- Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2 1986) is an American actress and pop music singer. Lohan started in show business as a child fashion model for magazine ads and television commercials. At age ten, she began her acting career in a soap opera; at eleven, she made her motion picture debut by playing both twins in Disney's 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap". Lohan's breakout role as a leading actress came six years later with 2004's "Mean Girls", … - Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley Bird (born on September 11, 1957 in Kalispell, Montana) is an American Academy Award-winning animator who is known for writing and directing the 1999 Warner Bros. film "The Iron Giant" and the critical and box office hits "The Incredibles" (2004) and "Ratatouille" (2007) from Disney/Pixar. - Eddie Murphy
Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and comedian. He was a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has also enjoyed a minor singing career. Murphy has received Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a comedy or musical for his performances in "Beverly Hills Cop", … - Treasure Planet
"Treasure Planet" is a 2002 Academy Award nominated science fiction animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 27, 2002. The 42nd animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is a science fiction retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel "Treasure Island". It was produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker from a screenplay by Musker, Clements, … - Cheech Marin
Richard "Cheech" Marin (born on July 13, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American comedian and actor, who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech and Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s, and as Don Johnson's quick-and-scheme partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez on "Nash Bridges". His nickname "Cheech" is short for "Chicharron", a spicy fried pork skin which is a popular snack amongst Mexicans. - Rob Minkoff
Robert Minkoff is an animator, writer, film producer and director. He has directed several films for Walt Disney Feature Animation, including "The Lion King" (1994) and two of the Roger Rabbit shorts: "Tummy Trouble" (1989) and "Roller Coaster Rabbit" (1990). He also made the films "Stuart Little" (1999), "Stuart Little 2" (2002) and "The Haunted Mansion (film)" (2003). He is currently working on The J&J Project (2007). - Mark Dindal
Mark Dindal (born in Columbus, Ohio) is an American special effects animator and film director. Dindal was head of special effects on Disney's "The Little Mermaid". He went on to direct Turner's "Cats Don't Dance", and Disney's "The Emperor's New Groove" and "Chicken Little". He has been nominated for three Annie awards: one for directing "The Emperor's New Groove", one for writing it, and one for Directing "Cats Don't Dance". - Mark Mancina
Mark Mancina (born March 9, 1957 in Santa Monica, California) is a composer, primarily for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for "Con Air". He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's "The Lion King" (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Lebo M for the African chants) including the Broadway musical. - Nina Jacobson
Nina Jacobson (born 1966) is an American film executive who, until July 2006, was president of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. With Dawn Steel, Gail Berman and Sherry Lansing, she was one of the last of a handful of women to head a Hollywood film studio since the 1980s. - Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot is an American author of romantic comedies for teens and adults. She has also written under the pseudonyms Patricia Cabot and Jenny Carroll. She has written and published almost 40 books, and is best known for "The Princess Diaries", later made by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films of the same name. Cabot has more than 15 million copies of her books — children's, young adult, and adult — in print worldwide. - Brenda Chapman
Brenda Chapman Lima is a staff member of Pixar. A native of the state of Illinois, Chapman's interest in animation as a teenager led her to study and then at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). During her summer breaks, she began her professional career working in syndicated television animation. After graduating with a BFA in Character Animation, she was a story trainee on Disney's successful animated film "The Little Mermaid". - Alex Neuberger
Alexander James Neuberger (born November 27, 1992) is an American actor. Neuberger was born in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. His first role was in the 2006 film, "Running Scared", a thriller starring Paul Walker. Neuberger plays "Nicky Gazelle", the son of Walker's character. His next film will be the Walt Disney Pictures-produced "Underdog", which began filming in April of 2006 for an August 3, 2007 release. Neuberger will play the lead (human) role in the film. - Paige O'Hara
Paige O'Hara (born Donna Paige Helmintoller on May 10 1956) is an American Broadway singer and actress. She is most notable for providing the singing and speaking voice of Belle in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", a role she has reprised for all subsequent spin-offs and sequels of the film, including the Square Enix/Disney "Kingdom Hearts" video game series. She previously performed on Broadway in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, … - Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a Native American woman who married an Englishman, John Rolfe, and became a celebrity in London in the last year of her life. She was a daughter of Wahunsunacock (also known as Chief or Emperor Powhatan), who ruled an area encompassing almost all of the neighboring tribes in the Tidewater region of Virginia (called "Tenakomakah" at the time). - Spencer Fox
