Michael McGreevey - my 112th choice as a Disney Legend

Child actor Michael McGreevey is my 112th choice to be named a Disney Legend.

Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, McGreevey appeared in numerous episodes of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color and in the Disney theatrical film trilogy: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). Set at fictional Medfield College, these three films featured Kurt Russell as college student Dexter Riley and McGreevey as his friend Richard Schulyer. McGreevey also appeared as a different character in the Disney films and television specials such as Toby Tyler (1960), Texas John Slaughter: Frank Clell's in Town (1961), Sammy, the Way Out Seal (1962),  For Love of Willadean (1963)  Snowball Express (1972) The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City (1972), Michael O'Hara the Fourth (1972) and The Shaggy D.A. (1976).

Marvin Woodward - my 111th choice as a Disney Legend

Former animator Marvin Woodward is my 111th pick to be named as a Disney Legend. He was involved on the team of many different Disney animated shorts and some classics as well.

Original rough drawing of White Rabbit by Marvin Woodward.

1931 The Busy Beavers The Cat's Out The Fox Hunt The Spider and the Fly The Beach Party 1932 The Bird Store The Bears and the Bees Just Dogs The Klondike Kid Santa's Workshop 1933 Birds in the Spring Mickey's Mellerdrammer Father Noah's Ark Mickey's Mechanical Man Lullaby Land The Pied Piper 1934 The Flying Mouse Mickey Plays Papa The Dognapper 1935 The Robber Kitten Broken Toys 1936 Moving Day Toby Tortoise Returns The Country Cousin Mother Pluto 1937 Mickey's Amateurs Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Lonesome Ghosts 1938 The Whalers 1939 Society Dog Show 1940 Pinocchio Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip Fantasia 1941 The Little Whirlwind The Nifty Ninites 1942 Mickey's Birthday Party Symphony Hour 1943 Victory Through Air Power 1944 Springtime for Pluto The Three Cabelleros Donald Duck and the Gorilla How to Play Football First Aiders 1945 Dog Watch Canine Patrol 1946 In Dutch Bath Day 1947 Pluto's House Warming Mickey’s Delayed Date Fun and Fancy Free Figaro and Frankie 1948 Mickey Down Under Melody Time Pecos Bill Brumble Boogie So Dear to My Heart 1949 The Adventures Of Ichabad and Mr. Toad 1950 Camp Dog Cinderella 1951 R'coon Dawg Cold Turkey Alice in Wonderland Plutopia 1952 Let's Stick Together Pluto's Party 1953 The Simple Things Peter Pan Melody Ben and Me 1955 Lady and the Tramp 1956 Pluto’s Day Where do the Stories Come From?

Lee Cockerell - my 110th choice as a Disney Legend

Lee Cockerell is my 110th choice to be named a Disney Legend.

Lee Cockerell is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort. "As the Senior Operating Executive for ten years Lee led a team of 40,000 Cast Members and was responsible for the operations of 20 resort hotels, 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, a shopping and entertainment village and the ESPN sports and recreation complex in addition to the ancillary operations which supported the number one vacation destination in the world."

Lee joined the Disney organization in July 1990 as Director of Food and Beverage and Quality Assurance for the Disneyland Paris hotels.

One of Lee's major and lasting legacies was the creation of Disney Great Leader Strategies which was used to train and develop the 7000 leaders at Walt Disney World. Lee has held various executive positions in the hospitality and entertainment business with Hilton Hotels for 8 years and the Marriott Corporation for 17 years before joining Disney in 1990 to open the Disneyland Paris project.

Cotton Warburton - my 109th pick as a Disney Legend

Cotton Warburton, my 109th pick to be named a Disney Legend, was an American college football quarterback (1933) who became a film and television editor with sixty feature film credits. By 1956 Warburton was an editor for the Walt Disney Studios, where he remained for the rest of his career. His first Disney film credit was Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956). About 1960, he began a fruitful collaboration on feature films with Disney director and legend Robert Stevenson. Their first film was The Absent-Minded Professor (1961). Warburton won an Academy Award and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for the "spectacularly successful" Mary Poppins (1964), which also earned Stevenson an Oscar nomination as best director. Critic Drew Casper particularly notes Warburton's editing of the film's "chimney pot" musical sequence. In total, Stevenson and Warburton collaborated on nine films in the 1960s and 1970s; their last film together was Herbie Rides Again (1974). Warburton retired from editing after The Cat from Outer Space (1978), a Disney film directed by Norman Tokar.

