- Ollie Johnston
Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (born on October 31,1912 in Palo Alto, California) is a pioneer in the field of motion picture animation. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last living member. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005. He was a directing animator at Walt Disney Studios from 1935-1978. He contributed to many films including "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, … - Marc Davis
Marc Fraser Davis was a prominent artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films. Some of the animated characters Davis mainly designed and animated are Thumper from "Bambi" (1942), Brer Rabbit from "Song of the South" (1946), "Cinderella" (1950), Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" (1951), Tinker Bell in "Peter Pan" (1953), … - Roy E. Disney
Roy Edward Disney, KCSG, (born January 10, 1930) was a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt founded. He is still a major shareholder (over 16 million shares), and currently serves as a consultant for the company and Director Emeritus for the Board of Directors. He is perhaps best known for organizing the ousting of two top Disney executives: first, Ron Miller in 1984, and then Michael Eisner in 2005. - Ward Kimball
Ward Walrath Kimball (March 4, 1914 - July 8, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning animator for the Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as Disney's Nine Old Men. While Kimball was a brilliant draftsman, he preferred to work on comical characters rather than complicated human designs. Animating came easily to him and he was constantly looking to do things differently. Because of this, Walt Disney called Ward a genius in the book, … - Frank Thomas
Franklin Thomas was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. He graduated from Stanford University - where he worked on campus humor magazine the Stanford Chaparral with Ollie Johnston -- then later attended Chouinard Art Institute, then joined The Walt Disney Company on September 24, 1934 as employee number 224. There he animated dozens of feature films and shorts, and also was a member of the Dixieland band Firehouse Five Plus Two, … - Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially in the 1970s. John has sold more than 250 million albums plus hundreds of millions of singles, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. - John Hench
John Hench was an employee of The Walt Disney Company for more than sixty five years, an exceptionally long tenure which saw the rise of nearly every Disney animated feature and theme park. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hench attended numerous art and creative schools across the country, including the Art Students' League in New York City, the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, … - Robert B. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman (born December 19, 1925) (see also: "Sherman Brothers") is an Academy Award-winning American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from "Mary Poppins", "The Jungle Book", "Winnie the Pooh", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "The Slipper and the Rose" and the theme park song, "It's a Small World (after all)". - Richard M. Sherman
Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928) (see also: "Sherman Brothers") is an Academy Award-winning Jewish-American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known writing includes the songs from "Mary Poppins", "The Jungle Book", "Winnie the Pooh", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "The Slipper and the Rose" and the theme park song, "It's a Small World (after all)". - Buddy Baker
Norman "Buddy" Baker was an American composer who scored many of Walt Disney's films, such as "The Apple Dumpling Gang", "The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again", "The Shaggy D.A.", and "The Million Dollar Duck". Baker was born and raised in Springfield, Missouri, and got his degree in music from Southwest Baptist College. He later came to the West Coast in the 1930s to arrange music scores for radio. - Art Linkletter
Art Linkletter has been in show business for more than 60 years and has co-produced and acted in numerous dramatic shows and motion pictures. His best-known shows established records for longevity. - X Atencio
Francis Xavier Atencio (born 1920 in Walsenburg, Colorado), commonly known as X Atencio, is a former animator, composer, and Imagineer for The Walt Disney Company. He was a Disney artist from 1938 until 1965, when he became an Imagineer to help design the Disneyland Railroad's Primeval World diorama segment. He then contributed to various Disney attractions. He wrote the script for both Adventure Thru Inner Space and Pirates of the Caribbean, … - Wally Boag
Wallace Vincent Boag (born September 13, 1920 in Portland, Oregon) is an American performer known for his starring role in Disney's long running stage show the "Golden Horseshoe Revue". - Dean Jones
Dean Jones (born January 25, 1931 in Decatur, Alabama) is an American actor. He served in the US Navy during the Korean War, after which he worked at the Bird Cage Theater at Knott's Berry Farm, California. He was voluntarily replaced (by Larry Kert) in Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical "Company" after just one month. Jones' performance is preserved on the original cast album. He also appeared in many Disney films in the 1960s and 1970s, including, … - Carl Barks
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 - August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952) and Magica De Spell (1961). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nick names "The Duck Man" and "The Good Duck Artist". - Mary Blair
Mary Blair (October 21, 1911-July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson, was an American artist best remembered today for work done for The Walt Disney Company. Blair produced striking concept art for such films as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Peter Pan". Her style also lives on through the character designs for the Disney attraction "it's a small world", as well as an enormous mosaic inside Disney's Contemporary Resort. - Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer. - Peter Ellenshaw
William "Peter" Ellenshaw (May 24 1913 - February 12 2007) was an Anglo-American award-winning matte designer and special effects creator who worked on many Disney features. His first major project was the 1936 film "Things to Come". After World War II, he worked on films like "Quo Vadis" until he was recruited by Walt Disney Studios to work on their first live action film, "Treasure Island". - Annette Funicello
