Miguel Ferrer - my 478th pick to be named a Disney Legend

Actor Miguel Ferrer is my 478th pick to be named a Disney Legend

For Disney, he was best known for voicing Shan Yu in the 1998 animated feature Mulan and Delgado in the direct-to-DVD comedy films Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 (replacing Andy Garcia). He also voiced Antaeus in the Hercules episode, "Hercules and the Hostage Crisis".

He also played Ortega Peru in the 1997 comedy film Mr. Magoo, Carl Quigley in the 1994 film Blank Check, Andre Zeller in Desperate Housewives, Tony Castellano in Another Stakeout, and Vice President Rodriguez in the 2013 Marvel action film Iron Man 3.

Bob Iger - my 170th choice to be named a Disney Legend

I really like focusing in on the overlooked people on this blog, but at some point I have the name the obvious ones, and Bob Iger will one day be named a Disney Legend, barring any unforeseen scandal. He is my reluctant 170th pick to be given this honor. He will probably be named shortly after he retires, which he said will be in 2019, but has since changed his mind

From his Wikipedia page:

He is chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company. Before Disney, Iger served as the president of ABC Television from 1994 to 1995 and the president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1995 until Disney's acquisition of the company in 1996.He was named president and COO of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney to shake up the management of the company. As part of his yearly compensation, Iger earned $44.9 million in 2015.

During Iger’s tenure, Disney broadened the company's roster of intellectual properties and its presence in international markets; Iger oversaw the acquisitions of Pixar in 2006 for $7.4 billion, Marvel Entertainment in 2009 for $4 billion, and Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4.06 billion, as well as the expansion of the company's theme park resorts in East Asia, with the introduction of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and Shanghai Disney Resort in 2005 and 2016, respectively. Iger was also a driving force behind the reinvigoration of Walt Disney Animation Studios and the branded-release strategy of its film studio's output. Under Iger's control, Disney has experienced increases in revenue across its various divisions, with the company's market capitalization value increasing from $48.4 billion to $163 billion over a period of eleven years. As a result, Disney has been recognized as one of the "World's Most Reputable Companies" by Forbes (2006–2015), one of "America's Most Admired Companies" by Fortune Magazine (2009–2015), one of the “World's Most Respected Companies" by Barron’s (2009–2014), a “Best Place to Launch a Career” by BusinessWeek Magazine (2006–2010), and a "Company of the Year" by Yahoo Finance (2013).

Alan Silvestri - my 137th choice to be named a Disney Legend

Composer and conductor Alan Zilvestri is my 137th pick to be named a Disney Legend.

For Disney, Silvestri has scored the music for Flight of the Navigator, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Parent Trap, Lilo and Stitch, Stitch! the Movie, A Christmas Carol, The Wild, The Avengers, Captain America: the First Avenger and the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War. He has also composed the scores of several Miramax, Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures films such as Super Mario Brothers, Judge Dredd, Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride II, Outrageous Fortune, Holy Man, and Reindeer Games.

Eleven Disney Legends announced - only three of them were on my list

The Disney Company recently announced their 2017 Disney Legends. They are:

• Mark Hamill || Luke Skywalker in Star Wars 
• Carrie Fisher* || Princess Leia in Star Wars 
• Stan Lee || Marvel Publisher 
• Wayne Jackson || Walt Disney Imagineer (Audio-Animatronics and construction) 
• Clyde “Gerry ” Geronimi* || Animator, 1931-1959; Supervising Director of Sleeping Beauty 
• Manuel Gonzales* || Animator and Comics Artist, 1936-1981 
• Garry Marshall* || Film Director (Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries) 
• Julie Taymor || The Lion King Broadway Director 
• Oprah Winfrey || Because why not?

*deceased at the time of the announcement

UPDATE - Later additions were made to this list and they include actress Whoopi Goldberg and Marvel creator and writer Jack Kirby. Goldberg was on this list at the time of the announcement. Kirby was not, but he was on my radar. He is a great pick to go in with Stan Lee.

The names marked in red are the only names I have included on my list thus far. I had anticipated in including Manuel Gonzales and Wayne Jackson in the top 250. I do have a list of nearly 10,000 names I put together as I put together this blog. All of these names were on the the "Big List." I am going to leave Stan Lee and Gerry Geronimi and just edit them to include the fact they have been "chosen." It will be interesting to see once I get my 250 done, how many get chosen over the years. I will not be including Gonzales or Jackson in the blog now however.