Other films Warburton edited are:  Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, Freaky Friday, No Deposit, No Return, The Strongest Man in the World, The Castaway Cowboy, The World's Greatest Athlete, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Now You See Him, Now You Don't, The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, Scandalous John, The Love Bug, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, The Happiest Millionaire, Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., That Darn Cat!, The Monkey's Uncle, Emil and the Detectives, The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, Son of Flubber, Ten Who Dared, Miracle of the White Stallions, Moon Pilot, Bon Voyage!, Zorro the Avenger and numerous Zorro television shows.
In addition he was the editor for 22 episodes of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

Jack Campbell - my 108th choice as a Disney legend

Jack Campbell was an animator on classic on Disney films and is my 108th choice as a Disney Legend.  This information is mostly from the blog 50 Most Influential Disney Animators. One of the first masters of the human figure at Disney and a key animator on Snow White as well as the Blue Fairy. Some believe he did use a little too much rotoscope sometimes but at least he drew the anatomy properly and made the animation believable. Some of his later accomplishments include Mr. Blue Bird in Song of the South and Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp.

Snow White(1937)- Animator on Snow White

Brave Little Tailor(1938)- Animator

Ferdinand and the Bull(1938)- Animator

Mother Goose Goes to Hollywood(1939)- Animator

Pinocchio(1940)-Animator on Blue Fairy

Fantasia(1940)- Animator on Pastoral Role

The Riveter (1940) - Animator

Reluctant Dragon(1941)- Animator

Dumbo(1941)- Animator

Symphony Hour(1942)- Animator

Make Mine Music(1946)- Animator

Song of the South(1946)- Animator on Mr. Blue Bird

Fun and Fancy Free (1947) - Animator

Peter Pan (1953) - Animator

Lady and the Tramp(1955)- Animator on Aunt Sarah

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1955-57) - Animator on four episodes

Margaret Kerry - my 107th choice as a Disney Legend

My 107th pick for the Disney Legend honor is Margaret Kerry. Kerry, formerly known as Peggy Lynch, is an American actress, motivational speaker and radio host best known for her 1953 work as the model for Tinker Bell in the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature, Peter Pan.

Kerry answered an audition call during the planning stages of the film. The audition, supervised by Disney animator Marc Davis, required her to pantomime the motions that would eventually be animated as Tinker Bell, such as preening in a mirror at her feet. She won the audition and spent the next six months at the Disney Studios on a mostly empty sound-stage pantomiming the role on film. The studios provided props as well, notably a giant keyhole mounted on a stand as well as a pair of giant scissors, later used in the scene in which Tinker Bell became trapped in a jewelry box.

Kerry also provided the basis of the red-haired mermaid in the Neverland lagoon scenes. She is the author of the book Tinker Bell Talks, Tales of a Pixie Dusted Life.

Since Disney released the film at about the time Marilyn Monroe had begun to make an impact, an urban legend immediately sprung up attributing the role to her.

Louis Debney - my 106th choice as a Disney Legend

Louis Debney, began a long affiliation with Walt Disney when he sold the famed animator newspapers as a boy and then went on to produce 100 episodes of the "Mickey Mouse Club" and 80 episodes of "Zorro" for television. He is my 106th choice as a Disney Legend.

Debney was 12 and selling newspapers outside the old Disney Studios near Vermont and Kingswell avenues in the Silver Lake district. Three years later he had gone to work for Walt Disney as a cutter and soon was put in charge of the assembly operation for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937.

He also had been an assistant director on "Two Gun Mickey," the studio's last black-and-white Mickey Mouse cartoon released in 1934, and later was production manager for "Perri," a 1957 nature fantasy. His credits include assistant director on a number of animated shorts, like How to Play Baseball and Goofy’s Glider.

In the late 1950s Debney produced the "Mickey Mouse Club" and "Zorro" episodes. In the 1960s and '70s he worked on several other TV shows, including "The Mouse Factory" and several feature and educational division films. He then became coordinator of the long-running series, "The Wonderful World of Disney."

He is the father of Disney composer John Debney who will appear on this list shortly!

Randy Cartwright - my 105th pick as a Disney Legend

Randy Cartwright is an animator who has worked at Disney since 1975 and is my 105th pick to be named a Disney Legend.

