Veteran animator Ann Sullivan dies from complications due to COVID-19 at 91

Veteran animator Ann Sullivan, who worked on Disney’s classics including The Little Mermaid and The Lion King, passed away from complications due to the coronavirus. She was 91.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sullivan’s retirement community, the Woodland Hills-based campus of the Motion Picture and Television Fund (MPTF), confirmed the news of her death.

Ann Sullivan is the third member of the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement home to die as a result of COVID-19.

At MPTF, the animator was nicknamed Giggles by staff, with chaplain Dina Kuperstock saying in a statement, “She had the best laugh of any person I’ve ever known. Ann didn’t just laugh with a sound. When she giggled, her whole body would shake and light up with joy, and it was contagious for everyone in the room.”

The animator has credit to  Disney studio’s titles from the late-1980s to the mid-2000s.

Sullivan had worked in the paint lab on 1988’s Oliver & Company, 1989’s The Little Mermaid, 1991’s Rover Dangerfield and 1992’s Cool World.