Mary Wickes - my 298th choice to be named a Disney Legend

Actress May Wickes is my 298th choice to be named a Disney Legend.

For Disney, she served as the live-action model for Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians and lent her voice to Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Laverne would be her final role before her death from complications from surgery on October 10, 1995; she didn't complete all her lines for it, and Jane Withers was brought in to record the rest of them and provided the voice of Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, which was released in 2002, 7 years after Wickes' death.

Wickes is known for her role as Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit with Whoopi Goldberg. She also played Clara in Napoleon and Samantha, Miss Wigginton in Snowball Express, and Katie in the Annette serial on TV's The Mickey Mouse Club.

Tom Tryon - my 297th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Actor Tom Tryon known for playing the title role in the Walt Disney television mini-series Texas John Slaughter (1958–1961). He also played Captain Richmond Talbot in Moon Pilot. Overall he was in 19 episodes of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color television show.

Duncan Marjoribanks - my 296th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Animator Duncan Marjoribanks is my 296th choice to be named a Disney Legend.

His Disney filmography

Year Film Position

1989 The Little Mermaid Directing Animator: Sebastian

1990 The Rescuers Down Under Supervising Animator: Percival C. McLeach

1992 Aladdin Supervising Animator: Abu

1995 Pocahontas Supervising Animator: Governor Ratcliffe

1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Additional Animator

2004 Home on the Range Supervising Animator: Mrs. Caloway

2007 Meet the Robinsons Animator

2009 The Princess and the Frog Supervising Animator: "Big Daddy" La Bouff

Dave Schweninger - my 295th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Imagineer Dave Schweninger is my 295th choice to be named a Disney Legend. Schweninger was responsible for the design of the Audio Animatronic figures, and animation. He ran the animation shop at MAPO - where they built the mechanical design of all the figures. In the late 1960s, David Schweninger worked side-by-side with Marc Davis to bring Davis' characters to mechanical life. Schweninger was involved with the development of many of the animatronic and mechanical effects found in the vintage Disneyland attractions such as Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion. He shares a Main Street window at Disneyland with some other imagineers.

Tom Morris - my 294th choice to be named a Disney Legend

Imagineer Tom Morris pent 42 years with the Disney Company, and he is my 294th choice to be article by author and historian Jim Korkis:

named a Disney Legend. Below is quoted from an

"Morris started at Disneyland in 1973 as a teenager selling balloons for Nat Lewis Balloons, a lessee, because he was underage at the time and couldn't be hired by Disneyland. One of the customers on his paper route, Jack C. Sayers, who was vice president in charge of the Disneyland Lessee Relations at the time, was extremely helpful in him getting that job.

Morris was fascinated by Disney animation and wanted to be an animator or layout artist, but the work he did in high school on architectural and mechanical drafting got him an entry into another division at Disney. By 1979, he had moved into Imagineering, where he was hired as an apprentice show draftsman. His first real assignment was the original Journey into Imagination attraction for EPCOT Center.

Later, Morris was put in charge of all of Fantasyland for Euro Disneyland (now Disneyland Paris), and was the leader of the team responsible for Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant (Sleeping Beauty Castle) after several others had tried to come up with an acceptable design.
From working on Cars Land in Disney California Adventure Park to serving as executive producer for Hong Kong Disneyland, Morris was involved in dozens of both big and small projects throughout his career."

Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman and Mack David - my 291st picks to be named Disney Legends

Lyricists Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman and Mack David are tied at my 291st spot as picks to be honored as Disney Legends.  They all who helped write the songs for Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland.

Songs that were written by all three are -

• Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo - (1948)
• A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes - (1949)
• So This Is Love - (1950)
• A Very Merry Un-Birthday To You - (1951) 

Al Hoffman also wrote - also wrote "A Whale of a Tale" in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Jerry Livingston also wrote also wrote "My Destiny" in the Chip 'n' Dale cartoon "Two Chips and a Miss".