Disney Filmography

1977      The Rescuers     

1977      Pete's Dragon    

1978      The Small One   

1981      The Fox and the Hound  

1983      Mickey's Christmas Carol              

1985      The Black Cauldron         

1987      The Brave Little Toaster

1990      The Rescuers Down Under  

1991      Beauty and the Beast     

1992      Aladdin  Supervising

1994      The Lion King  

1995      Pochantas     

1997      Hercules

2003      Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl

2009      The Princess and the Frog
2009      Waking Sleeping Beauty
2013-14  Sofia the First

Suzanne Pleshette - my 104th choice to be named a Disney Legend

Actress Suzanne Pleshette, who is famous for her role as the wife of Bob Newhart in The Bob Newhart Show, had several roles with the Disney Studios as well. She is my 104th choice to be named a Disney Legend.

She played in The Ugly Dachshund as Fran Garrison, The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin as Arabella Flagg, Blackbeard's Ghost as Professor Jo Anne Baker, and The Shaggy D.A. as Betty Daniels. She and Dean Jones were frequently paired in Disney's gimmick comedies. She provided both the speaking and singing voices for Zira in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and Yubaba and Zeniba in the 2001 Disney/Studio Ghibli film, Spirited Away.

Hal Adelquist - my 103rd choice as a Disney Legend

My 103rd pick for the Disney Legend is Hal Adelquist, producer of the the famous, original Mickey Mouse Club. This bio and more can be found on his page on the website The Original Mickey Mouse Club.

A long-time Disney employee, Hal had worked in Production, Personnel, and the Story Department before being assigned to the Mickey Mouse Club. He and producer Bill Walsh were charged by Walt Disney with designing and developing the show. Despite the show's overwhelming success, Hal subsequently fell out of favor with Walt Disney, and was demoted to talent scout, before leaving the studio in 1956.

Harold Williams Adelquist was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 11, 1914. His father, an accountant, was from a family of Swedish immigrants living in Iowa, while his mother, Francis Williams, was from Utah. The family came to California before 1920, settling first in Oakland, then a few years later, Los Angeles.

Harold Adelquist attended Los Angeles High School, where his skills as a cartoonist were evident in the yearbook. He served in student government and on the Publicity Committee, a body that organised and sponsored student events, a foreshadow of his role at Disney. He also sang first tenor in the Boy's Glee Club. He graduated in early 1932 and went to work for the Disney Studio within a year. Whether he attended Chouinard Art Institute at studio expense like so many other Disney animators is unknown. His early career at the studio seems to have been built around the production side of animation.     Harold Adelquist's 11th grade photo from high school

Hal worked as an assistant director on Snow White (1937), though he didn't receive screen credit for it. He was also tasked with leading training sessions for new and experienced animators alike, where they would work on character development and train animators in the technical skills necessary to film demos of their work. In 1938 he was moved to the Personnel Department. Among his lighter duties was organizing the employee picnics. By 1941, during the acrimonious strike against Disney by the junior animators and in-betweeners, he was in charge of all studio personnel.

From Personnel, Hal was moved to head-up the Story Department. One of his more important, though lesser-known, roles during this tenure was to serve as a liaison between Walt Disney and his famous "Nine Old Men" of animation. Ward Kimball, in a 1980's interview with Michael Barrier, revealed the animators had chosen Hal as their spokesman, even though by position he was studio management.

Contribution

When Walt Disney first agreed to do the Mickey Mouse Club for ABC, he made two vital personnel decisions. He assigned Bill Walsh to produce it, and Hal Adelquist to act as general coordinator. In essence, Bill made the decisions (with Walt's approval for hiring and firing) and Hal carried them out. But Hal was much more than Bill's hands and feet. He sat in on every planning meeting for the show, developed ideas for Bill and Walt to greenlight, communicated and coordinated decisions throughout all the studio departments, and oversaw the talent scouts and casting directors in recruiting the Mouseketeers, guest stars, circus acts, and the Talent Round-Up Winners. He worked with costumer Chuck Keehne to develop the "mouse ear" caps from Roy Williams initial sketches. He also served on the editorial committee that planned and controlled the launch of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club magazine, and selected and organized the technical crew that would actually produce the show.

Gustaf Tenggren - my 102nd choice as a Disney Legend

My 102nd choice to be named a Disney Legend is background artist Gustaf Tenggren. The information here can be found on the website Gustaf Tenggren's World.

