Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 1249 Tripp Avenue, in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood. He was the fourth son of Elias Disneyborn in the Province of Canada, to Irish parentsand Flora ( Call), an American of German and English descent. Aside from Walt, Elias and Flora's sons were Herbert, Raymond and Roy; the couple had a fifth child, Ruth, in December 1903. In 1906, when Disney was four, the family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri, where his uncle Robert had just purchased land. In Marceline, Disney developed his interest in drawing when he was paid to draw the horse of a retired neighborhood doctor.
Early life: 1901–1920
Walt Disney
Walt Disney | Early life: 1901–1920
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when did jungle book come out in theaters
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1967
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Wolfgang Reitherman
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Walt Disney
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It follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear try to convince him to leave the jungle before the evil tiger Shere Khan arrives.
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It received positive reviews upon release, undoubtedly influenced by a nostalgic reaction to the death of Walt Disney.
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He was an American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer.
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Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 1249 Tripp Avenue, in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood. He was the fourth son of Elias Disneyborn in the Province of Canada, to Irish parentsand Flora ( Call), an American of German and English descent. Aside from Walt, Elias and Flora's sons were Herbert, Raymond and Roy; the couple had a fifth child, Ruth, in December 1903. In 1906, when Disney was four, the family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri, where his uncle Robert had just purchased land. In Marceline, Disney developed his interest in drawing when he was paid to draw the horse of a retired neighborhood doctor.
Walt Disney | Early life: 1901–1920
In 1917, Elias bought stock in a Chicago jelly producer, the O-Zell Company, and moved back to the city with his family. Disney enrolled at McKinley High School and became the cartoonist of the school newspaper, drawing patriotic pictures about World War I; he also took night courses at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In mid-1918, Disney attempted to join the United States Army to fight against the Germans, but he was rejected for being too young. After forging the date of birth on his birth certificate, he joined the Red Cross in September 1918 as an ambulance driver.
Walt Disney | Early life: 1901–1920
Disney was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Edna ("née" Francis; 1890-1984) and Roy O. Disney (1893-1971), the brother of Walt Disney. He graduated from Pomona College in 1951 and first began working for Walt Disney Productions as an assistant director and producer ("True-Life Adventure"). He continued until 1967, when he was elected to the company's board of directors.
Roy E. Disney | Early life and career
Elias was a subscriber to the "Appeal to Reason" newspaper, and Disney practiced drawing by copying the front-page cartoons of Ryan Walker. Disney also began to develop an ability to work with watercolors and crayons. He lived near the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line and became enamored with trains. He and his younger sister Ruth started school at the same time at the Park School in Marceline in late 1909. In 1911, the Disneys moved to Kansas City, Missouri. There, Disney attended the Benton Grammar School, where he met fellow-student Walter Pfeiffer, who came from a family of theatre fans and introduced Disney to the world of vaudeville and motion pictures.
Walt Disney | Early life: 1901–1920
Before long, he was spending more time at the Pfeiffers' house than at home. Elias had purchased a newspaper delivery route for "The Kansas City Star" and "Kansas City Times". Disney and his brother Roy woke up at 4:30 every morning to deliver the "Times" before school and repeated the round for the evening "Star" after school. The schedule was exhausting, and Disney often received poor grades after falling asleep in class, but he continued his paper route for more than six years. He attended Saturday courses at the Kansas City Art Institute and also took a correspondence course in cartooning.
Walt Disney | Early life: 1901–1920
Born in Hanson, Kentucky on March 2, 1918, Givens was one of twin boys. His family moved to southern California, hoping the climate would improve the poor health of his father, who was a horse breeder and rancher. He attended Alhambra High School, graduating in 1936. He then worked as a freelance artist for the following year, before joining the Walt Disney Studio in 1937 on the recommendation of school classmate and Disney staffer Hardie Gramatky.
Bob Givens | Early life
Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. 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. Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed an early interest in drawing.
Walt Disney | Introduction
Disney was born in the rural village of Bluevale, in what is now Ontario, Canada, to Irish Protestant immigrants Kepple Elias Disney (1832–1891) and Mary Richardson (1838–1909). Both parents had emigrated from Ireland to Canada as children, accompanying their parents. Disney was an ardent socialist and a supporter of Eugene Debs. He became a farmer and a businessman with little success. He moved to California with his father in 1878 in hopes of finding gold. Instead, Kepple was convinced by an agent of the Union Pacific Railroad to buy of land near Ellis, Kansas. In Ellis, Disney attempted to live as an orange grower and failed.
