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Walt Disney

Also known as Walter Elias Disney, Walter Disney

American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)

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Walt Disney was an American animator and entrepreneur who founded The Walt Disney Company, one of the world's most influential entertainment corporations. His innovations in animation and studio production fundamentally shaped the entertainment industry and popular culture throughout the 20th century.

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Walt Disney appears in Vinony's National Inventors Hall of Fame collection — one of 610 entries. It also appears in Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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It is catalogued under topics including 1901 births, 1966 deaths and 20th-century American businesspeople.

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Production · Hermosa, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became…

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Disneyland Handcrafted — Self (archive footage)2026
Eternal Ghosts — Mickey Mouse (Voice / Archival Footage)2025
Disney Abu Dhabi — Self / Archival Footage2025
The Unlucky Rabbit — Self (Archive Interview)2025
The Happiest Story on Earth: 70 Years of Disneyland — Self - Archival Footage2025
Death Of The Rat — Mickey Mouse / Pete (voice) (archive footage)2024
The Last Verse — Self (archive footage)2024
How Disney Built America — Self - Archive Footage2024
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse — Self (archive footage)2022
Cartoon Carnival — Self (archive footage)2021

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1901
Active to: 1966

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Discography

Peter Pan1969
Pinocchio1969
The Story And The Songs From The Cowardly Lion Of Oz1969
Jungle Boek1992
Dumbo - Das Original-Hörspiel zum Film2018
Steamboat Willie2018
Dumbo2019

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Total plays: 13,094,460

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Quotes

“Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters. We don't want them to be just shadows, for merely as moving figures they provoke no emotional response from the public. We invest them with life a caricature of life.”
“Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.”
“No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy and as soon as I possibly could after I started making animated cartoons, I acquired the film rights to it. People in his period had no time to waste on triviality, yet Carroll with his nonsense and fantasy furnished a balance between seriousness and enjoyment which everybody needed then and still needs today.”
“During the last few years, we've ventured into a lot of different fields. We've had the opportunity to meet and work with a lot of wonderful people. Our only hope is we never lose sight of one thing: that it was all started by a mouse. Now, that is why I want this part of the show to belong to Mickey, because the story of Mickey is truly the real beginning of Disneyland.”
“To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.”
“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

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Walt Disney | Missouri Remembers

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Walt Disney is known internationally for his transformation of the animation industry with iconic characters such as Mickey Mouse. Disney’s interest in animation started at a young age when he began to draw the animals on the family’s ill-fated farm in Marceline, Missouri. When the farm failed and the family relocated to Kansas City, Disney began attending Saturday classes at the Kansas City Art Institute. Disney enlisted in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps and worked in France after the end of World War I. Returning to Kansas City at age seventeen, Disney struggled to find employment, eventually working at a commercial art studio, Gray Advertising. He then opened his own commercial studio with his partner and friend Ubbe Iwwerks. Disney eventually started the corporation Laugh-O-Gram, where he and his small staff created seven-minute animated fairy tales in their studio space located at 1127 E. 31st Street in Kansas City, Missouri. To distribute these films, Disney employed a New York company that didn’t return any profits from the films to Disney, pushing his business into bankruptcy in 1923. Hoping to start anew, Disney relocated to Los Angeles, and after a difficult start was able to find success with a series of animated cartoons including Steamboat Willie in 1928, which featured Mickey Mouse. In 1939, a new campus for the Walt Disney Animation Studios opened in Burbank, California. While Walt Disney’s legacy is tied to the iconic character of Mickey Mouse, it was actually Disney’s friend and partner Ubbe Iwwerks who is credited with drawing Mickey. Disney did provide the voice for Mickey until 1947. Included in The Art of Walt Disney: from Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdom (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004), 21. Timothy S. Susanin, Walt before Mickey: Disney’s Early Years, 1919-1928 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011). Lawrence O. Christensen, William E. Foley, Gary R. Kremer and Kenneth H. Winn, eds., Dictionary of Missouri Biography (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999), 241-243. Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002). Included in The Art of Walt Disney: from Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdom (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2004), 21. Timothy S. Susanin, Walt before Mickey: Disney’s Early Years, 1919-1928 (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011). Lawrence O. Christensen, William E. Foley, Gary R. Kremer and Kenneth H. Winn, eds., Dictionary of Missouri Biography (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999), 241-243. Anita Jacobsen, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists (Carrollton: A.J. Publications, 2002).

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Image: Walt Disney 1946.JPG
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Walt Disney
date of birth: 1901-12-05
date of death: 1966-02-15
Commons gallery: Walt Disney
birth name: Walter Elias Disney
name in native language: Walt Disney
start of work period: 1920-00-00
end of work period: 1966-11-00
pseudonym: Disney, Walter Elias
described at URL: missouriartists.org/Person/MOREM101
Commons Creator page: Walt Disney
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Encyclopedic overview

Walter Elias Disney (/ˈdɪzni/ DIZ-nee; December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards won (22) and nominations (59) by an individual. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and have also been named as some of the best by the American Film Institute.

Born in Chicago in 1901 and raised largely in Missouri, Disney developed an early interest in drawing. He took art classes as a boy and took a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18. He moved to California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio (now the Walt Disney Company) with his brother Roy. With Ub Iwerks, he developed the character Mickey Mouse in 1928, his first highly popular success; he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years. As the studio grew, he became more adventurous, introducing synchronized sound, full-color three-strip Technicolor, feature-length cartoons and technical developments in cameras. The results, seen in features such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio, Fantasia (both 1940), Dumbo (1941), and Bambi (1942), furthered the development of animated film. New animated and live-action films followed after World War II, including Cinderella (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1959), and Mary Poppins (1964), the last of which received five Academy Awards.

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