In early 1936, Disney set up a regular drafting office in New York in search of artists and animators, Gustaf Tenggren accepted the offer, and he and Mollie moved to Los Angeles. Gustaf was instantly thrown into the work of designing backgrounds for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White herself, The Evil Queen, the Witch, and the Dwarfs were already set up by Joe Grant and Albert Hurter, and Gustaf had to concentrate on the forest exteriors and the interiors of the dwarfs' cottage. Additionally, he painted movie posters, advertising material and book illustrations connected to the movie.

During his time at the Disney Studio his work was used for at least seven films, of which four received Academy Awards, among them, The Old Mill.

But his greatest contribution was the design of the backgrounds and the overall look of Pinocchio, where  he introduced prospectively complex backgrounds to enhance the illusion of depth. The sceneries fit his style perfectly; they were the very same he had used for many of the books he had illustrated already, for example Grimm's Fairy Tales.

The last movie he worked on was Bambi. Tenggren was painting forest exteriors for the film, but his detailed and intricate artwork fitted the movie badly and he chose to leave the studio in 1939. Later Tenggren claimed that his time at the Disney Studio was all work for no appreciation at all. Ironically, though, the just over two-and-a-half years he spent at Disney placed his name in the canon of Disney-associated artists, and as a result gave his career a tremendous push over the years to come.

Lisa Keene - my 101st choice as a Disney Legend

Lisa Keene, my 101st choice as a Disney Legend,  is a background artist, character designer and visual development artist who has worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios since 1982. She is renowned for her works as a visual development artist and background supervisor.

Her Disney filmography includes:

1983    The Black Cauldron   

1986    The Great Mouse Detective 

1988    Oliver and Company     

1989    The Little Mermaid   

1990    The Rescuers Down Under   

1991    Beauty and the Beast

1993    The Nightmare Before Christmas     

1994    The Lion King 

1996    The Hunchback of Notre Dame        

1997    Hercules         

2001    Atlantis: The Lost Empire     

2002    Treasure Planet         

2007    Enchanted     

2009    The Princess and the Frog    

2011    Winnie the Pooh       

2013    Frozen

George McGinnis - my 100th pick as a Disney Legend

George McGinnis, who was the last Imagineer personally hired by Walt Disney in 1966, is my 100th choice to be named a Disney Legend.

His senior project at the Art Center College of Design, a working model of a futuristic high-speed train,
attracted the attention of Walt Disney. Working alongside Disney luminaries like Marty Sklar, Bob Gurr, and John Hench, George brought his unique background as an industrial designer to the creation of the Mark V and Mark VI monorails, and much of Disneyland and Walt Disney World's Space Mountains. His concept art, often begun on the back of napkins, influenced the final look of many theme park attractions.

George's first assignment was to design miniature transportation models for the Progress City display, for the Carousel of Progress attraction that opened at Disneyland in July 1967. He was also responsible for concept design of both the Mighty Microscope for the Disneyland attraction Adventure Through Inner Space and the Saturn-style "winged rocket with boosters" for the Tomorrowland Rocket Jets for Disneyland (1967). From 1967 to 1971, George designed WEDway PeopleMover trains and parking lot shuttle vehicles for Walt Disney World. In 1971, he became a show designer, involved with such major projects as Space Mountain for both Walt Disney World (1975) and Disneyland (1977).

Between 1990 and 1995, George brought his skills as a show designer to several projects for Disney theme parks around the world: boat vehicles for Splash Mountain at Tokyo Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom, Indiana Jones Adventure ride vehicles for Disneyland, the Space Mountain ride vehicle concept for Disneyland Paris, river boats, safari vehicles, and a “steam” locomotive and cars for Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Since retiring from Imagineering in 1995, George has continued to work for Disney as a consultant on the Rocket Rod concept vehicle for Tomorrowland, river rafts for Animal Kingdom, and California Adventure.

This information can be found in article on Mouseplanet and DisneyandMore.

Frank Oz - my 99th pick as a Disney Legend

Frank Oz is my 99th pick to be named a Disney Legend. He is most famous for his work with Jim Henson and the Muppets, as well as being the puppet master and voice and soul of Yoda from the Star Wars films and television shows. He also performed several characters on Sesame Street.

He was named a Disney Legend in 2024.

