Richard Sherman

During the Sherman brothers’ 13-year career at Disney (1960-73), they received four Academy Award^® nominations and a Grammy^® award and wrote more than 200 songs for 27 films and two dozen television productions.

Roger Broggie

When Roger was honored at the Disney Legends Awards on October 18, 1990, company Chairman Michael Eisner said, “Any mechanical things you had to do, what you said was, ‘Call Roger, he’ll know how to fix it.’ Without him, Disneyland wouldn’t have happened.”

Richard Irvine

Until his retirement in 1973, Dick headed design and planning for all Disneyland attractions, ranging from Haunted Mansion to Pirates of the Caribbean.

Joe Fowler

During the 1960s and ‘70s, Joe was charged with the Herculean task of planning and building Walt Disney World.

Herb Ryman

Herb had an uncanny knack for translating Walt’s ideas into drawings. Perhaps this was because, like Walt, he was a child at heart.

John Hench

In 1954, his special effects work on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea earned John an Oscar®. That same year, he left the Studio to work at what is today known as Walt Disney Imagineering.

Marc Davis

When once asked to choose a favorite among his bevy of grand Disney dames, Marc Davis replied, “Each of my women characters has her own unique style; I love them all in different ways.”

Wolfgang Reitherman

Woolie once said about animation, “It was a romance from the start. The minute you know you can make a drawing move, the static drawing loses its appeal: movement is life. Animation represents the greatest breakthrough in 20th-century art.”

Ollie Johnston

Ollie valued his own relationship with the characters he animated, including Thumper from Bambi, Mr. Smee from Peter Pan, and the trio of fanciful fairies from Sleeping Beauty. “They were all good friends whom I remember fondly,” he once said.

Milt Kahl

Because Milt was so good at his craft, he was often assigned the toughest of Disney tasks: animating human characters, such as Peter Pan, Alice of Alice in Wonderland, and the Prince from Sleeping Beauty.