Brice Harvey Mack (June 2, 1917 – January 2, 2008) was a background painter and director, known for his extensive work atDisney in the 1940s and 1950s as a background painter. He was hired for story writing at Disney in the 1950s, and worked on illustrating children's books based on the studio's films.

His first credited appearance was as thebackground artist for theRite of Spring sequence inFantasia. He worked onSong of the South,Alice in Wonderland,Peter Pan, andLady and the Tramp. He also worked on Walt Disney'santhology television series as a background painter and writer in the late 1950s. In the 1950s he became the president ofERA Productions, a small studio which was staffed with animators who had mostly come from Disney after leaving during thestrike of 1941, producing and directing animated and live action commercials for the Peterson Company, as well as work for Disney. He later went on to form Unicorn Productions, with which he continued to work on commercials, films, and theme park rides, continuing to consult for Disney into the early 1990s, when he retired.

His feature work includes directing the 1978live-action horror filmJennifer, written bySteve Krantz. Other director credits includeRooster: Spurs of Death (1983),Swap Meet (1979), andHalf a House (1979). He was the executive in charge of production forRuby and the producer ofMara of the Wilderness.

Mack was survived by his wife, Ginni, three sons and three grandsons. His sonKevin Mack is anAcademy Award–winningvisual effects supervisor.

Brice Mack was awarded the Golden Motion Picture Cartoonist award in 1987.

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• "Animation vet Brice Mack dies at 90".Variety. Reed Elsevier. 2008-01-21. Retrieved2008-01-23.

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