In 1878, Disney's father Elias had moved from Huron County, Ontario, Canada to the United States at first seeking gold in California before finally settling down to farm with his parents near Ellis, Kansas, until 1884.

Fleischer, considered Disney's main rival in the 1930s, was also the father of Richard Fleischer, whom Disney would later hire to direct his 1954 film 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Disney's Goof Troop is an American animated television series from The Walt Disney Company featuring Goofy as a father figure and bonding with his son Max, and Pete, as his neighbor.

He also had a triple-role as twin brothers and their father in Disney's Hot Lead and Cold Feet, The Hunchback, as a tap dancing executive in Arthur Miller's 1993 The American Clock and as a comic villain in the 1977 Disney films Pete's Dragon and The Spaceman and King Arthur aka Unidentified Flying Oddball.

* Elias Disney ( 1859 – 1941 ), Walt Disney's father

Charles Claverie, known by such stage names as Charlie Hamburger, Charlie Kennedy, and, most famously, Charles Rocket ( August 24, 1949 – October 7, 2005 ) was an American film and television actor, notable for his tenure as a cast member on Saturday Night Live as well as for his appearances as the villain Nicholas Andre in the film Dumb and Dumber ; and as Dave Dennison, the father in Disney's Hocus Pocus.

In Disney's Tarzan ( 1999 ) and its direct-to-video midquel Henriksen is Kerchak, the ape who serves as Tarzan's surrogate father.

* The concept of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was used for the last installment of Disney's Aladdin series, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, released in 1996, introducing Cassim the King of Thieves as Aladdin's father.

As a friend of the Dotrice family, Karen's father, Shakespearian actor Roy Dotrice, called Garber to the attention of Disney Casting, where his use of " artful dodges, like squinting, screwing up his nose, and brushing his hair back with one hand " made his screen debut at age seven in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina.

" He also was the voice of the father on Disney's Carousel of Progress, first presented at the 1964 World's Fair and is now at Walt Disney World.

The company was named to honor Don's father, Ub Iwerks, who was Walt Disney's first business partner and creator of Mickey Mouse.

* Arundel Elias Disney ( 1801 ) ( Walt Disney's Great Grandfather.

When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.

He was immediately assigned to illustrate the script for a ten-page Donald Duck story for the monthly Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.

) Shortly after the US theatrical run, it was re-edited yet again for a two-part presentation on Disney's television series in the 1970s, simply omitting the middle segment.

The original three-part miniseries version was first shown on Disney's Wonderful World Of Color, February 9, 16 and 23, 1964, and shown again there a few times, included in a late 1980s Wonderful World of Disney syndicated rerun package, and cablecast in 1990s on the Disney Channel.

Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.

In his teens he was fascinated by Walt Disney's " Silly Symphonies " and decided to become an animator.

The most successful musical of the 1960s created specifically for film was Mary Poppins, one of Disney's biggest hits.

The Mickey Mouse Club was Walt Disney's second venture into producing a television series, the first being the Walt Disney anthology television series, initially titled Disneyland.

The Mickey Mouse Club was featured on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and Walt Disney's Adventure Time, featuring re-runs of The Mickey Mouse Club serials and several re-edited segments from Disneyland and Walt Disney Presents, appeared on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

FutureSplash was used by Microsoft in its early work with the Internet ( MSN ), and also by Disney Online for their subscription-based service, Disney's Daily Blast.

This was due to Disney's acquisition of Fox's children's programming department ( then known as Jetix until 2009, now known as Disney XD ) as well as the Fox Family Channel, now renamed ABC Family.

Presented as " Newman Laugh-O-Grams ", Disney's cartoons became widely popular in the Kansas City area and through their success, he was able to acquire his own studio, also called Laugh-O-Gram, for which he hired a vast number of additional animators, including Fred Harman's brother Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, and his close friend Ubbe Iwerks.

The first animated short to feature Mickey, Plane Crazy was a silent film like all of Disney's previous works.

Of all Mickey's partners, Donald Duck, who first teamed up with Mickey in the 1934 cartoon, Orphan's Benefit, was arguably the most popular, going on to become Disney's second most successful cartoon character of all time.

The episode was called ' Major Effects ', and was aired to coincide with the release of Disney's ' The Black Hole ' in 1979.

It will go on to become Disney's biggest moneymaker, and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress award for Julie Andrews, who accepted the part after she was passed over by Jack L. Warner for the leading role of Eliza Dolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady.

Walt Disney's 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse was the first to use a click track during the recording session, which produced better synchronism.

In addition, the Disney-controlled town of Celebration, Florida, which was built with many of Walt Disney's original ideas, which have evolved into a form of New Urbanism, was deannexed from Bay Lake and the District to keep its residents from having power over Disney by providing for separate administration of the areas.

In 1989, the resort added Disney-MGM Studios, a theme park inspired by show business, whose name was changed to Disney's Hollywood Studios in 2008.

Disney's original vision of EPCOT was for a model community, home to twenty thousand residents, which would be a test bed for city planning and organization.

After Walt Disney's death in 1966, Roy postponed his retirement to oversee construction of what was then known as Disney World, and later renamed it Walt Disney World as a tribute to his brother.

Since 1954, Tinker Bell has featured as a hostess for much of Disney's live-action television programming and in every Disney movie advertisements flying over Disneyland with her magic wand and her fairy dust, beginning with Disneyland ( which first introduced the theme park to the public while it was still under construction ), to Walt Disney Presents, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, and The Wonderful World of Disney.

The construction of DCA began in 1998, as part of the Disneyland Resort expansion project which included the new theme park, the Disney's Grand Californian Hotel, Downtown Disney, and the renovation of the Disneyland Hotel and the Paradise Pier Hotel, and was completed in 2001.

After its first publicly known proposal for a second theme park in Anaheim was scrapped, construction began in 1998 on a theme park called " Disney's California Adventure Park ", later renamed Disney California Adventure ; a hotel called Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa ; a renovation, renaming, and re-theming of the Disneyland Pacific Hotel as the Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel ; and an admission-free shopping and dining area called Downtown Disney.

To Walt Disney's dismay, the city of Anaheim, eager for the tax revenue generated by more hotels in the city, was lax in restricting their construction, and the area surrounding Disneyland became the atmosphere of colorful lights and flashy neon signs that he had wanted to avoid ( and which years earlier had caused the city of Burbank to deny his initial request to build his project in Burbank ).

Aside from Disney California Adventure, new construction on the former parking lot included Disney's Grand Californian Hotel and Downtown Disney.

In 2007, Disney announced a US $ 1. 1 billion expansion project for Disney California Adventure, including construction of a new land based on the Disney-Pixar film Cars, a new evening water show — Disney's World of Color, as well as substantially retheming and adding new attractions to existing areas.

Before the construction of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, Disney's Contemporary Resort was considered Disney's flagship resort.

There is also land reserved for a third Disney hotel, which will be located between Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel and Disney's Hollywood Hotel ; however, construction will not begin till 2011 because the site is currently being used for sporting activities.

Then, in 1975, construction began on Walt Disney's proposed 1965 " Space Port.

The resort used United States Steel's then newly-developed construction process for its original longhouses ; steel frames were erected on-site, and pre-constructed modular rooms were lifted into these frames via crane, similar to Disney's Contemporary Resort.