Walt Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist, he has a net worth of $5 billion. Walt Disney earned his net worth along with his brother Roy O. Disney, as co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. He was well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. The Walt Disney Company and has annual revenues of approximately USD $35 billion. Disney was not only known as a film producer and a popular showman, but also an innovator in animation and theme park design. Some of the world’s most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, were created by Disney and his staff, Disney himself provided the original voice for the character. He received four honorary Academy Awards and won twenty-two Academy Awards from a total of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history. As the winner of seven Emmy Awards, he gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
Born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago’s Hermosa community area, his father Elias Disney was an Irish-Canadian and his mother Flora Call Disney was German-American. The legendary Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966 at the young age of 65 in Burbank, California, from lung cancer. A year later construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971. At the Benton Grammar School in Kansas City he met Walter Pfeiffer who came from a family of theatre aficionados, and introduced Walt to the world of vaudeville and motion pictures. He started attending courses at the Kansas City Art Institute on Saturdays. Walt often took Ruth to Electric Park, which Disney would later acknowledge as a major influence of his design of Disneyland. At McKinley High School he became the cartoonist for the school newspaper, drawing patriotic topics and focusing on World War and took night courses at the Chicago Art Institute. Presented as “Newman Laugh-O-Grams”, Disney’s cartoons became widely popular in the Kansas City area.
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