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My Take
Walt Disney remains, to me, the ultimate argument that imagination is a form of stubbornness. A Chicago-born kid with art training and no safety net, he survived failure and betrayal yet kept betting everything on animation when serious people dismissed it as a novelty. His record haul of Academy Awards may never fall, but the deeper achievement is structural: he turned cartoons into emotional storytelling and built an entire grammar of childhood wonder the world still speaks. I am clear-eyed that he was a demanding, complicated man, yet sixty years after his death we all still play inside his imagination. Few lives have rippled further.
Overview
Walter Elias Disney ( DIZ-nee; December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards won (22) and nominations (59) by an individual.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Walt Disney
- Name (Japanese)
- ウォルト・ディズニー
- Reading
- うぉると・でぃずにー
- Born
- December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Ox
- Origin
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / film producer / animator / television presenter / voice actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- McKinley High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1964 Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 1989 Grammy Trustees Award
- 1959 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
- 1949 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel
- 1951 Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Mickey Mouse | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.