Wayne, David

Wayne, David (1914-1995) Actor; appeared in The Apple Dumpling Gang (Col. T. R. Clydesdale), and on television in The Boy Who Stole the Elephant and Return of the Big Cat.

Wayans, Damon

Wayans, Damon Actor; appeared in Celtic Pride (Lewis Scott), and on television in My Wife and Kids (Michael Kyle).

Watson, Raymond L.

Watson, Raymond L. (1926-2012) Member of the Disney board of directors beginning in 1974. When Card Walker retired in 1983, Watson was asked to take over as chairman of the board, a post which he held until Michael Eisner arrived in September 1984. He left the board in 2004. He was named a Disney Legend …

Way Down Cellar (television)

Way Down Cellar (television) Two-part television show; aired on January 7 and 14, 1968. Directed by Robert Totten. Three friends find a secret tunnel under a destroyed church that leads them to a supposedly haunted house and, incidentally, a group of counterfeiters. Stars Butch Patrick, Sheldon Collins, Lundy Davis, Frank McHugh, Richard Bakalyan, David McLean, …

Water, Friend or Enemy (film)

Water, Friend or Enemy (film) Educational film produced under the auspices of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, the film shows the benefits derived from water, cautions against polluting drinking water, and teaches how to avoid cholera, typhoid, and dysentery. Delivered on May 1, 1943.

Water Birds (film)

Water Birds (film) True-Life Adventure featurette; released on June 26, 1952. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen. Vignettes depict the lives of waterbirds, showing how Nature has adapted each of them to meet the problems of survival, such as different types of beaks and bodies, and describe their feeding habits and courtships. Academy Award winner. 31 min.

Waterboy, The (film)

Waterboy, The (film) Lowly water boy Bobby Boucher is 31 years old, overly protected by his mother, and socially inept but he loves his job with the university football team, even though he is constantly the target of gross jokes and public humiliation. When he is unceremoniously fired for his ineptitude, he gets a chance …

Watcher in the Woods, The (film)

Watcher in the Woods, The (film) When an American composer and his family rent a foreboding house in England from an eccentric recluse, Mrs. Aylwood, a series of terrifying events occur, primarily to 17-year-old Jan. It turns out that the eerie experiences are connected to Mrs. Aylwood’s teenage daughter’s disappearance 30 years earlier. A reenactment …

Washington Square (film)

Washington Square (film) In 1850s New York, shy and awkward Catherine Sloper, the daughter of a wealthy and distinguished physician, and favored by neither beauty nor brilliance, is tottering into spinsterhood when she falls wildly and tempestuously in love with the smooth and dashing wastrel, Morris Townsend. She is encouraged by her incurably romantic and …

Washington, Ned

Washington, Ned (1901-1976) Lyricist; worked at Disney from 1938 to 1940, during which time he wrote songs for Pinocchio, Saludos Amigos, and Dumbo. “When You Wish Upon a Star” and the score from Pinocchio won him two Oscars. He was named a Disney Legend in 2001.