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Walter Elias Disney Miller is a producer and actor, and the grandson of Walt Disney. He has worked on documentaries and TV shows about his famous grandfather and his legacy.
- Producer, Actor
- November 14, 1961
- Walter Elias Disney Miller
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Sep 21, 2011 · Learn about the personal side of Walt Disney, the legendary storyteller and creator, through the eyes of his five grandchildren. Hear their stories of how he was a loving and attentive grandfather who appreciated and adored them.
Sep 7, 2014 · In December 1961, Walt wrote to Ruth: “I don’t know if you had heard about the BIG news … the birth on Tuesday, Nov. 14th, of Walter Elias Disney Miller. Diane finally decided to name one of her sons for me, and I’m thrilled to have a male heir bearing my name.
Walter Elias Disney Miller is a producer and actor, born in 1961 in Los Angeles. He is the grandson of Walt Disney and Lillian Disney, and the son of Ron Miller and Diane Disney.
- November 14, 1961
- Who Was Walt Disney?
- Walt Disney’s Parents and Siblings
- Walt Disney’s Childhood
- Walt Disney’s First Cartoons
- Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse and Other Characters
- Walt Disney Movies
- Disney’s Television Series
- Disneyland
- Walt Disney World
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Walter Elias "Walt" Disney co-founded Walt Disney Productions with his brother Roy, which became one of the best-known motion-picture production companies in the world. Disney was an innovative animator and created the cartoon character Mickey Mouse. He won 22 Academy Awards during his lifetime, and was the founder of theme parks Disneyland and Wal...
Disney’s father was Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian. His mother, Flora Call Disney, was German-American. Disney was one of five children, four boys and a girl.
Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in the Hermosa section of Chicago, Illinois. He lived most of his childhood in Marceline, Missouri, where he began drawing, painting and selling pictures to neighbors and family friends. In 1911, his family moved to Kansas City, where Disney developed a love for trains. His uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engine...
In 1919, Disney moved to Kansas City to pursue a career as a newspaper artist. His brother Roy got him a job at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio, where he met cartoonist Ubbe Eert Iwwerks, better known as Ub Iwerks. From there, Disney worked at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on cutout animation. Around this time, Disney...
Disney and his brother Roy moved to Hollywood with cartoonist Ub Iwerks in 1923, and there the three beganthe Disney Brothers' Cartoon Studio. The company soon changed its name to Walt Disney Studios, at Roy’s suggestion. The Walt Disney Studios’ first deal was with New York distributor Margaret Winkler, to distribute theirAlicecartoons. They also ...
Disney’s first successful film starring Mickey Mouse was a sound-and-music-equipped animated short called Steamboat Willie. It opened at the Colony Theater in New York November 18, 1928. Sound had just made its way into film, and Disney was the voice of Mickey, a character he had developed and that was drawn by his chief animator, Ub Iwerks. The ca...
Disney produced more than 100 feature films. His first full-length animated film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which premiered in Los Angeles on December 21, 1937. It produced an unimaginable $1.499 million, in spite of the Great Depression, and won eight Oscars. This led Walt Disney Studios to complete another string of full-length animated...
Disney was also among the first people to use television as an entertainment medium. The Zorro and Davy Crockett series were extremely popular with children, as was The Mickey Mouse Club, a variety show featuring a cast of teenagers known as the Mouseketeers. Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Colorwas a popular Sunday night show, which Disney used t...
Disney's $17 million Disneyland theme park opened on July 17, 1955, in Anaheim, California, on what was once an orange grove. Actor (and future U.S. president) Ronald Reaganpresided over the activities. After a tumultuous opening day involving several mishaps (including the distribution of thousands of counterfeit invitations), the site became know...
Within a few years of Disneyland’s 1955 opening, Disney began plans for a new theme park and to develop Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) in Florida. It was still under construction when Disney died in 1966. After Disney’s death, his brother Roy carried on the plans to finish the Florida theme park, which opened in 1971 under the...
Learn about the life and achievements of Walt Disney, the American motion picture and television producer and showman who created Mickey Mouse and Disneyland. Find out his full name, birth date, family background, career history and more.
Oct 12, 2011 · Learn about the personal and family life of Walt Disney from his grandchildren, who shared their memories of him at a special program at The Walt Disney Family Museum. Find out how he was a loving and caring grandfather who named his first grandson after him.
Walter Elias Disney ( / ˈdɪzni /; [2] December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons.
