Who animated the Siamese cats in "Lady and the Tramp"?

I ALMOSTdid...I had wasted the better part of the 1940s drinking with Freddie and T Hee, and decided this was the scene that was finally going to get me on the ins with Walt.. I spent the better part of a month analysing cat movements and Siamese dancers, then got down to work..with 12 cartons of Marlboros and a gallon jug of black coffee at my desk, I worked all through the weekend pefecting a pencil test of those damn cats..when I was done I had it shot and showed it to Ward Kimball...he smiled and gave me the thumbs up..I ran to Walt's office to show him my crowning achievement as an animator..I opened his office door to find Frank Thomas rimming Walt...I realized that I would never make it in this bloody industry, and that's how I became the hopeless alcoholic you see today

The nearest I have got is Leo Salkin as animation sequence director. Does this help-if you please?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048280/combined

If you've got a copy of "Illusion of Life", thumb through and see if you can find a sequence of drawings with the cats. Frank and Ollie were very good about their attribution, so if there are some siamese drawings in the book, they'll also tell you who did the work.

I'll have to check but I believe it was Frank Thomas and/or Ollie Johnston... but don't quote me on that as I'm not 100% sure.

Who animated the Siamese cats in "Lady and the Tramp?"

I'm sure this is something every animation buff worth their Blackwings should know - but I just don't, sorry, and a few google/Wiki searches didn't help.

I think they're animated just wonderfully - the most entertaining characters in the whole film. I've gotta know who did it!

Thanks!

If memory serves, I believe that would be John Sibley , the "10th Old Man " . (there are a few different contenders for that title of "The 10th Old Man", including Ken Anderson, and 'Vern' Cook , but personally I think Sibley wins it ) . Bob Carlson and Bill Justice are also credited with scenes of the Siamese cats , but I'm willing to bet that Sibley was the lead. It was originally going to be done by Ward Kimball, but Kimball stepped out of feature animation at that point and concentrated on directing shorts like "Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom" and the Man in Space series for the Disneyland TV series.

EDIT: Ok, I just remembered where I had that bit of information lodged in my brain... it's from an interview with Ward Kimball, posted on Mike Barrier's site :

http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/Kimball/interview_ward_kimball.htm