Brennan, Walter
Brennan, Walter (1894-1974) Actor, appeared in Those Calloways (Alf Simes), The Gnome-Mobile (D. J. Mulrooney; Knobby), and The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (Grandpa Bower).
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Brer Bear Burly character in Song of the South, remembered for his threat “I’m gonna knock his head clean off,” voiced by Nicodemus Stewart.
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Brer Bar Refreshment area, serving soft drinks and snacks, in Critter Country at Disneyland, renamed from Mile Long Bar on July 17, 1989. It closed in 2002.
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Brennan, Eileen Actress; appeared in Stella (Mrs. Wilkerson), and on television in Kraft Salutes Walt Disney World’s 10th Anniversary, the remake of Freaky Friday (Principal Handel), and Toothless (board member).
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Brayton’s Laguna Pottery This manufacturer of figurines made a number of Disney items from 1938 to 1940 that are still popular with collectors. Some of their nicest items were characters from Pinocchio and Ferdinand the Bull.
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Breakin’ Through (film) Break dancers and polished Broadway performers come together for a Broadway-bound musical, and the two groups have trouble adjusting to each other. An original video release in September 1985. Directed by Peter Medak. 73 min. Stars Ben Vereen, Donna McKechnie, Reid Shelton. This film had originally been planned for a Disney Channel …
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Braverman, Barry Imagineer at Walt Disney Imagineering since 1977. He worked on various projects, including Wonders of Life, and for a time headed the Epcot design effort. Then he turned his attentions to the West, where he headed the Disneyland Resort Development team, and led the design work on Disney California Adventure.
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Breakfast of Champions (film) Dwayne Hoover, the leader of a vast financial empire which controls Midland City, is on the verge of a midlife crisis. As his identity as the most respected man in the city begins to unravel in his own mind, he meets an impoverished writer, Kilgore Trout, in town for a fine-arts …
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Brave Little Tailor (film) Mickey Mouse cartoon; released on September 23, 1938. Directed by Bill Roberts. In a medieval setting, when tailor, Mickey, gleefully exclaims that he killed “seven with one blow,” meaning flies that had been bothering him, the people in the medieval town, who had been talking about giants, assume him to be …
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Brave Little Toaster, The (film) Not a Disney animated film, but it aired on The Disney Channel in 1988, on the Disney anthology series in 1991, and was released on Disney’s home-video label. A fantasy about five aging appliances who come to life and go in search of their missing master, from the novella by …
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