Elias Disney | Early life
Robert Joseph Thomas was an American Hollywood film industry biographer and reporter. He started working for the Associated Press in 1944. He was born in San Diego on January 26, 1922 and grew up in Los Angeles where he then attended UCLA. He soon married his wife Patricia and raised three daughters. Bob Thomas wrote at least 30 books and had been writing about the movie business since the days when Hollywood was run by the men who founded it. He then died on March 14, 2014 at the age of 92.
Walt Disney: An American Original | Author
He was shipped to France but arrived in November, after the armistice. He drew cartoons on the side of his ambulance for decoration and had some of his work published in the army newspaper "Stars and Stripes". Disney returned to Kansas City in October 1919, where he worked as an apprentice artist at the Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio. There, he drew commercial illustrations for advertising, theater programs and catalogs. He also befriended fellow artist Ub Iwerks.
Walt Disney | Early life: 1901–1920
After Mintz requested new material to distribute through Universal Pictures, Disney and Iwerks created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character Disney wanted to be "peppy, alert, saucy and venturesome, keeping him also neat and trim".
Walt Disney | Early career: 1920–1928
He was born near Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa on September 30, 1845, a son of Oliver Perry Mickey, a pioneer in Iowa, locating there from Pennsylvania in 1836 and Betsy Ann Davidson.
John H. Mickey | Early life and ancestors
He was educated at Cheltenham College 1945-48, and after completing his National Service was employed by Walt Disney Productions Ltd from 1956 - 1958.
Richard Jackson (theatrical producer) | Early life
Smith was born on October 13, 1940 and raised in Pasadena, California. He appreciated Disney movies as a child and, having lived in California, visited Disneyland frequently. He graduated from UC Berkeley and spent a year and a half as an intern at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He then moved back to California and worked as a librarian at UCLA for five years. In the late 1960s, Smith was working on a bibliography on Walt Disney when he first heard of a possible archive being created by The Walt Disney Company. Smith, still working at UCLA at the time, wrote to the Disney Company with an offer of his services, which was accepted.
Dave Smith (archivist) | Early life
Robert S. Hartman was born in Berlin, Germany on January 27, 1910. He studied at the German College of Political Science, and also at the University of Paris, the London School of Economics, and at the University of Berlin from which he received an LL.B. degree in1932. He started working as instructor in administrative law and the philosophy of law at the University of Berlin, and he also served as Assistant Judge of the District court, Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1932 he left Germany for Britain and "started working for Walt Disney Productions as a copyright representative in Britain and later opened offices for Disney in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden where he met and married his wife.
Robert S. Hartman | Early life
Jani was born in Los Angeles in 1934. He graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Telecommunications and Stage Production and Design. He was 21 when he first joined the Disney organization as the head of the newly created Guest Relations Department at Disneyland in 1955.
Robert Jani | Early years
Walt Disney (1901–1966) was a filmmaker and co-founder of the entertainment empire bearing his name. Walt Disney may also refer to:
Walt Disney (disambiguation) | Introduction
Don Williams was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He is of Scottish descent and still has strong ties to Scotland. He grew up poor during the 1950s. His mother was a single mother raising 8 children including Don. His mother nicknamed Don "Ducky" because she had a love for the Donald Duck comic books. Williams always knew he wanted to be an artist. When he was just 10 years old he wrote his first letter to Walt Disney asking for a job. Walt Disney wrote him back saying, he was sorry but he did not have any jobs for 10-year-old cartoonist, however he encouraged him to keep drawing.
Don Williams (animator) | Early life
Jack Kinney was born on March 29, 1909 in Utah. He attended John Muir Junior High School in Los Angeles, California (1925), and John C. Fremont High School (1926 - 1928), at the latter with Roy Williams. Both Fremont football players, they would later be hired by Walt Disney in 1930 to work at the Walt Disney Studio on Hyperion Avenue. Often referring to himself as Kinney's best friend, Williams would go on to star as the "Big Mooseketeer" with head Mouseketeer Jimmie Dodd on the classic 1950s television program, "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955–1958).
Jack Kinney | Early life
Born in 1966, he grew up in Greenwood, Delaware. He studied formally at various programs including character animation with Disney animator Milt Neil at the Kubert School. While earning a MFA in Visual Art at Vermont College of Norwich University he studied with Karl Wirsum (Chicago Imagists), Don Baum, Joseph Seigenthaler, and Ernesto Pujol.
Don Swartzentruber | Early life
Maurice Noble was born in Spooner Township, Minnesota. He spent much of his childhood in New Mexico and Southern California. In the early 1930s he attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and while there the Institute displayed his works in its first one-man show of watercolors. Having to leave Chouinard for financial reasons, he ended up doing design work for a department store. A Disney scout recruited him around 1934, and he decided to accept the job since it paid $10 per month more than the department store did. Noble was put to work on backgrounds for the Silly Symphonies cartoon series.