Here is a broad look at his work with the Disney Studios:

Muppet characters: Miss Piggy, Sam the Eagle, Fozzie Bear, Animal, other smaller roles. He performed these characters for many years, including television shows and movies, long before they were part of the Disney company. These are featured in Disney productions The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island. He also performed these characters on Disney Channel's Muppets Tonight.

He has performed Yoda or voiced Yoda in the following projects: The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars Rebels

As a voice actor outside of the Muppets and Yoda, he was heard as Fungus in the Pixar film Monsters, Inc., as Subconcious Guard Dave (alongside fellow Muppet performer Dave Goelz as Subconcious Guard Frank) in the Pixar film Inside Out.

In the theme parks he voices Yoda in the Star Tours attraction and he performs miss Piggy, Fozzie and Animal in the attraction Muppet Vision 3D.

He performed Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal in the television special The Muppets at Walt Disney World.

He was the director for the Touchstone Pictures  film What About Bob?

Maurice Noble - my 98th pick as a Disney Legend

Maurice Noble was layout artist in the early Days of the Walt Disney Studios. some of this information is from his Wikipedia page.

A Disney scout recruited him in about 1934, and he decided to accept the job since it paid $10 per month more than the department store he was working at did. Noble was put to work on backgrounds for the Silly Symphonies cartoon series. At that time the Disney backgrounds were required to be done in transparent watercolor wash, which was technically difficult because correcting a mistake was usually impossible, requiring a full new attempt.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first feature-length film Noble worked on. This was followed by background work on other Disney features, notably the Rite of Spring sequence in Fantasia. Noble also did story development for the Dance of the Hours in that film. For Dumbo, he did color coordination and character design, including work on the pink elephant sequence. 

Each of the Disney films presented special challenges. For Snow White, Noble and his fellow artists strove to capture the look of 19th century German storybooks. Pinocchio demanded radical shifts in mood, from the innocent charm of Geppetto's workshop to the sinister undertones of Pleasure Island. Noble was able to give his imagination freer rein in the brightly colored, metamorphic nightmare set to Pink Elephants on Parade in Dumbo.

He served in the Army during WW 2. Noble joined Chuck Jones' unit at Warner Bros. shortly after he was discharged, and the two worked together off and on for nearly 50 years.

Noble continued to be active in a variety of animation projects, including consultation with Disney artists for their first watercolor backgrounds in half a century (for Lilo and Stitch). Noble received an Annie Award in 1987 for creative excellence in the field of animation. In 1993, he was honored for contributions to the Disney Studio in a ceremony at Fantasia Court at Disney World, where his signature and hand-prints were placed in cement.

Elmer Elephant (1936) (background artist)

Mother Pluto (1936) (background artist)

The Old Mill (1937) (background artist) - Oscar nominee

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (background artist)

Pinocchio (1940) (development)

Fantasia (1940) (development)

Dumbo (1941) (character designs)

Bambi (1942) (development)

Steve Kirk - my 97th choice as a Disney Legend

Steve Kirk was an imagineer for the Disney theme parks for many years. He was the lead designer of Tokyo DisneySea, considered by many to be the finest theme park ever built. He was heavily involved in the design of the original Journey into Imagination attraction which opened on March 5, 1983 at EPCOT. This attraction was the brainchild of both Tony Baxter and Steve Kirk. He worked on the design of three "abominable snowmen" in the ride The Matterhorn at Disneyland. He was also part of the design team for the Wonders of Life pavilion with the Cranium Command Show at EPCOT. Other theme park attractions that he had  a hand in are Kitchen Kabaret, The Great Movie Ride, Tower of Terror (with his brother and fellow imagineer Tim Kirk).

You can hear a nice interview of Steve Kirk by Lou Mongello at WDW Radio at this link.

Don Hahn - my 96th choice as a Disney Legend

Don Hahn is my my 96th choice as a Disney legend. He is a producer for Walt Disney Animation Studios.

He was named a Disney Legend in 2022

He started his career at the Walt Disney Studios working in the animation archives known as the "morgue". One day Hahn jokingly referred to the department with a more dignified title of the "Animation Research Library", a title that stuck as the department evolved and continues to this day.

He has been involved in some capacity in many of the biggest films at the company for the last 40 years.

