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Walt Disney Biography, Age, Death, Height, Weight, Family, Wiki & More

Updated On : April 10, 2020

Short Biography

Walt Disney was born on 05-12-1901 in Hermosa, Chicago in the state of Illinois, United States. He was an American Animator, Cartoonist, Film Actor, Film Producer, Film Director, Voice Artist, Writer, Screenwriter, Television Presenter, Television Personality, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur & Co-founder of The Walt Disney Company.

Walt Disney Complete Bio & Career

Walt Disney became an absolute showman within the truest sense of the word. He changed into indeed a pioneering pressure who has changed the arena of animation. He during his profession converted the amusement enterprise drastically. He brought his progressive ideas into consideration and changed the viewing experience amongst target audience. 
 
He changed into worried with the enterprise for almost 5 a long time and together with his vision he modified the manner people looked at cinema as an entire. He is the only liable for the renovation that he introduced into animation enterprise. He started out his career as an animator and soon became an entrepreneur. He became the most great man in American animation enterprise. He alongside along with his brother co-founded one of the biggest manufacturing agency known as Walt Disney Production. His manufacturing house these days has become one in all the most important and the first-rate motion picture production residence of the world. The caricature characters which all of the children throughout the globe have visible growing up along with Donald Duck, Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Popeye and Pluto among others were all his invention. Besides animation also he has contributed massively because it changed into his computerized brain become the only which made the topic park Disneyland. To date, no different man has totally contributed to the animation enterprise as he did.
 
He turned into arguably one of the greatest filmmaker and for his work he gained 7 Emmy awards and 26 (22 Competitive and 4 honorary) Academy awards. Even after his death Walt Disney Studios has continued making movies with equal motive and has branched out to numerous different international locations as nicely apart from America.

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Health Issues, Illness and Death Info

DEATHDAY 15 December,1966 (Thursday)
DEATH PLACE Burbank, California
DEATH COUNTRY United States

Walt Disney Family, Relatives and Other Relations

He was born to Elias Disney and Flora Call. He had 3 brothers named Roy O. Disney, Raymond Arnold Disney, and Herbert Arthur Disney and a sister named Ruth Flora Disney. He was married to Lillian Bound and together the couple had a daughter named Diane Marie Disney. The couple also adopted a daughter named Sharon Mae Disney.

Life's Important Dates Of Walt Disney

Body Measurements

Skin Colour White
Eye Colour Dark Brown
Hair Colour Dark Brown

Personal Info

Home Town Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality American
Religion Christian
Address Los Angeles, California, U.S.
School N/A
College N/A
Qualification N/A
Hobbies Travelling
Debut Disney Studio - 1928
Best Movies Flowers and Trees (1932), The Three Little Pigs (1933), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Dumbo (1941), and Cinderella (1950) among others
Salary N/A
Net Worth N/A
Official Website thewaltdisneycompany.com

Favourites

Favorite Color Black
Favorite Sport Baseball

Shocking / Interesting Facts & Secrets About Walt Disney

  • He worked at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio, as an ad-writer.
  • Impervious to the bankruptcy, he aimed to set up a studio in California. Together with his brother Roy, and Iwerks, he opened Disney Brother’s Studio.
  • In 1925, he recruited ink-and-paint artist Lillian Bound, little knowing then that the two would become lifelong partners.
  • Disney was a shy, self-deprecating and insecure man in private but adopted a warm and outgoing public persona.

Walt Disney Age, Birthday Facts and Birthday Countdown

Walt Disney was 65 years 0 month & 10 days old age.