| 1 | We all love Creator/{{Disney}}'s enormous selection of classic films and characters, but without these people, we might not have ever gotten all of those classics made! So here's a veritable pantheon of notable Disney staff, past and present, for your reading pleasure. |
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| 3 | Compare to UsefulNotes/NoteworthyFleischerStaff, UsefulNotes/NoteworthyLooneyTunesStaff and UsefulNotes/NoteworthyMGMCartoonStaff. |
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| 5 | Names boldened are Disney Legends who received the award while still alive; names boldened and italicized are Disney Legends who received the award posthumously. |
| 6 | ---- |
| 7 | !!Noteworthy Disney Staff: |
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| 9 | [[index]] |
| 10 | [floatboxright: |
| 11 | '''Sub-categories:''' |
| 12 | * '''UsefulNotes/TheWaltDisneyFamilyAndTheNineOldMen''' |
| 13 | * MediaNotes/DisneyActors |
| 14 | * MediaNotes/DisneyLegends |
| 15 | * UsefulNotes/DisneyMusicians |
| 16 | * Creator/PixarRegulars |
| 17 | ] |
| 18 | [[/index]] |
| 19 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 21 | [[index]] |
| 22 | [[folder:A]] |
| 23 | * Creator/AaronBlaise: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Rajah in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', Yao and the Ancestors in ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', and young Nala in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' . Co-director of ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''. |
| 24 | * Creator/AaronSpringer: One of the creators and showrunners of the multi-award winning ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' rebooted cartoon series. |
| 25 | * Creator/AbbeRaven: The chairman of the A&E network, which is a collaboration between Disney/ABC and Hearst Corporation. |
| 26 | * Creator/AbbeyKonowitch: General manager of Walt Disney Records. |
| 27 | * Creator/AdamGreen: Head of animation on the Mickey Mouse Mini Masterpiece, ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse''. |
| 28 | * '''Creator/AlDempster''': Animator and background artist who worked with Walt during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, up until Walt's death; backrground supervisor of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}''. |
| 29 | * Creator/AlEugster: A former Fleischer veteran who migrated to Disney and specialized in animating the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoons. He eventually returned to the Fleischer studio in 1940. |
| 30 | * Creator/AlexHirsch: Alumni of [=CalArts=] and the creator of critically acclaimed series ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. He was also the voice actor for Stan Pines, Soos, Old Man [=McGucket=] and Bill Cipher. After the series ended, he wrote companion books ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'' and ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'' before going on to collaborate with his former crew member’s various projects, most notably voicing King in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''. |
| 31 | * '''Creator/AlKonetzni''': Helped develop and market Disney merchandise. |
| 32 | * '''''Creator/AlMilotte''''': Husband of Elma Milotte, producer for various Disney nature documentaries. |
| 33 | * '''''Creator/AlTaliaferro''''': Worked on the Donald Duck comic strip. |
| 34 | * Creator/AlZinnen: Animator on several Disney Classics. |
| 35 | * Creator/AlanBergman: President of the Walt Disney Studios. |
| 36 | * Creator/AlanFine: President of Marvel Entertainment. |
| 37 | * Creator/AlanHorn: Succeeded Rich Ross as studio head, he is the current incumbent in the position. |
| 38 | * Creator/AlanNBraverman: Senior executive vice president and general counsel for Disney. |
| 39 | * Creator/AlanWagner: The founder of the Disney Channel. |
| 40 | * Creator/AlbertHurter: Animator and character designer. An experienced silent era animator, he joined Disney in 1931 and became the studio's first "inspirational artist" (what we now call a concept artist). Designed for various Silly Symphony and Mickey Mouse shorts, ''Snow White'' and ''Pinocchio''. |
| 41 | * Creator/AlexKupershmidt: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Stitch (''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''), Koda (''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''), the hyenas (''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'')[[note]]co-supervised by David Burgess[[/note]], and Khan and General Li (''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''). |
| 42 | * Creator/AlfredLWerker: Hollywood director who was tapped by Walt to helm the first live-action/animation hybrid film from the studio, the experimental and touring ''Film/TheReluctantDragon''. |
| 43 | * Creator/AmyRabins: One of the founders of Disney's It's A Laugh Productions. |
| 44 | * Creator/AndreFenley: Assistant supervising sound editor of ''Lilo & Stitch''. |
| 45 | * '''''Creator/AndreVanneste''''': Helped publish Disney comics in Europe. |
| 46 | * Creator/AndreaFavilli: The creator of the Disney Legends award. |
| 47 | * Creator/AndreaRomano: Voice director who worked on several Disney Afternoon cartoons. |
| 48 | * '''Creator/AndreasDeja''': Started at Disney as a concept artist for ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', animated Mickey in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper'', and was the supervising animator for [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 King Triton]], [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jafar]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]], WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}, [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Lilo]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Mama Odie]], and, most recently, [[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011 Tigger]]. Currently, he deals with some independent short film animation and maintains his own [[http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/ blog]]. |
| 49 | * Creator/AndrewMillstein: Current president of [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Walt Disney Animation Studios]]. |
| 50 | * Creator/AndrewProbert: A tech designer on ''Tron'' and worked 4 years as a Show Designer at Walt Disney Imagineering. |
| 51 | * Creator/AndrewStanton: The director of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' and its sequel ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', Pixar's masterpiece ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', and ''Film/JohnCarter''. |
| 52 | * Creator/AndyMooney: The former chairman of Disney Consumer Products and the person who pushed for the creation of the Franchise/DisneyPrincess franchise after attending a Disney On Ice show, now the CEO of Fender Guitars. |
| 53 | * '''''Creator/AngelAngelopoulos''''': Helped market Disney in Greece and the Mediterranean countries, establish the California Institute for the Arts. |
| 54 | * Creator/AnnDaly: Executive in charge of Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo. She left the company in 1997 and was with Jeffrey Katzenberg and [=DreamWorks=] Animation until 2016, when both had to walk away for the most part after DWA's sale to Comcast/Universal. |
| 55 | * Creator/AnneSweeney: Longtime Disney executive of the Disney Channel, Disney/ABC, and Disney Media. She stepped down in 2014 to become a television director. |
| 56 | * Creator/AnnieGuenther: Animator who reportedly inserted a shot of a bare-chested woman in a flying scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers''; this shot was edited when it was discovered on the [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection]] VHS version of the film. |
| 57 | * Creator/AnthonyDeRosa: Lead animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Nakoma (''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''), adult Nala (''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''), Lawrence (''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''), the Spring Sprite (''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000''), Zeus and Hera (''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'') and Gaetan Molière (''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''). |
| 58 | * Creator/AntonioBertini: Helped market Disney in Italy. |
| 59 | * Creator/ArmandBigle: Helped market Disney in Europe and many other countries. |
| 60 | * '''''Creator/ArmandPalivoda''''': Helped distribute Disney films in Switzerland. |
| 61 | * Creator/ArnoldoMondadori: Published and managed Disney's ''Topolino'' magazine in Italy. |
| 62 | * '''''[[Creator/ArtBabbitt Arthur "Art" Babbitt]]''''': Most known for turning WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} into the character we all know and love. He also animated such characters as the Wicked Queen in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Geppetto in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', the mushrooms in the Nutcracker Suite scene of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', and the stork in ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}''--as well as contributed to the disastrous 1941 Disney studio strike, which led to his termination and feud with Walt and his family that went on until the 90's. |
| 63 | * '''Creator/ArtLinkletter''': Commentator for the opening day ceremonies for Disneyland who returned for the park's 50th anniversary. |
| 64 | * Creator/ArtStevens: Major Disney animator who started with ''Fantasia'' and eventually co-directed ''The Rescuers'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' before retiring. |
| 65 | * Creator/ArthurHiller: The director did at least two films for Disney, the second of which was his final major film, ''Burn Hollywood Burn''. This film killed both his career (along with Joe Eszterhas's) and the Alan Smithee alias, which he took in a botched attempt to disown it. |
| 66 | * Creator/ArthurSchmidt: The editor of ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', ''The Rocketeer'', and ''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl''. |
| 67 | * Creator/AvaDuVernay: Director of ''Film/AWrinkleInTime2018''. |
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| 70 | [[folder:B]] |
| 71 | * Creator/BakerBloodworth: Associate producer on ''Pocahontas''. |
| 72 | * '''Creator/BarbaraWalters''': Regular contributor to ABC. |
| 73 | * Creator/BarryCook: Co-director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. |
| 74 | * Creator/BarryJosephson: One of the producers of ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''. |
| 75 | * Creator/BarrySonnenfeld: Hollywood producer who co-produced ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' with Josephson. |
| 76 | * Creator/BartDecrem: General manager of Disney Mobile. |
| 77 | * Creator/BasilDavidovich: Animator during Walt's life and Reithermann's tenure. |
| 78 | * '''Creator/BeckyFallberg''': Longtime Disney member, manager of the Ink and Paint Department from 1975 to 1986. |
| 79 | * Creator/BenBurtt: Sound designer for the ''Star Wars'' movie and the man who gave the vocal effects to the character of WesternAnimation/WallE. |
| 80 | * Creator/BenDonovan: Co-founder and president of the Maker Studios online company. |
| 81 | * Creator/BenLyons: TV personality who took over the ''At The Movies'' program from Disney for its next-to-last year of broadcast. |
| 82 | * Creator/BenMankiewicz: Radio personality who took over the ''At The Movies'' program for its semifinal year alongside Lyons and later co-hosts the ''Treasures From The Disney Vault'' program on Creator/TurnerClassicMovies with Leonard Maltin for the first several broadcasts of the block (Maltin eventually hosted the block solo). |
| 83 | * '''''Creator/BenSharpsteen''''': Was an early animator for Disney, and became a sequence director on ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', co-director on ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', director of Dumbo, production supervisor on ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''. |
| 84 | * Creator/BenSherwood: President of Disney-ABC Domestic Television. |
| 85 | * Creator/BenStein: The host and main opponent in ''Series/WinBenSteinsMoney'', which was made by Disney's Valleycrest Productions unit (the production company for ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'', on Comedy Central. |
| 86 | * '''''Creator/BillAnderson''''': Produced a handful of Disney live-action films, and served on Disney's board of directors. |
| 87 | * Creator/BillDamaschke: The longtime Creator/DreamWorksAnimation supremo and Chief Creative Officer until their rut in The New Ten's started out as an office assistant on ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' (which he was credited on; it's the only time he worked with Disney before he became a major opponent to them) prior to joining [=DreamWorks=] the year that film was released, where he would be until 2015. |
| 88 | * Creator/BillErnest: Managing director of Disney Parks & Resorts Asia. |
| 89 | * '''Creator/BillJustice''': Animator on some of the classic Disney cartoons. |
| 90 | * Creator/BillKelly: Writer who wrote ''Enchanted''. |
| 91 | * Creator/BillMartin: Imagineer who contributed to the designs of many attractions, including Sleeping Beauty Castle, Snow White’s Adventures, Peter Pan’s Flight, and more. |
| 92 | * Creator/BillMechanic: Major player in Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo; he had some input in the critical Walt Disney Classics series that saw the Disney Animation library finally reach the private home market. He left Disney in 1993 and became an independent producer. |
| 93 | * Creator/BillMelendez: Most famous for creating the ''{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}}'' TV specials, he worked at Disney in the early 1940s until he left due to the animators' strike. He went on to work for Warner Bros. and UPA before setting up his own shop. |
| 94 | * '''Creator/BillPeet''': Bill began his Disney career as an In-Betweener[[note]]an artist who fills in the details on animated characters. Bill primarily worked on Donald Duck cartoons before getting so fed up with the task that he threw a loud tantrum and stomped out of the studio[[/note]], and got recognized for his original character designs, working his way up to storyboard artist, and eventually becoming a Story Man in his own right, working on full-length films (such as ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'') and shorts before a personal falling out with Creator/WaltDisney led to Bill leaving the company and eventually becoming an acclaimed children's author. |
| 95 | * Creator/BillPerkins: Art director on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. |
| 96 | * Creator/BillRoberts: A sequence director for ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. |
| 97 | * '''''Creator/BillWalsh''''': Comic author who was a producer and writer for a multitude of Disney Studio Classics and who also wrote a few Mickey Mouse strips here and there. |
| 98 | * '''''Creator/BlaineGibson''''': Inbetweener and assistant animator working on most features through ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians''. Later became known as a key sculptor and modelmaker at Disneyland and other subsequent parks/resorts. |
| 99 | * Creator/BobBacon: Former Disney executive; now the boss of Alpha Group's Alpha Animation. |
| 100 | * '''''Creator/BobAllen''''': Vice president of Walt Disney World from 1977 to 1987. |
| 101 | * '''Creator/BobBooth''': Disney Imagineer who helped set up the Manufacturing and Production Organization, or MAPO, which was responsible for research and development for Disney productions, which he led from 1965 to 1985. |
| 102 | * '''Creator/BobBroughton''': Camera effects artist to nearly every Disney motion picture from ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' in 1937 to ''The Black Hole'' in 1979. |
| 103 | * Creator/BobChapek: Succeeded Tom Staggs as the boss of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts when Staggs became president and Chief Operating Officer. Was the CEO of Disney after being instated as such in February 2020, but was removed in November 2022 after [[PointyHairedBoss numerous controversies and dubious decisions]], including his failure to condemn homophobic Florida legislation in a timely manner, led to a worrying quarterly. |
| 104 | * Creator/BobClampett: He didn't work in Disney's animation department (although he wanted to), but he and his grandma did help make one of the earliest Mickey Mouse dolls. He and Walt Disney would become friends later in life. |
| 105 | * '''Creator/BobGurr''': Imagineer who designed most of the ride vehicles at Disneyland. |
| 106 | * Creator/BobHathcock: The director and one of the producers of ''WesternAnimation/DucktalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'', which had a key plot point recycled into ''Aladdin''. |
| 107 | * '''Creator/BobIger''': Originally the boss of ABC, he was promoted to the President and Chief Operating Officer position after Wells's death, Katzenberg's failure to claim the position, and Michael Ovitz's failure to hold onto it left the COO position open for Iger; he subsequently succeeded Eisner on short notice and immediately began negotiations to buy Pixar and bring Steve Jobs and John Lasseter into the full Disney fold. He succeeded, and under Iger's watch, Disney also bought Marvel and then Lucasfilm, and expanded their theme park business. Iger retired in late 2021, only to return to the company the following year after successor Bob Chapek turned out to be a PointyHairedBoss. |
| 108 | * '''Creator/BobMatheison''': Helped develop Walt Disney World and create its executive training program. |
| 109 | * '''Creator/BobMoore''': Helped animate several classic Disney films, later worked in publicity and marketing. |
| 110 | * Creator/BobPeterson: Pixar storyboard artist who co-directed ''Up'' and who came up with the original concept for ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'', which he originally directed. |
| 111 | * Creator/BobRoath: Associate producer for Andrew Stanton's ''John Carter'' and ''Finding Dory''. |
| 112 | * '''''Creator/BobSchiffer''''': Head of Disney's makeup department from 1968 to 2001. |
| 113 | * Creator/BobTzudiker: One of the screenwriters of ''Tarzan'' and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. |
| 114 | * Creator/BobWeis: President of Walt Disney Imagineering. |
| 115 | * Creator/BobWeinstein: Brother of Harvey and the co-founder of Miramax/Dimension Films, who had a distribution deal with Disney as set up by a pre-ouster Jeffrey Katzenberg from 1994 to 2009. |
| 116 | * Creator/BobWickersham: The animator for the Mickey Mouse cartoon ''Thru the Mirror''. (He also directed Oscar-nominated short ''WesternAnimation/{{Imagination}}'' for Columbia.) |
| 117 | * Creator/BonnieArnold: Animation vet who produced ''Toy Story'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''. She moved to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation in the mid 2000s alongside Chris Sanders and Dean [=DeBlois=] and produced the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' films, becoming co-president of their feature animation field following the firing of Bill Damaschke. |
| 118 | * Creator/BolhemBouchiba: Supervising animator for "[[CardCarryingVillain evil genius]]" Dr. Jumba, the creator of Stitch in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''. |
| 119 | * Creator/BradBird: A graduate of [=CalArts=]' first generation, Brad's tenure at Disney was brief before going to have an illustrious career working on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''. He became director of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'',''Film/{{Tomorrowland}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2''. |
| 120 | * Creator/BradBreeck: Music composer for ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. |
| 121 | * Creator/BradLewis: Producer who was the producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' and a co-director of ''Cars 2''. He had previously worked from [=DreamWorks=] Animation and moved on from Pixar to be associated with Warner Animation Group. |
| 122 | * Creator/BranFerrin: Former president of research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering after his company was acquired by Disney in 1993. His team created ABC's curved ticker display in Times Square. |
