Buddy Ebsen

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

Pinto Colvig

Pinto once called Goofy “the epitome of all the hicks in the world and the easiest to portray. I guess that’s because I’m a corn-fed hick, myself.”

Jimmy Macdonald

Rarely was there a sound Jimmy could not make with one of the more than 500 innovative Rube Goldberg-like contraptions that he built from scratch.

Clarence Nash

“I learned to quack in French (‘couac’), Chinese (Yes, Peking Duck!), and German. For some reason, German was the hardest.”—Clarence Nash

Donn Tatum

“I loved to watch Donn in action. He was an excellent communicator and deft in his ability to handle the myriad of questions posed by stockholders.”—Former Disney Vice Chairman Roy E. Disney

Card Walker

In 1990, former Company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Eisner said, “In a very real sense, Card is the link between the small, family-owned film company of the ‘30s and the major global corporation we are today.

Jimmie Dodd

“Jimmie was one of the nicest human beings I’ve ever known in my life. He was genuine and he didn’t speak down to kids, he included them. He was a great person to look up to.”—Mouseketeer Sharon Baird.

Bill Evans

“In the Jungle Cruise, there’s a group of orange trees that most people would never recognize because Bill planted them upside down. He decided the gnarled roots of the orange trees looked like suitably exotic jungle branches.”—Disney Imagineer Terry Palmer.

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…

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