Brief introduction of Walter Disney

WaltDisney (190165438+February 5th-19665438+February 5th), whose full name is WalterEliasDisney, was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A famous American animation master, entrepreneur, director, producer, screenwriter, voice actor, comic designer, the founder of the world-famous Disney Company, and an elder loved and missed by the American people.

Walter Disney won 56 Oscar nominations and 7 Emmy Awards, making him the most Oscar winner in the world. Walter has two daughters, DianeDisney and SharonDisney(Sharon was adopted by her). Together with his staff, he created many famous and popular cartoon characters, including classic cartoon characters loved by countless people and Mickey Mouse, Walter Disney's good friend.

Chinese name: Walter Disney.

Mbth: WalterDisney。

Alias: Walter Disney

Nationality: USA

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of birth:190165438+February 5th.

Date of death:1966 65438+February 65438+May.

Occupation: animation master, entrepreneur, director, screenwriter, cartoon character designer.

Faith: Christianity

Major achievements: founded Disney Company.

Representative works: MickeyMouse

Blood type: O type

Constellation: Sagittarius

The life of the character

On February 5th, Walter Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Childhood was not easy for Walter Disney. His father ilias often asked him to work with his brothers. 19 18, the United States participated in the first world war. At that time, the 25-year-old third brother Roy immediately enlisted and went abroad to fight. In July of the same year, after graduating from high school, Walter went to see Roy who was training at a large naval base on the edge of Chicago. Roy told Walter some stories about overseas wars, and Walter's interest in joining the army increased greatly. He decided to join the army that day. Because the recruiter had doubts about Walter's age, he was asked to show his birth certificate. Unable to find accurate evidence, Walter Disney imitated his parents' signatures and became a volunteer of the International Red Cross.

Walter returned to Chicago after his military service. Then, he returned to Kansas, where he lived as a child, where Walter really started his career. After arriving in Kansas, Walter worked as a painter in an advertising company called Prassman Rubin through the introduction of his third brother Roy.

1920, Walter and his colleague Ubiquitous, who was still working in Rubin's Company in Plasman at that time, formed the Ewoks-Disney Commercial Art Company (IWUX-Disney Commercial Art Company) in partnership. Because I only earned 135 dollars from a business, Iwoks- Disney Commercial Art Company closed down less than a month after its establishment.

Later, Walter joined an advertising company in Kansas City, where he learned the basic skills of film and animation.

Walter established Laugh-O-GramFilms, and successfully distributed the animated short films produced by the company through the film publisher Frank Newman. 1922 On May 23rd, Walter obtained Ubud's consent to merge the remaining assets of Ivox- Disney Commercial Art Company into Laughter Animation Company. At Laughter Animation Company, Walter made the animation "Laughter -O-Grams" and sold it to publishers in Kansas City.

1923 July, Walter Disney arrived in Los Angeles, ready to go to Hollywood for development.

After arriving in Los Angeles, Walter Disney and his brother roy disney set up DisneyBrothersStudio, and then made a series of Alice's animations in the cartoon country.

1925 On July 25th, Walter Disney married LillianBounds, a female employee of the studio in Idaho. After returning to Hollywood from his honeymoon, Walter Disney decided to rename Disney Brothers as Walter Disney Studio, because he thought a single name was more attractive than the word "brother".

1926, a new film factory was built in Highbury. Subsequently, Disney Brothers began to make a series of animations of the lucky rabbit OswardtheLuckyRabbit in the new studio.

Lucky Rabbit Lucky Rabbit Oswald the Lucky Rabbit received a good response after its release in 1927, so in February of 1928, Walter Disney took Lillian to new york to discuss the renewal of the contract with the publisher CharlesMintz. Walter originally wanted to raise the price, but Mintz asked Walter to lower the price, and told Walter that he had bought off most producers of Lucky Rabbit Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Lucky Rabbit, and he owned the copyright of this series of animations according to the contract. If Walter doesn't agree to reduce the price, he can continue to be a lucky rabbit for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit himself.

On the train back to Hollywood, Walter Disney had a whim and created a cartoon image based on a mouse-Mortimer Mouse. Later, at Lillian's suggestion, the cartoon image was renamed MickeyMouse.