Disney filmography

Year     Film                                                           Position                                      

1977    Pete's Dragon                                           Assistant Animator                     

1978    The Small One                                         Production Assistant                   

1981    The Fox and the Hound                            Assistant Director                      

1983    Mickey's Christmas Carol                        Production Assistant                 

1985    The Black Cauldron                                 Production Assistant                  

1986    The Great Mouse Detective                     Production Manager                 

1988    Who Framed Roger Rabbit                      Associate Producer                  

1991    Beauty and the Beast                               Producer                                    

1993    The Nightmare Before Christmas            Producer                                   

1994    The Lion King                                         Producer                                  

1996    The Hunchback of Notre Dame               Producer                                   

1999    Fantasia 2000                                          Director (Live-Action Segments)        

2000    The Emperor's New Groove                   Executive Producer                   

2001    Atlantis: The Lost Empire                       Producer                                 

2003    The Haunted Mansion                              Producer                                    

2004    Lorenzo                                                   Executive Producer                   

2006    The Little Matchgirl                                Producer                                   

2009    Waking Sleeping Beauty                          Director                                    

2009    Earth                                                       Executive Producer                   

2010    Oceans                                                    Executive Producer                    

2011    African Cats                                            Executive Producer                   

2012    Chimpanzee                                             Executive Producer                    

2012    Frankenweenie                                        Executive Producer                    

2014    Maleficent                                              Executive Producer                   

2017    Beauty and the Beast                               Producer                                    

James "Shamus" Culhane - my 95th pick as a Disney Legend

James "Shamus" Culhane was the only animator to work on all of the first four animated feature-length

Walt Disney cartoons. He is my 95th pick for the Disney Legend honor.

While at the Disney studio, he discovered while working on Hawaiian Holiday's crab sequence an animation method that involved stewing for multiple days, before drawing the entire thing in rough sketches all at once, straight ahead, without invoking the left side of the brain. He was a lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, animating arguably the most well-known sequence in the film, the animation of the dwarfs marching home singing "Heigh Ho". The scene took Culhane and his assistants six months to complete. During this time he developed his 'High-speed' technique of using only the right side of the brain and animating with quick dashed-off sketches.

Brian Keith my 94th choice as a Disney Legend

Brian Keith was a famous actor a generation ago. Casual Disney fans will recognize him for his role in the original Parent Trap. He had several roles with the studios however.

His Disney roles included William "Bill" Dunn in Ten Who Dared, Mitch Evers in The Parent Trap, Major General John M. Vanneman in Moon Pilot, Beck Coates in Savage Sam, Sheriff Pete Williams in A Tiger Walks, Cam Calloway in Those Calloways, John McCanless in Scandalous John, Shadrach O'Reilly in the Walt Disney Presents episodes "Elfego Baca: Move Along, Mustangers" and "Elfego Baca: Mustang Man, Mustang Maid", Sergeant Gabe Trotter in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "Johnny Shiloh", Lue Swank in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "Bristle Face", Mose Cannon in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "The Tenderfoot" and General Newmeyer in the Disney Sunday Movie episode "The B.R.A.T. Patrol".

Steve Davison - my 93rd choice as a Disney Legend

Imagineer Steve Davison is my 93rd pick for the Disney Legend award. According to his Wikipedia page he began working for Disney in 1981.

He is Lead Creative Executive of Parades and Spectaculars for Walt Disney Creative Entertainment, and is responsible for the overall creative direction of daytime parades, firework displays, and nighttime spectaculars at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide. He created such shows as Believe... There's Magic in the Stars, Wishes, World of Color, and Disney Dreams! In 1997 he produced his first big creation, "It's a Small World Holiday," which brought Davison into the spotlight. Another of his attraction conversions was Haunted Mansion Holiday.

A partial list of his theme park works:

Disneyland Resort

• World of Color (and related show additions such as, World of Color - Celebrate, World of Color: Winter Dreams, and World of Color - Season of Light)
• Disneyland Forever
• Paint the Night Parade
• Mickey's Soundsational Parade
• Believe... There's Magic in the Stars
• Believe... In Holiday Magic
• Disney's Eureka! A California Parade[1]
• Disney's LuminAria
• Haunted Mansion Holiday
• Remember... Dreams Come True
• Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams
• Block Party Bash
• Pixar Play Parade
• Magical: Disney's New Nighttime Spectacular of Magical Celebrations
• Halloween Screams
• It's a Small World Holiday

Walt Disney World Resort

• Festival of Fantasy Parade
• Wishes: A Magical Gathering of Disney Dreams
• Once Upon A Time - Projection Mapping Spectacular