Spencer Fox (born 1993) is an American voice actor. He provided the voice of Dashiell Robert Parr (a.k.a. the Incredible Dash) in Disney & Pixar's film, "The Incredibles", and again in the Disney on Ice show, "Disney Presents Pixar's The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure". He also plays the voices of Jim and Tim Possible for the fourth season of "Kim Possible". He is in the eighth grade as of December 2006, … - Samuel E. Wright
Samuel E. Wright (born November 20, 1948 in Camden, South Carolina) is an American actor who voiced Sebastian the crab in Disney's "The Little Mermaid". He was nominated for a Tony Award in 1984 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in "The Tap Dance Kid," and again in 1998 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as the original lead actor for Mufasa in "The Lion King", the Broadway version of Disney's classic "The Lion King". - David Tomlinson
David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was an English film actor. He is primarily remembered for his role as George Banks in the movie "Mary Poppins" - Sara Sugarman
Sara Sugarman (born 1962) is a Welsh Hollywood movie director and actress whose work includes Disney's "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" (2004) and "Very Annie Mary" (2001). She has also starred in two movies "Dealers" (1989) and "Those glory, glory days" (1983). In 1992 she married the actor David Thewlis. They divorced in 1993. Sara was born and raised in Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales. - Verna Felton
Verna Felton (July 20, 1890 - December 14, 1966) was an American actress who was best-known for providing many female voices in numerous Disney animated films, as well as voicing Fred Flintstone's mother-in-law for Hanna-Barbera. She also worked extensively in radio, notably playing Junior the Mean Widdle Kid's grandmother on the Red Skelton Radio Show and Dennis Day's mother on Jack Benny's radio program. On the strength of her guest appearances on "I Love Lucy", … - Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackett (August 31, 1924 - June 30, 2003) was an American comedian and actor. Born Leonard Hacker in Brooklyn, New York of Jewish heritage, he attended Public School 103 and then went on to New Utrecht High School. While still in high school, he began appearing in nightclubs, beginning with the "Borscht Belt" resorts in the Catskills. He served three years with an anti-aircraft unit during World War II. Hackett's first job after the war was at the Pink Elephant, … - Bruce Broughton
Bruce Broughton (born March 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American composer, who writes the music in every medium, from theatrical releases and television feature films to concert tours and computer games. He is one of the most versatile composers working today. His first major film score, for the Lawrence Kasdan western Silverado, brought him an Oscar nomination. His very next project, a classically styled score for Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes, … - Karen Dotrice
Karen Dotrice (born 9 November 1955) is a British actress known primarily for her role as the daughter in Walt Disney's feature film adaptation of the "Mary Poppins" book series. Dotrice (pronounced) was born in Guernsey (one of the Channel Islands), to two accomplished stage actors. Her career began on stage, expanded into film and television roles, and concluded with a short run as Desdemona in the 1981 pre-Broadway production of "Othello". - Debra Hill
Debra Hill (November 10, 1950 - March 7, 2005) was an American screenwriter and film producer who co-wrote the horror movie "Halloween," its first sequel Halloween II, and The Fog. - Ryan Hurst
Ryan Hurst (born June 19, 1976 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actor who most notably starred as Gerry Bertier, an All-American linebacker in Disney's "Remember the Titans" and as Alison's brother, Michael, in the show "Medium". He played the role of doofus football player Lump Hudson in "The Ladykillers", appeared in the movie "We Were Soldiers" as Sgt. Savage, and starred in the TNT show "Wanted". - Gregory Allen Howard
Gregory Allen Howard is an African-American screenwriter most famous for "Remember The Titans", a Disney movie about an undefeated high school football team credited with healing the racial divide in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. - Matthew Garber
Matthew Garber (25 March 1956 - 13 June 1977) was an English actor best known for his role as Michael Banks in Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins". Born in London, England, to parents who had both performed on stage, Matthew Garber attended St Paul's Primary School (Winchmore Hill) and Highgate School. Garber made three films for Disney. He died in 1977 at the age of 21. - Christopher Daniel Barnes
Christopher Daniel Barnes is an American actor who performed in many movies and television series. His best-known role is the voice of Prince Eric in Disney's 1989 animated film "The Little Mermaid", which he reprised in the Square Enix/Disney video game "Kingdom Hearts II". He was only 16 years old when he first provided the voice but the producers cast him because his voice sounded much older. - Madge Sinclair
