Richard White - my 149th choice as a Disney Legend

Voice actor Richard White is my 149th pick to be named a Disney Legend. For Disney, he is most famous for voicing the character of Gaston from the Beauty and the Beast franchise. In a 1991 interview with Newsweek promoting the film, White said that he based Gaston on overconfident jocks he had seen during his teenage years and believed that "had Gaston made it to 30, he would have been twice-divorced with possible hypertension problems".

He of course sings in the film, taking part as one of the singers in one of the more memorable villain songs ever, named after his character - Gaston. Some of his lyrics -

When I was a lad, I ate four dozen eggs

Ev'ry morning to help me get large

And now that I'm grown, I eat five dozen eggs

So I'm roughly the size of a barge

He has also been a host of Walt Disney World's Very Merry Christmas Parade. He has voiced Gaston for other shows such as The House of Mouse.

Alex Kupershmidt - my 148th pick as a Disney Legend

Animator Alex Kupershmidt is my 148th pick to be named as a Disney Legend. He is considered one of the best animators in the Disney studio today in both hand-drawn and CGI. He is a graduate of the animation department at the School of Visual arts in New York and joined Disney at the opening of the Florida studio in 1989. His Disney debut was on Roller Coaster Rabbit and it was shortly followed by his position as animator in the Florida Gaston and Aladdin units.

Some of his Disney credits are:

(1990) Roller Coaster Rabbit (Animator)
(1990) The Rescuers Down Under (Animator: Percival C. McLeach)
(1991) Beauty and the Beast (Animator: Gaston)
(1992) Aladdin (Animator: Aladdin)
(1994) The Lion King (Supervising animator: Hyena Clan)
(1998) Mulan (Supervising animator: Khan and General Li)
(2002) Lilo and Stitch (Supervising animator: Stitch)
(2003) Brother Bear (Supervising animator: Koda)
(2005) Chicken Little (Animator)
(2007) Meet the Robinsons (Animator)
(2008) Bolt (Animator)
(2009) The Princess and the Frog (Lead animator: Shadow Demons)
(2010) Tangled ​(Animator)
(2012) Wreck-It Ralph (Additional Animation Support)
(2012) Paperman (Final Line Animator)
(2013) Get a Horse! (Animator)

Fred Kopietz - my 147th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Animator Fred Kopietz is my 147th choice to be named a Disney Legend. Prior to coming to the Disney Studios he worked for Walter Lantz, including some Oswald the Rabbit films. After coming to Disney he worked on several Donald Duck films and shorts, along with some of the classics.  Ward Kimball used Kopietz as his right-hand man on the title song animation of The Three Caballeros.

His Disney credits include:

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV Series) (animator - 1 episode)
- Man on Wheels (1967) ... (animator)

1961 Donald and the Wheel (Short) (animator)

1961 101 Dalmatians (animator - uncredited)

1959 How to Have an Accident at Work (Short) (animator)

1959 Sleeping Beauty (character animator)

1958 Paul Bunyan (Short) (animator)

1955 Lady and the Tramp (animator - uncredited)

1948 The Trial of Donald Duck (Short) (animation)

1947 Crazy with the Heat (Short) (animator)

1947 Sleepy Time Donald (Short) (animator)

1946 Dumb Bell of the Yukon (Short) (animator)

1946 Donald's Double Trouble (Short) (animator)

1945Cured Duck (Short) (animator)

1944 The Three Caballeros (animator - uncredited)