1928 In March, Walter started the production of the first Mickey series animation "PlaneCrazy". Then he flew for the second time. Due to the limited response of these two animations and the appearance of audio movies at that time, Walter decided to dub the third Mickey animation series Steamboat Willie by the method developed by Patrick Bowles, and created the world's first audio animation. 1928165438+1October 18, steamboat Willie premiered in new york Overseas Chinese Cinema, and the response was unprecedented!

1929, in addition to continuing to launch Mickey series animation, in order to increase liquidity, Walter began to make a new series of animated short films "SillySymphony".

1930, a new york businessman named George Bogfelt bought the right to use Mickey and Minnie in toys, books and clothes from Disney filmmakers in order to give his children Christmas gifts. Then, Walter Disney authorized new york's Berboland Publishing Company to publish Mickey's publications.

193 1 year, Technicolor company invented a color film shooting technology. Walter began to think about making color animation. And on July 30th, 1932, using this technology, the world's first color animation "FlowersandTrees" was released. In the same year, in order to thank Walter Disney for creating Mickey, Academy of Motion Picture AMPAS and Sciences awarded Walter a special Oscar. 1933, Walter released the animated film Three Little Pigs. In the same year1February 9 19, Walter's first daughter DianeMarieDisney was born. 1On June 9th, 934, Walter released the animated short film "TheWiseLittleHen", and Donald Duck made his debut. 1On February 23rd, 935, Walter released the first colorful Mickey animation, TheBandConcert. 1 936 65438+On February 3 1 day, Walt's second daughter Sharon was born (actually, Sharon was adopted by Disney when she was born for two weeks on 19371month).

golden age

193765438+February 2 1 day, Walter officially released the first feature-length animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in CarthayCircleTheater, Hollywood.

1940 On February 7th, Walter released the second feature-length animated film Pinocchio. In the same year165438+1October 13, Fantasia, the world's first film using stereo, was released.

194 1 year, Walter visited central and south America as a goodwill ambassador of the American government, led the creation of the film fantasia, and won the special Oscar for the third time. On1October 23rd this year, 10, Walter released the fourth animated film Dumbo.

1946165438+1October 12, Walter also released the studio's first movie "Song of the Gods" which combines real people and animation. In addition, during this period, Walter also filmed a large number of promotional videos for the US government.

After World War II, many employees who joined the army returned to the set to help Walter make movies. 1950 February 15, Disney once again launched the long animation "Xianyou", and Walt's animation production entered a golden age. In the next ten years, Walter released many popular movies, such as Peter Pan, Miss and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, 10 1 Loyal Dog, TheJungleBook and so on. On July 1950, Walt released Disney's first live-action movie Treasure Island. 1On August 29th, 964, Walt also released the movie "Happy Man" starring Julie Andrews, which is also the most successful film in the history of Disney movies. In addition, Walter began to play Les Miserables on TV.

Career in later years

During this period, Walt also founded Disneyland, the world's first Disney theme park, in Anaheim, California on July 1958+07, and began to plan DisneyWorld in Orlando, Florida, USA, which was later renamed Walter Disney World by roy disney.

1966 12 15. Walter Disney died of a sudden myocardial infarction ten days after his 65th birthday due to ineffective treatment of lung cancer. Walter's body was cremated, and his ashes were buried in the forest cemetery in Glendale, a small piece of overgrown land where a small monument stood. Because all the arrangements for Walter's death were not made public at that time, the rumor that his body was frozen has been circulating for many years. Many people don't want to believe that Mr Disney is really dead, and some even say that he will suddenly appear in front of us one day.

Digital chronology

Walter Disney was born in Chicago on February 5th.

1902, Walter Disney was baptized as a Christian.

1903, Walter's sister RuthFloraDisney was born.

1905, worried about the bad influence of metropolis life on children, Disney's father decided to move to the suburbs.

1906, the Disney family moved to Marcellin Farm in Kansas City, Missouri.

1907, Walter Disney began to doodle and draw.

1909, Walter Disney started school.

In order to facilitate children's study and work, the Disney family moved to Kansas City.

On 19 12, Walter Disney met his first good friend WaltPfeiffer.

19 15, Walter Disney imitates President Lincoln in the play.

In 19 17, the Disney family moved back to Chicago, and Walter attended McKinley High School.