Maurice Noble | Early life and Disney years
Ruthie Tompson was born on July 22, 1910 in Portland, Maine and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She then moved with her family to Oakland, California in November 1918 at age eight. She experienced the 1918 influenza pandemic and recalls of wearing a mask amid crowds who were doing the same while celebrating the end of World War I. In 1924, her parents divorced and her mother, Arlene, remarried artist John Roberts. The family relocated to Los Angeles and their house was in the same block as the house of Robert Disney, uncle of Walt Disney. This is where Roy and Walt Disney lived when they first came to Los Angeles.
Ruthie Tompson | Early life
Engel was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary and immigrated to Chicago at the age of thirteen, where he grew up in Oak Park, Illinois and went to Evanston Township High School. In 1937, Engel traveled to Los Angeles to gain an athletic scholarship to either the USC, or the UCLA, as he ran track in high school. He would eventually settle in Hollywood and study at the Chouinard Art Institute in downtown Los Angeles. It was during his studies at Chouinard that he met many artists who would go on to work for Walt Disney Animation Studios, and who would later recommend that he work there.
Jules Engel | Early life
Robert A. Delgadillo was born in Los Angeles, California and showed an interest in art from an early age. He states that Hollywood and the animated films of Walt Disney made a major impression on him as a child and inspired him to pursue art as a career.
Robert A. Delgadillo | Early life
Bluth was born in El Paso, Texas, the son of Emaline (née Pratt) and Virgil Ronceal Bluth. His great-grandfather was Helaman Pratt, an early leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is of Swedish, English, Irish, Scottish, and German descent. As a child in El Paso, he rode his horse to the town movie theater to watch Disney films; Bluth said later, "then I'd go home and copy every Disney comic book I could find". At the age of six, his family moved to Payson, Utah, where he lived on a family farm. Bluth has stated that he and his siblings do not have much communication with each other as adults.
Don Bluth | Early life and Disney years
Early in 1925, Disney hired an ink artist, Lillian Bounds. They married in July of that year, at her brother's house in her hometown of Lewiston, Idaho. The marriage was generally happy, according to Lillian, although according to Disney's biographer Neal Gabler she did not "accept Walt's decisions meekly or his status unquestionably, and she admitted that he was always telling people 'how henpecked he is'." Lillian had little interest in films or the Hollywood social scene and she was, in the words of the historian Steven Watts, "content with household management and providing support for her husband". Their marriage produced two daughters, Diane (born December 1933) and Sharon (adopted in December 1936, born six weeks previously).
Walt Disney | Early career: 1920–1928
Les Clark was born in Ogden, Utah in 1907, the eldest of 12 children to James Clark, a carpenter, and Lute Wadsworth. By 1910, the family lived in Salt Lake City and by 1920, they lived in Twin Falls, Idaho. By 1930, they lived in Los Angeles, where Les attended Venice High School. During high school, he worked a summer job at an ice cream shop near Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Walt and Roy Disney were frequent patrons at the shop, and Walt had once complimented Les on his lettering job of the menus. Eventually, Les got the courage to ask Walt for a job.
Les Clark | Early life
The son of John Disney of Lincoln, he was brother of John Disney the Unitarian. He owned Flintham Hall in Nottinghamshire, a family property. He also inherited Swinderby, in Lincolnshire. The eldest son, he received in the end the bulk of his father's property. Flintham Hall was from a grandmother.
Lewis Disney Fytche | Early life
Billy Sammeth was born December 3, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of twelve, he moved with his family to California, where Sammeth's father, Philip, was an executive at "Walt Disney Productions", pioneering the character merchandising division (licensing the "Davy Crockett Coonskin Cap" to then unknown toy company, "Mattel").
Billy Sammeth | Early life
Allwine was born in Glendale, California, on February 7, 1947. In 1966, Allwine started work in the mailing room at the Disney studios, before working in the sound effects department under Jimmy MacDonald.
Wayne Allwine | Early life
Carl Robert Fallberg was born in Cleveland, Tennessee on 11 September 1915 to Carl Fallberg (Sr.), and Gunhild Fallberg (née Sjöstedt), who both taught music at the Centenary College Conservatory in Cleveland, Tennessee from 1910-1917. Carl was the middle child of three, with an older sister Lisa Lina "Dixie" and younger sister Elinor Faith. The family moved to Chicago, and in 1930 his mother died, leaving Carl and his two sisters motherless for several years. Carl attended Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago, Illinois. In 1934, Carl sent a letter with samples of his gag ideas and artwork to Walt Disney asking for employment.
