Joseph Dubin - My 183rd pick to be named a Disney Legend

Joseph Dubin is best known for composing the soundtrack for the Walt Disney films Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Durbin also orchestrated and scored many television series including Zorro and The Mickey Mouse Club.

Other soundtracks he helped compose for were: Lambert the Sheepish Lion, Pluto's Christmas Tree, Out on a Limb, Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom, The African Lion and the Swamp Fox.
He is my 183rd pick to be named a Disney Legend.

Anthony DeRosa - my 182nd pick to be named a Disney Legend

Anthony DeRosa is a Disney animator who has worked at the studio since 1985. He is my 182nd pick to be named a Disney Legend

He is described in the blog  - 50 Most Influential Disney Animators - "Anthony “Tony” de Rosa has been for two decades one of Disney’s best kept and most valuable secrets. He has a higher level of versatility and draftsmanship than almost anyone working at Disney today. De Rosa can easily be described as a modern day John Lounsbery: he shares the master’s range (can go from personality animation to comic animation in a heartbeat) and his solid draftsmanship. His unselfishness and sincerity is equally inspirational."

Disney Filmography

Year Film Position

1985 The Black Cauldron Breakdown Artist: Gurgi

1986 The Great Mouse Detective Key Assistant Animator

1988 Oliver and Company Character Animator

1989 The Little Mermaid Character Animator: Carlotta

1990 The Rescuers Down Under Character Animator: Bernard

1991 Beauty and the Beast Animator: Beast

1992 Aladdin Animator: Aladdin

1994 The Lion King Supervising Animator: Adult Nala

1995 Pocahontas Supervising Animator: Nakoma

1997 Hercules Supervising Animator: Zeus and Hera

2000 Fantasia 2000 Lead Character Animator: Spring Sprite

2001 Atlantis: The Lost Empire Supervising Animator: Mole

2002 Treasure Planet Animator: John Silver

2004 Home on the Range Animator: Maggie

2009 The Princess and the Frog Supervising Animator: Lawrence

2011 Winnie the Pooh Animator: Kanga, Roo, and Piglet

2012 Paperman Final Line Animator

2013 Get a Horse! Animator

2016 Zootopia Animator: Bonnie and Stu Hopps

Joe Flynn - My 181st pick to be named a Disney Legend

Joe Flynn is my 181st pick to be named a Disney Legend.

He was best known for his role in the 1960s ABC sitcom McHale's Navy and appeared in several Walt Disney film comedies. Later in his career, Flynn worked as a voice actor for Disney animated features.

His Disney roles include Mr. Snoops in The Rescuers; Dean Higgins in The Strongest Man in the World, Now You See Him, Now You Don't and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes; Cyrus Hershberger in Superdad; Finley Hooper in The Million Dollar Duck; Francis X. Wilbanks in The Barefoot Executive; P.J. Applegate and Major Philbrick in the Wonderful World of Disney episodes "My Dog, The Thief" and "The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City"; Havershaw in The Love Bug; Rex Williams and TV Commercial Announcer in Son of Flubber, and the host of the Mouse Factory episode "Water Sports".

Writing about his role of Dean Higgins in three Disney films, from the blog Disney Top Ten Lists - "Medfield was Disney's stock college (campus scenes were actually filmed on Disney's studio campus) and had been featured long before Flynn took over. He came to define the face of the college in all three Dexter Riley films. Flynn was a perfect foil for star Kurt Russell, always threatening him with expulsion, yet secretly proud of his schemes. Flynn could do a take of goofy exasperation better than almost anyone."

Sadly, he accidentally drowned in his swimming pool shortly after completing his work on The Rescuers.

Don Bluth - my 180th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Don Bluth is an American animator, film director, producer, writer, production designer, video game designer, and animation instructor who started his career at Disney in 1955, only to leave the company in 1979 and start his own animation studio, Don Bluth Entertainment (formerly Sullivan Bluth Studios) after believing the company had lost its charm when they turned down his pitch for an animated feature-length adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, which he decided to create by himself and a few of his friends at the studio. He is my 180th pick to be named a Disney Legend.

Disney Filmography
Year  Film                                                                   Position
1959 Sleeping Beauty                                                 In-between Artist (Uncredited)
1961 101 Dalmatians                                                  Assistant Animator (Uncredited)
1963 The Sword in the Stone                                     Assistant Animator (Uncredited)
1973 Robin Hood                                                      Character Animator: Robin Hood/Skippy/Sis/Tagalong
1974 Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!                     Character Animator: Rabbit
1977 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh         Character Animator
1977 The Rescuers                                                    Directing Animator
1977 Pete's Dragon                                                 Animation Director
1978 The Small One                                                Director/Animator (Uncredited): Auction scene
1981 The Fox and the Hound                                  Supervising Animator: Widow Tweed (Uncredited)

Royal Clark my 179th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Royal Clark - Secretary-Treasurer to Executive Vice President of WED is my 179th pick to be named a Disney Legend. Royal "Mickey" Clark was Walt Disney's personal family accountant. He joined WED Enterprises in 1952 and worked his way up from Secretary-Treasurer to Executive Vice President. He worked for the Walt Disney Company for 43 years, retiring in 1984.

Clark was also involved as the Treasurer and and later, Vice President for Walt Disney's privately owned company, Retlaw Enterprises. Mr. Clark would often be the person who had to help Walt find the seed money needed for whatever project he was planning. Of course, Roy Disney would often cave in and Royal would find himself transferring whatever project and funding over to Disney Productions.

Royal Clark's early work on Disneyland was so important that he was given a window on Main Street by Walt Disney personally. In fact, his window was there from opening day in 1955. Mr. Clark has passed away last week at the age of 96. His window survives above the Carnation Cafe.

Émile Genest - my 178th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Canadian actor Émile Genest is my 178th pick to be named a Disney Legend. His biggest Disney role was portraying the villain Jacques Lebeau in Nikki, Wild Dog of the North. He also played Emile Fornet in Big Red. He was John Longridge in the Incredible Journey.