Animation Reuben Award-Winning Animator Glen Keane Rescued Off Mountain Skip to commentsAnimator Glen Keane, the son of cartoonist Bil Keane and brother to cartoonist Jeff Keane (and the Billy in Family Circus), needed help getting down from an Arizona mountaintop Wednesday. Oscar-winning animator Glen Keane said he was hiking in Paradise Valley with family and the described the moment he needed help Wednesday morning. He was with his daughter and grandchildren on Mummy Mountain when he became tired, weak and unsteady. Celebrated animator and director Glen Keane is alive and well after a helicopter rescue near Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday. Yeah, Glen is an Oscar-winning animator, but for our concerns he is an NCS Reuben Award-winning animator.