Carl Fallberg | Early life
Walton Hugh Goldsby was born on December 31, 1861 in Marion, Louisiana to Irish immigrants. In 1880, he was living with his widowed mother Dottie, a teacher, as a boarder in a hotel located in Prescott, Arkansas.
Walt Goldsby | Early life
He took art classes as a boy and got 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 with his brother Roy. With Ub Iwerks, Walt 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, Disney 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.
Walt Disney | Introduction
Walter "Walt" Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer who cofounded Disney Brothers Studio with his brother Roy. He received 59 Academy Award nominations, including 22 awards: both totals are records. He married Lillian Bounds in 1925. Their marriage produced two daughters, Diane (born December 1933) and Sharon (adopted in December 1936, born six weeks previously). Diane married Ronald William Miller, who became president of Walt Disney Productions in 1980 and CEO in 1983, before being ousted by Roy E. Disney.
Disney family | Walt Disney family
The Hartmans moved to Mexico City where he represented Disney Productions in Central America and the Antilles."
Robert S. Hartman | Early life
Jeffrey Carl "Jeff" Jones, the first child of Albert and Millie Jones, was born February 23, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Four years later, the expanding Jones family moved to the Los Angeles San Fernando Valley, and his father eventually settled into a career at the Walt Disney Company in 1954. Having a father who worked for Disney enhanced young Jones' popularity among his peers; with home screenings of the latest Mickey Mouse cartoons, a featured event at his birthday parties. During World War II, his father, a pacifist and conscientious objector, was assigned for the duration of the war, to a civilian work camp in the Sierra Nevada, California.
Jeff Jones (activist) | Early life and background
Disney was the eldest son of Moore Disney, of Churchtown, County Waterford, who was descended from the Disneys of Norton Disney in Northamptonshire. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Harrow School.
Moore Disney | Early life and education
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5th, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. He moved to Marceline, Missouri with his family as a young child. He had four siblings who later aided in his successful company. Not long after, Walt began drawing and painting, even going so far as to paint farm animals on the side of his family’s home. Four years later, his father fell sick and the family moved again to Kansas City. Walt had to help, at age nine, deliver newspapers with his father in the hours before school, however he still continued his passion for art. As he got older, he continued with his drawing and started selling his pictures to neighbors and friends.
The Art of Walt Disney | Background of Disney and His Art
Deja was born in Poland, but moved with his family to Germany. He credits seeing Disney's "The Jungle Book" as an 11-year-old with inspiring him to become an animator. At that young age, he promptly wrote to Walt Disney Productions to express his interest in working there, and received back a form letter which he has kept ever since. Deja later summarized the letter and how he acted on it as follows: "Please, do not send us any copies of Mickey Mouse. We can teach you that. You need to become an artist in your own right first. Watch the world around you.
Andreas Deja | Early life
Wesley Ernest Disney (October 31, 1883 – March 26, 1961) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma. He was also a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
Wesley E. Disney | Introduction
Walt Whitman Odets was born on February 4, 1947, to playwright, screenwriter and director Clifford Odets and his second wife, actress Bette Grayson, in Los Angeles. The family, which included Walt's sister Nora, two years his senior, moved to New York City in the summer of 1948. Odets and Grayson separated in October 1949 and were divorced in November 1951. In February 1954 Grayson died suddenly of pneumonia, leaving seven-year-old Walt and his disabled sister in the care of their father. Early in 1955 the truncated family moved back to the West Coast so that Clifford could return to screenwriting in order to make a living.
Walt Odets | Early life
He was born in Dundee, Scotland, on May 19, 1906. His parents were Richard William MacDonald and Minnie Hall. The family emigrated to America when MacDonald was one month old. They travelled via the SS Haverford from Liverpool, England, arriving in Pennsylvania 15 days later. As a young man, MacDonald landed a job as a musician on the Dollar Steam Ship Lines, which in 1934 led to an opportunity to record music for a Disney cartoon. He went on to secure a permanent contract with Disney, becoming head of the sound department.
Jimmy MacDonald (sound effects artist) | Early life
Nuechterlein was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on June 20, 1925, the son of Edwin William and Laura Anna Nuechterlein. He earned bachelor's master's and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan.
Donald Nuechterlein | Early life
Born in Rye, New York, but raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Allers became a fan of animation, at the age of five, after seeing Disney's "Peter Pan". Deciding that he wanted to pursue a career at Disney and even work alongside Walt Disney himself, a few years later, he was sent off to Disneyland for a do-it-yourself animation kit. However, Allers, by then a high school student, grew discouraged about achieving his dream when he heard of Walt Disney's death in 1966. Despite not getting the chance to meet Walt Disney, Allers still pressed on to receive a Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University.
