Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney 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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Chicago
- Educated at
- Kansas City Art InstituteCentral High SchoolMcKinley High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom🏆 Order of the Southern Cross🏆 Order of the Aztec Eagle
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."
"The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project — in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World — will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow…"
"Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and …"
"That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do th…"
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Timeline
1901
Born
Birth1966
Died
Death
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