Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise - my 52nd choice as Disney Legends

Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise are tied at number 53 for my choice as Disney Legends. The two often worked together as animators and directors for Walt Disney Studios. I hold them in high esteem as directors of Beauty and The Beast - perhaps the greatest animated film of all time.

Trousdale's work with Disney includes animation in the movies The Black Cauldron, Oliver and Company, The Rescuers Down Under, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Prince and the Pauper. He worked as a writer for The Lion King and Atlantis: Milo's Return and was also a director for The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He was a special effects contributor to the live action movie My Science Project. He even ventured in the parks as the pre-show director for the now defunct Epcot attraction Cranium Command. He moved to Dreamworks Studios in 2003.

Wise also directed Beauty and the Beast,  The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He worked as an animator on Disney films such as The Great Mouse Detective, The Brave Little Toaster, Sport Goofy in Soccermania, Oliver and Company, The Rescuers Down Under, The Prince and the Pauper and The Lion King. He helped as a writer for Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He was also the executive producer of Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. He was a voice actor and sequence director for the Epcot attraction Cranium Command. most recently he was the executive producer for Disney's Oceans and as a creative consultant for Chimpanzee.

Eric Goldberg - My 51st choice as a Disney Legend

Eric Goldberg is a Disney animator and director and has worked on such projects as Aladdin, Frozen and Wreck it Ralph. He has also animated extensively for Warner Brothers.

Below is his partial Disney filmography.

1992      Aladdin  Supervising Animator: Genie

1995      Pocahontas         Director

1998      Hercules              Supervising Animator: Philoctetes

1999      Fantasia 2000     Supervising Animator: Duke/Yo Yo Flamingo

2000      Rhapsody in Blue  Animator

2000      Emperor's New Groove   Animator

2005      Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years  Animator

2006       Fox and the Hound 2      Animator

2009      The Princess and the Frog              Supervising Animator: Louis

2011      Winnie the Pooh               Supervising Animator: Rabbit/The Backson

2012      Paperman   Animator

2012      Wreck-It Ralph   Animator: King Candy/ Sour Bill

2013      Get A Horse!       Supervising Animator: Pete/Hay Wagon Band

2013      Frozen   Supervising Animator

2016      Moana  Animator: Maui Tattoo's

Ralph Wright - my 50th choice as a Disney Legend

Ralph Wright is my 50th pick to receive the Disney Legend honor. He was a Disney animator and storyboard writer who is best known for providing the gloomy, sullen voice of Eeyore from the popular Winnie-the-Pooh franchise. Wright came to the studio circa 1940 and became well known throughout the ensuing decades for his endearingly gloomy and sullen personality traits as well as his bass voice. He turned out to be a natural model for Eeyore when the studio began development on Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.

He, along with his fellow Disney contemporaries, was a pioneer in the use of "gags" within cartoons, often acted out in front of the "story board," a bulletin board pinned with sequential sketches of the cartoon's scenes. This technique still in use today in most major animation studios. Information taken from his Wikipedia page.

Disney Filmography

• Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore 1983 - voice: Eeyore (final role)
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - 1977 - story, voice: Eeyore, performer: "Hip Hip Pooh-ray!"
• Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! - 1974 - story, Eeyore does not appear
• Rogue's Rock - 1974 - The Wonderful World of Disney - writer
• The City Fox - 1972 - The Wonderful World of Disney - contributing writer
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks - 1971 - animation story
• The Aristocats 1970 - writer/storyboard team
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) - story, voice: Eeyore
• The Jungle Book 1967 - writer/storyboard team, voice: Gloomy elephant (uncredited)
• Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree 1966 - story, voice: Eeyore
• Aquamania 1961 - story
• Nikki, Wild Dog of the North - 1961 - writer/storyboard team
• Sleeping Beauty - 1959 - additional story
• Perri - 1957 - Director, writer, storyboard team
• Lady and the Tramp - 1955 - writer/storyboard team
• Don's Fountain of Youth 1953 - story
• Peter Pan - 1953 - writer/storyboard team
• Trick or Treat - 1952 - story
• Plutopia - 1951 - story
• Dude Duck - 1951 - story
• Lambert the Sheepish Lion - 1951 - story
• Crazy with the Heat - 1947 - story
• Song of the South - 1946 - cartoon story
• Donald's Crime - 1945 - story
• The Eyes Have It - 1945 - story
• The Three Caballeros - 1944 - writer
• Bambi 1942 - story developer
• Saludos Amigos - 1942 - writer/storyboard team
• How to Ride a Horse 1941 - writer/storyboard team
• The Art of Self Defense 1941 - animator, story
• Goofy's Glider 1940 (Short) - animator, story

