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"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 …"
"I don't believe there's a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities. But where do we begin — how do we start answe…"
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
"All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am."
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Timeline
1901
Born
Birth1966
Died
Death
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