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Friday, December 28, 2018

Brad Garrett - my 484th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Actor Brad Garrett is my 484th pick to be named a Disney Legend.


He had multiple roles in Disney and Pixar media, including Dim in A Bug's Life, Tank in An Extremely Goofy Movie, Bloat in Finding Nemo and its sequel Finding Dory, Auguste Gusteau in Ratatouille, Eeyore in Animated StoryBook: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree Christopher Robin, and Ralph Breaks the Internet, Fred Bedderhead in The Country Bears, and various other roles listed below. He also plays Douglas Fogerty in the ABC TV show Single Parents.
Disney Filmography

    Goof Troop (1992) as the Big Boy Bandit ("To Catch a Goof")
    Bonkers (1993) as the Rat (Babyface)
    The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show (1995) as Commissioner Stress the Gorilla, Shirley Pimple, Wrongo
    Timon & Pumbaa (1995) as Boss Beaver and Judge Rhino
    Mighty Ducks (1996-1997) as Check "Grin" Hardwing
    Quack Pack (1996) as Beef Jerky
    Animated StoryBook: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1996) as Eeyore
    101 Dalmatians: The Series as Buttons ("Cadpig Behind Bars")
    Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) as Uttamatomakkin
    A Bug's Life (1998) as Dim
    Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999) as Orthos (left head)/Guard
    Kiki's Delivery Service as The Baker
    An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) as Tank
    Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000) as Torque
    House of Mouse (2002) as Muncey
    Kim Possible (2002) as Big Mike
    The Country Bears (2002) as Fred Bedderhead
    Finding Nemo (2003) as Bloat
    Porco Rosso (2003) as Mamma Aiuto Boss
    The Pacifier (2005) as Vice Principal Dwayne Murney
    Tarzan II (2005) as Uto
    Ratatouille (2007) as Auguste Gusteau
    Underdog (2007) as Riff Raff the Dog
    Special Agent Oso (2009) as Professor Buffalo
    Tangled (2010) as Hook Hand
    Planes (2013) as Chug
    Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) as Chug
    Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular (2014) as Chug
    Finding Dory (2016) as Bloat
    Christopher Robin /Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) as Eeyore

John Ratzenberger - my 483rd pick to be named a Disney Legend


John Ratzenberger, who is best known for his role as Cliff Clavin on the NBC sitcom Cheers, is my 483rd pick to be named a Disney Legend. He reprised this role for the specials Mickey's 60th Birthday and Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration. He has also voiced many characters in all the Pixar features, with at least one performance on a Disney live-action film.



The running gag of Ratzenberger portraying at least one character in every Pixar movie is referenced during the end credits of Cars; when Mack watches the Cars-parodies of previous Pixar movies, and he thinks that whoever did the voice of Hamm, Yeti, and P.T. Flea (all in car form) were great actors until he realized it was the same voice actor in all those movies and asks, "What kind of a cut-rate production is this?"

P.T. Flea from A Bug's Life is Ratzenberger's personal favorite character of his Pixar roles.

Disney Filmography

    Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Major Bren Derlin
    Mickey's 60th Birthday (1988) - Cliff Clavin
    Toy Story (1995) - voice of Hamm
    That Darn Cat (1997) - Dusty
    A Bug's Life (1998) - voice of P.T. Flea
    Toy Story 2 (1999) - reprises his role of Hamm
    Monsters, Inc. (2001) - voice of the Yeti
    Spirited Away (2001) - voice of the Assistant Manager (2002 Disney dub)
    Finding Nemo (2003) - voice of Moonfish school ("Charade fish")
    The Incredibles (2004) - voice of The Underminer
    Cars (2006) - voice of Mack
    Ratatouille (2007) - voice of Mustafa
    WALL-E (2008) - voice of John
    Up (2009) - voice of Construction Foreman Tom
    Toy Story 3 (2010) - reprises his role of Hamm
    Cars 2 (2011) - reprises his role of Mack
    Brave (2012) - Gordon
    Monsters University (2013) - reprises his role of Yeti
    Planes (2013) - Harland
    Super Buddies (2013) - Gramps Livingstone
    Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) - Brody Enid
    Inside Out (2015) - Fritz
    The Good Dinosaur (2015) - Earl
    Finding Dory (2016) - Bill (Husband Crab)
    Cars 3 (2017) - reprises his role of Mack
    Coco (2017) - voice of Juan Ortodoncia
    Incredibles 2 (2018) - reprises his role of The Underminer
    Toy Story 4 (2019) - reprises his role of Hamm
    Onward (2020) - TBA

Television

    Mickey's 60th Birthday (1988) - Cliff Calvin
    Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration (1990) - Cliff Calvin
    Toy Story Treats (1996) - Hamm
    8 Simple Rules - (2002-2005) - Fred Doyle
    Toy Story Toons (2011-present) - Hamm

