Billy Crystal

“He’s my favorite character I’ve ever played,” Billy Crystal once said of Mike Wazowski, the frenetic, green, cyclopean monster from 2001’s Monsters, Inc. and 2013’s Monsters University. Billy’s voice acting and improvisational talents brought the excitable, soft-hearted Wazowski to life, making the character, as Billy once explained, “fast and edgy; speedy and nuts; aggressive and …

John Goodman

John brought his affable yet booming baritone to a number of animated classics, including Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. in 2001 and Monsters University in 2013. In 2006, he voiced Sulley for Disney California Adventure’s Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!. He also brought a Louisiana drawl to “Big Daddy” La Bouff in The Princess and the Frog in 2009.

Barbara Walters

Barbara joined ABC in 1976 as the first woman to co-host the network news. Through the years she has interviewed such world figures as Boris Yeltsin, Premier Jiang Zemin, Margaret Thatcher, Muammar Gaddafi, and Sadaam Hussein.

Betty White

By any standard, Betty White is one of the most popular and beloved American actresses of this or any time.

Kevin Corcoran

Kevin avoided the disappointment and scandal of many child stars—he maintained a successful and stable career, and has been married to the same woman for 33 years. He credits his family’s down-to-earth sensibility about the business for his ability to avoid its pitfalls.

Ginny Tyler

Ginny’s vocal work gradually moved from just narration to character voices for Disney; she played two amorous female squirrels in The Sword in the Stone and sang for several of the barnyard animals in the “Jolly Holiday” sequence of Mary Poppins.

Tim Considine

Of a childhood in the public eye, Tim once said, “It was generally a pretty good experience for me. What I missed, I’m sure I missed, but I’m not too unhappy about what I did. I’ve had the opportunity to screw up all kinds of things, and not just in that one career!”

David Stollery

“I liked David right away,” co-star Tim Considine remembered, “because, although very conscientious about his work, he wasn’t loud or at all show-offy.”

Tommy Kirk

Tommy fondly remembers Walt Disney, and recalls once bumping into him at a Beverly Hills hotel. “He was with Hedda Hopper, the legendary columnist. He put his arm around me, and he said, ‘This is my good-luck piece here,’ to Hedda Hopper. I never forgot that. That’s the nicest compliment he ever gave me.”

Paul Frees

It was literally impossible during the 1960s and most of the 1970s to turn on the TV on any given night and not hear the ineluctable Mr. Frees.