19 18, Walter's cartoon works were published in the school magazine. In the second semester, American magazine Brother Roy was called up to fight in the war. Walter also lied about his age and joined the army, and came to France to take care of the wounded soldiers of the American army.

19 19 Walter decided to be a painter after returning to America and bid farewell to his parents and came to Kansas. Walter worked as an illustrator in an advertising company and met his colleague UbIwerks.

1920, Walter and Ub began to establish the commercial art of IwerksDisney, which soon closed down; With the encouragement of Ub, Walter was hired by Cannes Film Advertising Company. After being accepted by Cannes Film Advertising, Walter officially started to contact animation. As Walter's father's work was unsatisfactory, the Disney family moved in with him.

At 192 1, Walter met many animators.

1922, Walter tried to make his own cartoons, completed a series of "Little Joy" cartoons and sold them to Cannes filmmakers.

1923, Disney began to launch "Alice" series of cartoons in cartoon country. Because it was not easy to develop in Cannes, Walter went to Los Angeles to live with his third brother, roy disney, and continued to shoot the Alice series. Disney Brothers production officially started on 10.

1924, friends from UbIwerks Cannes came to Hollywood at the invitation of China.

1925, roy disney and Walter Disney got married successively; "Made by Disney Brothers" was renamed as "Made in Walter Disney", which is said to be a louder name.

1926, the new studio was completed and opened.

1927, Disney released the cartoon series Lucky Rabbit Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Lucky Rabbit.

1928 employees were poached by agents, and Disney was forced to give up Lucky Rabbit Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Mickey Mouse was born in a secret studio in the garage under the wonderful hand of UbIwerks. In the same year165438+1October 18, the world's first animated film named Steamboat Willie was released.

1929, Mickey Mouse was so popular that Disney continued to release several short films about Mickey Mouse. Disney began to release a series of short films called Stupid Symphony. The first episode was Dance of the Skull.

1930, Disney received royalties from authorized Mickey products for the first time.

At 193 1, Disney decided to make color cartoons.

1932, Disney won a special Oscar for creating Mickey Mouse, and released the world's first color cartoon "Flowers and Trees".

1933, "Three Little Pigs" was released, in which the theme song became a popular song, and Walter Disney's eldest daughter Diane was born.

1934, Donald Duck was created and first appeared in the short film "Clever Little Hen". The first Disney music record was released by RCA/Victor.

1935, the first colorful Mickey cartoon Mickey concert was released.

1936, Donald Duck plays the leading role in the film for the first time.

1937, Snow White, the first feature-length animated film in film history, was released.

1938, Snow White, the world's first film soundtrack, was released.

1939 won the special Oscar award for filming Snow White.

1940, the animated film Pinocchio was released, and the first three-dimensional film in film history was released. From then on, Walter Disney, the classical music animated film Fantasia, only worked as a producer, and no longer worked as a painter himself.

194 1 year, Disney Studio went on strike, and Disney Studio established a trade union. Frustrated, Walter Disney released a special film A Journey to Disney Studio, which introduced the production process of Disney, and won a special Oscar for making the first three-dimensional film Fantasia. Walter Disney's father Elias Disney died. Entrusted by the US government, Walter Disney paid a friendly visit to Central and South America and released the cartoon Dumbo. When the United States entered the war, most Disney studios were requisitioned by the government for military purposes.

1942 released the animated film bambi, which was the first to render watercolor concepts.

1943 released the documentary animation "Waiting for My Friend" and the documentary "Winning in the Air" describing the concept of war.

1944, Snow White was released again, and Disney movies were released for the first time.

1945, the cartoon "Three Horsemen" was released.

1946, the animated film "Music for Me" was released, and Disney tried to combine short films with long films to launch "Song of the South" starring real people and animations.

1947, the animated film Mickey Mouse and the Magic Bean was released, Walter Disney voiced Mickey Mouse for the last time, and Shi Gaozhi starred in Donald Duck animation for the first time, becoming the first Disney star to win the popularity of animation.

1948, the first documentary "Adventures in the Real World" was released, and the animated film "Melody Time" was released.

1949, "My Heart Loves" starring real people and animation * * * was released, and the cartoon "The Adventure of Teacher Yi and Little Toad" was released.

