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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...
Lou Debney was born on 3 January 1916 in Wisconsin, USA. He was an assistant director and producer, known for The Magical World of Disney (1954), Zorro (1957) 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
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
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. He also had been an assistant director on "Two Gun Mickey," the studio's last black-and-white ...
Apr 4, 2016 · His father, Louis Debney, began working for Disney as a teenager, banging the clapperboard to identify the live-action footage shot as reference for "Snow White" and going on to produce "Zorro" and "The Mickey Mouse Club." When John was born, he was welcomed with a card signed by all the Mousketeers.
Apr 6, 2016 · His father, Louis Debney, worked there for more than 40 years, starting as a clapperboy on “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and eventually becoming a producer on TV shows such as “Zorro” and...
Dec 19, 2016 · The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney, John is among the few who can claim vivid personal memories of Walt Disney himself—not to mention the Sherman Brothers, the legendary...