WALT DISNEY WALTER ELIAS DISNEY December 5 1901

WALT DISNEY

WALTER ELIAS DISNEY (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) • • film producer director screenwriter voice actor animator entrepreneur entertainer

MICKEY MOUSE was created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and voiced by Walt Disney

Silly Symphonies 1928 -1934 Following the footsteps of Mickey Mouse series, a series of musical shorts titled, Silly Symphonies was released in 1929. Through Silly Symphonies, Disney would also create his most successful cartoon short of all time, The Three Little Pigs, in 1933.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1934– 1937 Walt Disney introduces each of the Seven Dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer: Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey.

Pinocchio 1940 The film is about a wooden puppet named Pinocchio being brought to life by a blue fairy, who tells him he can become a real boy if he proves himself "brave, truthful, and unselfish".

SLEEPING BEAUTY 1959 The name of the beautiful Sleeping Beauty is "Princess Aurora", in this film, as it was in the original Tchaikovsky ballet.

BAMBI 1940 The main characters: v Bambi, a white-tailed deer v his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother) v his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed rabbit) and Flower (a skunk) v his childhood friend and future mate, Faline.

Disneyland 1955

AWARDS Walt Disney has won 26 Academy Awards out of 59 nominations 7 Emmy Awards Walt Disney's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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