*De Maris, Merrill: -Merrill De Maris(1898-1948) was born in New Jersey and started work with Disney in 1933. De Maris divided his time between scripting the Silly Symphonies and Mickey Mouse * comic strips and working as an animation story man. In the late 1930s, De Maris began a five-year run as t...

*De Maris, Merrill: -Merrill De Maris(1898-1948) was born in New Jersey and started work with Disney in 1933. De Maris divided his time between scripting the Silly Symphonies and Mickey Mouse * comic strips and working as an animation story man. In the late 1930s, De Maris began a five-year run as the main Mickey scripter for plotter/penciler Floyd Gottfredson, creating such classics as "The Bar-None Ranch" (1938) and "Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot" (1939). In later years, De Maris left Disney to become a professional gardener.