Marcelite Garner - My 49th choice as a Disney Legend

Marcelite Garner is perhaps best known as one of the first voices of Minnie Mouse. She was also the voice of Clarabelle Cow. She has been partially credited with developing Minnie's personality. Garner started working at Walt Disney Productions on February 17, 1930 after interviewing the previous year. She worked in the ink and paint department, first working as a cell painter and later as an inker. The studio at the time was a small organization of about 35 employees.

After Garner had been working about six months, she auditioned for the voice of Minnie Mouse at the studio's sound stage, then located on Melrose Avenue. Because Minnie was to play a Mexican in the upcoming film The Cactus Kid, Burt Gillett had asked the Ink and Paint department, which was entirely women, if anyone could speak Spanish. Only Garner and another woman responded, and when the other woman was unwilling to sing, Garner was cast for the role. She went on to voice Minnie in more than 40 films over a decade. Occasionally Garner also provided additional voices, such as cat meows (Three Orphan Kittens, Lend a Paw), dog barking, and crowd noises.
She is the voice behind several small roles in some of the Silly Symphonies playing a mermaid and a bunny and a laughing mouse. Her voice was used in the 2013 short film Get a Horse as a Minnie Mouse.

T. Hee - My 48th choice as a Disney Legend

T. Hee was an animator who joined Disney studios in 1937. He is most recognized for directing the Dance of the Hours segment of Fantasia.He was a writer and director of the segment of Pinocchio that involved the fox Honest John Foulfellow and the cat Gideon. He returned to Disney in 1958 for the studio's first stop-motion animated film, "Noah's Ark," and later functioned as an art director (or as Walt Disney called them, "imagineers") at Disneyland and Disney World.

Hee also taught two generations of students at Chouinard Art Institute and California Institute of the Arts. He worked on other classic Disney films such as The Relucant Dragon, Victory Through Air Power and Make Mine Music.

Martin Short - my 47th choice as a Disney Legend

Martin short is already a legend. The question is should he be named a Disney Legend. I have picked him as my 47th choice to be named with the Disney Legend Honor. He has quite an extensive resume with the Disney studios as well as the Disney Parks. According to Disney Wiki - Short's work with the company is as follows:

His Disney roles include Martin Harvey in Captain Ron, Franck Eggelhoffer in Father of the Bride and its sequel, Richard Kempster in Jungle 2 Jungle, Jack Frost in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, B.E.N. in Treasure Planet, Lars in 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure, and Edward Frankenstein, Mr. Burgermeister, and Nassor in Frankenweenie.

He also hosts the current version of the O Canada! film at EPCOT at the Canada Pavilion, and he starred in CinéMagique at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris. He hosted The Making of Me at the former Wonders of Life pavilion at Epcot, and guest-starred on an episode of Muppets Tonight.

Of course he has done so much with so many other works, that his voice is often recognizable in the films. But then again, at times one is surprised to find out the voice is actually Martin Short's!

Bruce Gordon - choice number 46 as a Disney Legend

The late Bruce Gordon, who was an imagineer who helped create Disney theme park attractions, is my 47th choice as a Disney Legend. He was most notably credited as the show producer for Splash Mountain. Other attraction credits for Gordon are Tarzan's Treehouse, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Tomorrowland's 1998 renovation, the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, Journey into Imagination, and Star Tours.