| 123 | * Creator/BrendaChapman: Animator who has worked on-and-off for Disney, first as a story artist on ''Beauty And The Beast'' and ''The Lion King'', and then as a creative force at Pixar following a stint at [=DreamWorks=]; she directed ''Brave'', but transferred to ILM to get out of Disney, only to transfer back to [=DreamWorks=] when Disney bought ILM that month (although she finished up work she did at ILM). |
| 124 | * Creator/BretIwan: Took over as the voice of Mickey Mouse from Wayne Allwine when he died, and voices the character in every incarnation now except for Paul Rudish's cartoons. |
| 125 | * Creator/BrianCummings: Announcer on Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo. |
| 126 | * Creator/BrianFee: A member of Pixar's senior creative team. |
| 127 | * Creator/BrianSmits: Software engineer at Pixar who who received an InMemoriam honor in ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''. |
| 128 | * Creator/BrighamTaylor: Co-producer of the 2016 version of Walt Disney's Classic ''The Jungle Book'' alongside director Jon Favreau. |
| 129 | * Creator/BrooseJohnson: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; two of the characters he animated are Chien-Po and Ling from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. |
| 130 | * Creator/TheBrothersChaps: Did writing for a few Disney Cartoons (Mostly ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' and ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''), as well as made their own series of shorts for Creator/DisneyXD called ''WebAnimation/TwoMoreEggs'' |
| 131 | * Music/BruceBroughton: Composed the score for ''The Rescuers Down Under''. |
| 132 | * Creator/BruceRosenblum: President of business operations at Disney/ABC Television Group as of 2016. |
| 133 | * Creator/BruceVaughn: Former Chief Creative Executive at Disney Imagineering. |
| 134 | * Creator/BruceWSmith: Animator for various feature, television and theme park projects; animated Pacha in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Dr. Facillie in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' and pulled double duty on ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' animating both Rabbit and Piglet. Created the Creator/DisneyChannel original series ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily,'' the first animated series to star a black family. |
| 135 | * Creator/BrunoMaglione: President of Marvel International. |
| 136 | * Creator/BrunoTonioli: One of the judges on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' on ABC. |
| 137 | * '''Music/BuddyBaker''': Composed over two-hundred scores for films, shorts, and Disneyland attractions. |
| 138 | * '''Creator/BurnyMattinson''': Animator who started with ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' and directed ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. |
| 139 | * Creator/BurtGillett: Stuck with Disney in the early years, known for directing ''WesternAnimation/MickeysOrphans'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'', and ''WesternAnimation/LonesomeGhosts''. At one point he left Disney to work on Creator/VanBeurenStudios "Rainbow Parade" cartoons, but returned as soon as the studio shut down. He worked at the Creator/WalterLantz studio in the late 30s before retiring from the business. |
| 140 | * Creator/ByronHoward: The eventual co-director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' and then ''Tangled'', ''Zootopia'' and ''Encanto''. |
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| 143 | [[folder:C]] |
| 144 | * '''Creator/CarlBongirno''': Imagineer who oversaw the growth and development of Disney's theme parks through the 1980s. |
| 145 | * '''Creator/CarlBarks''': Started as an inbetweener and storyman, but later went on to work of his beloved WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck comic books, as well as create Scrooge [=McDuck=] and the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse. |
| 146 | * Music/CarlWStalling: The man who composed the score for ''Steamboat Willie'', and the TropeNamer for MickeyMousing. Later worked with Warner Bros. on the Looney Tunes cartoons. |
| 147 | * Creator/CarrieAnnInaba: One of the judges on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' on ABC. |
| 148 | * '''Creator/CarsonVanOsten''': Comic artist. |
| 149 | * Creator/ChanningDungey: President of ABC's drama division who became the president of ABC Entertainment Group on short notice in 2016. |
| 150 | * '''Charles Boyer''': Drew art for Disneyland. |
| 151 | * Creator/CharlesGibson: A major anchor on ''Good Morning America''. |
| 152 | * Creator/CharlesJarrott: Director who oversaw three Dark Age live-action Disney films, including ''The Last Flight of Noah's Ark'' and ''Film/{{Condorman}}''. |
| 153 | * [[Creator/CharlesNichols "Nick" Nichols]]: He began as an animator on the shorts and had most of the responsibility on the Pluto cartoons and was also the supervising animator for the Coachman in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''. He later went to work at Creator/HannaBarbera, where he directed the animated version of ''WesternAnimation/CharlottesWeb''. |
| 154 | * Music/CharlesWolcott: One of the music composers for ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. |
| 155 | * '''Creator/CharlieRidgway''': Major player in coordinating media coverage of Walt Disney World, including a Donald Duck 50th birthday show. He died on Christmas 2016. |
| 156 | * Creator/ChenYiChang: Character design supervisor for ''Mulan''. |
| 157 | * Creator/CherylButler: Started off as a 19-year old merchandise cashier in the Emporium gift shop on opening day (October 1, 1971) at Walt Disney World in Florida, and as a result was the first Disney cast member to sell a guest a souvenir on that day. Worked her way into merchandise management, specializing in innovating and reorganizing how Disney merchandise was advertised, presented (and conceived of in the first place). Two years before she officially retired, she "demoted" herself -- and took a massive pay cut in the process -- from management in order to return to being a sales associate. She wanted to spend the last years of her career interacting with Disney guests, and that's just what she did. |
| 158 | * Music/ChicagoSymphonyOrchestra: The orchestra responsible for the music of ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000''. |
| 159 | * Creator/ChrisBuck: Longtime animator who co-directed ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Wish|2023}}''. |
| 160 | * Creator/ChrisHarrison: The host of ABC's ''The Bachelor'' series and the current host of ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire''. |
| 161 | * Creator/ChrisHoughton: Co-creator of ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' |
| 162 | * Creator/ChrisMeledandri: Former Disney executive who ran Dawn Steel Pictures and co-produced ''Film/CoolRunnings'', the last film with John Candy to be released during Candy's life. He moved to Fox and stayed there until 2007, and then founded Illumination Entertainment at Comcast/Universal. |
| 163 | * Creator/ChrisSanders: One of the quirkiest people to have worked at Disney, Chris Sanders was one of the key animators of the Marahute's flight in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''. He later went on to contribute heavily to ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', and co-wrote and co-directed ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' with Dean [=DeBlois=]. He was originally the director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', but was [[ExecutiveMeddling fired by]] Creator/JohnLasseter and moved on to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, where he ended up co-directing ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' to massive acclaim, followed by ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods''. He voiced and continues to voice the character of Stitch whenever he appears,[[note]]except for the anime series ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' and Chinese animated series ''Animation/StitchAndAi'', both of which instead have Creator/BenDiskin voicing the character in the English versions[[/note]] such as the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series,[[note]]except ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''[[/note]] ''VideoGame/KinectDisneylandAdventures'' and ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity''. His most recent film, ''Film/{{The Call of the Wild|2020}}'', was released by Disney after their purchase of Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios, as the first film under that banner after the company's acquisition of 20th Century Fox banner. |
| 164 | * Chris Sauve: Canadian animator who originally worked at Creator/CarbunkleCartoons, he animated Governor John Ratcliffe In WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}, Quasimodo in WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}, Vinnie and Moliere In WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire, Tanana In WesternAnimation/BrotherBear, Alameda Slim, Junior, Barry, and Bob In WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange, and various animated animals in Film/MaryPoppinsReturns. |
| 165 | * Creator/ChrisWilliamsAnimator: Replaced Sanders as the director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' and one of the co-directors for ''Big Hero 6''. |
| 166 | * Creator/ChristineMcCarthy: The current Chief Financial Officer of Disney, succeeding Jay Rasulo. |
| 167 | * Music/ChristopheBeck: Music composer who has several Disney movies and shorts to his name. |
| 168 | * '''''Creator/ChuckAbbott''''': One of Disneyland's foremost Attractions Hosts |
| 169 | * Creator/ChuckJones: Had a ''very'' brief stay at Disney's with Ward Kimball after Warner Bros. briefly shut down their animation studio. While he respected Walt, he couldn't stand the lack of creative control there that he was used to at his old studio, and as soon as Warner Bros. reopened their studio, Chuck was gone. The only other work he did with Disney was on the "Dueling Pianos" sequence in ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', but he hated the final result. He has, however, praised ''Aladdin'' as the funniest animated film created. |
| 170 | * '''Creator/CicelyRigdon''': Supervisor of Guest Relations at Disneyland, later helped lead and develop the Disneyland Ambassador Program. |
| 171 | * '''''Creator/ClarenceNash''''': The voice of Donald Duck until his death in 1985. He was replaced by animator Creator/TonyAnselmo. |
| 172 | * Creator/ClarkSpencer: Producer of ''Wreck-It Ralph'' and ''Lilo & Stitch''. |
| 173 | * '''Creator/ClaudeCoats''': Background painter, who worked on ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'', ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. Became a notable Imagineer during Disneyland's construction as a ride developer. Known for being very tall but a GentleGiant. |
| 174 | * Creator/ClaudioChiaromonte: Executive VP and managing director of The Walt Disney Company. |
| 175 | * Creator/ClayMorrow: One of the creators and showrunners of the multi-award winning ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' rebooted cartoon series. |
| 176 | * '''''Creator/ClydeGeronimi''''': Originally with the Lantz studio, he defected to Disney in 1931 and ascended to directing shorts, then becoming a co-director on the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Animated Classics]] from ''Cinderella'' to ''101 Dalmatians'' (he actually walked away from Disney in 1959). He then worked on the ''Spider Man'' cartoon in the 60's before retiring. |
| 177 | * Creator/CourtneyHolt: The Chief Strategy Officer at Maker Studios. |
| 178 | * Creator/CraigGerber : Worked as an apprentice writer for the ''Franchise/DisneyFairies'' franchise before creating the Disney Junior shows ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' and ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' |
| 179 | * Creator/CraigMcCracken : Creator of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' |
| 180 | * Creator/CraigReylea: Senior Vice President for global marketing of Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios from 2007 to 2013. |
| 181 | * Creator/CyYoung: Major animator at Disney until the 1941 strike; he resigned for his part in it and to join the Air Force. Cy committed suicide in 1964. |
| 182 | * '''''Creator/CyrilEdgar''''': Helped market Disney in the United Kingdom. |
| 183 | * '''''Creator/CyrilJames''''': Managing director of Disney in the United Kingdom and Europe. |
| 184 | * Creator/CynthiaHariss: Succeeded Paul Pressler as the boss of the Disney Theme Parks for a few years. |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:D]] |
| 188 | * Creator/DanBuckley: Publisher and chief operating officer at Marvel Worldwide. |
| 189 | * Creator/DanFogelman: The screenwriter for ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. |
| 190 | * Creator/DanMacManus: Effects animator, working on most of the Disney features during the period between 1935 until 1973. Also wrote the story for the short ''The Trial of Donald Duck''. |
| 191 | * Creator/DanMolina: Major editor at Disney/Pixar; one of his works is ''WesternAnimation/PlanesFireAndRescue''.* |
| 192 | * Creator/DanPovenmire: Co-creator of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' and ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' and sole creator of ''WesternAnimation/HamsterAndGretel'' |
| 193 | * Creator/DanRounds: Animator who is the producer of ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper'' in 1990, the first Mickey Mouse-centric cartoon after ''The Simple Things'' in 1953 and the only one made during Frank Wells and Jeffrey Katzenberg's tenures. |
| 194 | * Creator/DanScanlon: Pixar employee who directed ''Monsters University''. |
| 195 | * Creator/DanaTerrace: Creator of the ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', worked as director, storyboard artist and animator on ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' and ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017''. |
| 196 | * Creator/DanielGerson: One of the screenwriters for ''Big Hero 6'', and he worked on ''Monsters Inc.'' and ''Monsters University''. Gerson died of cancer in 2016, a year that also claimed Carrie Fisher and many others. |
| 197 | * Creator/DannyTroob: One of Disney's most prolific orchestra conductors/arrangers starting with ''Beauty And The Beast''. |
| 198 | * Creator/DaronNefcy: The creator of the animated series ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''. |
| 199 | * Creator/DaveBurgess: Disney Renaissance animator; he worked on ''Tarzan'' and ''Hunchback'' (the latter had him as the supervising animator of the Archdeacon). |
| 200 | * Creator/DaveFiloni: Supervising director & executive producer of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', and all upcoming ''Star Wars'' animation projects. |
| 201 | * Creator/DaveHollis: Publicity manager and vice president of Disney's theatrical endeavors. |
| 202 | * Creator/DaveMichener: An animator during Walt's time. He also co-directed ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' with Burny Mattinson, John Musker and Ron Clements. |
| 203 | * '''Creator/DaveSmith''': The first archivist for the Walt Disney Archives. |
| 204 | * Creator/DaveSpafford: Worked at Disney in the 1970s as Don Bluth’s assistant on ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', ''Film/PetesDragon1977'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', he later returned to animate the Looney Tunes characters in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', and animated on the Under The Sea sequence from ''{{WesternAnimation/The Little Mermaid|1989}}''. |
| 205 | * Creator/DaveStevens: The creator of ''Film/TheRocketeer'' graphic novel and a creative consultant for the film adaptation. |
| 206 | * Creator/DaveWasson: Storyboard artist and a primary writer for the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' series; he also cameos in a few of these cartoons. Also the executive producer of ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' and was the director for ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie'' |
| 207 | * Creator/DavidAgnew: President of Walt Disney Records. |
| 208 | * Creator/DavidHall: Storyman who produced horrific story sketches and paintings for ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' and a few for ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. |
| 209 | * '''''Creator/DavidHand''''': The director of many of Disney's animal cartoons, and was the director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''. He would later go over to Europe to make the obscure, short lived ''Animaland'' cartoon series. |
| 210 | * Creator/DavidHartley: The producer, arranger, and conductor of the "Perfect World" song, which opens and closes ''The Emperor's New Groove''. Also arranged vocals for the credits song, "My Funny Friend and Me". |
| 211 | * Creator/DavidHoberman: Producer who helmed a handful of Disney films; one of the most noteworthy is 2011's ''Film/TheMuppets2011''. He also co-created ''Series/{{Monk}}'', which Disney had a hand in. |
| 212 | * Creator/DavidMaisel: An associate of Michael Ovitz who followed him to Disney and then out. He took over Marvel in 2005 and facilitated their acquisition by Disney, at which point he left. |
| 213 | * Music/DavidNewman: Composed the soundtrack to ''WesternAnimation/DucktalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp''. |
| 214 | * Creator/DavidPerry: Game designer for Virgin Interactive who worked with Disney on the Sega Genesis version of ''VideoGame/{{Aladdin|VirginGames}}'', which involved Musker, Clements and Katzenberg and was the third highest selling game on the system after the first two ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games, and was involved with ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'' as well; Perry later founded Shiny Interactive. |
| 215 | * Creator/DavidReynolds: Screenwriter for ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''; had previously provided additional screenwriting for ''Tarzan''. |
| 216 | * Creator/DavidSchrader: Executive vice president of the Disney Theatrical Group, who administers the Broadway shows. |
| 217 | * Creator/DavidStainton: Former animation executive at Disney. He got replaced by Lasseter and Catmull. |
| 218 | * Creator/DavidWeimers: Co-producer of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' past its first season. |
| 219 | * Creator/DavidZippel: Music/AlanMenken's lyricist on ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' and the "Star-Spangled Man" musical number in Marvel's Masterpiece ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. |
| 220 | * Creator/DeanCundey: Cinematographer for ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' and ''The Parent Trap'' remake, and directed ''Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'', which is his only directing job and the third and final ''Honey'' film; this one was sent DirectToVideo, was the first live-action DirectToVideo film from Disney, and was the last appearance of Rick Moranis in a live-action role to date. |
| 221 | * Creator/DeanDeBlois: Chris Sanders's partner who co-directed ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' and followed Sanders to Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, directing the ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' films for that company (the first with Sanders, the second and third solo). |
| 222 | * Creator/DebbieMcClellan: The vice president of The Muppets Studio. |
| 223 | * Creator/DeemsTaylor: The host and one of the main helmers of Walt Disney's Masterpiece ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. His voice recordings for the movie have sadly been lost; the remaining traces of it are on the 1991 Walt Disney Classics VHS and Laserdisc version of the film. [[note]] All rereleases past this version have him dubbed over by Corey Burton [[/note]] |
| 224 | * Creator/DelConnell: One of the writers of ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. |
| 225 | * Creator/DeniseReam: The producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur''. |
| 226 | * Creator/DevRoss: Voice director who worked with Disney on ''Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers''. |
| 227 | * Creaetor/DianeSawyer: A major anchor at ABC News. |
| 228 | * Creator/DickCook: Marketing mastermind who succeeded Peter Schneider as studio head, he spearheaded a revival of Disney's movie business. He now sits on Creator/LegendaryPictures's board and started his own studio a la Katzenberg and Roth in 2015. |
