Leading French animator, co-founder with 'Andre Sarrut' (in 1936) of the studio Les Gémeaux. Their animated shorts found a captive audience in occupied France during World War II, as American cartoons were banned.
Member of the jury at the Mamaia International Animated Film Festival (Romania, 1966).
The poet and scenarist Jacques Prevert referred to Grimault affectionately as " the good yellow cat.".