Gordon also served as show producer and creative consultant for the Walt Disney Family Museum. He wrote a book, co-written with fellow Imagineer David Mumford, "Disneyland: The Nickel Tour," a 368-page history of Disneyland told through postcards of the park. He was involved in writing several other Disney history books as well.

June Foray - my 45th choice as a Disney Legend

June Foray has been one of the most active voice actresses over the past 60 years. She is famous for her voice work as Rocky the Flying Squirrel. Her work with Disney has been profuse as well. Her Disney filmography includes:

Feature Films and Shorts

• Cinderella - Lucifer
• Lambert the Sheepish Lion - Lambert Lion (purrs)/Sheep/Mrs. Sheep
• Trick or Treat - Witch Hazel
• Ben and Me - Lucifer
• Peter Pan - Mermaids, Squaw
• Various Goofy cartoons - Mrs. Geef
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Wheezy/Lena Hyena
• Redux Riding Hood - Grandma
• Mulan - Grandmother Fa
• Mulan II - Grandmother Fa

Television shows

• Walt Disney anthology series - Grandma Duck
• Disney on Parade - The Evil Queen
• Adventures of the Gummi Bears - Grammi Gummi
• Bonkers - Ma Parker
• DuckTales - Ma Beagle, Magica De Spell, Scrooge's mother, Mrs. Featherby
• Marsupilami - Aunt Bethie

Theme park attractions

• Pirates of the Caribbean - Carlos' wife

Video games

• Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers! - Magica De Spell
• Disney TH!NK Fast - Magica De Spell
• DuckTales Remastered - Magica De Spell

Jeffrey Katzenberg - choice number number 44 as a Disney Legend

Jeffrey Katzenberg is my 44th choice as a Disney Legend. Granted he left Disney Studios in a squabble with other executives in 1994. Still, I go back to the Art Babbitt principle who was named a legend posthumously. Maybe that will have to happen with Katzenberg as well.

No one can can deny his part in the Disney Renaissance, taking charge of Disney's motion pictures during a down time and leading it into its second golden age during the eighties and nineties. The animated films released during this period include The Little Mermaid (1989), The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Mulan (1998) and Tarzan (1999).

He focused the studio on the production of adult-oriented comedies through its Touchstone Pictures banner, including films such as Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Three Men and a Baby (1987) and Good Morning, Vietnam (1987).

After leaving Disney he became part of the formation team of Dreamworks Studios and has been an active part in many of their successful films. The thing that hurts Katzenburg's chances of being named a legend is that he sued Disney Studios over his contract. Katzenberg's lawsuit, which could have been settled for $90 million, wound up costing Disney nearly $270 million -- not counting tens of millions in legal fees.

So while he may very deserving and was a huge creative and organizational force behind some of the best Disney movies ever, his chances of being named a Disney Legend are quite slim at the moment. Still, laying aside the personal drama, he is a deserving candidate.

Don Lusk - Choice number 43 as a Disney Legend

Don Lusk was an animator for many years with Disney Studios before leaving to work for Hanna-Barbera and Peanuts. He is still alive as of this writing at age 102. He has been critical of Walt Disney (notably in the PBS mocumentary), and this may keep him from getting this honor. But once again we go to the Art Babbitt factor, who lead a strike against Disney but was eventually named as a legend.

Don Lusk got his professional career started when he was employed by The Walt Disney Company in 1933. Some of his more notable work included Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Song of the South, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp and Sleeping Beauty.

