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    Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) was an American film producer and entrepreneur who founded The Walt Disney Company. He is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the American animation industry. Disney received numerous honors throughout his career, including 59 Academy Award nominations and 22 wins. Some of his most famous films, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, are preserved in the National Film Registry. Disney grew up on a farm in Missouri where he developed an early interest in drawing. As an adult, he created Mickey Mouse and established Disney as a leader in animation and family entertainment.

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    Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) was an American film producer and entrepreneur who founded The Walt Disney Company. He is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the American animation industry. Disney received numerous honors throughout his career, including 59 Academy Award nominations and 22 wins. Some of his most famous films, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, are preserved in the National Film Registry. Disney grew up on a farm in Missouri where he developed an early interest in drawing. As an adult, he created Mickey Mouse and established Disney as a leader in animation and family entertainment.

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    Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) was an American film producer and entrepreneur who founded The Walt Disney Company. He is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the American animation industry. Disney received numerous honors throughout his career, including 59 Academy Award nominations and 22 wins. Some of his most famous films, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, are preserved in the National Film Registry. Disney grew up on a farm in Missouri where he developed an early interest in drawing. As an adult, he created Mickey Mouse and established Disney as a leader in animation and family entertainment.

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    Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966)

    As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having
    won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement
    Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film
    Registry by the Library of Congress.

    Early life: 1901–1920

    Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 1249 Tripp Avenue, in


    Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood. He was the fourth son of Elias Disney—born in the Province of
    Canada, to Irish parents—and Flora (née Call), an American of German and English
    descent.[3][4][b] Aside from Disney, Elias and Flora's sons were Herbert, Raymond and Roy; the couple
    had a fifth child, Ruth, in December 1903.[7] In 1906, when Disney was four, the family moved to a farm
    in Marceline, Missouri, where his uncle Robert had just purchased land. In Marceline, Disney developed
    his interest in drawing when he was paid to draw the horse of a retired neighborhood doctor.[8] Elias
    was a subscriber to the Appeal to Reason newspaper, and Disney practiced drawing by copying the
    front-page cartoons of Ryan Walker.[9] Disney also began to develop an ability to work with watercolors
    and crayons.[4] He lived near the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line and became enamored
    with trains.[10] He and his younger sister Ruth started school at the same time at the Park School in
    Marceline in late 1909.[11]

    Disney's public persona was very different from his actual


    personality.[182] Playwright RobertbE.Sherwood described him as "almost painfully shy ... diffident" and
    self-deprecating.[183] According to his biographer Richard Schickel, Disney hid his shy and insecure
    personality behind his public identity.[184] Kimball argues that Disney "played the role of a bashful
    tycoon who was embarrassed in public" and knew that he was doing so.[185]

    Disney acknowledged the façade, and told a friend that "I'm not Walt Disney. I do a lot of things Walt
    Disney would not do. Walt Disney does not smoke. I smoke. Walt Disney does not drink. I
    drink."[186] Critic Otis Ferguson, in The New Republic, called the private Disney: "common and
    everyday, not inaccessible, not in a foreign language, not suppressed or sponsored or anything. Just
    Disney."Many of those with whom Disney worked commented that he gave his staff little
    encouragement due to his exceptionally high expectations. Norman recalls that when

    Disney said "That'll work", it was an indication of high praise. Instead of direct approval, Disney gave
    high-performing staff financial bonuses, or recommended certain individuals to others, expecting that
    his praise would be passed on.

    Disney remains the central figure in the history of animation. Through technological innovations and
    alliances with governments and corporations, he transformed a minor studio in a marginal form of
    communication into a multinational leisure industry giant. Despite his critics, his vision of a modern,
    corporate utopia as an extension of traditional American values has possibly gained greater currency in
    the years after his death.

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