| 229 | * '''''Creator/DickHuemer''''': Former Fleischer veteran who became a prominent animator, storyboard artist and writer for the studio throughout the decades. He even directed two shorts; "The Whalers" and "Goofy and Wilbur". |
| 230 | * Creator/DickLundy: A very skilled animator and director, created the character of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and directed several of his shorts. He would later go on work at MGM's cartoon department on the ''WesternAnimation/BarneyBear'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'' cartoons, and after that went to Creator/WalterLantz's studio to work on their WesternAnimation/AndyPanda, Musical Miniatures and WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker short subjects. He would contribute animation to Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' and several Creator/HannaBarbera projects later on. |
| 231 | * '''Creator/DickNunis''': The boss of the Disney theme parks throughout the Dark Years, his success with the parks made him one of the few executives to survive the 1984 management shift. |
| 232 | * '''''Creator/DidierFouret''''': Helped publish Disney works in France. |
| 233 | * '''Creator/DodieRoberts''': Animator for ''Fantasia'', ''Cinderella'', and ''Sleeping Beauty''. |
| 234 | * Creator/DomeeShi: Director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bao}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed''. |
| 235 | * Creator/DonBluth: Got his start as an assistant animator on ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', did animation for ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' and ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'', and was the directing animator for ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers''. Directed ''WesternAnimation/TheSmallOne'' and was animation director on ''Film/PetesDragon1977'' before leaving. |
| 236 | * Creator/DonChaffey: The live-action director of ''Pete's Dragon''. |
| 237 | * '''Creator/DonDaGradi''': Screenwriter of several films, most notably ''Film/MaryPoppins''. |
| 238 | * '''Creator/DonEdgren''': Imagineer who worked on structural design during construction of Walt Disney theme parks. |
| 239 | * '''Creator/DonEscen''': Assistant to Roy O. Disney, in charge of Disney's financial affairs. |
| 240 | * Creator/DonGraham: A critical figure in the development of Disney animation, Graham hosted "Action Analysis" classes daily for animators at Disney from 1932 to 1941, not only giving them formal art training, but also having them analyze live action film at different speeds, as well as critique their own shorts as a means of how to improve them. He would later publish his own art book, "Composing Pictures", which is highly valued by many veteran animators. |
| 241 | * Creator/DonGriffith: Layout artist on the Disney films from ''Victory Through Air Power'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''. |
| 242 | * Creator/DonHahn: Began working for Disney on ''Pete's Dragon''. He also worked as associate producer on the animated sequences in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', and later produced ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia 2000}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', and ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', and the executive producer of ''Film/WakingSleepingBeauty'', the Disneynature movies, and the live-action Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon remake movies. |
| 243 | * Creator/DonHall: One of the co-directors for ''Big Hero 6''. |
| 244 | * Music/DonHarper: The conductor of the Disneynature jingle and ''Tarzan''. |
| 245 | * Creator/DonLusk: A prominent Disney animator, and notably one of the last surviving Golden Age Disney artists--as of 2015, he is 102 years old! |
| 246 | * Creator/DonMink: One of the founders of Disney's It's A Laugh Productions. |
| 247 | * Creator/DonRosa: Noted writer for the ''Donald Duck'' comics. |
| 248 | * Creator/DonaldWErnst: The primary editor for Creator/RalphBakshi's films in the 70's who moved from Bakshi to Walt Disney Feature Animation after the Management Shift and became a major helmer for ''Aladdin'' and ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 249 | * '''Creator/DonnTatum''': A previous boss of Disney after Walt's death. He served as Director Emeritus of the company for the last year of his life. |
| 250 | * '''Creator/DorotheaRedmond''': Participated in building and interior design at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. |
| 251 | * Creator/DorothyMcKim: The producer of the Mickey Mouse Mini Masterpiece ''Get A Horse!'' and other Disney Shorts Classics. |
| 252 | * Creator/DougSweetland: Former Pixar employee and star who directed, wrote and starred in their mini-classic ''WesternAnimation/Presto2008'', which became the name of one of their animation systems. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:E]] |
| 256 | * Creator/EarlFelton: Screenwriter on ''20,000 Leagues Under The Sea''. |
| 257 | * Creator/EarlHurd: One of the silent cartoon animator's final works was Walt Disney's Masterpiece ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''; he died three years after that film's theatrical release. |
| 258 | * Creator/EdCatmull: One of Pixar's notable members, he's the current head of animation at Disney. |
| 259 | * Creator/EdGombert: A longtime animator at Disney. In addition to working on a lot of the Disney Renaissance movies, he's also the author of the notorious fabricated memo written in Peter Schneider's name that changed the names of all the [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney Animated Classics]] in protest of ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'''s renaming, but he got his department [[WhatWereYouThinking in trouble]] instead when the bogus memo got to Jeffrey Katzenberg's desk and Jeffrey thought it was real. |
| 260 | * Creator/EdGrier: Longtime Disney executive who was president of the Disneyland Resort until 2009. |
| 261 | * Creator/EdLove: An animator for Disney, later went on to work for Creator/WalterLantz (animated the earliest incarnations of Buzz Buzzard), MGM and Hanna-Barbera. |
| 262 | * Creator/EdwardMeck: Helped advertise the newly-opened Disney theme park. |
| 263 | * Creator/ElissaMargolis: The Senior Vice President and General Manager of The Disney Store. |
| 264 | * '''''Creator/ElmaMilotte''''': Wife of Al Milotte, producer of various Disney nature documentaries. |
| 265 | * Creator/EmeryHawkins: Sporadically worked at Disney for very short periods of time. Did some animation for ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}''. |
| 266 | * Creator/EnricoCasarosa: The director of the Pixar Mini Classic ''La Luna''. |
| 267 | * Creator/ErdmanPenner: The writer of ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' and the Mini Classic cartoon ''The Reluctant Dragon''. |
| 268 | * Creator/EricColeman: Senior vice president of Disney Television Animation. |
| 269 | * Creator/EricGoldberg: After working for Creator/RichardWilliams and running a commercials studio in England, came to Disney as supervising animator on Genie in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. Later animated Phil in ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', Louis in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' and Rabbit in ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011''. Co-directed ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' and directed the "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Carnaval of the Animals" segments on ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia 2000}}''. Briefly worked at Warner Bros. as animation director on ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', which ended up being a "[[FranchiseKiller That's All, Folks!]]" scenario for Warner Animation for about a decade. He recently headed the 2D animation for the short ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'' and animated Maui's living tattoo in ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''. |
| 270 | * Creator/EricRadomski: Senior vice president at Marvel Television. |
| 271 | * Creator/ErnestTerrazas: One of the writers of ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. |
| 272 | * Creator/ErnieNordli: Animator who worked as layout artist on ''Dumbo'', ''Fantasia'', ''Sleeping Beauty'', and ''101 Dalmatians''. |
| 273 | * '''[[Creator/EsmondCardonWalker Esmond Cardon "Card" Walker]]''': Major Disney executive who oversaw the studio during its Dark Years. He remained an adviser to the studio until his death in 2005, and his last 6 years were as Director Emeritus. |
| 274 | * '''''Creator/EyvindEarle''''': Background artist and color stylist on such films as ''Peter Pan'' and ''Lady and the Tramp''. He is also credited with giving the 1959 animated feature ''Sleeping Beauty'' its medieval look. Earle first rose to prominence at the studio in 1953, when an animated short that he worked on, "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom", won both an Academy Award and a Cannes Film Festival Award. |
| 275 | [[/folder]] |
| 276 | |
| 277 | [[folder:F]] |
| 278 | * Creator/FabianDib: The captain of the Disney Wonder ship. |
| 279 | * [[WebVideo/PewDiePie Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg]]: The [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] known as WebVideo/PewDiePie (who was the most subscribed-to channel on Website/{{Youtube}}) was signed with Maker Studios, which is a Disney Consumer Products company, until February 2017, when he released nine videos that were perceived as anti-Semitic that led to both Disney and [=YouTube=] Red severing ties with him. |
| 280 | * Creator/FerrellBarron: The producer of ''Planes: Fire & Rescue''. |
| 281 | * '''''Creator/FloydGottfredson''''': Got his start as an early Disney animator, but moved on to being the top artist for the Mickey Mouse comic strip for 45 years. |
| 282 | * Music/FloydHuddleston: Co-composed the "Love" song from ''Robin Hood''. |
| 283 | * '''Creator/FloydNorman''': One of the first African-Americans hired by the studio. To this day he still works at Disney as a storyboard artist. |
| 284 | * Creator/FordBeebe: One of the writers for ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. |
| 285 | * Creator/FoxCarney: Manager of the Animation Research Library. |
| 286 | * Creator/FranciscoAngones: Co-creator of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' |
| 287 | * Creator/FrankArmitage: Noted Disney architect and Imagineer; he passed away on Jan 7, 2016. |
| 288 | * '''''Creator/FrankChurchill''''': Music composer during the 1930's and early '40's. Composed songs for ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''. |
| 289 | * '''Creator/FrankGifford''': Husband of Kathie Lee Gifford who worked on Disney's Wide World of Sports. |
| 290 | * Creator/FrankMarshall: Lucasfilm/Spielberg collaborator who worked on most of the ''Star Wars/Indiana Jones'' films, Creator/MNightShyamalan's films ''Film/TheSixthSense'' and ''Film/{{Signs}}'', and several Studio Ghibli films. |
| 291 | * '''''Creator/FrankWells''''': President and Chief Operating Officer from 1984 to 1994. Said to have been the voice of reason amongst the executives of the time. Known for wanting to climb the highest mountains in the world. Tragically died in a helicopter crash in 1994, which was the last straw that led to the split with those executives; Well's death eventually ended both Jeffrey Katzenberg and his boss/rival Michael Eisner's careers at Disney along with their decades-long relationship. |
| 292 | * '''Creator/FredJoerger''': Created many scale models of film sets and theme park attractions, including Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle, and later served as field art director for EPCOT Center. |
| 293 | * '''''Creator/FredMoore''''': Animator on ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'' and credited with updating Mickey Mouse's appearance in the late 1930s. Moore also served as an animator or directing animator for most of the animated features from ''Snow White'' to ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. Worked at the Creator/WalterLantz studio for a brief period in the late 1940's. |
| 294 | * Creator/FredWolf: Supervising producer of ''Ducktales'' for its first season; more well known for bringing ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' to television. |
| 295 | * Creator/FrizFreleng: Was an animator for Walt on the Oswald shorts. |
| 296 | * Music/FrodeFjellheim: Norwegian musician who composed the opening music to ''Frozen''. |
| 297 | [[/folder]] |
| 298 | |
| 299 | [[folder:G]] |
| 300 | * Creator/GalynSusman: A short producer at Pixar. |
| 301 | * Creator/GarethEdwards: Director of ''Film/RogueOne''. |
| 302 | * Creator/GaryGoldman: Leading animator on ''Robin Hood'', ''The Rescuers'', ''Pete's Dragon'', and ''The Small One'', he defected with Don Bluth and worked alongside him ever since. |
| 303 | * Creator/GaryKrisel: The founder of Disney Television Animation. |
| 304 | * Creator/GaryMarsh: The president and chief creative officer of the Disney Channel. |
| 305 | * Creator/GaryRosen: General manager and chief marketing officer of Disney English, a Chinese branch dedicated to teaching Chinese children English through Disney characters. |
| 306 | * Creator/GaryRydstrom: Sound designer who has worked with Pixar. |
| 307 | * Creator/GaryTrousdale: Made his feature-directing debut with the Academy Award winning ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Trousdale has been with Feature Animation since 1984, and has contributed to the following films: ''Oliver & Company'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''. Co-directed with Kirk Wise on ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. Currently a director at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. |
| 308 | * Creator/GaudenzioCapelli: Helped market Disney in Italy. |
| 309 | * Creator/GeneSiskel: A stretch; he was the film critic for the Chicago Tribune, but his review program with Roger Ebert was distributed by Disney. |
| 310 | * '''Creator/GeorgeBodenheimer''': Executive chairman of ESPN. |
| 311 | * Creator/GeorgeKalogridis: The current president of Walt Disney World in Florida. |
| 312 | * '''Creator/GeorgeLucas''': The founder of Lucasfilm and its subsidiaries Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound as well as the original version of Pixar (before Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull, and John Lasseter took over), he created ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', the latter of which he helmed with friend and director Steven Spielberg. Eventually selling Lucasfilm to Disney, he became a major holder in Disney and began work on a new ''Star Wars'' series. |
| 313 | * Creator/GeorgeMitchell: Former chairman of the Disney, resigned to join Barack Obama's presidential cabinet. |
| 314 | * Creator/GeorgeScribner: Animator who directed ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceAndThePauper''. |
| 315 | * Creator/GeorgeStephanopoulos: The chief anchor of ABC News. |
| 316 | * Creator/GeraldineLaybourne: Worked at Disney for 2 years after departing Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, but left ABC and started up Oxygen Media. |
| 317 | * Music/GlenDaum: The composer of the orchestral music for ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''. |
| 318 | * '''Creator/GlenKeane''': Began his career as an animator on ''The Rescuers''. He animated the fight scene with the bear in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', and was supervising animator of Ratigan and Fidget in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''; Sykes, Fagin, Georgette, and Jenny in ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany''; Ariel in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''; Marahute in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''; Beast in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''; WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}; WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}; WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}; John Silver in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet''; and Rapunzel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. Was also the initial director and ultimately executive producer of the latter film. He left Disney in 2012 after working on ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'' to set up his own studio. |
| 319 | * Creator/GlennSlater: Lyricist who worked with Alan Menken on ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'' and ''Tangled'' (both [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} the movie]] and [[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries the TV series]]). |
| 320 | * Creator/GoreVerbinski: The director of the ''Pirates Of The Caribbean'' movies. |
| 321 | * '''''Creator/GraceBailey''''': Oversaw and developed Disney's inking and painting. |
| 322 | * Creator/GrahamHopper: Former EVP/GM of Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios. |
| 323 | * Creator/GregColeman: VP of marketing at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disneytoon Studios Worldwide. |
| 324 | * Creator/GregEmmer: Retired senior vice president of operations at Disneyland Resort. |
| 325 | * Creator/GregWeisman: Works as a writer for Disney. Noteworthy work of his includes ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. |
| 326 | * Creator/GunnarMansson: Helped market Disney in the Nordic countries. |
| 327 | * Creator/GrimNatwick: Got his start working for the Fleischer brothers and Creator/UbIwerks animating his creation WesternAnimation/BettyBoop, but was lured away by the idea of Walt making the first feature length animated picture. He contributed quite a bit during his stay at Disney, including animating much of Snow White herself. He left soon after to go back to the Fleischers after not getting the pay he was promised after Snow White on time--a move he regretted later down the road, as he would have loved to work on ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. |
| 328 | * Creator/GustafTenggren: A chief illustrator for Walt Disney Productions during the Golden Age; he had a major impact in 4 out of the first 5 films in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon plus several shorts. |
| 329 | [[/folder]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | [[folder:H-I]] |
| 332 | * Creator/HalAmbro: A major animator during Walt's time; from 1946's ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'' to 1967's ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'', he worked on all the classic films including ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' and ''Film/MaryPoppins''. |
| 333 | * '''''[[Creator/HamiltonLuske Hamilton "Ham" Luske]]''''': Was the man who brought several of the Nine Old Men into Disney, and one of the directors of ''Lady And The Tramp''. |
| 334 | * '''''Creator/HarlanEllison:''''' Worked as a script-writer. For less than one day. The story of his rather abrupt firing before his first day at work was even over has become a legend among both Disney fans and science fiction fans in general. |
| 335 | * '''''Creator/HughAttwooll''''': Worked on a number of live-action Disney films. |
| 336 | * [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman And Rudolph Ising]]: Two of Disney's top animators on the Oswald shorts. They would later go on to found the Warner Bros. animation studio, as well as MGM's animation department. They would also occasionally outsource some of their inkers and animators to Disney to help them out. |
| 337 | * Creator/HaroldDSchuster: Hollywood director who was one of the helmers of Disney's hybrid classic ''So Dear To My Heart''. |
| 338 | * Creator/HaroldYoung: A sequence director for ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. |
| 339 | * '''''Creator/HarperGoff''''': Art director for ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'', later assisted in designing Disneyland. |
| 340 | * '''Creator/HarrietBurns''': First woman Imagineer. |
| 341 | * '''[[Creator/HarrisonPrice Harrison "Buzz" Price]]''': Research economist who was crucial in the siting and development of Disneyland and Walt Disney World; CEO Michael Eisner called him as being "as much responsible for the success of the Walt Disney Co. as anybody except Walt Disney himself." |
| 342 | * Creator/HarryArends: Writer and producer for the ''WesternAnimation/DisneySingAlongSongs'' home video series. |
| 343 | * Creator/HarryClork: One of the screenwriters for ''The Reluctant Dragon''. |
