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WaltDisney,infullWalterEliasDisney,(bornDecember5,1901,Chicago[1],Illinois[2],U.S.—diedDecember15,1966,LosAngeles,California),Americanmotion-picture[3]andtelevision[4]producerandshowman,famousasapioneerofanimatedcartoonfilmsandasthecreatorofsuchcartooncharactersasMickeyMouse[5]andDonaldDuck[6].HealsoplannedandbuiltDisneyland[7],ahugeamusementparkthatopenednearLosAngeles[8]in1955,andbeforehisdeathhehadbegunbuildingasecondsuchpark,WaltDisneyWorld[9],nearOrlando[10],Florida.TheDisneyCompany[11]...
Walt Disney, in full Walter Elias Disney, (born December 5, 1901, Chicago[1], Illinois[2], U.S.—died December 15, 1966, Los Angeles, California), American motion-picture[3] and television[4] producer and showman, famous as a pioneer of animated cartoon films and as the creator of such cartoon characters as Mickey Mouse[5] and Donald Duck[6]. He also planned and built Disneyland[7], a huge amusement park that opened near Los Angeles[8] in 1955, and before his death he had begun building a second such park, Walt Disney World[9], near Orlando[10], Florida. The Disney Company[11] he founded has become one of the world’s largest entertainment conglomerates.
Early lifeWalter Elias Disney was the fourth son of Elias Disney, a peripatetic[12] carpenter, farmer, and building contractor, and his wife, Flora Call, who had been a public school teacher. When Walt was little more than an infant, the family moved to a farm near Marceline, Mis...