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Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.
Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history. Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.
Actors: Travis Tritt (actor), Ryan Dunlap (actor), Olan Rogers (actor), Tyler Hayes (actor), Logan Sekulow (director), Logan Sekulow (producer), Greg Wilson (actor), Denny Brownlee (actor), Mark Gullickson (actor), William Haynes (producer), Jonathan Schneck (composer), Isaiah Stratton (actor), Jonathan Schneck (actor), Mark Stuart (actor), Wendy Ott (writer),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Family,Actors: Emma Thompson (actress), Paul Trijbits (producer), Rachel Griffiths (actress), John H. Tobin (actor), Christine Langan (producer), Maria Olsen (actress), Bradley Whitford (actor), Kathy Baker (actress), Jason Schwartzman (actor), Andy McPhee (actor), Colin Farrell (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), Tom Hanks (actor), Lori A. Balton (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Newman (composer),
Plot: When Walt Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers' "Mary Poppins," he made them a promise - one that he didn't realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.
Keywords: abbreviation-in-title, character-name-in-title, period-in-title, three-word-titleActors: Philip Glass (composer), János Darvas (director), Rudy Wurlitzer (writer), Marie McLaughlin (actress), Françoise Gazio (producer), Janis Kelly (actress), Isabel Iturriagagoitia (producer), Phelim McDermott (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Purves (actor), Coro Intermezzo (actor), Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid (actor), Dennis Russell Davies (actor), Nazan Fikret (actress), Zachary James (actor), Zachary James (actor),
Genres: Drama, History, Musical,Actors: Brian Kim (miscellaneous crew), Marcus Cohlan (actor), Michael Gaddie (producer), Michael Gaddie (writer), Michael Gaddie (actor), Clifford Parks (actor), Michael Gaddie (editor), Michael Gaddie (director), Michael Gaddie (composer), Jonathan Mitchell (producer), Jonathan Mitchell (actor), Amanda Herzberg (miscellaneous crew), Amanda Herzberg (miscellaneous crew), J.D. Richardson (actor), Alyssa Coates (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Dee Bradley Baker (actor), Corey Burton (actor), Mark Moseley (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Ridley Scott (producer), Melanie Griffith (actress), Brenda Blethyn (actress), Fiona Shaw (actress), James Cromwell (actor), Liev Schreiber (actor), Kerry Shale (actor), Jay Benedict (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), David Suchet (actor), Cyril Shaps (actor), Roy Scheider (actor), John Malkovich (actor), John Altman (composer), Tony Scott (producer),
Plot: Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, anti-semitism, bankruptcy, based-on-documentary, based-on-true-story, censorship, director, film-director, film-industryActors: John Debney (composer), Tippi Hedren (actress), Leslie Iwerks (director), Leslie Iwerks (writer), John Lasseter (actor), Robert Clotworthy (actor), Louis Febre (composer), Leslie Iwerks (producer), Kelsey Grammer (actor), Kelsey Grammer (actor), Leonard Maltin (actor), Chuck Jones (actor), Roy Edward Disney (actor), Richard Fleischer (miscellaneous crew), Ub Iwerks (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Annette Funicello (actress), Eva La Rue (actress), Gary Jones (actor), Shelley Fabares (actress), Hrothgar Mathews (actor), Jay Brazeau (actor), George Touliatos (actor), Louis Ferreira (actor), Len Cariou (actor), Frankie Avalon (actor), Dick Clark (actor), Don S. Davis (actor), Frank Crudele (actor), Claire Riley (actress), Linda Lavin (actress),
Plot: This highly-rated television film covers the life of American movie/TV/pop music idol Annette Funicello. The movie starts with the move of her family from New York to California, where in 1955 shy Annette becomes one of the cast of The Mickey Mouse Club. The movie covers her child stardom, her teen idol years, her singing career with big hits like "Tall Paul", her romance with Paul Anka, her classic beach party films with Frankie Avalon, and her first marriage. It also shows her large comeback in the late 1980s and her second marriage, and the day when she found out she had multiple sclerosis.
Keywords: actress, based-on-book, character-name-in-title, mickey-mouse-club, multiple-sclerosis, teen-idolActors: Ed Begley Jr. (actor), Dom DeLuise (actor), Roy Edward Disney (actor), Rob Minkoff (director),
Plot: A five-minute film for The Disney-MGM Studios combining live-action and animation and featuring cameos. Made live-action directing debut with "Mickey's Audition"; a five-minute film for The Disney-MGM Studios combining live-action and animation and featuring cameos by Mel Brooks, Roy Disney, Dom DeLuise, Ed Begley Jr. and others.
Genres: Short,Actors: William Austin (actor), Leonard Carey (actor), John Abbott (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Murray Alper (actor), George Bruggeman (actor), Kirk Alyn (actor), Don Barclay (actor), George Anderson (actor), Billy Bevan (actor), Henry Armetta (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Eddie Bruce (actor), Maurice Cass (actor),
Plot: Smalltime crookster and showman Jerry Flynn is desperately searching for a new act to promote in order to save him from ruin. He meets a boy on the street who claims to have a dancing caterpillar called Curly. Flynn seizes the opportunity for fame and fortune at Curly's expense.
Keywords: caterpillar, con-trick, dancing-caterpillar, once-upon-a-time-in-the-titleIt's cold outside
Seven months of suicide
I've been in suspended animation
Just like Walt Disney
My only love
Asked for me to wait out there
I waited
Waited but she didn't care
Just like Walt Disney
I'm just thawing out
My fingertips and toes are frozen to the bone
Give me an hour before you throw me in the cold
Ring, ring, ring
Now I hear the phone singing
Calling me
Telling me to start freezing
Just like Walt Disney, yeah
I'm a block of ice
My fingertips and toes are frozen to the bone
Give me an hour before you throw me in the cold
Give me an hour before you pick me up and throw me 'cross the sea