Roger Allers | Early life
John Richard McDermott was born 30 August 1919 in Pueblo, Colorado, the younger of two sons of Henry McDermott, an oil broker. McDermott was a young child when his father committed suicide. The family eventually moved to Los Angeles where McDermott's mother, Hazel, worked in a beauty parlor. He graduated from Hollywood High School in 1936. Although he had had no formal art education, he took a job as an artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
John McDermott (artist) | Early life
In 1954, his family moved to Santa Monica, California, where he attended part of his final year of high school before returning to Utah and graduating from Springville High School. Bluth attended Brigham Young University in Utah for one year and afterwards got a job at Walt Disney Productions. He started in 1955 as an assistant to John Lounsbery for "Sleeping Beauty". In 1957, Bluth left Disney only two years after being hired. Afterward, Bluth spent two and a half years in Argentina on a mission for the LDS Church. He returned to the United States where he opened the Bluth Brothers Theater with his younger brother Fred, though he occasionally worked for Disney.
Don Bluth | Early life and Disney years
Wray was the son of a lieutenant colonel in Army intelligence, and his family moved frequently, living in Germany, Vietnam, and Hong Kong. Wray often read comic books and watched animated cartoons. In 2009, Wray said, "I was always drawing because I was lonely." At age 10, his family settled Costa Mesa, California. After high school, Wray attended Orange Coast College, but dropped out to animate professionally during the day and study art privately weekends and nights with a retired Disney animator. He subsequently animated for Disney, Hanna-Barbera and Filmation.
William Wray (artist) | Early life
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, in 1921. His mother, Edith Yeager, was an actress. His wife, Jan, was an artist and illustrator. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in anthropology from Columbia University and a second M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Walter Fairservis | Early life
Disney-Roebuck died at Hindhead, Surrey in May 1947. He was survived by his wife, who died in 1966, and his daughter Nancy, who died in 1979.
Claude Disney-Roebuck | World War I and later life
Weible was born on June 2, 1896, in Waterbury, Connecticut. He graduated from Pratt Institute in 1917 with a degree in engineering.
Walter Leo Weible | Early life
Love was born on May 24, 1910 in Tremont, Pennsylvania. Love came to Los Angeles in 1930. The effects from The Great Depression caused Love to search for a job in 1931. He discovered an opening as a Disney cartoonist in the local newspaper. Love was interested, used a phone book to find an animator, and learned how to animate in the span of four months. Besides drawings as a child, his entire animation experience consisted of only those four months of learning. Love walked into Walt Disney's office, unscheduled, and showed him a stop motion animation sample of Mickey Mouse playing the violin.
Ed Love | Career
Disney was educated at Cambridge University. He collected birds in Newfoundland and northern Finland. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force.
John Disney (ornithologist) | Early years
On the third try, he was offered a job and started to work for Walt Disney Studios in 1935 (then located at 2719 Hyperion Avenue in Hollywood, California.) Carl and his sister Elinor (1923-2014) lived in rooming house at 3021 Angus Street, just a few blocks from the Hyperion Studios. It was there he meet his future wife, Becky Dorner, the daughter of the family who owned the rooming house. During World War II, his sister Elinor and his future wife Becky worked at Disney Studios while Carl was serving in the U.S. Marines at Quantico, Virginia as part of the Marine Corps film unit.
Carl Fallberg | Early life
Fry was born on July 25, 1881 in Fremont, Michigan.
Theodore I. Fry | Early life
Robert Dean Stockwell was born March 5, 1936 in the North Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California, and grew up between there and New York City. Stockwell was born into a family of entertainers. He is the younger son of Elizabeth "Betty" Stockwell and Harry Stockwell, an actor and lyric baritone singer in New York productions of "Carousel" and "Oklahoma!" as well as the voice of Prince Charming in Disney's film "Snow White". His elder brother was television and film actor Guy Stockwell. His stepmother, Elizabeth Veronica Stockwell, was an actress, comedian, singer, and toe dancer in burlesque and theater in Northern America and New York.
Dean Stockwell | 1936–1950: Early life and career beginnings
Rees was mentored as an animator from the age of 16 at Disney Studios, by one of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, and was trained and taught at California Institute of the Arts, along with classmates John Lasseter, Brad Bird, John Musker, Tim Burton and Doug Lefler.
Jerry Rees | Early life
Pitkin was born on February 6, 1878 in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1900, and he attended the Hartford Seminary before studying in Europe at the Sorbonne University, Munich University and Berlin University.
Walter B. Pitkin | Early life
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Eric Gurney grew up in Toronto, where he began a career as a commercial artist. In 1938 he immigrated to the USA to work with The Walt Disney Company, where he was a story writer and collaborated on several Disney films, including "Pinocchio, Bambi, Peter and the Wolf," and "Pluto" cartoons. Turning freelance in 1948, he did cartoon illustrations for magazines and advertising campaigns, notably for the Ethyl Corporation.