| 344 | * Creator/HarveyWeinstein: The boss of Miramax Films, who worked with Disney for 15 years and distributed several cinema classics such as ''Film/PulpFiction''. |
| 345 | * Creator/HayaoMiyazaki: Acclaimed Japanese Anime maker and friend of John Lasseter. He was one of the main minds at Creator/StudioGhibli, which Disney has a distribution deal with; all of Miyazaki's films are handled in America by the Walt Disney Studios. |
| 346 | * Creator/HendelButoy: One of the directors of ''Fantasia 2000''; also co-directed ''The Rescuers Down Under''. |
| 347 | * Creator/HeleneHahn: Feared attorney who represented Disney during Katzenberg's tenure at the company; also known as "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Attila The Hahn]]". |
| 348 | * Creaetor/HenryAndersson: Current captain of the Disney Dream ship. |
| 349 | * Music/HenryJackman: Music composer for ''Wreck-It Ralph''. |
| 350 | * Music/HenryMancini: Wrote the music and three songs for ''The Great Mouse Detective''. |
| 351 | * Creator/HenrySelick: Associate of Tim Burton's who departed Disney with him. He worked with Burton on several other projects for Disney. |
| 352 | * '''''Creator/HerbRyman''''': A talented concept artist who created the first designs of Disneyland. He also served as an art director on ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. He developed artwork and designs for the other Disney resorts until his death in 1989. |
| 353 | * '''''Creator/HideoAmemiya''''': Served in executive positions at Disney resorts in Japan. |
| 354 | * '''''[[Creator/HideoAramaki Hideo "Indian" Aramaki]]''''': Trained many chefs for Tokyo Disneyland. |
| 355 | * Creator/HiroNarita: Cinematographer who worked on ''Never Cry Wolf'', ''Film/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'', and ''Film/TheRocketeer'' for Disney; the first of these won him the Boston Critics Award and the National Critics Award. |
| 356 | * Creator/HomerBrightmen: One of the writers of ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. |
| 357 | * '''Creator/HorstKoblischek''': Helped market Disney in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. |
| 358 | * '''''Creator/HowardAshman''''': Songwriter who was suggested for the studio by Katzenberg's friend and future business partner David Geffin, who oversaw ''Little Shop Of Horror'', which Ashman co-wrote alongside Alan Menken (ironically, another Disney alumni, Peter Schneider, was also a part of that production). He teamed up with Menken for the first few films of the Disney Renaissance, but died before production on ''Beauty and the Beast'' and ''Aladdin'' could be completed. |
| 359 | * Creator/HowardRoffman: Executive vice president of franchise management at Lucasfilm. |
| 360 | * '''Creator/IleneWoods''': The voice of WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} in the original masterpiece. |
| 361 | * Creator/IreneMecchi: A major screenwriter who has worked often with Disney. She's one of the screenwriters for ''The Lion King'', and also contributed to ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' and ''Hercules''. |
| 362 | * '''Creator/IrvingLudwig''': Vice president (1953-1959) and later president (1959-1980) of Buena Vista Distribution Co., helped distribute Disney films. |
| 363 | * [[Creator/IsaacPerlmutter Issac "Ike" Perlmutter]]: The CEO of Marvel Entertainment. |
| 364 | * Music/ItzhakPerlman: Famed violinist who was the lead violin for ''Fantasia 2000''; he also introduced the second number of the film, Pines of Rome. |
| 365 | * Creator/IvoCoveney: Lead costume and specialist costume designer, works for Disney and Industrial Light and Magic and has most notably created the Darth Vader suit, all of Amidala's wardrobe, and the Ant-Man suit. |
| 366 | [[/folder]] |
| 367 | |
| 368 | [[folder:J]] |
| 369 | * [[Music/JACRedford J. A. C. Redford]]: Music conductor who directed the Disney Orchestra and Choir on a few movies such as ''The Little Mermaid'' and ''Frozen''. |
| 370 | * Creator/JJAbrams: The leader of ''Bad Robot Productions'' and the director of ''Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.'' Also the creator of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' for ABC. |
| 371 | * Creator/JackBradbury: An animator who worked on some of the key scenes in the first Disney Animated Classics. Bradbury was one of the animators against Walt in the 1941 strike, and left and moved to Leon Schlesinger Productions for a while, but he eventually became one of the few strikers to return to Disney full-time on a handful of books, though he cut back in 1970 after eye problems. |
| 372 | * Creator/JackDonohue: Director who helmed Disney's version of ''Babes In Toyland''. |
| 373 | * Creator/JackDorsey: Co-founder of Website/{{Twitter}} and former board member at Disney (2013-18). |
| 374 | * '''Creator/JackHannah''': Began working as an inbetweener and clean-up artist on many early Mickey, Donald, and Silly Symphony cartoons. He was a key animator on the Academy Award winning film "The Old Mill". |
| 375 | * Creator/JackKinney: Animator/sequence director of films such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}''. He first directed Goofy in "Goofy's Glider" and soon became established as the director of the Goofy cartoons. |
| 376 | * Creator/JackKing: Animator and sequence director on such films as ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'', ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad''. Prolific director of the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoons; was THE Duck Director until Jack Hannah took over completely. |
| 377 | * '''Creator/JackLindquist''': President of Disneyland from 1990 to 1993. |
| 378 | * '''''Creator/JackOlsen''''': Manager of Disneyland's Merchandising Division. |
| 379 | * '''''Creator/JackWagner''''': Park Announcer for Disneyland until 1993. |
| 380 | * '''''Creator/JackWrather''''': Former owner of the Disneyland Hotel; he rebuffed attempts by Disney to buy the building until Michael Eisner purchased most of his company after his death and sold off everything except the hotel, which was permanently integrated into Walt Disney Parks & Resorts; a lot of Wrather's other work currently belongs to Eisner's apprentice Jeffrey Katzenberg's Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. |
| 381 | * '''Creator/JamesAlgar''': Animator on ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', the animation director of ''The Sorceror's Apprentice'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', and directed sequences in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad''. |
| 382 | * Creator/JamesBaxter: Animator on ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' primarily Roger, Jessica, and the weasels, animator of Ariel and King Triton on ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', supervising animator on Belle from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Rafiki from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', and Quasimodo on ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', and later directed the animated sequences from ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''. |
| 383 | * Creator/JamesBobin: The director of the two ''Muppets'' films done by Disney in The New 10's (the first of which introduced their current film logo), and ''Alice Through the Looking Glass''. |
| 384 | * Creator/JamesBodrero: One of the writers of ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. |
| 385 | * Creator/JamesCameron: Famed director who helmed ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', he is now working with Disney on an Avatar Land at the Animal Kingdom in Disney World. |
| 386 | * '''Creator/JamesCora''': In charge of managing and planning for Disney's international parks. |
| 387 | * [[Creator/JamesColeman James "Jim" Coleman]]: Longtime animator at Disney who did background and color styling from ''The Rescuers'' to ''Beauty And The Beast''. He eventually resigned from the studio in order to pursue a career in fine art, which saw him mixing Disney characters with. |
| 388 | * Creator/JamesFordMurphy: The director of the Pixar short ''Lava''. |
| 389 | * Creator/JamesGoldston: President of ABC News. |
| 390 | * Creator/JamesGunn: Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse director. |
| 391 | * Music/JamesHorner: Music composer who has done a few Disney films, including ''Film/TheRocketeer'', which gave birth to one of his signature works that has become a movie trailer mainstay. |
| 392 | * Music/JamesLevine: The music director for ''Fantasia 2000''; he introduced the "Pomp and Circumstance" segment in the film. |
| 393 | * '''''[[Creator/JamesMacDonald James "Jim" MacDonald]]''''': Replaced Walt as the voice of Mickey Mouse. |
| 394 | * Creator/JamesPentecost: Producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''. |
| 395 | * Creator/JamesPitaro: The co-chairman of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media, and the boss of Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios. |
| 396 | * [[Creator/ShamusCulhane James "Shamus" Culhane]]: A former Fleischer animator who came to the studio after Walt was impressed by his work. His most pivotal work is the iconic "Heigh-Ho" sequence of ''Snow White''. |
| 397 | * Creator/JanPinkava: Screenwriter for ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''. |
| 398 | * Creator/JanSmith: Executive who worked on what became the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series. |
| 399 | * Creator/JaniceMarinelli: President of Disney/ABC domestic television and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (AKA, Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo). |
| 400 | * Creator/JaredBush: Co-writer/director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''. |
| 401 | * Creator/JasonBrodkey: The producer of the Pixar/''Inside Out'' short ''WesternAnimation/RileysFirstDate'' |
| 402 | * Creator/JasperBlystone: Assistant director on ''The Reluctant Dragon''. |
| 403 | * Creator/JayRasulo: Originally the head of the Disney theme parks, he swapped jobs with Tom Staggs in 2009 and became the CFO. When Staggs took the President's position, Rasulo retired, but he is still advising the company. |
| 404 | * Creator/JayneParker: Executive vice president and chief human resources officer for The Walt Disney Company. |
| 405 | * Creator/JeanFrancoisCamilleri: The executive vice president and general manager of the Disneynature film banner. |
| 406 | * Creator/JeanPierreQuenet: One of the producers of ''WesternAnimation/DucktalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp''. |
| 407 | * Creator/JeffSwampyMarsh: Co-creator of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' and ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' |
| 408 | * Creator/JeffNuzzi: Former Disney executive who co-founded the Like Pizza digital studio with Bob Sprang in 2016. |
| 409 | * Creator/JeffPatch: An assistant director on ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers''. |
| 410 | * Creator/JeffSellinger: The senior vice president of the learning department at Disney Publishing Worldwide. |
| 411 | * Jeffrey Katzenberg: Became the studio head after Michael Eisner was named CEO. Had a hand in every animated film from ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' (which he inherited from Ron Miller) to ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' (which was released after he left; ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' started production during his tenure, but he hated the idea of that film and never took part in it). Was known for his massive ego, which didn't mix well with Eisner's own massive ego; following the accidental death of Frank Wells, he quit (or was fired from) Disney in 1994 and set up Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, which became Disney's chief animation rival in the 2000s. |
| 412 | * Creator/JeffreyMHoward: Screenwriter for ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''. |
| 413 | * Creator/JeffreyPrice: One of the two screenwriters for ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' and a movie called ''Trenchcoat''. |
| 414 | * Creator/JeffreyRochlis: A former Creator/{{Sega}} employee who was tapped by Katzenberg to help with Imagineering. He was a major mind in Euro Disney (a.k.a. Disneyland Paris), but was canned prior to the park opening; he sued Disney for the termination, but lost his suit. |
| 415 | * Creator/JenniferLee: Co-director of ''Frozen'' and current Chief Creative Officer of Disney. |
| 416 | * Creator/JephLoeb: Executive vice president of Marvel Television. |
| 417 | * Creator/JeremyMilton: Editor of ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'' and ''Zootopia''. |
| 418 | * Creator/JerryBruckheimer: Film producer who helms the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' movies and several other movies. |
| 419 | * Music/JerryGoldsmith: Composed the score for ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. |
| 420 | * Creator/JerryLivingston: One of the music composers for ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. |
| 421 | * Creator/JessWinfield: One of the co-founders of the Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany, he worked as a screenwriter on a number of Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation shows including ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', ''Mickey Mouse Works'' and its successor ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'', ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', and (also executive producing) ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet''. However, his most extensive Disney work was for the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise, in which he served as a writer and executive producer for ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' (and its respective {{pilot|Movie}} and [[GrandFinale finale]] films ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'') and later became the voice actor of Dr. Jumba Jookiba for the English versions of the ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' anime and the Chinese animated series ''Animation/StitchAndAi'', making him the only franchise crew member to have worked on all three TV shows. |
| 422 | * Creator/JessicaAmbinderRojas: One of the editors of ''Fantasia 2000'' and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. |
| 423 | * Creator/JimCox: One of the animation screenplay writers for ''The Rescuers Down Under''. |
| 424 | * Music/JimFlamberg: One of the producers of the ''Toy Story'' soundtrack. |
| 425 | * '''''Creator/JimHenson''''': The creator of ''The Muppets''. |
| 426 | * Creator/JimJimirro: The first boss of Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo. |
| 427 | * Creator/JimJinkins: Creator of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' (which Disney purchased in 1996). Alongside the creator and producer of ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Stanley}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/JoJosCircus'' for Creator/DisneyJunior [[note]] Formerly known as ''Playhouse Disney" [[/note]]. |
| 428 | * Creator/JimKallett: The editor of the Pixar short classic ''Geri's Game''. |
| 429 | * Creator/JimMorris: President of Pixar. |
| 430 | * Creator/JimReardon: One of the story writers for ''WALL-E'', ''Wreck-It Ralph'', and ''Zootopia''. |
| 431 | * '''''Creator/JimmyJohnson''''': Oversaw the rise of the Walt Disney Music Company, served as its president from 1970-1975. |
| 432 | * Creator/JimmyKimmel: The host of his self-titled talk show on ABC and previously the co-host of ''Series/WinBenSteinsMoney'', which aired on Comedy Central but was produced by Disney's Valleycrest Productions, which also produced ''Who Wants to be a Millionaire''. |
| 433 | * '''Creator/JoeFowler''': Retired real admiral of the Navy who was the construction boss and then general manager for Disneyland, and then supervised the construction of Disney World. |
| 434 | * '''Creator/JoeGrant''': Character designer and storyman at Disney during the early years of the Studios. He worked on such films as ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'', and ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''. He returned to working at the Studio to work on the visual development on ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and was a story adviser on ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''; he continued to be a part of the studio until his death in 2005 at the age of 97. |
| 435 | * Creator/JoeHale: Animator who had worked with Walt Disney for a long time, and remained on past Walt's death. He was the producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', and the movie's [[BoxOfficeBomb bombing]] and his nonchalant attitude about it to new boss Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had commented on Disney's luck of late [[note]] Jeffrey's phrase is the TitleDrop for ''Waking Sleeping Beauty'' [[/note]], led to Katzenberg firing Hale and ending both his long tenure at Disney Animation and his career; he promptly retired. |
| 436 | * Creator/JoeJohnston: A director who works often with Disney. He helmed ''Honey, I Shrunk The Kids'', ''The Rocketeer'' and ''Hidalgo''. |
| 437 | * Creator/JoeQuesada: Primary editor and Chief Creative Officer at Creator/MarvelComics. |
| 438 | * '''''Creator/JoeRanft''''': An animator at Disney; he moved to Pixar in 1995 and worked there until he died in 2005. |
| 439 | * Creator/JoeRoth: Replaced Jeffrey Katzenberg as the studio head in 1994. He left the position in 1999 and founded Revolution Studios and then Roth Films, the latter of which has made movies with Disney, notably the live-action remakes in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon. |
| 440 | * Creator/JoeRohde: Veteran executive at Walt Disney Imagineering. Most notable for being the mastermind behind Disney's Animal Kingdom park, as well as working on Epcot's Maelstrom and Captain EO and Pleasure Island's Adventurers Club. Currently serves in a supervising role in Marvel attractions being added to the parks, starting with Ride/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyMissionBreakout. Has a distinctive earring collection that has distorted his left earlobe. |
| 441 | * Creator/JoelSiegel: The film critic on ABC's ''Good Morning America'' until his death in 2007. |
| 442 | * Creator/JohnBeug: Former vice president of Walt Disney Records. |
| 443 | * Creator/JohnBlackburn: The CEO of Avalanche Software, which is owned by Disney; they are the ones behind Disney Infinity. |
| 444 | * Creator/JohnCanemaker: Independent animator who has provided commentary on several Disney DVD releases. |
| 445 | * Creator/JohnCarnochan: Editor on several Disney Animated Classics in the early 90's, and followed Katzenberg to [=DreamWorks=] afterward. |
| 446 | * Music/JohnDebney: The music director for ''The Emperor's New Groove''. |
| 447 | * Creator/JohnEPepperJr: Succeeded George Mitchell as company chairman, and remained in the position until CEO Bob Iger took it over in 2012. |
| 448 | * '''Creator/JohnHench''': Started in the Disney Story Department and later painted backgrounds for "The Nutcracker Suite" segment of ''Fantasia''. He also worked on ''Cinderella'' and ''Alice in Wonderland''. |
| 449 | * Creator/JohnKahrs: The director of the Disney Mini Classic ''Paperman''. |
| 450 | * Creator/JohnLasseter: Got his start as an animator for Disney. He got terminated in 1983 for pushing [[ItWillNeverCatchOn computer animation]] (his last work up to that point, ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'' got released under "Hyperion Pictures"), and joined Steve Jobs at Pixar after George Lucas was forced to sell it. Pixar made an animation deal with Disney after the people who fired Lasseter got terminated themselves the following year, and this led to ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1''. The relationship became strained with Eisner at the helm and his personal problems finding their way into Pixar's world, but after his exit, Bob Iger purchased the studio and tapped Lasseter as the Chief Creative Officer; he remained there until June of 2018 when [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor he got fired due to allegations of sexual assault]]. |
| 451 | * Creator/JohnLeeHancock: Director who helmed three Disney Studios projects: ''Film/{{The Rookie|2002}}'', ''Film/{{The Alamo|2004}}'', and ''Film/SavingMrBanks''. |
| 452 | * Creator/JohnMusker: Began his career at Disney as an animator on such films as ''WesternAnimation/TheSmallOne'', ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''. He co-directed with Ron Clements ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' (their first 3D feature). |
