Sunday, July 19, 2009

Walt Disney

"If you can dream it, You can do it."




Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901–December 15, 1966)
Film producer,Co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Walt Disney Productions .


Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created a number of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse. He received fifty-nine Academy Award nominations and won twenty-six Oscars, including a record four in one year,[2] giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, Japan, France, and China.

Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, a few years prior to the opening of his Walt Disney World Resort dream project in Florida.