Wathel Rogers

In 1954, Walt asked Wathel to help develop the model shop for his latest project, Disneyland. Wathel became an ace Imagineer, assisting in the construction of architectural models during the Park’s design and development phase.

Dean Jones

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

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.

Wally Boag

Comedian Steve Martin, who worked at Disneyland as a teenager, summed up Wally’s influence: “My hero, the first comedian I ever saw live, my influence, a man to whom I aspired.”

Fulton Burley

In 1962… he received a call from his pal Wally Boag… who had been performing in the Golden Horseshoe Revue for seven years, [who] explained that one of his fellow cast members had become seriously ill and [urging] Fulton to take over the role. Fulton did, and went on to light up the stage with his jovial nature and lilting brogue.

Edward Meck

Diminutive in stature, Eddie was often described by his friends in the press as if he, himself, was a Disney character. San Francisco columnist Herb Caen once wrote that Eddie Meck was “no relation to Mecky Mouse.”

Betty Taylor

Betty became the darling of nearly 10 million guests, who, over the years, visited the saloon to see the world’s longest-running stage show.

Thurl Ravenscroft

At Disneyland, his resonant voice can be heard singing in it’s a small world, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Splash Mountain; in the Enchanted Tiki Room, he performs the voice of Fritz, the German Audio-Animatronics^®parrot

Fred Moore

When he animated the pigs in Three Little Pigs, for instance, Fred also won Walt’s highest praise that “at last, we have achieved true personality in a whole picture.”

Paul Smith

The musical genius, who wrote scores for nearly 70 animated shorts and received an Oscar^® with Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for the music in Pinocchio, later wrote background music for nearly every Disney True-Life Adventure, applying techniques he had learned while writing music for cartoons.