| 453 | * Creator/JohnPMiller: One of the men on the "Baby Weems" segment in ''Film/TheReluctantDragon''. |
| 454 | * Creator/JohnPleasants: Co-president of Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios. |
| 455 | * Creator/JohnPomeroy: A close associate of Don Bluth who departed his studio when Bluth's fortunes went downhill, and was the lead animator of Milo for ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', John Smith for ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'', and the Firebird for ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia 2000}}''. |
| 456 | * Creator/JohnRood: Head of marketing for Disney Channels Worldwide as of 2016. |
| 457 | * Creator/JohnSanford: Animator during the Disney Renaissance. He also co-directed ''Home On The Range''. |
| 458 | * Creator/JohnSkipper: President of ESPN. |
| 459 | * Creator/JohnTuritzin: Executive vice president of Marvel Entertainment. |
| 460 | * Creator/JohnWalker: Producer who produced ''The Incredibles'' and ''Tomorrowland'' and had a special thanks credit in ''Brave''; he was originally attached to ''The Good Dinosaur'' before leaving for the live-action project. |
| 461 | * Music/JohnnyMercer: Wrote the TheVillainSucksSong from ''Robin Hood'' known as "The Phony King Of England". |
| 462 | * Music/JonBrion: The composer for the Pixar short ''The Blue Umbrella''. |
| 463 | * Creator/JonFavreau: The director of the first two ''Iron Man'' films, which kick-started the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. Also directed the [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 live-action version]] of ''The Jungle Book'', and showruns ''Series/TheMandalorian''. |
| 464 | * Creator/JonSnoddy: Head of Disney Imagineering. |
| 465 | * Creator/JonasRivera: The producer of Pixar's Masterpiece ''Inside Out''. |
| 466 | * Creator/JonathonRoberts: Disney screenwriter worked on ''The Lion King'', ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', and ''Monsters. Inc''. |
| 467 | * Creator/JordanRoberts: One of the screenwriters for ''Big Hero 6''. |
| 468 | * Creator/JorgenKlubien: Animation writer who did ''The Lion King'', ''Cars'', ''Frankenweenie'', and ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''. |
| 469 | * Creator/JosephHolt: Main art director for Paul Rudish's ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013''. |
| 470 | * Creator/JosephSabo: One of the screenwriters for ''Pinnochio''. |
| 471 | * Creator/JoseZelaya: El Salvador-born character designer and visual developer for Disney Television Animation. Having wanted to work for Disney since he was a child, he grew up during the Salvadoran Civil War, teaching himself how to draw as a means to process and retreat from the fighting. His character designs include [[Characters/RecessTheMainSix Ashley Spinelli]] for ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch Angel]] [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments6Series (Experiment 624)]] for ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', and [[Characters/TheLionGuardLionGuard Bunga the Bravest]] for ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'', among many others. |
| 472 | * Creator/JosieTrinidad: Co-head of story on ''Zootopia''. |
| 473 | * Creator/JoshCooley: Director of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4''. Also one of the screenwriters for ''Inside Out'' and the director of the followup short ''WesternAnimation/RileysFirstDate''. |
| 474 | * Creator/JoshMeador: Special Effects man at Disney during Walt's life. |
| 475 | * Creator/JossWhedon: The director of Disney/Marvel's ''Avengers'' movies; previously, he had contributed crucial story material to Pixar's Grand Premiere Classic, ''Toy Story'', and the Walt Disney Classic, ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. |
| 476 | * '''Creator/JoyceCarlson''': Helped design the ''It's a Small World'' attraction. |
| 477 | * Creator/JudgeWhitaker: Animator on a lot of cartoon classics. |
| 478 | * Creator/JudithEstrin: Board member at Disney. |
| 479 | * Creator/JulianneHough: One of the judges on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' on ABC. |
| 480 | * Creator/JulietAires: Story consultant on ''Tarzan''. |
| 481 | * '''Creator/JulieReihmCasaletto''': First Disneyland ambassador. |
| 482 | * Creator/JustinMarks: Screenwriter for Jon Favreau's ''The Jungle Book''. |
| 483 | [[/folder]] |
| 484 | |
| 485 | [[folder:K]] |
| 486 | * Creator/KarenDufilho: The producer of the Pixar mini classic ''Geri's Game''. |
| 487 | * Creator/KareyKirkpatrick: One of the animation screenwriters for ''The Rescuers Down Under''. |
| 488 | * Creator/KarlHolz: President of the Disney Cruise Line. |
| 489 | * Creator/KatherineRinggold: The editor of the Pixar short ''Presto''. |
| 490 | * Creator/KatherineSarafian: Pixar employee who produced their short ''Lifted''. |
| 491 | * Creator/KathieLeeGifford: Was Regis Philbin's co-host on the ''Live'' morning show (which was distributed by Buena Vista Television) until 2000. |
| 492 | * Music/KathleenBattle: Sung a soprano vocal at the end of the Pomp & Circumstance number in ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 493 | * Creator/KathleenGavin: Associate producer on ''The Rescuers Down Under''. |
| 494 | * Creator/KathleenKennedy: Longtime associate of Steven Spielberg and Amblin, which she co-founded, she became part of Lucasfilm and was made the president of the studio and the brand manager and executive producer of ''Franchise/StarWars'' when Disney purchased Lucasfilm. |
| 495 | * Creator/KathyZielinski: Animator for the Disney Animated Canon; she was the supervising animator for the notorious Judge Claude Frollo, the BigBad of the Walt Disney Classic ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''; this character has more screentime than the other Disney villains. |
| 496 | * '''''Creator/KayKamen''''': Helped license Disney characters. |
| 497 | * Creator/KayNielsen: Sketch artist, storyman, and designer. Nielsen created designs for "The Night on Bald Mountain" segment in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. During the 1940s, he worked on concept designs for an early version of ''The Little Mermaid'' and "Ride of the Valkyries". In the mid-1980s, his sketches were brought out of the Disney Archives to inspire the animators who worked on the 1989 ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', and he ended up getting a posthumous "visual development" credit. |
| 498 | * Creator/KellyRipa: Replaced Kathie Lee Gifford as Regis Philbin's co-host on ''Live''. |
| 499 | * Creator/KelseyMann: One of the story writers for Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'' and the director and writer of the ''Monsters Inc.'' short ''WesternAnimation/PartyCentral''. |
| 500 | * Creator/KemWeber: The architect of the original Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank in 1939. |
| 501 | * '''Creator/KenAnderson''': Art director on ''Snow White'', designed [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Shere Khan]] and [[Film/PetesDragon1977 Elliot]], and production designer on ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', ''WesternAnimationy/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''. |
| 502 | * '''Creator/KenAnnakin''': Director of two live-action Disney films. |
| 503 | * Creator/KenBunt: President of the Disney Music Group, which includes Walt Disney Records. Hollywood Records, and Disney Music Publishing. |
| 504 | * Creator/KenDuncan: Animator of the Disney Renaissance; he animated Jane Porter in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', which included a very difficult continuous scene when it was improvised by Creator/MinnieDriver. |
| 505 | * Creator/KenKoonce: Co-producer of ''Ducktales'' for its second thru fourth seasons. |
| 506 | * Creator/KenOBrien: Animator on features from ''Snow White'' to ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''. |
| 507 | * '''Creator/KenOConnor''': Layout artist on thirteen features and a hundred shorts. Features including ''Snow White'', ''Fantasia'' and ''Lady and the Tramp''. After a short retirement, O'Connor returned to Disney to help develop shows such as ''World of Motion'' and ''Universe of Energy'' at EPCOT, and the film ''Back to Neverland'' for the Animation Tour at the Disney/ MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. |
| 508 | * Creator/KenPotrock: Vice president of the Disney Vacation Club. |
| 509 | * Creator/KenStuartDuncan: The supervising animator for Jane Porter in ''Tarzan''. |
| 510 | * Creator/KevinAMayer: Senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary for the Walt Disney Company as a whole. |
| 511 | * Creator/KevinDeters: Animator at Disney who dealt with a few shorts including ''The Ballad Of Nessie'' and ''How To Hook Up Your Home Theaters.'' |
| 512 | * Creator/KevinFeige: The president of Marvel Studios. |
| 513 | * Creator/KevinLima: Directed ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''. |
| 514 | * Creator/KevinMunroe: The producer of ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic''. |
| 515 | * Creator/KevinReher: Casting director at Pixar. |
| 516 | * Creator/KevinYasuda: Story writer for the opening number of ''Fantasia 2000'', Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. |
| 517 | * Creator/KiraLehtomaki: Animation supervisor on ''Zootopia''. |
| 518 | * Creator/KirkBodyfelt: Assistant artistic coordinator on ''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' and primary artistic coordinator on ''Brother Bear''. |
| 519 | * Creator/KirkHansen: Story writer for the live-action scenes of ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 520 | * Creator/KirkWise: Received his first feature-directing credit on the Academy Award-winning ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', alongside Gary Trousdale. In 1996, he re-teamed with Trousdale and producer Don Hahn on ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', and then in 2001 on ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. |
| 521 | * Creator/KlayHall: The director of Disneytoon Studios' ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''. |
| 522 | * Creator/KoriRae: Producer of ''Monsters University''. |
| 523 | * Music/KristenAnderson and Music/RobertLopez: Wife-and-husband composer duo who made the music of ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', the former of which had Kristen voice Kanga (her husband Robert is also one of the main minds behind ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' and ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'', the latter of which was his first association with Josh Gad, who was in ''Frozen''. Their next project is Disney's ''Bob The Musical''. They later went on to co-write songs for ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' and ''Series/WandaVision''. |
| 524 | * Creator/KristinaReed: An alumni of [=DreamWorks=] Animation and associate producer on ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'' who transferred to Disney and became the co-producer of ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' and the producer of the short films ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Feast}}''. |
| 525 | * Creator/KyleLaughlin: Senior vice president of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media Labs. |
| 526 | [[/folder]] |
| 527 | |
| 528 | [[folder:L]] |
| 529 | * Creator/LaneMerrifield: The founder of Club Penguin; he resigned in 2012 after clashing with Disney. |
| 530 | * Creator/LarryClemmons: Story animator at Disney; two of his works are ''Robin Hood'' and ''The Rescuers'', and he's one of the screenwriters for ''The Reluctant Dragon''. |
| 531 | * Creator/LarryLansburgh: Producer and cameraman for various Disney films. |
| 532 | * Creator/LarryMorey: Animator who was one of the sequence directors on ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs'' and later was one of the music directors for ''The Reluctant Dragon''. |
| 533 | * Creaetor/LaurelLadevich: The producer of the ''Monsters Inc.'' short ''WesternAnimation/PartyCentral''. |
| 534 | * Creator/LaurenMacMullan: The director of the Mickey Mouse Mini Masterpiece ''Get A Horse!''. |
| 535 | * Creator/LaurenePowellJobs: The wife of Steve Jobs, she inherited his fortune and holdings in Disney when he passed away; this currently makes her the largest shareholder in Disney. |
| 536 | * Creator/LawrenceKasdan: A major player in Disney's continuation of the Star Wars franchise through the Sequel Trilogy; his previous work with Disney was 1999's ''Film/{{Mumford}}'', a film he directed. |
| 537 | * Dr. Creator/LCWilliamsJohnson: Vice Chairman of the Board until 2016. |
| 538 | * Music/LeboM: African folk music composer who arranged the Swahili chants in ''The Lion King''. |
| 539 | * Creator/LeeBlair: The husband of Mary Blair and the younger brother of Preston Blair, he was an artist at Disney. |
| 540 | * Creator/LeeUnkrich: The director of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''. He was also a co-director on ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' (with Lasseter), ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' (with Stanton), and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'' (with Doctor). |
| 541 | * '''''Music/LeighHarline''''': One of the music composers for ''Snow White''. |
| 542 | * Creator/LenGoodman: One of the judges on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' on ABC. |
| 543 | * '''''Creator/LeonardGoldenson''''': Former president of ABC; he passed in 1999. |
| 544 | * Creator/LeonardMaltin: Film historian who has spoken and written extensively about Disney and Star Wars, and hosts the ''Treasures From The Disney Vault'' specials on Turner Classic Movies with Ben Mankiewicz, and then solo after a few blocks. He's also the creator of the Walt Disney Treasures [[Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo DVD video series]] prior to that. |
| 545 | * Creator/LeslieFerraro: The president of Disney Consumer Products. |
| 546 | * Creator/LeslieMoes: Post-production supervisor on ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''. |
| 547 | * Creator/LewisMAllen: One of the Hollywood producer's later projects was ''Never Cry Wolf'', the first film released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner (but without the iconic WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'s Castle logo; that didn't come until after the Management shift that let Eisner, Katzenberg, and Wells into Disney, and it premiered with ''The Black Cauldron''. |
| 548 | * '''Creator/LindaLarkin''': The voice of Jasmine from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. |
| 549 | * Creator/LindaWoolverton: One of Disney's most prolific screenwriters from the Disney Renaissance onward. |
| 550 | * Creator/LindseyCollins: The producer of Andrew Stanton's films since ''Wall*E''. Not to be confused with the late Lindsay Collins, who was male and ironically was a marine biologist who died one year before ''Finding Dory''. |
| 551 | * Creator/LisaKeene: Concept and background artist who started at Disney during the Disney Renaissance. |
| 552 | * Creator/LisaMPoole: Associate producer of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''. |
| 553 | * Creator;LisaMSmith: Production manager of ''Mulan''. |
| 554 | * Creator/LisaMcCormick: Assistant editor of ''Lilo & Stitch''. |
| 555 | * Creator/LloydBraun: Boss of ABC for the late 90's and early 2000's, when the network was really struggling; this struggle earned Braun the title of "[[MedalOfDishonor worst executive of the year]]" in 2001 from the San Francisco News. Braun DID pitch ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', but they were too little, too late to save his ABC career or Michael Eisner's Disney career when the problems hit their boiling point in 2004. |
| 556 | * '''Creator/LloydRichardson''': Edited various Disney films. |
| 557 | * Creator/LoriKorngiebel: Post production supervisor of ''Lilo & Stitch'' for its California operations (a lot of it was done at the Florida studio prior to Disney shutting their doors). |
| 558 | * Creator/LouisDEsposito: The co-president of Marvel Studios. |
| 559 | * '''Creator/LucilleMartin''': Secretary to Walt Disney, later vice president and special assistant to the Walt Disney Company Board of Directors. |
| 560 | * Creator/LyleUnderkoffler: The vice president of the digital angle of Disney Publishing Group. |
| 561 | * Creator/LylleBreier: Senior vice president of global marketing partnerships and strategic alliances, promotions, synergy and special effects at the Walt Disney Studios. |
| 562 | * Creator/LyndseyCollins: The producer of ''Finding Dory''. |
| 563 | * Creator/LynwenBrennan: The executive vice president and general manager of Lucasfilm. |
| 564 | [[/folder]] |
| 565 | |
| 566 | [[folder:M]] |
| 567 | * Creator/MNightShyamalan: Director who helmed ''Film/TheSixthSense'' for Disney. He also did Film/{{Unbreakable}}, Film/{{Signs}}, and Film/TheVillage2004 with them, and much later Disney came back to co-produce [[Film/{{Glass2019}} Glass]] with Creator/{{Universal}} and [[Creator/BlumhouseProductions Blumhouse]]. |
| 568 | * Creator/MTCarney: Marketing executive who created the campaign for ''Film/JohnCarter''. When that movie bombed, she was asked to resign. |
| 569 | * Music/MackDavid: One of the music composers for ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''. |
| 570 | * Creator/MarcBreaux: One of the choreographers on ''Mary Poppins''. |
| 571 | * Creator/MarcESmith: A co-writer on ''Frozen Fever''. |
| 572 | * Creator/MarcGreenberg: The producer of the Pixar short ''The Blue Umbrella''. |
| 573 | * Creator/MarcOkrand: Developed the Atlantean language in the Walt Disney Classic ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. |
| 574 | * Creator/MarcSondheimer: Pixar employee who produced ''Piper''. |
| 575 | * Creator/MarcTeren: Former director of business development for consumer products. |
| 576 | * '''Creator/MargeChampion''': Actress, dancer, and choreographer for various Disney works. |
| 577 | * '''''Creator/MarioGentilini''''': Helped publish and edit Mickey Mouse's ''Topolino'' magazine in Italy. |
| 578 | * Creator/MarkAndrews: Pixar employee who directed ''Brave'' after Brenda Chapman. |
| 579 | * Creator/MarkDindal: Animator who was part of the Disney Renaissance; he's also the director of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''. |
| 580 | * Creator/MarkHenn: Animator who started at Disney during the Disney Renaissance; co-supervising animator of [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ariel]] (with Creator/GlenKeane) and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] (with James Baxter), and solo supervising animator of Dr. Dawson, Olivia Flaversham and Basil (''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''); Oliver and Dodger (''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany''); Bernard and Bianca (''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder''); Jasmine (''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''); young Simba (WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''), Hua Mulan and Hua Zhou (''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''); Grace and Pearl (''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange''); Ronno (''WesternAnimation/BambiII''); Tiana (''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''); and Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin (''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011'') |
| 581 | * [[Music/MarkKealiiHoomalu Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu]]: A major music player in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', providing the Hawaiian choir arrangements. |
| 582 | * Music/MarkIsham: The composer's first major work was on ''Never Cry Wolf''; he also worked on ''Series/OnceUponATime''. |
| 583 | * Music/MarkMancina: The composer of the Disneynature logo music, and the scores to ''Tarzan'', ''Brother Bear'', and ''Moana''. |
| 584 | * Music/MarkMueller: The composer of the theme songs to ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''. |
| 585 | * Creator/MarkNielsen: The producer of the Pixar/''Inside Out'' short ''WesternAnimation/RileysFirstDate''. |
| 586 | * Creator/MarkObenhaus: Senior producer of ''Good Morning America''; he had a phone interview during 9/11. |
| 587 | * Music/MarkWatters: Music composer for the Mickey Mouse Mini Masterpiece ''Get A Horse!'', which opened ''Frozen''. |