Video games

    Toy Story Animated Storybook (1996) - Hamm
    Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure (2003) - Hamm
    The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (2005) - The Underminer
    Cars: The Video Game (2006) - Mack
    Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures - Mack
    Cars Race-O-Rama (2009) - Mack
    Toy Story 3: The Video Game (2010) - Hamm
    Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure (2012) - Hamm
    Disney INFINITY (2013) - Hamm

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Darla K Anderson - my 393rd pick to be named a Disney Legend

She produced the 2010 film Toy Story 3, which was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Picture and which won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Previously, Anderson won a Golden Satellite Award for A Bug's Life, a BAFTA award for A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc. and a Producer's Guild Award for Cars.

The 2008 Guinness Book of World Records lists Anderson as having the highest average movie gross for a producer: $221 million per movie, and in 2011 the Wall Street Journal listed a combined gross for the four movies she's produced of over $2 billion.

Before coming to Pixar in 1993, she worked as an executive producer at Angel Studios. The character Darla in Finding Nemo was created by the director and screenwriter Andrew Stanton to get back at her for playing practical jokes on him. On March 8, 2018, it was announced that after nearly 25 years, Anderson left Pixar to pursue other opportunities.


Filmography
Year Title Role
1995 Toy Story Digital Angel
1997 Geri's Game Special Thanks
1998 It's Tough to Be a Bug Executive Producer

A Bug's Life Producer
2001 Monsters, Inc.
2002 Mike's New Car Special Thanks
2003 Exploring the Reef
2006 Mater and the Ghostlight Executive Producer
Cars Producer
2007 Ratatouille Special Thanks
2009 Up
2010 Toy Story 3 Producer
2011 Hawaiian Vacation Special Thanks
Cars 2
2012 Brave
2013 Monsters University
2015 Sanjay's Super Team
The Good Dinosaur
2016 Finding Dory
2017 Cars 3
Coco Producer


Alvy Ray Smith - my 392nd pick to be named a Disney Legend

Alvy Ray Smith III is an American computer scientist who cofounded Lucasfilm's Computer Division, and Pixar, participating in the 1980s and 1990s expansion of computer animation into feature films. He is my 392nd choice to be named a Disney Legend.


With Ed Catmull, Smith was a founding member of the Lucasfilm Computer Division, which developed computer graphics software, including early renderer technology. As director of the Computer Graphics Project, Smith created and directed the "Genesis Demo" in The Wrath of Khan, and conceived and directed the short animated film The Adventures of Andre and Wally B., starring the animator John Lasseter for the first time.

Smith and Catmull co-founded Pixar in 1986 with financing from Steve Jobs. After the spinout from Lucasfilm of Pixar, he served on the board of directors and was executive vice president. According to the Steve Jobs biography iCon by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon, Alvy Ray quit Pixar after a heated argument with Jobs over use of a whiteboard. It was an unwritten rule that none other than Jobs was allowed to use it, a rule Smith decided to break in front of everyone after Jobs went "total street bully" on him and they ended up screaming into each other's face "in full bull rage". Despite being the co-founder of Pixar, Young and Simon claim that the company has largely overlooked his part in company history since his departure. For example, there is no mention of Smith on the Pixar website.

Ralph Guggenheim is my 391st pick to be named a Disney Legend

Ralph Guggenheim is my 391st pick to be named a Disney Legend. He was hired by Lucasfilm and moved to California in 1980. During his time at Lucasfilm, Guggenheim developed EditDroid, which proved to be a revolutionary film-editing system. After his research lab at Lucasfilm was sold to Steve Jobs and renamed Pixar, Guggenheim continued to work in the world of graphics and animation. Guggenheim, a respected founder of Pixar, eventually became Vice President of Feature Animation and was a lead producer for Toy Story. Guggenheim left the company in 1997 after Disney forced Pixar to remove him as producer from Toy Story 2.

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Cheech Marin - my 381st pick to be named a Disney Legend

Actor and comedian Cheech Marin holds the 381st spot on my Disney Legends Wish list.


His Disney filmography

    1988 - Mickey's 60th Birthday as Janitor
    1988 - Oliver and Company as Tito
    1990 - Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme as the Carnival Barker
    1994 - The Lion King as Banzai
    1998 - It's Tough to Be a Bug! as Chili
    2004 - The Lion King 1½ as Banzai
    2006 - Cars as Ramone
    2008 - Beverly Hills Chihuahua as Manuel
    2009 - Race to Witch Mountain as Eddie
    2011 - Cars 2 as Ramone
    2017 - Cars 3 as Ramone
    2017 - Coco as the Corrections Officer


He has also voiced Banzai the Hyena in the video game Kingdom Hearts and the Animated Storybook. He has voiced Ramone in several video games as well.