Tokyo Disney Resort

• Once Upon a Time - Projection Mapping Spectacular
• Legend of Mythica
• Jubilation!
• Fantasmic! (Tokyo DisneySea Version)
• Happiness is Here Parade

Hong Kong Disneyland

• Paint the Night Parade
• Flights of Fantasy Parade
• Mickey's WaterWorks

Disneyland Paris

• Disney Dreams! (and related show additions such as , Disney Dreams of Christmas!)
• Wishes: A Magical Gathering of Disney Dreams

Shanghai Disneyland

• Ignite the Dream
• Mickey's Storybook Express

Al Zinnen - my 92nd choice as a Disney Legend

Animator Al Zinnen is my 92nd choice for this Disney Hall of Fame. He was an animator on several classic films and shorts. His Disney Filmography according to his IMDb page:

• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV Series) (layout artist - 12 episodes, 1955 - 1964) (special art work - 1 episode, 1955) (cartoon settings - 1 episode, 1954)
• 1959 Donald in Mathmagic Land (Short) (layout artist)
•  1955 Lady and the Tramp (layouts)
•  1953 Ben and Me (Short) (layout artist)
•  1953 Father's Week-end (Short) (layout artist)
•  1953 Father's Day Off (Short) (layout artist)
•  1953 Peter Pan (layout artist)
•  1952 How to Be a Detective (Short) (layout artist)
•  1952 Two Weeks Vacation (Short) (layout artist)
•  1952 Teachers Are People (Short) (layout artist)
•  1952 Two Gun Goofy (Short) (layout artist)
•  1952 Man's Best Friend (Short) (layout artist)
•  1952 Hello Aloha (Short) (layout artist)
•  1952 Father's Lion (Short) (layout artist)
•  1951 No Smoking (Short) (layout artist)
•  1951 Fathers Are People (Short) (layout artist)
•  1951 Get Rich Quick (Short) (layout artist)
•  1951 Tomorrow We Diet! (Short) (layout artist)
•  1951 Cold War (Short) (layout)
•  1951 Home Made Home (Short) (layout artist)
•  1951 Cold Storage (Short) (layout)
•  1951 Lion Down (Short) (layout artist)
•  1950 Hold That Pose (Short) (layout artist)
•  1950 Motor Mania (Short) (layout artist)
•  1949 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (layout)
•  1949 The Wind in the Willows (Short) (layout artist)
•  1949 Goofy Gymnastics (Short) (layout artist)
•  1949 Tennis Racquet (Short) (layout artist)
•  1949 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Short) (layout artist)
•  1948 Bumble Boogie (Short) (layout artist)
•  1948 Melody Time (layout artist)
•  1948 Once Upon a Wintertime (Short) (layout artist)
•  1948 The Big Wash (Short) (layout artist)
•  1947 Fun and Fancy Free (layout)
•  1946 The Story of Menstruation (Short documentary) layout artist
•  1946 The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met (Short) (layout artist)
•  1946 Make Mine Music (layout)
•  1942 How to Play Baseball (Short) (layout artist)
•  1942 Saludos Amigos (Short) (backgrounds) / layout artist 

Richard Bakalyan - my 91st pick for the Disney Legend honor

My 91st choice for the Disney Legend award is character actor Richard Bakalyan.

His Disney roles included Dinky in The Fox and the Hound, Shortie in the two-part Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "A Boy Called Nuthin'," Charlie in the two-part Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "Way Down Cellar," the narrator in It's Tough to Be a Bird, Ernie Nelson in the two-part Wonderful World of Disney episode "The Whiz Kid and the Carnival Caper", Jocko in the Wonderful World of Disney episode The Young Runaways, Eddie in Return from Witch Mountain, Freddie in The Shaggy D.A., Cookie in The Strongest Man in the World and Now You See Him, Now You Don't, Chillie Walsh in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Bobby Macoon in Never a Dull Moment and an umpire in Follow Me, Boys!.

Edwin Aardal - my 90th choice for the Disney Legend

Edwin Aardal was an animator for the Disney Studios and worked and many, many projects including shorts and feature length films. After working for Disney he left for Hanna-Barbera Studios working on cartoons such as The Flintstones and Jonny Quest.

