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Apr 11, 1986 · Louis Debney, who began a long affiliation with Walt Disney when he sold the famed animator newspapers as a boy and then went on to produce 100 episodes of the “Mickey Mouse Club” and 80 episodes...
Lou Debney was born on 3 January 1916 in Wisconsin, USA. He was an assistant director and producer, known for Zorro (1957), The Magical World of Disney (1954) and The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967). He died on 8 April 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Louis Debney
- April 8, 1986
- January 3, 1916
Debney was 14 and selling newspapers outside the old Disney Studios near Vermont and Kingswell avenues in the Silver Lake district. Three years later he had gone to work for Walt Disney as a cutter and soon was put in charge of the assembly operation for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937.
Louis Debney. Disney Studios producer. Father of film composer John Debney. Worked on The Mickey Mouse Club, Zorro, The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin and numerous other Disney projects.
- January 3, 1916
When Louis Frederick Debney was born on 3 January 1916, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Fred Debney, was 24 and his mother, Veronica Kopacka, was 22. He married Maizie Alice Sharp on 18 November 1939, in Yuma, Arizona, United States.
- Male
- Edith Naomi Hungate, Maizie Alice Sharp
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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.
