Robert Logglia - my 500th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Actor Robert Logglia is my 500th pick to be named a Disney Legend.

He was famous for playing the role of bad guys, gangsters, mobsters, mafia bosses, drug dealers, loan sharks, mercenaries, and a gangster named Salvatore (his actual name) "The Shark" Macelli in Innocent Blood which explains why people in the Walt Disney Studios picked him to give the voice of Sykes, the loan shark gangster, in Oliver and Company. He also played Lew Horner in the 1991 Hollywood Pictures film, The Marrying Man, John McBainbridge in the 1998 Touchstone Pictures film, Holy Man, and Matt in the 1994 Touchstone Pictures film, I Love Trouble.

Loggia’s big acting break and first major role came as the star of the 10-part Disney TV mini-series “The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca,” which aired from 1958 through 1960. The series was edited and released as a full-length movie, “Elfego Baca: Six-Gun Law,” in 1962.

Loggia was tasked with depicting the real-life Elfego Baca, who was legendary throughout New Mexico. Baca was part gunman, part lawman, part lawyer and part politician during the late 1880s/early 1890s.

e will be my last on the list to have his own slot. I plan to do a post with 250 honorable mentions listed alphabetically next.

Ken Page - my 496th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Ken Page is my 496th pick to be named a Disney Legend

He is the voice for Oogie Boogie in Tim Burton's 1993 stop-motion Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas. He later reprised the role for Oogie Boogie in several other Disney productions such as the fireworks display HalloWishes at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, its sister show Halloween Screams at Disneyland, the Haunted Mansion Holiday (also at Disneyland), Oogie Boogie's Freaky Funhouse at Disney's Hollywood Studios and subsequent video games including The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King, The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge, and the Kingdom Hearts series.

He also portrayed the Walrus in the Adventures in Wonderland episodes "I Am The Walrus", "Weed Shall Overcome", "To Tear is Human", "Give Ants a Chance", "Purple Potato Eaters", and "Those Tusks, Those Eyes" and Mayor Warren in the 1989 TV movie, Polly and its 1990 sequel,

Daniel Jue - my 495th pick to be a Disney Legend

As lead creative executive for Disney’s first international resort, Daniel Jue oversees the visioning and development of Tokyo Disney Resort and leads Imagineers in Glendale, Calif., and Tokyo, Japan. He is my my 495th pick to be a Disney Legend.

Daniel began his Disney career in 1988, designing displays for Disney Store locations. He transferred to Walt Disney Imagineering in 1990 as a show set designer, responsible for the look and feel of an attraction’s physical scenes, and worked on such projects as Tower of Terror at Disney Hollywood Studios in Florida, and Indiana Jones™ Adventure at Disneyland Park in California. Daniel later became production designer and field art director for Test Track at Epcot and Pooh’s Hunny Hunt at Tokyo Disneyland, and served in various production design and field art direction roles on several other attractions such as Expedition Everest for Disney Animal Kingdom and the Pirates of the Caribbean enhancements at Disneyland Park and Tokyo Disneyland. Daniel has also been involved with developing tools for programming ride vehicles on such attractions as Toy Story Midway Mania! at Disney California Adventure and Monsters, Inc. Ride & Go Seek! at Tokyo Disneyland. From 2007-2011, he lived in Tokyo as design director of Walt Disney Imagineering Japan. His team recently completed Toy Story Mania! for Tokyo DisneySea and an update to Star Tours for Tokyo Disneyland, and is currently working on an update to that park’s Jungle Cruise attraction.

Ruben Aquino - my 494th choice to be named a Disney Legend

Ruben Azama Aquino is a Filipino-Japanese American character animator, who has worked on many Disney films. He was first hired by Disney Studios in 1982. n March 2013, it was announced that Aquino had been laid off, as well as 8 other animators who worked at the studio, including Nik Ranieri. He is my my 494th choice to be named a Disney Legend.

Credits

Year     Film     Position

1983    Mickey's Christmas Carol        Inbetweener (uncredited)

1985    The Black Cauldron     Supervising Animator: Dallben, Character Animator Fflewddur Fflam and Fair Folk

1986    The Great Mouse Detective    Character Animator: David Q. Dawson

1988    Oliver & Company       Supervising Animator: Francis

1989    The Little Mermaid     Supervising Animator: Ursula

1990    The Rescuers Down Under     Supervising Animator: Jake

1991    Beauty and the Beast Supervising Animator: Maurice

1992    Aladdin            Supervising Animator: Razoul

1994    The Lion King   Supervising Animator: Adult Simba

1995    Pocahontas     Supervising Animator: Powhatan

1996    The Hunchback of Notre Dame          Additional Animator: Frollo

1998    Mulan Supervising Animator: Shang and Fa Li

1999    Tarzan Additional Animator

2000    Fantasia 2000 Additional Animator

2002    Lilo & Stitch     Supervising Animator: Pleakley and David Kawena

2003    Brother Bear   Supervising Animator: Denahi

2007    Meet the Robinsons    Supervising Animator: Mildred and Mr. Willerstein

2009    The Princess and the Frog       Supervising Animator: Eudora and James

2011    The Ballad of Nessie    Animator

2011    Winnie the Pooh         Animator

2013    Frozen    Additional Visual Development