Eric Gurney | Early life
Harold Williams Adelquist was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 11, 1914. His father, an accountant, came from a family of Swedish immigrants living in Iowa, while his mother, Francis Williams, was from Utah. The family relocated to California before 1920, and eventually settled in Los Angeles where he attended Los Angeles High School. After graduating in 1932 he went to work for Disney Studios that very year. He later married and had two daughters. Harold Williams Adelquist died March 26, 1981 in Long Beach, California.
Hal Adelquist | Personal life
Houghton was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 4, 1914. He was born to a family of farmers. His parents were George Henry Houghton (1883-1958) and Mabell Viola Shephard (1883-1972). His family moved to Hollywood for business reasons in 1927.
Shep Houghton | Early life
Beckham was born on May 12, 1916, in Paxton, Florida.
Walter C. Beckham | Early life
Mattinson was born in San Francisco in 1935. His father, Bernie Mattinson, was a jazz drummer who starred with the Horace Heidt big band and, later, was a recording session drummer for Elvis Presley, among many others. In 1945, the family moved to Los Angeles, once his fathers Band ended. A few years before, Mattinson was inspired by the 1940 film "Pinocchio", Mattinson became enamored of animation and practiced by drawing Disney characters throughout his school years. After graduating high school, Mattinson took a job in "Traffic" (mail room) at Disney Studios (1953), hoping to someday pursue a career as an animator, and maybe get the chance to actually meet some animators.
Burny Mattinson | Early life
Dishell was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended medical school at the University of Michigan.
Walter Dishell | Early life
Dick N. Lucas (July 20, 1920 – August 27, 1997) was an American film animator, noteworthy as part of Walt Disney's Animation Department.
Dick N. Lucas | Introduction
Harvey Washington Walter was born in Fairfield, Ohio on May 21, 1819.
Harvey Washington Walter | Early life
Williams was born in Colville, Washington and raised in Los Angeles, where he attended Fremont High School. After graduating, he was hired as an artist by Walt Disney in 1930. He worked on animated shorts while attending Chouinard Art Institute at night. He later also developed story ideas for Disney. He also designed over 100 insignias for the U.S. armed forces during World War II, and is credited with designing the mouse ears worn on the "Mickey Mouse Club". Williams also produced one-panel gag cartoons for "The New Yorker", "Saturday Evening Post", and other magazines. Disney director Jack Kinney described Williams as a "big fat balding hot-headed unpredictable bastard", but hugely admired his prolific talent, saying that he could "sit down and grunt out a few pounds of gags as if it were nothing".
Roy Williams (artist) | Early life and career
White was born on October 31, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan.
Thomas W. White (born 1937) | Early life
Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. was born in Philadelphia on August 25, 1913. His family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, when he was only two. He went to California at age 22 to work on "Donald Duck" cartoons at Walt Disney Studios in 1935. He stayed until the animators' strike in 1941 as an animator on "The Nifty Nineties", "The Little Whirlwind", "Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo" and "The Reluctant Dragon". Kelly then worked for Dell Comics, a division of Western Publishing of Racine, Wisconsin.
Pogo (comic strip) | History
Born to Jewish parents in The Bronx, his mother died when he was 16. He studied at the Bronx High School of Science, City College of New York, and University at Buffalo. He later received an M.B.A. from Boston University.
Mickey Drexler | Early life and education
The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney ("Zorro", "The Mickey Mouse Club"), John was born and raised in Glendale, California, nearby to Disney. He began guitar lessons at age six and played in rock bands in college. Debney earned his B.A. degree in Music Composition from the California Institute of Arts in 1979.
John Debney | Early life and education
Prince was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, in 1861.
Walter Prince | Early years
He became a chief industrial engineer and contributed to innovations for the manufacture of aircraft (despite having no degree in engineering). His first supervisor was Fred V. Schumacher, who would reunite with Wood on later projects. Wood was employed by the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) during the early 1950's when he first met Walt Disney. Wood was tapped to lead the team that had been assembled to crunch the numbers and find the location for the park that would become Disneyland. The organization, located in Menlo Park, California, was a nonprofit research and development organization founded by the trustees of Stanford University.
C. V. Wood | Early life
Dunton worked as a ranch hand as a youth and studied at the Cowles Art School in Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to New York City around 1903, where he worked as an illustrator for publishing companies. In 1912 he briefly studied at the Art Student's League, where Ernest Blumenschein told him about Taos, New Mexico.
