Campbell also landed the lead role of race car driver Hank Cooper in the Disney made-for-television remake of The Love Bug.

The events surrounding the Jamaica bobsled team in 1988 would lead to the creation of the Disney movie Cool Runnings five years later which was based on Jamaica's 1988 bobsled team.

After leaving the studios, Nielsen landed the lead role in the Disney miniseries The Swamp Fox, as American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion.

Walt Disney was impressed with Baskett's talent and hired him on the spot for the lead role of Uncle Remus.

In his excited response dated October 26, 1937, Disney wrote that he felt " all steamed up over the idea of Stokowski working with us ... The union of Stokowski and his music, together with the best of our medium, would be the means of a success and should lead to a new style of motion picture presentation.

" Dance Magazine devoted its lead story to the film, saying that " the most extraordinary thing about Fantasia is, to a dancer or balletomane, not the miraculous musical recording, the range of color, or the fountainous integrity of the Disney collaborators, but quite simply the perfection of its dancing.

In early 1941, before U. S. entry into World War II, the United States Department of State commissioned a Disney goodwill tour of South America, intended to lead to a movie to be shown in the US, Central, and South America as part of the Good Neighbor Policy.

In 1980, Ringwald performed as a lead vocalist on two Disney albums.

Salonen later took the orchestra on many other tours of the United States, Europe, and Asia, and residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, The Proms in London, in Cologne for a festival of Salonen's own works, and perhaps most notably, in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez ; it was during this Paris residency that key Philharmonic board members heard the orchestra perform in improved acoustics and were re-invigorated to lead fundraising efforts for the soon-to-be built Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Sheen sang lead on the group's first hit, 1962's " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah " ( originally from the 1946 Disney movie, Song of the South ).

Also in 2001, Destiny's Child sang backup vocals for Solange Knowles, who was the lead, on the theme song to the animated Disney Channel series The Proud Family.

* George Mitchell ( 1954 ), U. S. Senate Majority Leader, U. S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and for Middle East Peace, Chairman of the Walt Disney Company, and lead investigator for Major League Baseball's 2007 steroid report

His policies provided the show with a succession of female producers and writers, many of whom went on to lead the boom in children's programming at Nickelodeon, the Disney Channel, and PBS in the 1990s and 2000s.

Chase's big break came in 2002 when she won the lead role as the voice of a Hawaiian girl, Lilo Pelekai, in the Disney animated feature, Lilo & Stitch.

This film led the company towards experimenting with more adult-oriented and mainstream films, which would eventually lead to the creation of its Touchstone Pictures and Hollywood Pictures arms to handle films considered too mature in nature to carry the Walt Disney Pictures label.

Buena Vista Street, which takes its name from the Burbank street on which the Walt Disney Studios are located, now lead guests into the park in an immersive recreation of early 1920s Los Angeles when Walt Disney first arrived with Mission and Art Deco facades housing shops and restaurants, and period specific theming.

Eventually, Disneyland was " boxed in ", a factor which would later lead Walt Disney to acquire a significantly larger parcel of land for the construction of Walt Disney World.

Salonen later took the orchestra on many other tours of the United States, Europe, and Asia, and residencies at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, The Proms in London, in Cologne for a festival of Salonen's own works, and perhaps most notably, in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a Stravinsky festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez ; it was during this Paris residency that key Philharmonic board members heard the orchestra perform in improved acoustics and were re-invigorated to lead fundraising efforts to complete construction of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

That's So Raven was responsible for many firsts for Disney Channel: the series was the highest-rated series in the history of Disney Channel and the first series to garner more than three-million viewers ; the second longest-running original series in Disney Channel history, the first Disney-produced series to reach 100 episodes ), the First Disney-produced series to produce a spinoff ( Cory in the House ) and one of only three live action original series, where the lead and most of the supporting main characters are minorities ( The Famous Jett Jackson and Cory in the House being the others ).

Rhapsody in Blue was a work already in progress by director Eric Goldberg ( lead animator for the Genie in Aladdin, also inspired by Al Hirschfeld's art ), when Disney approached him to complete the piece for the film.

* 1966 – Walt Disney, American animator ( b. 1901 )

* 1914 – Bill Justice, American Disney animator ( d. 2011 )

Master animator Richard Williams explains the KISS principle in his book The Animator's Survival Kit, and Disney's Nine Old Men write about it in Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, which is considered " the animation bible " by CG, traditional, and stop motion animators.

* 1985 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American Disney animator, director and producer ( b. 1909 )

The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park and Robert Zemeckis.

Walter Elias " Walt " Disney ( December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966 ) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century.

While working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on cutout animations, Disney became interested in animation, and decided to become an animator.

** Walt Disney, American animator and film producer ( died 1966 )

* February 23 – Retta Scott, first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios ( d. 1990 )

* Walt Disney, animator

(; born Ubbe Eert Iwerks, March 24, 1901 – July 7, 1971 ) was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician, who co-created Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney.

* Robert Walker ( animator ), Disney animator who directed Brother Bear

* Ollie Johnston, a Disney animator, one of the famed " Nine Old Men "

According to Christopher Finch in The Art of Walt Disney ( Abrams, 1974 ), Disney credited animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard.

In 1927, because of cost and technical restrictions, Disney and his chief animator Ub Iwerks decided to end their work on the Alice Comedies series in search of new creative opportunities.

Disney animator Ben Sharpsteen said " We thought the name was too common, so we had to look for something else.

Pluto was initially a minor character until 1934, when Disney animator Norm Ferguson gave the dog a key role in the cartoon Playful Pluto.

The designer of the approved Gill-man was Disney animator Millicent Patrick, though her role was deliberately downplayed by makeup artist Bud Westmore, who for half a century would receive sole credit for the creature's conception.

McCay's son Robert, along with Disney animator Richard Huemer, recreated the original vaudeville performance for the Disneyland television program in 1955.

Walt Disney Productions hired Gottfredson as an apprentice animator and in-betweener on December 19, 1929.

Kinney is the younger brother of fellow Disney animator Jack Kinney.

However, it is also an authentic work of movie art and Bakshi is certainly the most creative American animator since Disney.