Paul Kenworthy

Paul Kenworthy

Paul’s footage was subsequently assembled with other freelance material to create the Studio’s first feature-length True-Life Adventure, The Living Desert, which garnered an Academy Award® for best documentary in 1953.

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Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell

To those who grew up with Kurt, however, he’s still remembered as the all-American “apple pie and ice cream” kid who starred as Dexter Reilly in Disney’s The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him, Now You Don’t, and The Strongest Man in the World.

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Hayley Mills

Hayley Mills

Among her numerous Disney credits, however, Hayley is probably best remembered for The Parent Trap, in which she played twin sisters who scheme to reunite their divorced parents, played by Brian Keith and Maureen O’Hara.

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Glynis Johns

Glynis Johns

She became associated with The Walt Disney Studios in the early 1950s, when it began to produce live-action films in England.

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Al and Elma Milotte

Al and Elma Milotte

Al later recalled, “Walt was great. He said, ‘Just go out and get some good pictures.’ He never told us how to do it. He gave us independence.”

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Plaque for Matsuo Yokoyama

Matsuo Yokoyama

Matsuo retired in September 1994 after dedicating 33 years to the development of Disney’s presence in Japan. In that time he grew its royalty income from an estimated six million yen in 1961 to twelve billion yen in 1991.

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Kay Kamen

Kay Kamen

As Tom Tumbusch, publisher of Tomart’s Disneyana Update, once explained, “Kay Kamen invented the whole licensing industry. Not just for Disney, alone; others followed suit.”

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James Algar

James Algar

im penned five Academy Award®-winning motion pictures for Disney, including Nature’s Half Acre, The Living Desert, and The Vanishing Prairie.

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Ben Sharpsteen

Ben Sharpsteen

He would go on to serve as supervising co-director on Pinocchio and production supervisor on Fantasia, Cinderella, and Alice in Wonderland.

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Kathryn Beaumont

Kathryn Beaumont

After hearing 10-year-old Kathryn’s audition, Walt chose her for the voice of Alice and, later, Wendy Darling in Peter Pan.

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