse Detective before moving on as an associate producer of Disney/Amblin's Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

1989

In 1989, Hahn made his first mark as producer for Disney and Amblin Entertainment's first Roger Rabbit short, Tummy Trouble, producing along with Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall.

1991

He then became the producer for the benchmark animated feature, 1991's Beauty and the Beast, which was the first animated film to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture.

1994

His next production, 1994's The Lion King, set worldwide box office records for an animated film and quickly became the highest grossing traditionally animated film in history.

1996

In 1996 he produced The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and in 2000 he was an executive producer on The Emperor's New Groove.

2000

Hahn directed Steve Martin, James Earl Jones, Quincy Jones, Itzhak Perlman, and Angela Lansbury in the host sequences of Fantasia 2000.

2001

The next year in 2001, Atlantis: The Lost Empire was released for which he was producer.

Atlantis performed poorly at the box office, even lower than his previous films.

2003

In 2003, Hahn teamed up with Lion King co-director Rob Minkoff to produce The Haunted Mansion starring Eddie Murphy, making it Hahn's first live-action film to produce.

2004

He also produced the Oscar-nominated animated short Lorenzo (2004).

2006

In 2006, Hahn was interim head of Disney's animation division during its successful merger with Pixar.

Hahn received his second Academy Award nomination that same year in the category of Best Animated Short for The Little Match Girl, an adaptation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale which was originally intended for inclusion in a version of Fantasia.

Don was Executive Producer for the landmark nature film "Earth" the premiere film project from the Disneynature film label.

2009

The film had its world premiere at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, and won the audience award at the Hampton's Film Festival.

It offers a candid perspective of what happened in the creative ranks set against the dynamic tensions among the top leadership, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Roy E. Disney.

Hand Held is Hahn's second documentary feature.

When Hahn took a year sabbatical from his job at Disney, he set out to make a very personal film about photographer Mike Carroll, one of the first photojournalists to uncover the pediatric AIDS epidemic in post communist eastern Europe.

Hahn filmed extensively in Bucharest, Transylvania, and in Carroll's home town of Boston.

Christmas With Walt Disney (2009) is a feature documentary commissioned by the Walt Disney Family Museum and directed by Hahn.

The film chronicles Disney's life as husband, father, and film maker centered around the holidays.

2010

In 2010 he once again served as Executive Producer on “Oceans" the epic documentary on the seas, and 2011's "African Cats" from Disneynature.

Three of his films have been adapted into stage musicals: Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

In all, his films have been nominated for 18 Academy Awards.

Hahn produced the remake of Tim Burton's Oscar-nominated Frankenweenie.

2015

At the 2015 D23 Expo, which marked the 20th anniversary of The Lion King, it was announced that a new film titled The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar would be released.

Hahn was introduced to the crowd, and told them all the history of the Lion King franchise and informed the audience that the new film as well as its follow up series will continue the original film's story, before introducing the executive producer of the new film; Ford Riley.

Waking Sleeping Beauty is Don Hahn's feature directorial debut.