Wetzel Whitaker

Wetzel Whitaker (1908-1985)

Judge Wetzel O. Whitaker is a founder of the LDS motion picture studio as well as a Disney animator. He is best known for working for the Disney company on the Donald Duck cartoons and Disney movies including Cinderella, Peter Pan. Later on in 1953 he left the Disney company and came to Provo Utah to start up the Motion Picture Studio at BYU.

Wetzel Whitaker is best known for directing LDS church films including Windows Of Heaven 1963, Bitter Wind 1963, Johnny Lingo 1969.