Laugh-O-gram Films

Laugh-O-gram Films Walt Disney’s Kansas City company, which made a series of seven modernized versions of fairy tales: The Four Musicians of Bremen, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldie Locks and the Three Bears, Jack the Giant Killer, and Cinderella, in 1922. The company had to file for bankruptcy …

Laurie, Piper

Laurie, Piper Actress; appeared in Return to Oz (Aunt Em).

Launchpad McQuack

Launchpad McQuack Scrooge’s pilot in Ducktales, and later in Darkwing Duck; voiced by Terence McGovern.

Last Electric Knight, The (television)

Last Electric Knight, The (television) Television show; aired on February 16, 1986. Directed by James Fargo. A young martial arts expert searches for a pretend guardian when a social worker tries to take him away from his elderly grandfather. The person he picks happens to be a detective. Pilot for the Sidekicks series. Stars Ernie …

Last Shot, The (film)

Last Shot, The (film) Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats has long held the great ambition of selling his morbid screenplay, but he has had no success. Then he meets Joe Devine, who represents himself as the man who can green-light Schats’s low-budget movie. But Devine is not who he claims to be. In truth, he is …

Last Resort, The (television)

Last Resort, The (television) Reality series debuting on ABC Family on January 20, 2003, and ending on March 31, 2003. Dysfunctional couples are taken to a Hawaiian island to work out their relationships. From Buena Vista Prods. and Fisher Entertainment in association with Wheeler/Sussman Prods.

Last Flight of Noah’s Ark, The (film)

Last Flight of Noah’s Ark, The (film) An unemployed pilot, fleeing debt collectors, accepts the risky mission of flying an old converted B-29, loaded with farm animals, an attractive young missionary, and two young orphan stowaways, to an island in the Pacific. The plane crash-lands on a small island inhabited by two World War II …

Lasseter, John

Lasseter, John After a stint in the Disney animation department in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he returned in 1995 as the director of Toy Story for Pixar and directed or produced all of the remaining Disney-Pixar releases. In 2006, with Disney’s purchase of Pixar, he was named chief creative officer of both Pixar …

Last Dance (film)

Last Dance (film) Rick Hayes is a cocky young lawyer from a wealthy family who is assigned the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman on death row. After years of appeals, Cindy no longer wants to fight to save her life. But during the course of Rick’s visits and research to prepare a clemency …

Laserphonic Fantasy

Laserphonic Fantasy Show at Epcot; beginning on June 9, 1984, and superseded by Illuminations in 1988. The show was essentially a less sophisticated version of Illuminations, without the spotlighting of the individual countries.