Michael Surrey - my 290th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Animator and storyboard artist Michal Surrey is my 290th choice to be named a Disney Legend.

From the blog 50 most influential Disney animators - Mike Surrey was born around 1964 in Canada and grew up in the Toronto area. Like most aspiring animators from Canada, after high school he set off to Oakville and enrolled in the famous animation program at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. At the beginning of his career Surrey worked as an animation posing artist on low-budget TV shows animated in Canada. After the release of the Little Mermaid in 1989 he realized that there was something special going on at Disney and moved out to California with the ambitions of working there. Mike was hired as an assistant animator on Beauty and the Beast and would follow by working as one of the animators under Glen Keane on the title character in Aladdin. After Aladdin things lined up perfectly and he was assigned the character of Timon the meerkat in the Lion King. Both Nik Ranieri and James Baxter (I also believe I even heard Eric Goldberg) were considered for the role of Timon but Ranieri moved on to Pocahontas and they decided it would be better if Surrey did Timon and Baxter did Rafiki. Timon proved to be a great match for the young animator and the character turned out very well in the finished film. After Lion King Surrey went on to the Hunchback of Notre Dame and supervised the narrator of the film, Clopin the gypsy. This would be followed by supervising Terk in Tarzan, Rourke in Atlantis, and Buck in Home on the Range before leaving the studio for DreamWorks where he animated on Shark Tale. When production started up on the Princess and the Frog Surrey went back to Disney to supervise Ray the fire fly as well as animate Pascal the chameleon in Tangled. In 2010 the Hat Building began to have some down time on the animator end as projects struggled to get out of the development stage making Mike decide to join the crew at DreamWorks to help them on an upcoming animated film.

He is sited as the 32nd most influential animator by that blog.

He said during an interview for Atlantis: The Lost Empire that his Mom idioliazed his work as supervising animator for the villain Rourke because she was a huge fan of James Garner the actor who voices Rourke.

Disney Filmography Edit

Year     Film     Position

1990    The Prince and the Pauper     Animating Assistant

1991    Beauty and the Beast Animating Assistant

1992    Aladdin            Animator: Aladdin

1994    The Lion King   Supervising Animator: Timon

1996    The Hunchback of Notre Dame          Supervising Animator: Clopin

1999    Tarzan Supervising Animator: Terk

2001    Atlantis: The Lost Empire        Supervising Animator: Rourke

2004    Home on the Range    Supervising Animator: Buck

2009    The Princess and the Frog       Supervising Animator: Ray

2010    Tangled           Animator

Evelyn Kennedy - my 289th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Music editor Evelyn Kennedy is my 289th choice to be honored as a Disney Legend. She was involved in the musical portions of the following Disney films:

1981   The Fox and the Hound (music editor)

 1980 Herbie Goes Bananas (music editor)

 1980 The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (music editor)

 1979 The Black Hole (supervising music editor)

 1979 The North Avenue Irregulars (music editor)

 1978 The Small One (Short) (music editor)

 1978 Hot Lead and Cold Feet (music editor)

 1978 The Cat from Outer Space (music editor)

 1978 Return from Witch Mountain (music editor)

 1977 Pete's Dragon (music editor)

 1977 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (music editor)

 1977 A Tale of Two Critters (music editor)

 1977 The Rescuers (music editor)

 1977 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (music editor)

 1976 Freaky Friday (music editor)

 1976 The Shaggy D.A. (music editor)

 1976 Gus (music editor)

 1976 Treasure of Matecumbe (music editor)

 1976 No Deposit, No Return (music editor)

 1975 The Apple Dumpling Gang (music editor)

 1975 Escape to Witch Mountain (music editor)

 1975 The Strongest Man in the World (music editor)

 1974 The Island at the Top of the World (music editor)

 1974 The Castaway Cowboy (music editor)

 1974 The Bears and I (music editor)

 1974 Herbie Rides Again (music editor)

 1973 Robin Hood (music editor)

 1973 One Little Indian (music editor)

 1973 Charley and the Angel (music editor)

 1973 The World's Greatest Athlete (music editor)

 1972 Snowball Express (music editor)

 1972 Run, Cougar, Run (music editor)

 1972 Now You See Him, Now You Don't (music editor)

 1972 Napoleon and Samantha (music editor)

 1972 The Biscuit Eater (music editor)

 1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks (music editor)