| 588 | * Creator/MarkZoradi: Longtime Disney executive who left the studio in 2009. He temporarily worked for [=DreamWorks=] Animation before moving on to helm the Cinemark movie theater chain. |
| 589 | * '''Creator/MartySklar''': A long-serving Imagineer and executive. |
| 590 | * '''''Creator/MarvinDavis''''': Master planner for Disneyland, later helped direct Disney films and television series. |
| 591 | * Creator/MarvinMiller: Narrated ''Sleeping Beauty''. |
| 592 | * '''Creator/MaryAnneMang''': Public Relations Manager for Disneyland. |
| 593 | * '''''Creator/MaryBlair''''': The wife of Disney artist Lee Blair, her work first got Walt's attention during the South America tour that begat ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''. Her unique, colorful designs can be seen on ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'', ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'', ''WesternAnimation/MelodyTime'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' and ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. Also designed the "It's a Small, Small World" ride. |
| 594 | * '''Creator/MaryJones''': In charge of Disneyland's Community Relations and international relations. |
| 595 | * '''Creator/MasatomoTakahashi''': Helped establish Tokyo Disneyland. |
| 596 | * '''Creator/MatsuoYokoyama''': Helped market Disney in Japan. |
| 597 | * Creator/MattBraly: Creator of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' and director on ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. |
| 598 | * Creator/MattOuimet: Former president of the Disney Cruise Line and Disneyland Resort. |
| 599 | * Creator/MattYoungberg: Co-creator of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' |
| 600 | * Creator/MatthewJacobs: Provided the original story ideas for what became the Walt Disney Classic ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''. |
| 601 | * Creator/MatthewWilder: The director of songs for ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. |
| 602 | * Creator/MegCrofton: President of Disney Theme Park's U.S. and France operations. |
| 603 | * Creator/MegLefauve: One of the screenwriters for ''Inside Out.'' |
| 604 | * Creator/MegWhitman: Disney executive who now runs Hewlett-Packard, which provides the computers for Disney's theme parks and the technology for Katzenberg's [=DreamWorks=] Animation. |
| 605 | * Music/MelLeven: A major Disney composer; he wrote the famous TheVillainSucksSong "Cruella De Vil" in ''101 Dalmatians''. |
| 606 | * '''[[Creator/MelvinShaw Melvin "Mel" Shaw]] (born Melvin Scwartzman)''': Titles designer for ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' and other films. He got started with ''Bambi'', but left to enter World War II, though he returned to Disney 32 years later. His final film was ''The Lion King''. |
| 607 | * Creator/MeredithRoberts: Senior vice president and general manager of Disneytoon Studios. |
| 608 | * Creator/MeredithViera: The host and later executive producer of the syndicated version of Disney/ABC's ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'' until 2013. Her current talk show is produced by Disney's TV syndication department. |
| 609 | * Creator/MerrillDeMaris: Disney comic strip writer who was also part of the writing team of ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. |
| 610 | * Creator/MichaelArndt: Screenwriter for ''Toy Story 3'' and ''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' who also contributed extra story material to ''Brave'' and ''Inside Out''. |
| 611 | * Creator/MichaelColglazier: The current president of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. |
| 612 | * Creator/MichaelCurry: Puppet designer who was contracted to build and design puppets for ''Theatre/TheLionKing'' on Broadway and has built stuff for numerous Disney parades and shows since, such as Tapestry of Nations, Mickey's Jammin' Jungle Parade, and Ride/RiversOfLight. |
| 613 | * Creator/MichaelDavies: The showrunner and executive producer of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' for its first decade. |
| 614 | * Michael Eisner: Previously the president of Creator/{{Paramount}}, he became the first "outside" (aka non-Disney) CEO of the studio in 1984 and is partly responsible for turning its fortunes around in the late 1980s/early 1990s and making it into the multimedia empire it is today. He was ultimately forced out of his job in 2005 by disgruntled shareholders after he spent over half a decade [[ExecutiveMeddling attempting to take a more hands-on approach in the studio's creative process amongst other issues]]. |
| 615 | * Creator/MichaelGelman: A producer on ABC's ''Live With Regis''. |
| 616 | * Creator/MichaelGraves: Architect who designed the Swan & Dolphin hotels in Disney World, along with Disney's corporate headquarters in Burbank. He died in 2015. |
| 617 | * Creator/MichaelJohnson: Former executive of Buena Vista Home Video/Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo/Walt Disney Home Entertainment/Buena Vista Home Entertainment. He left the company in 2003 and moved on to the Herbalife supplement company. |
| 618 | * Creator/MichaelLynton: Past business executive at Disney Consumer Products and a major force behind the founding of the Disney Publishing Group. |
| 619 | * Creator/MichaelOvitz: The boss of the Creative Arts Agency and best friend of Eisner at the time Eisner chose to put him in Wells's President position over Jeffrey Katzenberg. Ovitz left the position the next year. |
| 620 | * Creator/MikeGabriel: Major force behind ''The Rescuers Down Under'' and a regular animator and art director at Disney. |
| 621 | * Creator/MikeGolic: Co-host of ''Mike And Mike'' on ESPN Radio. |
| 622 | * Creator/MikeGreenberg: Major anchor at ESPN. |
| 623 | * Creator/MikeMignola: The ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' creator lent his distinctive artistic technique to the Walt Disney CultClassic ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. |
| 624 | * [[Creator/MikeMerell Mike "Moe" Merell]]: The supervising animator for the Leviathan in ''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' and one of the animators for the computer-generated crowds in ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. |
| 625 | * '''Creator/MiltAlbright''': Accountant, designer, and manager for Disney parks. |
| 626 | * Creator/MiltBanta: One of the story writers for ''Sleeping Beauty''. |
| 627 | * Creator/MiltGross: Helped storyboard for ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad''. |
| 628 | %%* Miriam Margoyles: Animator during the Disney Renaissance. '''the only search result for that name is the actress who played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter, are we sure she's a Disney animator''' |
| 629 | * Music/MychaelDanna and Music/JeffDanna: Composer brothers who scored Pixar's ''The Good Dinosaur''; Mychael also scored its opening act short ''WesternAnimation/SanjaysSuperTeam''. |
| 630 | [[/folder]] |
| 631 | |
| 632 | [[folder:N-O]] |
| 633 | * Music/NancyAdams: Sung the "Love" song during ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' and Maid Marian's walk through Sherwood Forest. |
| 634 | * Creator/NatalieKalmus: The color director of the second half of the premiere hybrid Classic ''Film/TheReluctantDragon''. |
| 635 | * Creator/NathanGreno: Disney Animation employee who co-directed ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. |
| 636 | * '''''Creator/NeilBeckett''''': Legend in Merchandise. |
| 637 | * '''''Creator/NeilGallagher''''': Imagineer, worked on the Enchanted Tiki Room ride, helped develop the Abraham Lincoln animatronic. |
| 638 | * Creator/NicholasStoller: One of the co-writers of ''The Muppets'' and ''Muppets Most Wanted''. |
| 639 | * Creator/NicoleMitchell: One of the story writers for the short ''Feast''. |
| 640 | * Creator/NicoleParadisGrindle: The producer of the Pixar short ''WesternAnimation/SanjaysSuperTeam''. |
| 641 | * Creator/NikRanieri: Lead animator for Roger Rabbit on ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', animator Ursula from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', animator of Jafar from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', and supervising animator of Wilbur from The Rescuers Down Under, Lumiere from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Meeko from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'', Hades from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', and Kuzco from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''. |
| 642 | * Creator/NinaJacobson: Script developer at Disney from 1998 to 2006. |
| 643 | * Creator/NitinChawla: Vice president of Playmation. |
| 644 | * Creator/NoniWhite: One of the screenwriters for ''Tarzan'' and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. |
| 645 | * '''''[[Creator/NormanFerguson Norman "Norm" Ferguson]]''''': One of Disney's most loved animators, known for his excellent personality animation, as well as his contributions to the character of Pluto and his subsequent short subject series. Noteworthy work of his includes the famous flypaper scene from "Playful Pluto", the Witch from ''Snow White'' and Honest John and Gideon from ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''. Directing animator on ''Snow White'' and ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. |
| 646 | * '''Creator/NormanPalmer''': Editor during Disney's Silver Age who was the co-recipient of the second Disney Legend award alongside Virginia Davis. |
| 647 | * [[Creator/OpetaiaFoai Opetaia Foa'i]]: One of the songwriters for ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''. |
| 648 | * Creator/OrenAviv: A past marketing chief of the studio. |
| 649 | * Creator/OrenCSmith: Nike executive who is a board member at Disney. |
| 650 | * '''Creator/OrlandoFerrante''': Legend in Imagineering. |
| 651 | * Creator/OskarFischinger: An abstract animator who briefly joined Disney and did work on the "Tocata and Fugue in D Minor" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. |
| 652 | * Creator/OsnatShurer: Pixar short producer who transferred to Disney Animation and produced the 56th Disney Animated Classic, ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''. |
| 653 | * Creator/OttoEnglander: Head of story direction on ''Dumbo''. |
| 654 | [[/folder]] |
| 655 | |
| 656 | [[folder:P]] |
| 657 | * Creator/PamCoats: Producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. |
| 658 | * Creator/PamelaLTravers: The author of the original ''Mary Poppins'' novel series, she was actually approached by Walt Disney very early on for [[Film/MaryPoppins adapting the premiere novel]], but resisted for decades until financial pressures got her to cave in. This led to the development of the movie, and while everyone else was impressed, it made an opposite impression on her because she HATED animation (the standing ovation the movie received did not help her feelings), and she barred Disney from adapting the rest of the book series, although this mandate may have been relaxed with a sequel being announced in 2015. Her dilemma with the movie and her life events leading to it and the original novels is detailed in ''Film/SavingMrBanks'', the first movie to feature an actor (Tom Hanks) playing Walt. |
| 659 | * Creator/PamelaMannFrancis: Script supervisor on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''. |
| 660 | * Creator/PamelaRibon: One of the story writers for ''Moana''. |
| 661 | * Creator/PatVentura: One of the story developers for the Pomp & Circumstance number in ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 662 | * Creator/PatriciaHicks: Associate producer on the Walt Disney Classic, ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', and the production manager on ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. |
| 663 | * Music/PatrickDeremer: Musician who composed the ''Disney Sing-Along Songs'' theme. |
| 664 | * Creator/PatrickMoran: Executive Vice President of ABC Studios. |
| 665 | * Creator/PatrickOsborne: The director of the Disney short ''Feast''. |
| 666 | * Creator/PatrickPacheco: The writer of the ''Waking Sleeping Beauty'' documentary. |
| 667 | * Creator/PaulBrizzi and Creator/GaetanBrizzi: French twins who were two of the directors of ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 668 | * Creator/PaulEkman: Psychologist, emotion research expert, and founder of the Paul Ekman social group, he was a consultant for the Emotions of ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''. |
| 669 | * Creator/PaulFelix: Production designer for ''Lilo & Stitch''. |
| 670 | * Creator/PaulLee: President of the ABC Entertainment Group until 2016. |
| 671 | * Creator/PaulPressler: The former boss of The Disney Store, he was put in charge of Disneyland in 1996 to help with the construction of what became Disney's Californian Adventure as well as address the lack of parkgoers in recent years (the original idea was for a new Epcot called Westcot, but this was abandoned after Wells and Katzenberg's runs at the company ended). He wound up cutting maintenance and attractions, mostly focusing on shopping. He became boss of the entire theme park division in 2000, but his failed attempt to take this concept further and Californian Adventure hitting an instant AudienceAlienatingEra the minute it opened, along with problems with Eisner, convinced him to pull the plug on his Disney job and never look back; he joined The Gap, and Pressler was succeeded by Jay Rasulo and eventually Tom Staggs, who revitalized the parks, with Staggs becoming president in 2015. Paul Pressler's tenure and the results of it was one of the factors in Eisner leaving the company himself. |
| 672 | * Creator/PaulRudish: Television animator who is the executive producer of the critically, popularly and Emmy/Annie acclaimed new series of ''[[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013 Mickey Mouse]]'' cartoons. |
| 673 | * Creator/PaulSatterfield: One of the writers for ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. |
| 674 | * Creator/PaulSmith: The creator of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' and one of the executive producers of the American version for its first decade. Also the name of a different man who was one of the music composers for ''Snow White''. |
| 675 | * '''Paul Smith:''' Not to be confused with the above, a music composer for the first Disney Animated Masterpieces. |
| 676 | * '''''Creator/PaulWinkler''''': Helped establish Disney in France. |
| 677 | * Music/PeaboBryson: The male vocalist on the end-credits versions of the songs "WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast" and "[[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} A Whole New World"]], which he won Grammys for. |
| 678 | * Creator/PercePearce: Animator who was one of the sequence directors on Walt Disney's Signature Classic, ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs''. |
| 679 | * Creator/PeteDocter: One of the [=MVPs=] at Pixar, he's worked on their movies since the beginning and is the director behind hits ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}''. Since 2018, he is Pixar’s current Chief Creative Officer. |
| 680 | * Creator/PeterDelVecho: Producer of ''Frozen''. |
| 681 | * '''Creator/PeterEllenshaw''': Major matte artist on Walt Disney's studio classics from 1949 to his retirement in 1979. Despite this, he would return to the industry briefly to assist his son Harrison on ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace''. |
| 682 | * '''''Creator/PeterJennings''''': A major personality at ABC until his death in 2005; his long on-air time during the aftermath of DistancedFromCurrentEvents/SeptemberEleventh and other contributions earned him a Disney Legend award posthumously. |
| 683 | * Creator/PeterMontgomery: The creator of the ''Mickey's Fun Songs'' video trilogy; these were folded into the main ''Disney Sing-Along Songs'' series. |
| 684 | * Creator/PeterSSeaman: One of the two screenwriters for ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' and a movie called ''Trenchcoat''. |
| 685 | * Creator/PeterSchneider: Originally a co-worker of Menken and Ashman, he was brought in by Roy E. Disney and Jeffrey Katzenberg to help head up animation. He got tangled up in an infamous fake memo that was sent to Katzenberg and then ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'', but was otherwise effective. He became the studio head in 2000, replacing Joe Roth, but his own budding problems with Eisner convinced him to resign. |
| 686 | * Creator/PeterSohn: Pixar employee who directed ''The Good Dinosaur''. He also is a voice actor for the studio, voicing Emile in "Ratatouille". |
| 687 | * Creator/PeytonReed: The eventual director of ''Film/AntMan1''. |
| 688 | * Creator/PhilDike: One of the story developers for the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor number in ''Fantasia''. |
| 689 | * Creator/PhilHawley: Former senior director of Walt Disney Productions. |
| 690 | * Creator/PhilJohnston: One of the story writers for ''Wreck-It Ralph''. |
| 691 | * Creator/PhilLofaro: Associate producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. |
| 692 | * Creator/PhilSavenick: Writer and producer for the ''Disney Sing-Along Songs'' home video series. |
| 693 | * Music/PhiladelphiaOrchestra: The orchestra led by Leopold Stokowski in ''Fantasia''. When the film hit video in 1991 under the Walt Disney Classics heading, the orchestra sued Disney for half the profits; the case was dismissed with a settlement in 1994. |
| 694 | * Music/PhilipGiffin: Composed the music for ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. |
| 695 | * Creaetor/PhilipLaZebnik: One of the screenwriters for ''Mulan''. |
| 696 | * Creator/PhilippeGas: The general manager of the upcoming Shanghai Disney Resort. |
| 697 | * '''''Creator/PintoColvig''''': Storyman at Disney, and the original voice of WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} and Pluto. He co-directed ''Mickey's Amateurs''. |
| 698 | * Creator/PixoteHunt: Animator who was one of the directors of ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 699 | * '''''Creator/PoulBrahePedersen''''': Helped publish Donald Duck in the Nordic countries. |
| 700 | * Creator/PresAntonioRomanillos: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; one of the characters he animated is Shan-Yu, the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. |
| 701 | * Creator/PrestonBlair: An animator for Disney, later famous for the animation he did for the girl from Tex Avery's "WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood". |
| 702 | [[/folder]] |
| 703 | |
| 704 | [[folder:Q-R]] |
| 705 | * Creator/QuentinTarantino: The eccentric director of several Miramax classics that were distributed by Disney, including ''Pulp Fiction'' and the ''Kill Bill'' movies. |
| 706 | * Creator/RachelField: Children's novelist who wrote the English lyrics for the closing "Ave Maria" number of ''Fantasia''. |
| 707 | * Creator/RandySklar and Creator/JasonSklar: Comedians who hosted the ''Series/CheapSeats'' show on ESPN Classic in the mid 2000's. |
| 708 | * Creator/RajMurari: A co-senior vice president of group publishers at Disney Publishing Group. |
| 709 | * Creator/RalphEggleston: The production designer for ''Inside Out''. |
| 710 | * Music/RalphGrierson: Played the piano for the Rhapsody in Blue number in ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 711 | * Creator/RalphJGuggenheim: Executive at Pixar. |
| 712 | * '''Creator/RalphKent''': Legend in Imagineering and attractions. |
| 713 | * Creator/RamBergman: Hollywood screenwriter who is writing ''Star Wars Episodes VIII & IX''. |
| 714 | * '''''Creator/RandyBright''''': Vice president of development for shows and attractions at Disneyland. |
| 715 | * Creator/RandyCartwright: Animator who has worked with Disney on-and-off; supervising animator of Chief and adult Copper in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', and the Magic Carpet in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. |
| 716 | * Creator/RandyFullmer: Producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'', and artistic coordinator of ''The Hunchback Of Notre Dame'' and ''The Lion King''. |
| 717 | * Creator/RandyHaycock: Animator from the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Clayton (''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''), Kida (''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''), Naveen (''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''), Eeyore (''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011''), and young WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}. |
