Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) was a film producer, media merchant and co-founder of the Walt Disney Company. He was born on December 5 1901, in Chicago. His parents were of German/English and Irish descent. As a child, the Disney family moved between Marceline in Missouri, Kansas City and then back to Chicago. The young Walt Disney developed an interest in art and took lessons at the Kansas City Institute and later the Chicago Art Institute. He became the cartoonist for the school magazine. The success of his early cartoons enabled him to set up his own studio called Laugh-O-Gram. With high labour costs, the firm went bankrupt. After his first failure, he decided to move to Hollywood, California which was home to the growing film industry in America. …show more content…
In 1933, he developed his most successful cartoon of all time ‘The Three Little Pigs’ (1933) with the famous song ‘Whose Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.”
In the late 1940s, Walt Disney began building up plans for a massive Theme Park. Walt Disney wished the Theme Park to be like nothing ever created on earth. In particular, he wanted it to be a magical world for children and surrounded by a train. After several years in the planning and building, Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955.
Walt Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966. He had been a chain smoker all his life. An internet myth suggested Walt Disney had his body cryonically frozen, but this is untrue. It seems to have been spread by his employers, looking for one last joke at the expense of their boss.
He was passionate about his work but he was not too indulgent in it. He could spend hours creating something, drawing up sketches, penning down characters and thinking, but he did not obsess about them. He was open to criticism, notwithstanding the constructively objective ones and not the cynical ones. His personality made room for everyone’s