 1971 The Million Dollar Duck (music editor)

 1971 Scandalous John (music editor)

 1971 The Barefoot Executive (music editor)

 1970 The Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV Series) (music editor - 1 episode)

- Gifts Are for Giving (1970) ... (music editor)

 1970 The Wild Country (music editor)

 1970 The Aristocats (music editor)

 1970 The Boatniks (music editor)

 1970 King of the Grizzlies (music editor)

 1969 The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (music editor)

 1969 Rascal (music editor)

 1968 The Love Bug (music editor)

 1968 The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (music editor)

 1968 Never a Dull Moment (music editor)

 1968 The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (music editor)

 1968 Blackbeard's Ghost (music editor)

 1967 The Happiest Millionaire (music editor)

 1967 The Jungle Book (music editor)

 1967 The Gnome-Mobile (music editor)

 1967 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (music editor)

 1967 Monkeys, Go Home! (music editor)

 1963-1966 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV Series) (music editor - 13 episodes)

- Savage Sam: Part 2 (1966) ... (music editor)

- Savage Sam: Part 1 (1966) ... (music editor)

- A Tiger Walks: Part 2 (1966) ... (music editor)

- A Tiger Walks: Part 1 (1966) ... (music editor)

- Moon Pilot: Part 2 (1966) ... (music editor)

 1966 Follow Me, Boys! (music editor)

 1966 Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (music editor)

 1966 The Ugly Dachshund (music editor)

 1965 That Darn Cat! (music editor)

 1965 Those Calloways (music editor)

 1964 Mary Poppins (music editor)

 1964 A Tiger Walks (music editor)

 1964 The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (music editor)

 1963 The Sword in the Stone (music editor)

 1963 The Three Lives of Thomasina (music editor - uncredited)

 1963 The Incredible Journey (music editor)

 1963 Summer Magic (music editor)

 1963 Savage Sam (music editor)

 1963 Son of Flubber (music editor)

 1962 The Legend of Lobo (music editor)

 1962 Big Red (music editor)

 1962 Bon Voyage! (music editor)

 1962 Moon Pilot (music editor)

 1961 Babes in Toyland (music editor)

 1961 Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (music editor: Walt Disney Productions)

 1961 The Parent Trap (music editor)

 1961 The Absent Minded Professor (music editor)

 1961 101 Dalmatians (music editor)

 1960 Ten Who Dared (music editor)

 1960 The Hound That Thought He Was a Raccoon (music editor)

 1960 Jungle Cat (Documentary) (music editor)

 1960 Pollyanna (music editor)

 1960 Islands of the Sea (Documentary short) (music editor)

 1960 Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (music editor)

 1959 Mysteries of the Deep (Documentary short) (music editor)

 1959 Darby O'Gill and the Little People (music editor)

 1959 Nature's Strangest Creatures (Short documentary) (music editor)

 1959 The Shaggy Dog (music editor)

 1959 Sleeping Beauty (music editor)

 1958 Tonka (music editor)

 1958 Grand Canyon (Short documentary) (music editor)

 1958 White Wilderness (Documentary) (music editor)

 1958 The Light in the Forest (music editor)

 1957 Old Yeller (music editor)

 1957 Perri (music editor)

 1957 Public Pigeon No. 1 (music editor - uncredited)

 1956 Secrets of Life (Documentary) (music editor)

 1955 Men Against the Arctic (Documentary short) (music editor)

 1955 The African Lion (Documentary) (music editor)

 1955 Lady and the Tramp (music editor)