| 718 | * Creator/RandyParker: Digital production manager of ''Brother Bear''. |
| 719 | * Music/RandyThornton: Producer of the Disneyland soundtrack. |
| 720 | * Music/RayChew: The band leader on ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' on ABC. |
| 721 | * '''Creator/RayWatson''': Disney executive who is partially responsible for Michael Eisner coming to Disney. |
| 722 | * Creator/RaymondSPersi: One of the story writers for the short ''Feast''. |
| 723 | * Creator/RaymondSinger: One of the screenwriters for ''Mulan''. |
| 724 | * Creaetor/RebeccaCline: Director of the Walt Disney Archives. |
| 725 | * Music/ReginaBelle: Performed "A Whole New World" for the closing credits of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' with Peabo Bryson. This is the second song Belle recorded with Bryson; they previously did "Without You" for the infamous ''Film/LeonardPart6'' 5 years earlier. |
| 726 | * Creator/ReginaConroy: Disney Animation short film producer; one of her works is ''The Ballad Of Nessie''. |
| 727 | * '''Creator/RegisPhilbin''': A major personality at ABC, he chaired the morning talk show ''Live with Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly'' and hosted the ABC version of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'', which temporarily got ABC out of the hole and ushered in a new generation of programming. |
| 728 | * Creator/ReggieWilliams: Retired linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals and an ex-member of that city's council who founded Disney's Wide World of Sports in Disney World and then named Vice President of Disney Sports Attractions. He was forced to retire in 2007 when injuries he sustained while in the NFL began to come back. |
| 729 | * Creator/RenuThomas: The Executive Vice President of media operations, engineering and IT at Disney/ABC. |
| 730 | * '''''Creator/RettaScott''''': Disney's first woman animator to receive a screen credit, in ''Bambi''. |
| 731 | * [[Creator/ReubenCannonAndAssociates Reuben Cannon & Associates]]: The U.S. casting directors for ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''. |
| 732 | * Creator/RianJohnson: The director of ''Film/TheLastJedi'', the second installment in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. His last major film prior to that was ''Film/{{Looper}}''; while this movie was distributed by [=TriStar=] Pictures/Sony in most markets, in Italy it was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. |
| 733 | * Creator/RicSluiter: Art director of ''Mulan''. |
| 734 | * Creator/RichFranks: Disney executive who was sent out the door alongside Jeffrey Katzenberg. |
| 735 | * Creator/RichMoore: Animator and Rough Draft Studios partner who directed ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''. |
| 736 | * Creator/RichRoss: Succeeded Dick Cook as studio chief, he oversaw a few big-budget tentpoles, but a few too many tentpole bombings, which culminated in ''Film/JohnCarter'', got him fired and replaced by Alan Horn (the movie's failure also put Ross on the top of John Lasseter's "really deep shit list"); the failure of ''Film/TheLoneRanger'' added an extra nail to that coffin. |
| 737 | * Creator/RichardCreedon: One of the story writers for ''Snow White''. |
| 738 | * '''Creator/RichardFleischer''': A director who helmed a multitude of Disney films, the most notable being ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea.'' He's the son of Fleischer studio founder Max Fleischer, who was a good rival of Disney's for the 1930's. |
| 739 | * Creator/RichardHollander: The producer of the Pixar short ''Presto''. |
| 740 | * '''''Creator/RichardIrvine''''': Senior Imagineer who headed design and planning for Disneyland attractions and then became executive vice president and chief operations officer of Imagineering in 1967. He retired in 1973 and died three years later. |
| 741 | ** Creator/MaggieIrvine: His daughter who joined WDI after him |
| 742 | ** Kim Thomas[=/=]Creator/KimIrvine: Daughter-in-law who is a current art director at WDI. |
| 743 | * Creator/RichardLoomis: Head of marketing for Disney Channels Worldwide until 2016. |
| 744 | * Creator/RichardPurdum: Pupil of Richard Williams who was supposed to direct ''Beauty and the Beast'', but his original version of the film didn't quite fly with studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, who said, "It didn't work at all", and forced a ResetButton on the production (he would do this '''again''' with ''Aladdin'', which led to the elimination of a character from that film). Purdum pulled out of the project, leading to Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise to direct and Katzenberg "buttonholing" Howard Ashman and Alan Menken and getting them to successfully turn the final film into a musical, which would wind up being the first animated Best Picture nominee and Ashman's GrandFinale. Purdum would return to Disney and provide some supplementary animation for ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' a few years later at his own studio (Creator/RichardPurdumProductions). |
| 745 | * Creator/RichardRich: An animator who helmed ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', his next film was ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''. That movie's massive bombing and his headbutting with Peter Schneider led to his termination and having to start his own studio. He fell out of relevance after ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' flopped and earned an anti-animation mandate from the Rodgers and Hammerstein estate. |
| 746 | * Creator/RichardRoeper: A stretch, he's a writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, but he succeeded Gene Siskel as Roger Ebert's critic partner in the ''At The Movies'' program, which was distributed by Disney. |
| 747 | * Creator/RichardWilliams: Worked as a temporary assistant animator time and time again, and was the animation director for ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. |
| 748 | * Creator/RickLaw: Artist who designed a multitude of covers for Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo. Currently a creative manager at Disney Publishing Worldwide. |
| 749 | * Creator/RickReinert: His animation firm helped make the fourth and final main ''Winnie The Pooh'' short, ''Winnie The Pooh And A Day For Eeyore'' (this short has a brand new cast and was made past ''The Many Adventures''' theatrical and VHS release, but is included in the Winnie The Pooh's Storybook Classics series that make up the individual shorts along with the Walt Disney Mini Classics line prior to that). |
| 750 | * Creator/RickyStrauss: Marketing president at the Walt Disney Studios. |
| 751 | * Music/RidersInTheSky: The country western folk singers performed the "Woody's Roundup" song and several additional add-ons, including a "You've Got a Friend In Me" remix, for Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', which propelled them to the national spotlight and earned them a Grammy; these songs have become part of their classic playlist. |
| 752 | * Creator/RitaHsiao: One of the screenwriters for ''Mulan''. |
| 753 | * Creator/RobMinkoff: Began his career in the Studios as an inbetweener on ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''. He helped design the character of Basil in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' and Ursula in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''. He is associated with the character Roger Rabbit as the director of "Tummy Trouble" and "Roller Coaster Rabbit" and co-producer of "Trail Mix-up". He directed ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' with Roger Allers. |
| 754 | * Creator/RobRenzetti: Supervising producer of ''Gravity Falls'' and will executive produce the ''Ducktales'' reboot. |
| 755 | * Creator/RobertAMStern: The designer of several Disney World hotels, most notably the Yacht and Beach Club; these were Eisner's favorite hotels due to their location and design, and got Stern on the board of directors. |
| 756 | * Creator/RobertCormack: A major art director in ''Fantasia'', dealing with the Toccata and Fugue and Nutcracker Suite numbers. |
| 757 | * Creator/RobertCrawford: Wrote the U.S. Air Force/United Nations jingle in ''The Rescuers''. |
| 758 | * Creator/RobertDSanSouci: Children's book author who provided the original concept for the Disney Animated Classic ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' and was a consultant on the film; he died from a head injury in 2014. |
| 759 | * '''''Creator/RobertJani''''': Produced numerous Disneyland festivities and shows. |
| 760 | * Music/RobertKraft: A major record producer for Walt Disney Records. |
| 761 | * Creator/RobertLBaird: One of the screenwriters for ''Big Hero 6''. |
| 762 | * Creator/RobertLanger: Vice president and CFO for Disney-ABC Television Group. |
| 763 | * Creator/RobertMatschullat: Board member at Disney. |
| 764 | * Creator/RobertSGarber: An associate producer on ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. |
| 765 | * Creator/RobertSteinbrecher: One of the two production managers for Walt Disney Picture's first classic, ''Never Cry Wolf''. |
| 766 | * '''Creator/RobertStevenson''': Director of several Disney Live-Action Classics, the most notable being ''Film/MaryPoppins''. |
| 767 | * Creator/RobertTyStanton: Art director for the Disney short ''John Henry''. |
| 768 | * Creator/RobertWatts: Lucasfilm producer who was one of the producers of ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''. |
| 769 | * Creator/RobertZemeckis: The director of ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' and the boss of ImageMovers Digital, which made the 2009 adaptation of ''[[WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol2009 A Christmas Carol]]''. Their next film, ''Mars Needs Moms'', however, tanked heavily and ended the partnership between Disney and Zemeckis prematurely. |
| 770 | * '''''Creator/RobertoDeLeonardis''''': Helped translate various Disney films. |
| 771 | * Creator/RobertsGannaway: The director and lead writer of ''WesternAnimation/PlanesFireAndRescue''. |
| 772 | * Creator/RodTaylor: Narrated ''101 Dalmatians'' as dog Pongo. |
| 773 | * Creator/RogerAllers: Animator who co-directed ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' with Rob Minkoff. |
| 774 | * '''Creator/RogerBroggie''': The original Imagineer, Broggie helped make special effects and model trains prior to Disneyland's conception. Most notably, he and Wathel Rogers invented the audio-animatronic. |
| 775 | * Creator/RogerEbert: A stretch; the famed critic worked for the Chicago Sun-Times, but his review show with Gene Siskel and then Richard Roeper was distributed by Disney. |
| 776 | * Creator/RogerHector: Director of product development for Walt Disney Computer Software from 1989 to 1993. |
| 777 | * '''Creator/RollyCrump''': Major Imagineer who designed a good chunk of Disneyland attractions and shops, including It's a Small World. |
| 778 | * Creator/RonClements: Assistant and animator on ''Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', ''Film/PetesDragon1977'', ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''. He, along with John Musker, directed ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''. |
| 779 | * '''Creator/RonDominguez''': Former vice president of Walt Disney Attractions. |
| 780 | * Music/RonJones: The music composer for ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''. |
| 781 | * '''Creator/RonLogan''': The first president of the reborn Disney Theatrical Group, which was revived by Peter Schneider and Thomas Schumacher with Roy Disney and Jeffrey Katzenberg supervising; their first play back was the stage adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. He is also responsible for producing a lot of live entertainment projects at the Disney Theme Parks, including Fantasmic!. |
| 782 | * Creator/RonMeurin: Story developer for the Piano Concerto No. 2 number in ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 783 | * Creator/RonSchneider: Played the Dreamfinder at EPCOT's Journey Into Imagination. |
| 784 | * Creator/RonaldLIden: Senior vice president of global security at Disney. |
| 785 | * Creator/RonnieDelCarmen: Co-director and one of the story writers for ''Inside Out''. |
| 786 | * Creator/RonnieScrewvala: Executive at UTV Software Communications. |
| 787 | * '''''Creator/RooneArledge''''': President of ABC Sports from 1968 to 1986, president of ABC News from 1977 to 1998. |
| 788 | * Creator/RoyConli: Producer of several Disney Animated Classics such as ''Big Hero 6''. |
| 789 | * '''''Creator/RoyWilliams''''': Worked on a few Disney shorts before becoming the senior Mouseketeer on ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' for 4 seasons. Died in 1976. |
| 790 | * Creator/RubenAquino: Animator who worked on Ursula in ''The Little Mermaid'', he sadly got laid off in 2013 alongside Ranieri. |
| 791 | * Creator/RubenProcopio: Clean-Up supervisor on ''Mulan''. |
| 792 | * Creator/RuneBrandtBennicke: Major character designer on ''Brother Bear'. He animated Tug & Koda's mother in this film. |
| 793 | * Creator/RussEdmonds: The supervising animator for a lot of characters from the 2D Disney Animated Classics; one of them is Phoebus from ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''. |
| 794 | * Creator/RussellHall: Supervising animator on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''. |
| 795 | * Creator/RussiTaylor: The voice of Minnie Mouse, and the wife of Mickey Mouse voice Wayne Allwine until his death in 2009. |
| 796 | * Creator/TheRussoBrothers: Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse directors. |
| 797 | * Creator/RuthLambert: Casting director for ''Mulan'' and ''Tarzan''. |
| 798 | * '''Creator/RuthieTompson''': Scene planner and final checker for animation cels. |
| 799 | * Creator/RyanLissack: The Chief Technology Officer of Maker Studios. |
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| 801 | |
| 802 | [[folder:S]] |
| 803 | * Creator/SaaschkaUnseld: The director and writer of the Pixar short ''The Blue Umbrella''. |
| 804 | * Creator/SalvadorDali: Alright, this is a stretch, as he didn't actually work for Disney so much as he did a collaboration with Walt on his animation project "Destino"--which wasn't finished until ''2003''. |
| 805 | * '''[[Music/SalvatoreCamarata Salvatore "Tutti & Toots" Camarata]]''': The man who founded Disneyland Records and supervised several recordings of classic Disney soundtracks. |
| 806 | * Creator/SamArmstrong: Storyman and background artist from 1934 to 1941, director of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. |
| 807 | * '''Creator/SamMcKim''': Sketched various Disneyland rides and maps. |
| 808 | * Music/SammyFain: Wrote the Oscar-nominated "Someone's Waiting For You" from ''The Rescuers''. |
| 809 | * [[Creator/SanfordLitvack Sanford "Sandy" Litvack]]: A former Disney executive who was a competitor to Jeffrey Katzenberg and then Michael Ovitz for the president's position at Disney. He earned an acting chief operation officer job after Ovitz's acrimonious departure and became a co-vice chairman in 1999, but he was forced out of the company in 2000. |
| 810 | * Creator/SanjayPatel: The director of the Pixar short ''WesternAnimation/SanjaysSuperTeam'', which came from Patel's childhood. |
| 811 | * Creator/ScottDerrickson: Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse director. |
| 812 | * Music/ScotStafford: Composed the music for Pixar's short ''Presto''. |
| 813 | * Creator/SeanBailey: The current president of production at Walt Disney Pictures. |
| 814 | * Creator/SeanMcGrath: The VFX coordinator of Marvel films since Disney took over the company, and for other Disney properties. |
| 815 | * Creator/ShaneHoughton: Co-creator of ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' |
| 816 | * Creator/ShaneMorris: One of the writers of ''Frozen''. |
| 817 | * Music/ShelbyFlint: Sung the songs in ''The Rescuers''. |
| 818 | * Creator/ShelleyMiles: Former VP/GM of Disney Software/Disney Music. |
| 819 | * Creator/SherylSandberg: Current board member at Disney. |
| 820 | * Creator/ShinjiHashimoto: The man who came up with the original concept for ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''. |
| 821 | * Creator/ShirleyPierce: Screenwriter who dealt with the Disney short ''John Henry''. |
| 822 | * Creator/SidBass: Became the majority stockholder of Disney in the 80's and was directly responsible for Eisner's rise. The 9/11 [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents/SeptemberEleventh attacks]] forced him to sell out. |
| 823 | * Creator/SiddharthRoyKapur: The CEO of Disney subsidiary UTV Software Communications. |
| 824 | * Creator/SimonKinberg: This producer is normally involved with Fox and their separate Marvel universe which, apart from ''Film/Deadpool2016'', Disney/Marvel proper is not fond of, but he IS involved with Disney as a major player in the [[Film/Cinderella2015 remake]] of Walt Disney's Classic ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'', as well as being a creative consultant on ''The Force Awakens'' and being an executive producer of ''Star Wars Rebels''. |
| 825 | * Creator/SimonWells: Supervising animator on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' and the director of ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms''. |
| 826 | * Creator/SkarpiHedinsson: The chief technology officer at Disney/ABC Television. |
| 827 | * Creator/StanKinsey: Executive of technology during the early 80's who initially wanted to move into animation with Pixar right at 1984, but clashed with Jeffrey Katzenberg over the subject. Kinsey resigned, but Katzenberg backpedaled and allowed the CAPS system into future Disney productions anyway, with Bob Iger purchasing Pixar in the end. |
| 828 | * '''Creator/StanLee''': The founder of Marvel Comics and Studios, he makes cameos in every Marvel film and is an executive producer on them. |
| 829 | * Creator/StanSpohn: One of the background painters for ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' in ''Fantasia''. |
| 830 | * Creator/StanleyGold: Friend of Roy E. Disney and Disney executive who coordinated the "Save Disney" campaigns with him. |
| 831 | * Creator/StephaneSainteFoi: Animator, beginning as part of the team who animated Ariel in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''; supervising animator of Nani Pelekai in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''. |
| 832 | * Creator/StephenARotter: Award winner who was one of the editors on ''Enchanted''. |
| 833 | * Creator/StephenAnderson: Director of ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' and story supervisor of ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''. |
| 834 | * [[Creator/StephenBollenbach Stephen "Steve" Bollenbach]]: A former executive who started with serving ice cream at Disneyland and in the 80's and early 90's worked for Marriott, Holiday Inn and Creator/DonaldTrump before working at Disney for a year and helping with the ABC takeover. He left the next year and joined Hilton. Bollenbach died in 2016. |
| 835 | * Creator/StephenScott: Art director on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''. |
| 836 | * Creator/SteveBornstein: Ex-CEO of ESPN, now at Creator/{{Activision}}. |
| 837 | * Creator/SteveBurke: Joined Disney in 1992 and helped with the development of The Disney Store prior to the Euro Disney project. After getting put on ABC, he resigned and moved to the Comcast cable company, which attempted to take over the Walt Disney Company in 2004 but failed, instead merging with Universal; Burke took over the doddering NBC in 2011 and is their current CEO. |
| 838 | * '''''Creator/SteveJobs''''': The boss of Pixar and Apple Computers; he purchased the firm from George Lucas in the 80's, and hired John Lasseter to run it alongside Ed Catmull. They eventually made a landmark deal with Disney and created ''Toy Story'', and following Jobs and Lasseter's feud with Disney boss Michael Eisner and his rivals, were indirectly partially responsible for Eisner's exit from the company; Disney purchased Pixar afterwards and put Lasseter back in charge of animation and creativity and making Jobs the largest shareholder in the company until Jobs's death in 2011. |
| 839 | * Creator/SteveLevitan: The co-creator of one of ABC's modern classics, ''Series/ModernFamily''. |
| 840 | * Creator/SteveMcBeth: Former president of Creator/DisneyInteractiveStudios[=/=]Walt Disney Computer Software |
| 841 | * Music/SteveNelson: Co-composer of the theme music for ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. |
| 842 | * Creator/StevePilcher: Production designer on ''Finding Dory''. |
