Pfeiffer, Walt (1901-1976) Childhood friend of Walt Disney’s from Kansas City; Walt Disney considered the Pfeiffer home as his “laughing place.” The two boys would put on acts in vaudeville theaters as “The Two Walts.” Pfeiffer was employed by Walt Disney Productions in various capacities from 1935 until his retirement in 1972.
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Pfeiffer, Michelle Actress; starred in Dangerous Minds (LouAnne Johnson), Up Close and Personal (Tally Atwater), and A Thousand Acres (Rose Cook Lewis). She appears as Janet van Dyne in Ant-Man and the Wasp and Avengers: Endgame and Queen Ingris in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.
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Pete’s Dragon (film) Lively musical comedy in which a magical and sometimes mischievous dragon, Elliott, inadvertantly causes chaos and confusion in Passamaquoddy, a Maine fishing village. To help a young orphan, Pete, break away from his evil foster parents, the Gogans, and find a happy home with Nora and her father Lampie in their lighthouse, …
See morePetit Train du Cirque, Le Casey Jr. attraction in Fantasyland in Disneyland Paris; opened in April 1994.
See morePeters, Brock (1927-2005) Actor; appeared on television in The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance and Polly. He also did the voice of Druid Chief in DuckTales.
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Peter Tchaikovsky Story, The (television) Television show; aired on January 30, 1959. Directed by Charles Barton. Background information on Tchaikovsky gathered during the making of Sleeping Beauty led to this biographical show, telling stories of the life of the great Russian composer from a child, born in 1840, to adulthood. The film covers his education …
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Petersen, Paul He was hired as a Mouseketeer for the Mickey Mouse Club in 1955, but let go shortly afterwards. He wrote the book, Walt, Mickey and Me (Dell, 1977) about the club and his experiences with it. He was in The Happiest Millionaire (Tony).
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Peter Pan (film) Story of the magical boy who wouldn’t grow up who teaches the three Darling children—Wendy, John, and Michael—to fly to Never Land with him where they embark on adventures with the chief inhabitants, Captain Hook and his crew of pirates. The fairy, Tinker Bell, is jealous of Peter’s attentions to Wendy, and …
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Peter and the Wolf (film) Segment of Make Mine Music, told by Sterling Holloway, about the brave young boy who goes with a duck, cat, and bird to catch the wolf, with each character represented by a musical instrument in the orchestra. Peter is represented by a string quartet; Sasha the bird by a flute, …
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