George Sanders - my 200th pick to be named a Disney Legend

George Sanders sits at the 200th spot of my list for people deserving to be named Disney Legends. He was a Russian-born English film actor who voiced Shere Khan in The Jungle Book and played the villainous gun salesman from In Search of the Castaways, Thomas Ayerton. He got the role through Walt Disney himself as he was a good friend of Walt's and after Walt saw him in the drawings of Shere Khan by animator Ken Anderson. Sanders is the brother of actor Tom Conway who voiced the narrator in Peter Pan and both the Collie and the quizmaster in One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

The fact that Sanders was the voice of the villain in one of the most iconic Disney films of all time, Jungle Book, yet he is not a Disney Legend, and he is number 200 on my list, shows just how many influential and amazing people have not been named to this list.

Now give me a moment to gripe, but it is amazing to me that people like Dick Clark, Oprah Winfrey and Regis Philbin have been named legends. Not exactly the first people to jump to your mind when you think Walt Disney Studios or theme parks.