Art Stevens, a veteran Disney animator who launched his career at the studio working as an artist on the 1940 classic "Fantasia" and later co-directed "The Fox and the Hound" and "The Rescuers," has died.

He was 92.

Stevens died May 22 at his home in Studio City after suffering a heart attack, a Disney spokesman said.

Among Stevens' credits as an animator are "Peter Pan," "101 Dalmatians," "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day," "Robin Hood," "Mary Poppins" and the underwater sequence in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."

He co-directed "The Rescuers" (1977) with Wolfgang Reitherman and John Lounsbery.

He and Reitherman produced "The Fox and the Hound," which Stevens co-directed with Ted Berman and Richard Rich.

It became the studio's highest-grossing film when it was released in 1981.

Born in Roy, Mont., on May 1, 1915, Stevens began his career as an in-betweener — an artist who makes the drawings between the animator's key poses — on "Fantasia."

He worked on the "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor," "Pastoral Symphony," "Nutcracker Suite" and "A Night on Bald Mountain" segments of the movie. Cont'd.