Dan Bessie

Dan Bessie was born in Vermont in 1932, grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and California. Entering the motion picture industry as an animation apprentice at MGM in 1956, he then went on to a 40-plus-year career in film. He's the author of the family memoir, "Rare Birds" (Publishers Weekly, NY Times, etc) and of the lighthearted film career bio, "Reeling Through Hollywood." Since 2006 he's lived in the Dordogne region of southwestern France. In addition to authoring these books he's illustrated several others, and is also a screenwriting coach and cartoonist.