Madge Dorita Sinclair was an Emmy-winning Jamaican actress. Sinclair received an Emmy Award nomination for her role as Belle in the miniseries "Roots". She went on to a long-running stint in the 1980s as nurse Ernestine Shoop on the series "Trapper John, M.D." opposite Pernell Roberts. She received three Emmy nominations for her work on the show, … - Carmen Twillie
Carmen Twillie is a top studio singer and actress, not to be confused with the Douglass College dean of the same name. She is a long time friend of Tommy Morgan and has appeared as guest soloist with Morgan's choir. She is best known for singing the song "Circle of Life" (written by Elton John and Tim Rice) in the 1994 Disney animated feature "The Lion King". - Margaret Kerry
Margaret Kerry (born Peggy Lynch, circa 1930, Los Angeles) is an American actress, motivational speaker and radio host best known for her 1953 work as the model for Tinker Bell in the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature, "Peter Pan". Kerry answered an audition call during the planning stages of the film. The audition, supervised by Disney animator Marc Davis, required her to pantomime the motions that would eventually be animated as Tinker Bell, … - Jason Weaver
Jason Michael Weaver (born July 18 1979 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American actor and singer. He was a cast member on the television sitcoms "Thea" (1993 - 1994) and "Smart Guy" (1997 - 1999), and appeared in the films "Summertime Switch" (a 1994 telefilm) with Rider Strong, and "Drumline" (2003) with Nick Cannon. Weaver is also a recording artist, and had released his own albums. His collaboration with Chingy, 2003's "One Call Away", … - Mack David
Mack David (July 5, 1912 - December 30, 1993) was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television in the 1960s, particularly his work on the Disney films "Cinderella" and "Alice in Wonderland". Mack David is the older brother of American lyricist and songwriter, Hal David. Mack David died in 1993 in his Rancho Mirage, California home and his remains are buried at the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, … - Edwin Catmull
Edwin Catmull, Ph.D. (born 1945 in West Virginia) is an Academy Award winning computer scientist and current president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. As a computer scientist, Catmull has contributed to many important developments in computer graphics. - Billy Bletcher
William "Billy" Bletcher (September 24, 1894 - January 5, 1979) was an American actor, comedian, and voice artist, a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. The diminutive (62 inches) Bletcher appeared on-screen in films and later television from the 1920s to the 1970s, including appearances in several "Our Gang" comedies. He was also famous as a voice actor. Uncharacteristically for someone of his size, his voice was deep and strong-sounding. - Donnie Dunagan
Donald "Donnie" Roan Dunagan (Born: August 16, 1934 in San Antonio, Texas, USA) is semi-retired American former child actor and United States Marine Corps drill instructor. He would be best known to anyone who has seen the "Bambi" film for contributing his voice acting as Young Bambi. A 28-page Dunagan interview, his first after decades as a "lost Hollywood player," can be found in the book "Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers" (Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co., … - Jeanine Tesori
Jeanine Tesori (formerly known as Jeanine Levenson) is a composer of musicals. She is perhaps best known for the Broadway musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie"; she composed eleven new songs for the show and added them to three from the movie version; four previously written songs from the 1920s were also added to the musical's score. She also composed the music for the Broadway musical "Caroline, or Change", with lyrics by Tony Kushner. - Gary Baseman
Gary Baseman (born 1960) is a visual artist, particularly known as an illustrator and cartoonist, who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Baseman received a degree, Phi Beta Kappa, from UCLA in 1982. He has since worked as a fine artist, commercial artist, editorial artist, and as a television and film art director and producer of animation. His work is distinguished by big-eyed characters in slapstick situations and vivid use of colour. - Robert Newton
Robert Newton was an English actor. He was born in Shaftesbury, in Dorset, England, and died in Los Angeles, California, USA, from a heart attack. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors amongst the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially among British boys; he was cited as a role model by actor Oliver Reed and drummer Keith Moon. Reed played the role of Bill Sikes on film, a role previously played by Newton. - Alicia Morton
Alicia Morton (born April 29, 1987 in Gonzales, Louisiana) is an American actress. She is the youngest of two children. Her brother, Shane, was born in 1981, and her parents are Jon and Kathy Morton. Her mother co-owns and runs the family carpet and flooring business in Gonzales, LA. Her father died of liver cancer in 1997. Alicia started dancing when she was 18 months old. When she was 6, she played Molly in Annie at her school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. - Philip Proctor
Philip Proctor (often Phil) (born July 28, 1940 in Goshen, Indiana) is a member of The Firesign Theatre. He plays Rocky Rococo in the Nick Danger series. Of the four company members, Proctor has had the greatest amount of mainstream exposure as an actor, having been seen occasionally on television in small roles, including an episode of "All in the Family", and off-Broadway in the 1964 musical "The Amorous Flea".
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