Dean Jones

Dean Jones

As former president of Walt Disney Pictures David Vogel once said, “When you think of Disney, you think of Dean Jones.”

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Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

Angela made her musical comedy motion picture debut in 1971, mesmerizing audiences as the delightful apprentice witch, Eglantine Price, in Disney’s fantasy Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

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Marvin Davis

Marvin Davis

“Marvin was very conscientious about developing the Park. He worked extremely hard to help bring Walt’s dream to life, exactly as Walt envisioned it.”—Imagineer and Disney Legend John Hench

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Harper Goff playing banjo

Harper Goff

Among Harper’s designs was the menacing Nautilus submarine, complete with plush Victorian interiors, for the film 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

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Peter Ellenshaw painting

Peter Ellenshaw

Walt later brought Peter to Hollywood to work on his adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; the film went on to win an Oscar® for best special effects in 1955.

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Irving Ludwig

Irving Ludwig

“Booking theaters was always a good experience because the name ‘Disney’ assured exhibitors they would be showing movies that the whole family could enjoy.”—Irving Ludwig

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Buddy Ebsen with Walt Disney

Buddy Ebsen

Buddy’s tap dancing moves also served as a prototype for Walt Disney’s earliest experiments in Audio-Animatronics® technology.

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Annette Funicello

Annette Funicello

In 1955, at the age of 12, she performed the lead role in Swan Lake at the Burbank Starlight Bowl. Little did she know at the time, Walt Disney was sitting in the audience…

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Winston Hibler with Walt Disney

Winston Hibler

He combined his talent for writing, narrating, and directing on Men Against the Arctic, which won an Academy Award, as well as Operation Undersea, a television special that dramatized the filming of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which won an Emmy in 1955

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Fess Parker as Daniel Boone

Fess Parker

“Folks tell me over and over how much that character shaped their lives. I have to believe that the impact of those programs was due as much to the values inculcated in them as to their entertainment quality.”—Fess Parker

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