W. Herbert Dunton | Early life and education
Donald was born in Bristol, England, in 1918. His father (a comedian) and mother (a singer) were performers in Vaudeville. He graduated from the Professional Children's School in New York in 1936.
Peter Donald | Early years
Dehner was born in Staten Island, New York City. He initially went into art after studying at the Grand Central School of Art in New York City, New York. He worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank.
John Dehner | Early years
Lawrence Edward Watkin (December 9, 1901 – December 16, 1981) was an American writer and film producer. He has become known especially as a scriptwriter for a series of 1950s Walt Disney films.
Lawrence Edward Watkin | Introduction
Hannah was born on January 5, 1913, in Nogales, Arizona. He moved to Los Angeles in 1931 to study at the Art Guild Academy. One of his first jobs was designing movie posters for Hollywood theaters. In 1933, during the Great Depression, Hannah dropped off his portfolio at Walt Disney Studios, and soon afterward was hired as an in-between and clean-up artist, working on Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Silly Symphony cartoons. Hannah's career as an animator commenced with the short "Modern Inventions" (released on May 29, 1937). After thirteen films in that capacity, he was assigned to the story department writing cartoon short continuities, beginning with "Donald's Nephews" (released on April 15, 1938).
Jack Hannah | Biography
Duckworth was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1902.
Joseph Duckworth | Early life
Walter Simonson was born September 2, 1946 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and lived there for two and a half years. When his father, who worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, received a promotion at work that required him to relocate to Washington, D.C., Simonson, his younger brother and his parents moved to Maryland, where Simonson's parents still lived as of 1989. Simonson first read comics as a child, through the subscriptions to "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" that his brother had. By the age of ten he was an avid fan of the work of Carl Barks, "Little Lulu", "Little Iodine", and Alex Toth's work on "The Land Unknown".
Walt Simonson | Early life
Kirill Bichutsky was born in Moscow, USSR. When he was 2 years old, his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Roxbury, New Jersey. Growing up, Bichutsky wanted to be a Disney animator. Bichutsky graduated from high school in 2002, and was awarded a full scholarship to William Paterson University. He later dropped out.
Kirill Bichutsky | Early life
Del Vecho grew up in the city of Quincy, in the South Shore area just outside Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston University College of Fine Arts, where he studied theater production, and worked in theatre for many years. After working at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis for about 7 years, he was recruited by Disney Animation. He started out in production management and transitioned into producing.
Peter Del Vecho | Early life
He left the paper delivery route and worked on a farm in the summer. He was then employed as a bank clerk along with brother Raymond Arnold Disney at the First National Bank of Kansas City. Roy served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919. Roy contracted tuberculosis and was therefore discharged from military duty. He relocated to Los Angeles and worked as a banker while recuperating in hospital. In 1923, brother Walt joined Roy in Hollywood and the two planned the start of Disney Brothers Studio. The brothers ordered kit houses from Los Angeles-based Pacific Ready Cut Homes, and in 1928, built their homes adjacently on Lyric Avenue in the Los Feliz neighborhood.
Roy O. Disney | Early life
Lucas was born and raised in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas (née Bomberger) and George Walton Lucas Sr., and is of German, Swiss-German, English, Scottish, and distant Dutch and French descent. His family attended Disneyland during its opening week in July 1955, and Lucas would remain enthusiastic about the park. He was interested in comics and science fiction, including television programs such as the "Flash Gordon" serials. Long before Lucas began making films, he yearned to be a racecar driver, and he spent most of his high school years racing on the underground circuit at fairgrounds and hanging out at garages.
George Lucas | Early life
Elias Charles Disney (1859–1941) was born in the rural village of Bluevale, in what is now Ontario, Canada, to Irish Protestant immigrants Kepple Elias Disney (1832–1891) and Mary Richardson (1838–1909). Both parents had emigrated from Ireland to Canada as children, accompanying their parents. Disney married Flora Call on January 1, 1888, in Kismet, Lake County, Florida. The couple had five children:
Disney family | Elias Disney
Headlines at the time of his death read, "Creator of Foxy Grandpa Is Found Dead, a Pauper." On the wall of his room was a picture of Minnie and Mickey Mouse with the inscription, "For Carl E. Schultze, in admiration. Walt Disney." His only known relative at the time of his death was his sister, Mrs. C. C. Sandersky of Nicholsville, Kentucky.
Carl E. Schultze | Later life
Elias Charles Disney (February 6, 1859September 13, 1941) was the father of Roy and Walt Disney.