1950, the animated film Romance was released, the first real-life movie Treasure Island was released, and the real-world adventure and documentary Beaver Valley continued to be released. The Walter Disney office opened a TV interview program for the first time.

195 1 year, the animated film Alice in Wonderland was released.

1952, Walter Disney set up the WED company alone to prepare for Disneyland.

1953 The animated film Peter Pan was released, Disney established BuenaVista to release its own film instead of the first film released by Lei Dian Hua, and the film released by Buena Vista released a documentary "Wonders of the Desert".

1954, Disney began to have TV programs on ABC, and the Disney classic adventure film Two Wan Li under the Sea was released.

1955, California Disneyland opened, Mickey Mouse Club was established, and Disney released the TV movie The Biography of David Crowe and the first wide-screen Disney animation Miss and Rogue.

1956, Disneyland began to set off fireworks "FantasyintheSky", Disney officially released its own music records and established DisneylandRecords.

1957, classic business card Lao Huang Gou, classic TV series Black Dragon Man released.

1958, the Oscar-winning documentary White Yuan Ye was released.

1959, the cartoon Sleeping Beauty was released, and the classic comedy business card Long-haired Dog was launched. Disneyland began to launch the "e-Eticket" system, and Disneyland launched the monorail train.

1960 launched the classic business cards of Happy Angel and Cape Paradise, which won many stars. That year, Disney took over the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics.

196 1 released the animation "loyal dog", launched the classic business cards "flying classic car" and "little matchmaker" by using the innovative technology of full recording and full reproduction, and Disney launched the TV time of "Color World" on NBC.

1962, Dr. Useless, a famous duck professor, made his debut in TV time in the color world, and Disney invested in CelebritySportsCenter in Denver, Colorado.

1963, Walter Disney secretly flew to Florida to find the location of the second paradise, and released the animated film Sword in the Stone.

1964 The live-action animation Happy People won five Oscars, participated in the new york Expo and presented Small World.

1965, Disneyland celebrated the anniversary of 10, and the Florida Disney World Plan was announced.

1966, Disney participated in the annual float parade in new york and released its first short film Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.

1966 12 15, Disney died of lung cancer. At this time, he is still working in the Walter Disney World in Florida. The theme park opened a few years after his death.

Personal life

Walter Disney's father is Irish-Canadian EliasDisney, and his mother is a German-American mixed-race FloraCallDisney. Walter has three brothers and one sister, namely Herbert Disney, Raymond Disney, Roy Oliver Disney and Ruth Disney.

Main work

1930s

Snow White (1937, translated name of mainland audio-visual products: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

1940s

Pinocchio (1940)

Fantasy (1940)

Dumbo (194 1 year)

Disney Studio Tour (194 1 year)

Bambi (1942)

To my friend (1943)

Winning in the air (1943)

Three knights (1945)

Song of the South (1946)

Sentiment accompanies my heart (1949)

1950s

Fairy Tale Journey (1950)

Treasure Island (1950)

Alice in Wonderland (195 1 year)

Peter Pan (1953)

Two Wan Li under the sea (1954)

Young ladies and hooligans (1955)

Laohuanggou (1957)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Fairy (1959)

Long-haired dog (1959)

1960s

Happy angel (1960)

Paradise Corner (1960)

10 1 loyal dog (196 1 year)

Little matchmaker (196 1 year)

Adventures of Toy Kingdom (196 1 year)

Flying classic car (196 1 year)

The sequel of flying classic car (1963)

Summer Magic (1963)

Stone (1963)

One cat, two dogs and three Qin Fen (1963)

Full of joy (1964)

Ada Superman (1964)

Elf Cats Catch Thieves (1965)

Uncle Monkey (1965)

Father of Boy Scouts (1966)

The Book of the Jungle (1967)

Happy millionaire (1967)

Black beard (1968)

Happy family (1968)

Universal scarab (1969)

Winning record

Personality assessment

Walter Disney's name has already entered thousands of households with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and he has also become the world's top movie and entertainment tycoon, including many famous movies such as Snow White and Pinocchio, as well as animated characters such as Mickey Mouse. It was also he who made Disneyland possible and created the theme park. His TV program Disney Wonderland (formerly known as Disney World) also made countless Americans. He won 56 Oscar nominations and 7 Emmy awards. Walter Disney won the most Oscars in the world.