His other work for Disney included character animation on Farmyard Symphony, How to Fish, Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time (notably the "Once Upon a Wintertime", "The Legend of Johnny Appleseed" and "Trees" segments), So Dear to My Heart, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (notably "The Wind in the Willows" segment), Lambert the Sheepish Lion, Trick or Treat, Ben and Me, the Disneyland episodes "The Donald Duck Story", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", "A Day in the Life of Donald Duck" and "The Great Cat Family" and One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

Tim Burton - number 42 as a Disney Legend

My 42nd choice as a Disney Legend would be current director and animator Tim Burton. Personally I don't like his style or his movies, but some of them have been big hits for the Walt Disney Company. Below is a list of some of his biggest film contributions to the company:

1981       The Fox and the Hound                 Animator 

1982       Tron                                              Animator 

1982       Vincent                                          Director

1983       Hansel and Gretel                         Director

1984       Frankenweenie (short)                   Director

1985       The Black Cauldron                        Animator / Conceptual Artist 

1993       The Nightmare Before Christmas    Producer/Writer

1996       James and the Giant Peach                Producer

2010       Alice in Wonderland                         Director

2012       Frankenweenie                                Director

2016       Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass           Producer

Leslie Nielsen - My 41st choice as a Disney Legend

Many people in their 30s and 40s will remember Leslie Neilsen as the screwball actor from the Naked Gun films and Airplane! they might also recall his brief role in the Poseidon Adventure. But long before these days he played an important role for Walt Disney's television program. He was the lead character - Colonel Frances Marion in the TV show The Swamp Fox. The series encompassed eight episodes, running as part of The Wonderful World of Color.

Like Davy Crockett (played by Fess Parker who is a Disney Legend) and Zorro (starring Guy Williams - also a Disney Legend), the Swamp Fox was a popular hero for all those Baby Boomers and the rest of us who watched the reruns on later version of the Wonderful World of Disney.

Besides the Swamp Fox, Nielsen played Mr. Magoo in the 1997 film of the same name, Mr. Penn in the 1998 Disney television film Safety Patrol , Dick Steele in the 1996 Hollywood Pictures film Spy Hard, Santa Claus in Santa Who? He also narrated The Boy Who Flew with Condors and Katie and Orbie.

Ugo D'Orsi - my 40th choice as a Disney Legend

Ugo D'Orsi was an animator who worked on several Disney Studios projects in the 1930s and 40s. He is my 41st choice as a Disney Legend. He was also involved in the special effects department at Disney. Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston wrote in their book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, they said, Through the entire thirties, the entire Effects Department consisted of only two men: Ugo D'Orsi, a straightforward, stubborn, and dedicated Italian, and Cy Young...quiet and sensitive...who loved to play the bass fiddle as a hobby. Thomas and Johnston added, Since [D'Orsi and Young] did most of the careful work themselves, they needed only a single assistant between them.

Ugo D'Orsi did many of the great water-effects in Mickey Mouse Sorcerer's Apprentice section in Fantasia - and that is believed to be Ugo D'Orsi at his best.

Here are some of the films D’Orsi worked on for Disney.

• Just Mickey
• Gulliver Mickey
• Hollywood Party
• The Pied Piper                  
• Funny Little Bunnies                       
• Hot Choc'lit Soldiers       
• The Wise Little Hen         
• The Goddess of Spring    
• The Hot Choc-late Soldiers
• Gulliver Mickey
• Two-Gun Mickey             
• The Band Concert            
• Water Babies     
• Music Land         
• Thru the Mirror  Animation
• Don Donald        
• Little Hiawatha 
• The Cookie Carnival
• Giantland
• The Old Mill       
• Wynken, Blynken and Nod           
• The Reluctant Dragon    
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
• Bambi
• Fantasia
• Pinnochio

James Baskett - my 39th choice to be named a Disney Legend

James Baskett is most famous for playing the leading role in a controversial Disney film. Baskett is the actor who played Uncle Remus in Song of the South. He sang one of the most iconic Disney songs of all time in the film as well - "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah." In recognition of his warm portrayal of the famous black storyteller he was given an Honorary Academy Award, making him the first black male performer to receive an Oscar.