According to IMDb - his partial Disney filmography includes:

• 1956 Chips Ahoy (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1955 Lady and the Tramp (character animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1955 The Butcher, the Baker, the Ice Cream Maker (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1954 The Lone Chipmunks (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1953 The New Neighbor (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1953 How to Dance (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1953 Father's Week-end (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1953 For Whom the Bulls Toil (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1953 Father's Day Off (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1952 How to Be a Detective (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1952 Two Weeks Vacation (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1952 Teachers Are People (Short) (animator)
•  1952 Two Gun Goofy (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardel)
•  1952 Hello Aloha (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1952 Father's Lion (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1951 No Smoking (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1951 Fathers Are People (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1951 Get Rich Quick (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1951 Tomorrow We Diet! (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1951 Cold War (Short) (animation - as Ed Aardal)
•  1951 Home Made Home (Short) (animator)
•  1950 Hold That Pose (Short) (animator)
•  1950 Motor Mania (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1950 How to Ride a Horse (Short) (animator)
•  1950 Cinderella (animator - uncredited)
•  1949 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (animator - uncredited)
•  1949 Goofy Gymnastics (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1949 Tennis Racquet (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1948 The Trial of Donald Duck (Short) (animation - as Ed Aardal)
•  1948 Melody Time (character animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1948 Donald's Dream Voice (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1948 Drip Dippy Donald (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1947 Fun and Fancy Free (animator - uncredited)
•  1947 Crazy with the Heat (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1947 Donald's Dilemma (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1946 Dumb Bell of the Yukon (Short) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1945 The Legend of Coyote Rock (Short) (animator)
•  1945 Tuberculosis (Documentary short) (animator - uncredited)
• 1944 Contrary Condor (Short) (effects animator - uncredited)
•  1944 How to Be a Sailor (Short) (animator)  
• 1943 Chicken Little (Short) (effects animator - uncredited)
•  1943 Victory Vehicles (Short) (animator)
•  1943 Victory Through Air Power (Documentary) (animator - as Ed Aardal)
•  1943 The Grain That Built a Hemisphere (Documentary short) (animator - uncredited)
• 1942 How to Fish (Short) (animator)
• 1942 Sky Trooper (Short) (animator)
•  1942 Bambi (animator - uncredited)
•  1942 The New Spirit (Documentary short) (animator - uncredited)
• 1941 The Reluctant Dragon (effects animator - uncredited)
•  1940 Fantasia (effects animator - segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", uncredited)
•  1940 Pinocchio (special animation effects - uncredited)
• 1940 Fantasia (animator - segments "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", "Rite of Spring")
•  1940 Tugboat Mickey (Short) (animator - uncredited)
•  1939 The Autograph Hound (Short) (animator - uncredited)
•  1939 The Hockey Champ (Short) (effects animator - uncredited)

Edward Plumb - my 89th pick for a Disney Legend

Edward Plumb was a film composer best known for his work at Walt Disney Studios. He served as musical director of Fantasia and composed the score for Bambi, including its menacing man-theme, which may have been an influence for the shark-theme in Jaws.

Plumb orchestrated the music for Dumbo, Make Mine Music, Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart, Peter Pan, and Lady and the Tramp. He also orchestrated a number of television programs for Walt Disney Presents, a number of Davy Crockett films and on Westward Ho, the Wagons!, starring Fess Parker. His final film project was Johnny Tremain for Disney in 1957.

Other Disney credits include Cinderella, The Vanishing Prairie, The Living Desert and The Three Caballeros.

He received Academy Award nominations for Bambi, Victory Through Air Power, Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros.

The information form this article came for his Wikipedia and IMDB pages.

Lloyd Beebe is my 88th pick as a Disney Legend

My 88th choice for the Disney Legend honor is animal trainer Lloyd Beebe. Former woodsman, hunter, and Arctic explorer who later became an animal trainer and with his wife, Catherine. Founded the Olympic Game Farm which served as the location for Disney wildlife features ("Disney's Wild Animal Ranch") from the 1950's. The farm, which was home to a variety of animal stars from bears and cougars to lions and jaguars, was opened to the public in 1972.
His work as an animal trainer and camera work can be seen in Charlie the Lonesome Cougar, The Vanishing Prairie, Those Calloways, Jungle Cat, Nikki, Wild Dog of the North, Antarctica: Operation Deepfreeze, The Incredible Journey, Wonders of the Water Worlds, A Tale of Two Critters, King of the Grizzlies, Killers of the High Country and The Legend of Lobo.