Bill Walsh with Walt Disney

Bill Walsh

As a producer, Bill specialized in comedy and fantasy films; as a screenwriter, he infused his genius into character dialogue.

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Julie Andrews with Mickey Mouse

Julie Andrews

Indeed, Julie was the very image of Mary Poppins and, to many Disney fans, she remains the magical nanny of their dreams.

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Ken Anderson

Ken Anderson

His first feature assignment was as art director for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; to help other animators visualize the film’s settings dimensionally, Ken built models of the Dwarfs’ cottage. Even Dopey’s memorable wiggling ears were inspired by his own ability to do so.

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Disney Legend and Imagineer Claude Coats, on the left, consults with Walt Disney, on the right, behind a tabletop scale model of a scene with two large Brontosauruses with their offspring standing in water that was planned for the Magic Skyway attraction at the 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair. In the black-and-white image, Claude wears a white shirt, thin black tie, and sweater vest, while Walt wears a dark suit and tie. Both men are looking at the model dinosaurs; Claude is gesturing with his right hand.

Claude Coats

“He was a genuine one-of-a-kind.”—Walt Disney Imagineering President and Disney Legend Marty Sklar

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Sterling Holloway with Kaa

Sterling Holloway

Before long, Sterling’s unusual voice perked the ear of Walt Disney, who invited him to star as the voice of the Messenger Stork in the 1941 animated classic Dumbo.

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Carl Barks

Carl Barks

In 1942, he began developing comic books, starting with Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold, and continued creating comic books until his retirement in 1966.

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Robert Sherman

His son Jeffrey Sherman paid tribute to his father by saying he “wanted to bring happiness to the world and, unquestionably, he succeeded.”

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Robert and Richard Sherman

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.

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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.”

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