Baskett was also given the voice role of Brer Fox, one of the film's animated antagonists, and even filled in as the main animated protagonist, Brer Rabbit, in one sequence. Before acting in Song of the South, Baskett was the voice of one of the crows in Dumbo.

Bill Thompson - choice number 38 as a Disney Legend

Bill Thompson is my 38^th choice as a Disney Legend. He is a voice actor famous for his portrayal of Droopy Dog.  For Walt Disney studios he voiced the White Rabbit and Dodo in Alice in Wonderland and Mr. Smee in Peter Pan. He also was the voice of King Hubert in Sleeping Beauty.

His best showcase may well have been in Lady and the Tramp, where he was heard in no less than five dialect parts, as Jock the Scottish Terrier, Bull the Cockney bulldog, Dachsie the German dachshund, Joe the Italian cook, and the Irish policeman in the zoo. He also helped in the singing a couple of the songs from the movie, including Bella Notte.

In shorts, he was heard as Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore in several "Donald Duck and Humphrey the Bear" entries and as Professor Owl in two music related shorts, Melody Time and Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom. Thompson was the first actor to voice the comic book character Scrooge McDuck, as well as a little known character - Grandpa Duck. He was J.J. Fate, the Common Man and his Common Sense in How to Catch a Cold, an elderly Spike the Bee in Let's Stick Together. He was the voice of the Irish station manager Flannery in "Pigs Is Pigs" and of Uncle Waldo from The Aristocats.

Ted Berman - choice number 37 as a Disney Legend

Ted Berman was a film director, animator, and screenwriter, known for his work with Disney, including Bambi, Fantasia, and The Black Cauldron. He is my 38th choice to be named a Disney Legend. He was also a writer on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color TV series. He served on staff at Disney for nearly 50 years. He joined Disney in 1940. Below is a partial list of  films he was involved with for the Studios.

Ward Kimball, Richard Bakalyan and Ted Berman during the production of “It's Tough to Be a Bird” (1969).

• Paul Bunyan
• Fun and Fancy Free
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• The Litterbug
• The Rescuers
• The Fox and the Hound
• The Black Cauldron
• The Million Dollar Duck
• It's Tough to be a Bird
• 101 Dalmatians
• Bambi
• Fantasia
• Peter Pan
• Mary Poppins
• Lady and the Tramp
• Alice in Wonderland
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Beverly Butrum - 36th choice as a Disney Legend

Beverly Butrum is my 36th choice to be named a Disney Legend. Her name is not familiar to most Disney fans, but she was an intricate part of the Disneyland parks for nearly four decades.

Butrum, was a Disneyland hostess for nearly four decades. During her years at the One-of-a-Kind Shop and later at the Disneyland Art Gallery, Beverly became friends with the artists and “Imagineers” of Walt Disney Productions, including Walt Disney’s brother, Roy O. Disney. In fact, Roy told Beverly in confidence that they were secretly buying orange groves in Florida to build what would eventually become Walt Disney World. After 37 years with Disneyland, Beverly retired in 2003. Hundreds attended her retirement celebration at Café Orleans and she was given a Main Street USA window in her honor, which she took home!

Barbara Luddy - 35th choice to be named a Disney Legend

Barbara Luddy voiced several leading roles for the Walt Disney Studios. Her Disney credits include:

• The role of Lady in Lady and the Tramp
• She voiced Kanga in several of the Disney Winnie the Pooh movies
• She was the fairy Merryweather in Sleeping Beauty
• She had two roles in Robin Hood - Mother Rabbit and Mother Church Mouse.
• She had the small role of Rover in 101 Dalmatians

James MacArthur - my 34th choice as a Disney Legend

James MacArthur was in several live-action Disney films during his teen and young adult years. He was on of the three sons in one of my favorite of all Disney films- Swiss Family Robinson.

