Amby Paliwoda

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Amby Paliwoda
Born	December 20, 1909 Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Died	June 9, 1999 Manhattan Beach, California
Education	Cleveland Institute of Art
Occupation	Animator
Spouse	Laura May Coates
Children	Stephan Coates Paliwoda, Jerry Coates Paliwoda, Lisa Laura Paliwoda, Amber Anna Paliwoda
Parents	Stefan and Anna Paliwoda

Ambrozi "Amby" Paliwoda (December 20, 1909 - June 9, 1999) was an American animator.

Paliwoda graduated with honors from the Cleveland Institute of Art in the early 1930's, thereafter touring Europe on a year's art scholarship. Paliwoda worked as an animator for Walt Disney Studios from 1935 to 1960. Among his many assignments was to animate the characters "Jasper" and "Horace", who were the henchmen of the female villain, "Cruella deVille", in the animated feature film, One Hundred and One Dalmatians. While at Disney he helped organize the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists, Local 839 IATSE, and was one of the 21 charter members of that union. After leaving Disney he worked for many other studios, including Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, and Bakshi Productions. He retired from animation in 1983. For his lifetime of work in the animation field, Paliwoda received the Animation Guild's Golden Award in 1985.

Paliwoda died of natural causes on June 9, 1999, in Manhattan Beach, California, just a few months short of his 90th birthday.