Annette Joanne Funicello (born October 22, 1942) is an American singer and actress. She was Walt Disney's most popular Mouseketeer, and went on to appear in a series of beach movies. - Julie Andrews
Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells on 1 October 1935) is a BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy and Academy Award-winning English actress, singer, author and cultural icon. Andrews rose to prominence after starring in Broadway musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot", as well as musical films like "Mary Poppins" (1964) and "The Sound of Music" (1965). - Ub Iwerks
Ub Iwerks (Ubbe Ert Iwwerks, was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His name is explained by his East Frisian roots — his father, Eert Ubbe Iwwerks, emigrated to the USA in 1869 from the village Uttum in East Frisia (northwest Germany). - Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American Broadway and Academy Award winning film score composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1950-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. He is best known for his work on several Disney animated features, including "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Hercules", "Pocahontas", "Aladdin", … - Fred MacMurray
Fredrick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 - November 5, 1991) was an actor who appeared in over one hundred movies and a highly successful television series during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s. MacMurray's most famous role was in the 1944 film noir "Double Indemnity", in which he starred with Barbara Stanwyck. Later in life, he became better known as the slightly stammering Steve Douglas, the widowed patriarch on the CBS TV series, … - Fess Parker
Fess Elisha Parker Jr. (born August 16, 1924) is an American film and television actor, as well as a wine maker and resort owner-operator. - Bill Peet
Bill Peet (January 29, 1915 - May 11, 2002) was a children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios. He joined Disney in 1937 and worked on "The Jungle Book", "Song of the South", "Cinderella", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians", "The Sword in the Stone", "Goliath II", "Sleeping Beauty", "Peter Pan", "Alice in Wonderland", "Dumbo", "Pinocchio", "Fantasia", … - Dick van Dyke
Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an Emmy-Award winning American actor of film, stage, and screen, comedian and dancer. He is known for his starring roles in "Mary Poppins", "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in the 1960s, and "Diagnosis: Murder" as Dr. Mark Sloan in the 1990s. He recently played the role of Cecil Fredericks in "Night at the Museum". - Tim Rice
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English musical theatre lyricist, author, radio presenter, television gameshow panelist. - Joe Ranft
Joseph Henry "Joe" Ranft was a magician, animation storyboard artist, and voice actor who worked for Pixar and Disney. - Tim Allen
Tim Allen (born Timothy Allen Dick on June 13, 1953) is a Golden Globe-winning American comedian, character actor, voice-over artist, and entertainer perhaps best known for his role in the sitcom "Home Improvement" and his roles in Disney films, such as "The Santa Clause" and "Toy Story". - Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 - August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of America's most prominent journalists. Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at the age of nine. - Joe Grant
Joe Grant was a Disney artist and writer. Born in New York City, New York, he worked for The Walt Disney Company as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1933 on the Mickey Mouse short, "Mickey's Gala Premiere". He was a Disney legend. He created the Queen in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". He co-wrote "Dumbo". He also led development of "Fantasia" and "Pinocchio". - Hayley Mills
Hayley Catherine Rose Vivian Mills (born April 18, 1946) is an English actress. - Tommy Kirk
Thomas Lee Kirk, better known as Tommy Kirk (born December 10, 1941 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a former American child actor, and later a businessman and adult actor. - Paul Frees
Paul Frees (June 22, 1920 - November 2, 1986) was an American voice actor. - Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman (May 17, 1950 - March 14, 1991) was an American playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974. He collaborated with Alan Menken on several films, notably animated features for Disney, Ashman writing the lyrics and Menken composing the scores. - Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a four-time Tony-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, three-time Oscar-nominated, and eighteen-time Emmy-nominated English actress. Her multi-faceted career has spanned seven decades and she is well-known for her roles on both stage and screen. <br> - Milt Kahl
Milton Erwin Kahl (born March 22, 1909, in San Francisco, California, USA; died April 19, 1987, in Mill Valley, California, USA, of pneumonia) was an animator for the Disney studio. Kahl is often considered the finest draughtsman of the Disney animators. He would often refine the charaters sketches from Bill Peet with the ideas of Ken Anderson. For many years the final look for the characters in the Disney films were designed by Kahl, … - Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30 1951 in Chiswick, London) is an English singer, songwriter, drummer and actor. He is best known as the lead singer and drummer of progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy and Academy Award-winning solo artist. He is also an accomplished actor, having starred in numerous films. Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis. - Tim Considine
Tim Considine (born December 31, 1940, in Los Angeles, California), a grandson of the early film producer Alexander Pantages, is an American actor who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Considine's most famous roles were in the Disney TV serials "Spin and Marty" (he played Spin) and "The Hardy Boys" (he played Frank), … - Card Walker
Esmond Cardon Walker, commonly known as E. Cardon Walker or Card Walker, was a top executive at Walt Disney Productions in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. He was born in Rexburg, Idaho.
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