His Disney roles included

•       Johnny Butler/True Son in The Light in the Forest
•       Rudi Matt in Third Man on the Mountain
•        David Balfour in Kidnapped
•        Fritz Robinson in Swiss Family Robinson
•       Cpl. Henry Jenkins in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episodes Willie and the Yank: The Deserter and Willie and the Yank: The Mosby Raiders
•      himself in The Wonderful World of Disney: 40 Years of Television Magic and The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
•        the narrator for Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making.

He is the adopted son of actress Helen Hayes.

Upon his death, Disney historian Jeff Kurtti wrote this of James MacArthur - "In this loss of legacy, the earnest and remarkable performances of a young James MacArthur are inexcusably forgotten—as is the primary connection of this fine actor with the visionary who saw such potential in his nascent talent, Walt Disney."

Hans Conried - choice number 33 as a Disney Legend

Hans Conried was a well-known voice actor in his day and provided the voice acting for several well-known character both for Disney Studios and other studios as well. He also played a few live-action parts for Disney movies.One of his most famous voice roles was as Snidely Whiplash in the Dudley Do-Right cartoons. In his most famous Disney role He voiced both Captain Hook and George Darling in Peter Pan.This role is so iconic for the Disney animation fans, that this role alone makes him worthy of being named a Disney Legend. But wait, he did more work for the Studios.

Some of his other Disney career highlights include: 

• In 1953, the same year that Peter Pan was released, Conried also voiced both Thomas Jefferson and a crook in Ben and Me. 
• The Prosecutor in The Story of Anyburg, U.S.A. in 1957. 
• He also played the Magic Mirror in some of Walt Disney's television programs. 
• In The Goofy Success Story, he voiced J.B., the studio mogul. 
• He also played Professor Whatley in The Shaggy D.A.
• He was Chief Dr. Heffel in The Cat from Outer Space.
• He was Thimberlig in Davy Crockett at the Alamo

Erdman Penner - Choice number 32 as a Disney Legend

My 32nd choice for the Disney Legend Honor goes to Erdman Penner. Penner was involved in several Disney Studio projects as a writer, director, lyricist and producer. According to Disney-Wiki and IMBD, here are some of his Disney career highlights:

Penner is on the far right with Winston Hibler, Ted Sears and Walt Disney

• Maleficent [based on Sleeping Beauty; story adaption]
• Sleeping Beauty [story adaption, lyrics"The Skumps Song" (1958)-uncredited]
• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color [writer-five episodes,writer:"The Reluctant Dragon"-uncredited, himself-two episodes-credited as Ed Penner]
• Lady and the Tramp [story and associate producer]
• Peter Pan [story, lyrics:"A Pirate's Life", performer:"Blast That Peter Pan/A Pirate's Life" reprise]
• Penner was one of the driving forces behind Captain Hook's foppish dandy persona.
• Alice in Wonderland [story]
• Cinderella [story]
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad [story]
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [writer]
• Melody Time [story]
• Pecos Bill [writer]
• The Legend of Johnny Appleseed [story]
• Make Mine Music [story-credited as Ed Penner]
• Victory Through Air Power [story adaption]
• The Reluctant Dragon [story "Reluctant Dragon" Sequence, lyrics:"The Reluctant Dragon"-credited as Ed Penner]
• The Reluctant Dragon [story]
• Fantasia [story development-segment "The Pastoral Symphony"]
• Pinocchio [story adaption]
• Mickey's Fun Songs: Beach Party at Walt Disney World [music-"A Pirate's Life"-credited as Ed Penner]
• Mickey's Amateurs [director-uncredited]
• Dateline: Disneyland [himself-credited as Firehouse Five Plus Two]
• One Hour in Wonderland [himself-firehouse Five plus two (Also credited as Ed Penner)]

Bob Harpur - choice number 31 as a Disney Legend

Bob Harpur is my first full-fledged Imagineer to make the list. My love for trains and the history of trains in the Walt Disney Company. Several of the current trains at Walt Disney World were  restored by a crew headed by Disney imagineer and accomplished live steam builder Bob Harpur. Harpur ran a model train factory before joining Disney in 1966.