Elias Disney | Introduction
Steven Watts is a professor at University of Missouri-Columbia. He has published many articles and essays; however one of the most reviewed and major non- fiction books he wrote was "The Magic Kingdom ". Walt Disney was born in Chicago on December 5, 1901 and lived in Marceline, Missouri from 1905 to 1910. When he was young, he had a talent for drawing and he earned money doing illustrations for newspapers and advertisements. He left home in 1919 and worked at a commercial art studio in Kansas City, after he was fired from the studio, he started his own shop in 1920.
The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life | Book summary and short author biography
Hubley was born in Marinette, Wisconsin to John Raymond Hubley (1880–1959) and Verena K. Hubley (1891–1978), a painter. He moved to Los Angeles, California, to study painting at the Art Center School for three years. In 1935, he gained a job as a background and layout artist at Disney, where he worked on such classic films as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo," and "Bambi," as well as "The Rite of Spring" segment from "Fantasia". On February 25, 1939, the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited the studio, and brought with him a copy of the Russian animated movie "The Tale of the Czar Durandai" (1934), directed by Ivan Ivanov-Vano, which he showed to the artists, among them Hubley.
John Hubley | Early life
Walter Futter was born January 2, 1900 in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, both born in Germany, were William and Elizabeth Futter. He had an older brother, Frederick. Futter attended University of Omaha.
Walter Futter | Early life
and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Roy Disney, for financial reasons, suggested more combined animation and live-action productions. In 1948, Disney initiated a series of popular live-action nature films, titled "True-Life Adventures", with "Seal Island" the first; the film won the Academy Award in the Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) category. Disney grew more politically conservative as he got older. A Democratic Party supporter until the 1940 presidential election, when he switched allegiance to the Republican Party, he became a generous donor to Thomas E. Dewey's 1944 bid for the presidency. In 1946, he was a founding member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, an organization who stated they "believ[ed] in, and like, the American Way of Life ...
Walt Disney | World War II and beyond: 1941–1950
Born Lillian Marie Bounds in Spalding, Idaho, she grew up in nearby Lapwai on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, where her father Willard worked as a blacksmith and federal marshal. She was the youngest of ten children, and the family struggled financially; her father died when she was seventeen. After graduation from Lapwai High School, Bounds and her mother moved down to Lewiston; she attended a year of business college then moved to southern California in 1923 to live with her sister She was working at the Disney Studio in "ink and paint" as a secretary when she met Walt.
Lillian Disney | Early years
Winkler. She was losing the rights to both the "Out of the Inkwell" and "Felix the Cat" cartoons, and needed a new series. In October, they signed a contract for six "Alice" comedies, with an option for two further series of six episodes each. Disney and his brother Roy formed the Disney Brothers Studiowhich later became The Walt Disney Companyto produce the films; they persuaded Davis and her family to relocate to Hollywood to continue production, with Davis on contract at $100 a month. In July 1924, Disney also hired Iwerks, persuading him to relocate to Hollywood from Kansas City.
Walt Disney | Early career: 1920–1928
As a young Disney fan, Yeagle set his sights on becoming an animator for Disney around the age of 10. During this time he often drew Disney characters, but later began to develop his own. After graduating from high school, Yeagle went to art school, leaving after a year.
Dean Yeagle | Early life
McClean was employed with the Walt Disney Company from 1956 through 1988, when he retired. McClean passed away on April 7, 2005.
Michael Kuluva | Early life
He was born on November 23, 1871, near De Witt, Michigan, and educated at the University of Michigan, Alma College (Mich.). the Garrett Biblical Institute (Evanston, Ill.), and Boston University.
Ralph Tyler Flewelling | Early life
Williams was born in Detroit, Michigan on February 6, 1901. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1920.
Edward Thomas Williams | Early life
Peraza was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He became interested in Disney animation after watching "Sleeping Beauty", "Pinocchio" and "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color". As a young man, he experimented with various types of mediums and styles, getting the attention of local filmmakers. His first job was working for Max Goodman in local television station WKRG, where he learned how to work behind the camera, animated special effects and use paper cutouts for characters to create station breaks. After graduating high school, he continued his education at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), an art college that was established by Walt Disney.
Michael Peraza | Early life
Ernest S. Micek was born on February 18, 1936, in Arcadia, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he graduated with a BS degree in chemical engineering in 1959.
Ernest Micek | Early life
Walker moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1934, where he attended UCLA. After graduation, he began his career at Disney as a mailroom clerk in 1938. Before long, he stepped up the ladder and found himself in the camera department and later became a unit manager for short subjects. In 1941, Walker was forced to delay his Disney career to serve in the United States Navy during World War II. He was the flight control officer (flight deck officer) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) in the Pacific Theater from 1943-1945, surviving eight major battles. After the war, he returned to the Disney Studio.
Card Walker | Early life and career
Aten was born on August 13, 1901 in Norvell, Michigan.
Murl K. Aten | Early life