| 843 | * Music/SteveRucker: Provided additional music for the first season of ''Ducktales'' and wrote music for Disney's ''Gummi Bears''. |
| 844 | * Creator/SteveStarkey: Assistant producer on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''. |
| 845 | * Creator/SteveWhitmre: The puppeteer of Kermit the Frog, Beaker, Statler and others in the Muppet films done by Disney. |
| 846 | * Creator/StevenChorney: Designed the poster for ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' amongst other Disney designs. |
| 847 | * Creator/StevenKeller: Disney animation employee; one of his jobs was producing the Walt Disney Mini Classic ''John Henry''. |
| 848 | * Creator/StevenSpielberg: While Spielberg has mostly associated himself with rival Creator/{{Universal}} (he got his start there in the 70's, during Disney's Dark Age), he has worked as the executive producer of one of Disney's landmark films, ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. He's also a good friend of George Lucas and directed the ''Indiana Jones'' movies (which started at Paramount while that studio employed Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who took over Disney right after the [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom second]] ''Indiana Jones'' movie hit theaters). Friends with studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, the two formed [=DreamWorks=] in 1994 after Katzenberg walked out of Disney, broke up somewhat 10 years later, and the live-action [=DreamWorks=] and Spielberg would enter a 7-year distribution deal with Disney [[note]] the same period of length as the Walt Disney Diamond Editions "Untouchables" series that are the main Disney Animated Classics up to Katzenberg's exit [[/note]] which ended with ''Film/TheBFG'', which Spielberg directed before having his company being distributed by Universal, his old home. Spielberg, however, is still on call for future ''Indiana Jones'' films. |
| 849 | * Music/StevenTyler: The frontman for the legendary rock/metal band Aerosmith, whose soundtracks are used by Disney in Disney World and on Disney Infinity and ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''. |
| 850 | * Creator/StevieWermers: Animator at Disney who worked on a few features and directed the Goofy short ''How To Hook Up Your Home Theater''. |
| 851 | * Music/{{Sting}}: Member of The Police who was contracted by Disney to compose music for ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen Kingdom of the Sun]]''. When this film hit troubled waters and prompted Michael Eisner to threaten a shutdown to the film's directors' faces, it got one of the most noteworthy [[{{Retool}} retoolings]] in Disney's history, sending a good chunk of its crew down the valley to other projects and dropping almost all of Sting's work except for two songs, though he remained part of what became the Walt Disney Classic ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''. |
| 852 | * [[Creator/StuartBloomberg Stuart "Stu" Bloomberg]]: Major force at ABC during the late 90's, but this was when the network was slumping. In 2001, he got hailed by a San Francisco columnist as the [[MedalOfDishonor "worst executive of the year"]] when ''Millionaire's'' strength started to really ebb and sent ABC back into the hole, prompting Disney to fire him only days after he signed an expensive contract with them (which they had to eat). ABC's severe slump became one of the factors in Eisner following Bloomberg out the door a few years later. |
| 853 | * Creator/StuartBuchanan: Disney animation staff member who voiced the Huntsman in ''Snow White'', as well as Goofy on the Mickey Mouse radio show. |
| 854 | * Creator/SueBeaMontgomery: Manager of post production on ''The Emperor's New Groove'' and ''Lilo & Stitch''. |
| 855 | * Creator/SusanArnold: Board member at Disney. |
| 856 | * Creator/SusanHarris: The creator of Disney/Touchstone's classic show ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' starring Creator/BettyWhite, Creator/BeaArthur and Creator/EstelleGetty. |
| 857 | * Creator/SusanMcKinsey Goldberg: Art director for the Rhapsody in Blue number in ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 858 | * Creator/SusanODay: Chief Information Officer of Disney. |
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| 860 | |
| 861 | [[folder:T]] |
| 862 | * Creator/TDanielHofstedt: Animator who was part of the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of Ben and Lon in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'', Mr. Arrow in ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', and The Emperor in ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. |
| 863 | * Creator/TabMurphy: Writer who wrote several Disney Renaissance films such as ''The Hunchback Of Notre Dame''. |
| 864 | * Creator/TadStones: Creator of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' and ShowRunner on shows like ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' series and ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries''. Went on to direct two animated ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' DTV movies. |
| 865 | * Creator/TaikaWaititi: Director of ''Film/ThorRagnarok''; also wrote the initial draft of ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}''. |
| 866 | * Creator/TaniaSteele: Former vice president and spokesperson of Creator/WaltDisneyHomeVideo. |
| 867 | * Creator/TedBerman: One of the co-directors of ''The Black Cauldron''. He had retired from Disney prior to the 1984 management shift, and the film's failure [[CreatorKiller ensured he would stay retired]]. |
| 868 | * Creator/TedSears: A key member of Walt's team who was involved with writing. |
| 869 | * Creator/TeddyNewton: A key member of Pixar who directed their Mini Classic ''Day And Night''. |
| 870 | * Creator/TerryGilkyson: Composer of several songs on projects during Walt's life and Reithermann's tenure. |
| 871 | * Creator/TerryNaughton: One of the story developers for the Pomp & Circumstance number in ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 872 | * Creator/TerryNotary: Prominent stuntman, stunt coordinator and movement coach in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. He also provides the voice of Cull Obsidian in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. |
| 873 | * Creator/TetsuyaNomura: Creator/SquareEnix game designer who is the director of the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' RPG franchise for Disney. |
| 874 | * Creator/TheodoreAnthonyLeeTy: Animated Captain Gantu in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch''. |
| 875 | * Creator/ThomEnriquez: Directing animator for ''The Prince And The Pauper''. |
| 876 | * Music/ThomSharp: Co-composer of the theme music for ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. |
| 877 | * Creator/ThomasCardone: Co-art director on ''The Emperor's New Groove''. |
| 878 | * '''Creator/ThomasMurphy''': Former boss of ABC who joined the Disney board of directors when Disney purchased ABC. He left the company at some point. |
| 879 | * Music/ThomasSchumacher: Musical director at Disney Animation. He transferred to their Broadway productions in the 2000's, after serving as producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', executive producer of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', and President of Walt Disney Animation. |
| 880 | * [[Creator/ThrontonHee Thornton "T.Hee" Hee]]: Worked for Disney as a caricaturist, stylist, director, and story artist. He co-directed the "Dance of the Hours" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', directed the Honest John and Gideon sequence in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'', and worked on story in ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic''. |
| 881 | * Tim Allen: Not to be confused with the actor, he's been an animator for several Disney films from the 90's and onward, including working on Gaston for ''Beauty and the Beast'', Pumbaa for ''The Lion King'', Kuzco for ''The Emperor's New Groove'', and Tiana for ''The Princess and the Frog''. |
| 882 | * Creator/TimBurton: Hired to be part of the concept staff on ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron''; the experience led to him bolting from Disney before the 1984 management shift. He also made two short films at Disney, ''Vincent'' and ''Frankenweenie,'' and has directed films for Disney since the early 90's; a live-action version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' is his current project. |
| 883 | * Creator/TimHodge: Animator during the Disney Renaissance. |
| 884 | * Creator/TimMertens: Editor of ''Wreck-It Ralph''. |
| 885 | * Creator/TobyBluth: The late brother of Don Bluth, who worked on a handful of Disney Theme Park attractions and a few Disneytoon productions such as ''Mickey, Donald & Goofy: The Three Musketeers''. |
| 886 | * Creator/ToddLieberman: Co-worker of David Hoberman who co-produced ''Film/TheMuppets2011'' with him. |
| 887 | * Music/TomAdair: Composed the songs for ''Sleeping Beauty''. |
| 888 | * Creator/TomBancroft: Animator during the Disney Renaissance; supervising animator of [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Mushu]]. |
| 889 | * Creator/TomBergeron: The current host of ABC's ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' and ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos''. |
| 890 | * Creator/TomBrevoort: Executive editor and senior vice president of publishing at Marvel Worldwide. |
| 891 | * Creator/TomCodrick: One of the art directors on ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' from ''Fantasia''. |
| 892 | * Creator/TomCohen: VP of production at Marvel. |
| 893 | * Creator/TomFitzgerald: Veteran Imagineer who now handles creative direction at Epcot. '''He''' is the one who wrote the iconic "If you can dream it, you can do it" line, which was originally used in the 1980's for Horizons, long after Walt had died. |
| 894 | * Creator/TomGately: Lead animator of Tanana in ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear''. |
| 895 | * Creator/TomMacDougall: The music supervisor for ''Wreck-It Ralph'' and the music production manager on ''Tarzan''. |
| 896 | * '''Creator/TomMurphy''': Vice president of Capital Cities/ABC Inc., oversaw the company's growth. |
| 897 | * '''Creator/TomNabbe''': Played Tom Sawyer as a boy on Tom Sawyer Island, later managed other attractions. |
| 898 | * Creator/TomStaggs: Was hired by Disney in 1990, he became the Chief Financial Officer in the mid 2000's, before swapping his job for the theme park side of things; after a long time, he took the President and Chief Operating Officer position after Iger left it vacant following Eisner's ouster (Iger had taken the position originally after Frank Wells died and after Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Ovitz couldn't claim it.) He sadly lasted just over a year before '''he''' found himself unable to hold onto the position and subsequently resigned. |
| 899 | * Creator/TomWilhite: Was the studio head until the 1984 management shift. He had to give up his position to Jeffrey Katzenberg. |
| 900 | * Creator/TomWolber: The president of Disneyland Paris, aka, Euro Disney. |
| 901 | * Music/TommyTallarico: Music composer, video game critic/host and cousin of Steven Tyler who composed the music for the Virgin Interactive Disney games in the early 90's. |
| 902 | * '''Creator/TonyAnselmo''': The current voice of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, having been so since 1985, and even before that, animating the duck in ''Mickey's Christmas Carol'' and then in ''The Prince and the Pauper''. |
| 903 | * Creator/TonyBancroft: Animator during the Disney Renaissance (supervising animator of [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Pumbaa]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kronk]]) and twin brother of Tom Bancroft; One of the co-directors of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''. |
| 904 | * '''Creator/TonyBaxter''': Former senior vice president of Disney Imagineering, which involved him overseeing construction of Ride/JourneyIntoImagination, Ride/BigThunderMountainRailroad, Ride/StarTours, Splash Mountain, The Ride/IndianaJonesAdventure, and Disneyland Paris among other projects. |
| 905 | * Creator/TonyFucile: The supervising animator for [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Esmeralda]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Mufasa]]. |
| 906 | * Creator/TonyGilroy: Was brought in by Disney to help rewrite the final screenplay of ''Rogue One'' during the film's reshoots. |
| 907 | * Creator/TonyLMarino: Storywriter for Disney; one of his works is ''WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol''. |
| 908 | * Creator/TonySmeed: Co-head of animation on ''Zootopia''. |
| 909 | * Creator/TonyStanley: Lead animator of Rutt the moose in ''Brother Bear''. |
| 910 | * Creator/TonyTo: President of production and development at Lucasfilm. |
| 911 | * '''Creator/ToshioKagami''': CEO of Tokyo Disney Resort. |
| 912 | * Creator/TracyBalthazorFlynn: The producer of Disneytoon's classic ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}''. |
| 913 | * '''Creator/TyrusWong''': Chinese-born artist who served as main production designer (background department) of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}''. |
| 914 | [[/folder]] |
| 915 | |
| 916 | [[folder:U-V-W]] |
| 917 | * '''''Creator/UbIwerks''''': Co-creator (with Walt Disney himself) of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit. |
| 918 | ** '''Creator/DonIwerks''': Ub's son, he pushed for further technology and a 360-degree camera. He left the company in 1985 after 35 years to start Iwerks entertainment. |
| 919 | *** Creator/LeslieIwerks: Don's daughter and Ub's granddaughter who is a major documentary director for Disney; her filmography includes films like ''Film/ThePixarStory'' |
| 920 | * [[Creator/UgoDOrsi Ugo D'Orsi]]: One of the studio's first effects animators, best known for handling the water effects on "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" on ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. |
| 921 | * Creator/VanceGerry: One of the great Disney artists, working on a number of Disney Animated Classics. |
| 922 | * '''''Creator/VanFrance''''': Founder of the Disney University training program. |
| 923 | * '''''Music/VeseyWalker''''': Bandmaster of the Disneyland Band. |
| 924 | * Creator/VickiDummer: Executive vice president of Times Square Studios, which manages ABC's daytime shows except for ''Live with Kelly (Ripa)''. |
| 925 | * Creator/VictoriaStrouse: One of the story writers for ''Finding Dory''. |
| 926 | * '''Creator/VirginiaDavis''': Child actress who tried out for roles in ''Snow White'' and ''Pinocchio'', but didn't make the cut. She did have a stint in Disney's Ink and Paint division, which won her the second Disney Legend award in 1988 alongside Norman Palmer. |
| 927 | * '''''[[Creator/BillTytla Vladimir "Bill" Tytla]]''''': One of Disney's most skilled animators, doing the animation for Grumpy in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Chernabog in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', and Stromboli in ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}''. Left Disney in the early 40's to work at other studios like Creator/FamousStudios and Creator/{{Terrytoons}} after he became part of the infamous Disney strike, and he regretted never working with Disney again for the rest of his life. |
| 928 | * '''Creator/WallyBoag''': Disneyland performer known for his roles in the Golden Horseshoe Revue and Ride/TheEnchantedTikiRoom who was attached to the character of Tigger in ''Winnie The Pooh and the Blustery Day'', but got replaced by Paul Winchell. Was also something of a mentor to comedian Creator/SteveMartin. |
| 929 | * '''''Creator/WallyFeignoux''''': Helped market Disney in France. |
| 930 | * Creator/WaltKelly: While most known for his ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}'' newspaper comics, he got his start working at Disney. |
| 931 | * Creator/WaltStanchfield: Was part of Disney's masterclasses for years. Much of his advice is included in the Disney book series "Drawn to Life". |
| 932 | * Music/WalterAfanasieff: Recording arranger who was part of the production of the signature songs that Peabo Bryson sung for ''Beauty And The Beast'' and ''Aladdin''. |
| 933 | * '''Creator/WaltPeregoy''': Color and background artist on a handful of Disney projects (e.g. ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone''). |
| 934 | * Music/WalterSheets: Provided orchestrations for ''Robin Hood'' and ''The Love Bug'', among others. |
| 935 | * Creator/WarrenSpector: The boss of Junction Point Studios and the man behind the ''Epic Mickey'' games; the second one, sadly, got Junction Point shut down and led to Spector being fired. |
| 936 | * Creator/WathelRogers: Co-created the Audio Animatronic with Roger Broggie. |
| 937 | * Creator/WayneAllwine: The official voice of Mickey Mouse from 1977-2009 |
| 938 | * Creator/WebbSmith: Storyman, he is credited with coming up with the idea of storyboards. |
| 939 | * Creator/WesAnderson: Directed a few film that were released by Touchstone. |
| 940 | * Creator/WesCraven: The director of the classic ''Film/{{Scream}}'' trilogy, which was originally distributed by the Walt Disney company in the 1990's after Jeffrey Katzenberg had made a deal with production company Miramax Films/Dimension Films, who made these movies. |
| 941 | * '''''Creator/WilfredJackson''''': Animator for several Disney features, including ''Lady And The Tramp''. |
| 942 | * Creator/WillFinn: Supervising animator for Cogsworth on ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Iago on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and Laverne on ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. Co-director of ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange''. |
| 943 | * '''''Creator/WilliamCottrell''''': Animator who was one of the sequence directors on Walt Disney's Signature Classic, ''Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs'', also of the screenwriters for ''The Reluctant Dragon''. |
| 944 | * '''''[[Creator/WilliamEverettPotter William Everett "Joe" Potter]]''''': The man built much of the underground infrastructure for Walt Disney World. |
| 945 | * '''''[[Creator/WilliamGarity William "Bill" Garity]]''''': Inventor and technician who created the multiplane camera and the stereo system "Fantasound" at Disney. |
| 946 | * Creator/WilliamReeves: One of the original members of Pixar who produced ''Luxo Jr.'' alongside Lasseter and assisted with their films up to ''Ratatouille''. |
| 947 | * '''Creator/WilliamSullivan''': Operations supervisor at Disneyland, later performed supervisory work for Walt Disney World. |
| 948 | * Creator/WinkMartindale: Game show host who helmed ''Series/{{Debt}}'', which was produced by Disney's Buena Vista TV unit. |
| 949 | * '''''Creator/WinstonHibler''''': Story supervisor for ''Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day'' and the narrator on several Disney movies such as the ''True-Life Adventures''. |
| 950 | [[/folder]] |
| 951 | |
| 952 | [[folder:X-Y-Z]] |
| 953 | * '''[[Creator/XavierAtencio Xavier "X" Atencio]]''': Inbetweener and assistant animator on ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. He also wrote the scripts for the original ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' and ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' attractions, as well as writing ''Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a Pirate's Life for Me'' and ''Grim Grinning Ghosts''. |
| 954 | * '''''Creator/YaleGracey''''': Writer, imagineer, and layout artist for several Disney films and theme park attractions |
| 955 | * Music/YefimBronfman: Played the piano for the Piano Concerto No. 2 number in ''Fantasia 2000''. |
| 956 | * Creator/YnonKreiz: Co-chairman and CEO of Maker Studios. |
| 957 | * Creator/YokoShimomura: Japanese RPG music composer, she is the person responsible for the music of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' as well as Nintendo's ''Mario & Luigi'' series and ''Super Mario RPG''. She had previously composed the 8-bit music for Disney/Capcom's NES Game ''VideoGame/AdventuresInTheMagicKingdom''. |
| 958 | * Creator/YoshimichiTamura: The supervising animator for Helga Sinclair in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''. |
| 959 | * Creator/ZeniaBMucha: Executive vice president and chief communications officer at Disney. |
| 960 | [[/folder]] |
| 961 | [[/index]] |
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