Don Hahn is an American film producer who has produced some of the most successful Walt Disney animated films of the past 20 years. He currently owns his own film production company called Stone Circle Pictures. Hahn was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a Lutheran minister. When Hahn was 3, his family moved to Bellflower, California where he went to school and shot his first animated shorts in the high school film club. His family then moved to Burbank, California when he was a teenager. He graduated from North Hollywood High School where he was drum major of the marching band, and went... on to study music at Los Angeles Valley College where he was also drum major of the marching band. At California State University Northridge he majored in Music and minored in graphic and fine art. Hahn was a percussionist in the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic Orchestra. He worked as a drum head tester for Remo Inc. and taught music at Notre Dame High School to put himself through college. He began his career in animation working for Disney Legend Wolfgang Reitherman as an assistant director on The Fox and the Hound.
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