He is the only person who worked on every Disney railroad in all of the parks. He was very active in the establishment of the trains in Disneyland Paris. He also had a very large part to play in the Wildlife Express in the Animal Kingdom. In fact one of the engines at animal Kingdom is named "Baba Harpoor." Bob also worked with Walt on the Carolwood Pacific. 

Verna Felton - choice number 30 as a Disney Legend

Verna Felton appeared in several supporting roles as a voice actress in several Disney animated classics. Felton is my 30th choice for this honor. She also did voice work for other cartoon studios, including Hanna Barbera. Here is her Disney career in a nutshell:

• Dumbo (1941) as the Elephant Matriarch and Mrs. Jumbo, Dumbo's Mother.
• Cinderella (1950) as The Fairy Godmother. Of course her voice can be heard on many Disney albums singing “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo."
• Alice in Wonderland (1951) as the Queen of Hearts. She truly defined this role for generations.
• Lady and the Tramp (1955) as Aunt Sarah (her son voiced Jim Dear and the dogcatcher in the original film).
• Sleeping Beauty (1959) as Flora and Queen Leah.
• Goliath II (1960) as Eloise.
• The Man from Button Willow as Mrs. Pomeroy, Mother and Lady on Trolley.
• The Jungle Book (1967) as Winifred the Elephant (her final theatrical role, animated).
• Her husband Lee Millar Sr. voiced Pluto in several animated shorts.

Cy Young - My 29th choice as a Disney Legend

My 29th choice is not the world famous baseball pitcher who has an a award of his own named after him, but the other Cy Young. This Cy Young was a Chinese American special effects animator. Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston wrote in their book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, they said, Through the entire thirties, the entire Effects Department consisted of only two men: Ugo D'Orsi, a straightforward, stubborn, and dedicated Italian, and Cy Young...quiet and sensitive...who loved to play the bass fiddle as a hobby. He is known as the first animator in China and a master at animating birds. He worked on such classic films as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, Make Mine Music and Fantasia. He was an active part in many classic Disney shorts including:

• Birds in the Spring             Animation          
• Father Noah's Ark             Animation          
• Mickey's Gala Premiere   Animation          
• Old King Cole      Animation          
• The Pied Piper    Animation  
• The China Shop  Animation          
• Shanghaied         Animation          
• The Grasshopper and the Ants      Animation          
• Funny Little Bunnies         Animation          
• Gulliver Mickey  Animation          
• Hot Choc'lit Soldiers        Animation          
• The Flying Mouse             Animation          
• Mickey Plays Papa            Animation          
• The Goddess of Spring     Animation          
• Two-Gun Mickey              Animation          
• The Band Concert             Animation          
• Water Babies      Animation          
• Mickey's Fire Brigade       Animation          
• Music Land          Animation          
• Broken Toys        Animation          
• Mickey's Grand Opera     Animation          
• Moving Day        Animation          
• The Country Cousin          Animation          
• Woodland Café  Animation          
• The Old Mill        Animation          
• Mickey's Trailer  Animation          
• Society Dog Show            Animation

Luana Patten - Choice number 28 as a Disney Legend

Child actress Luana Patten is my 28th choice for a Disney Legend. the difference between her and say Bobby Driscoll is a razor thin margin, so even at number 28, I see Patten as a very deserving choice. Here are her Disney highlights:

• Patten made her first film appearance in Joel Chandler Harris's 1946 musical Song of the South with Bobby Driscoll.
• They also appeared together in Song of the South's sister film So Dear to My Heart.
• She appeared again with Bobby Driscoll in the Pecos Bill segment of Disney's Melody Time.
• In 1947, she appeared with Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, and Mortimer Snerd during the live action scenes in Fun and Fancy Free.
• She played the role of Priscilla Lapham in Disney's 1957 production of Johnny Tremain.
• She was Nora White in the 1966 film Follow Me Boys.