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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 64. Chapters: Walt Disney, Dennis Hopper, William F. Nolan, Richard Corben, Horace Day, Robert Rauschenberg, John Steuart Curry, Thomas Hart Benton, Ronnie Landfield, Marisol Deluna, Delmer J. Yoakum, Raissa Venables, John Philip Falter, Gary Freeman, Dan Christensen, April Greiman, Dale Eldred, Akio Takamori, Robert Morris, Jim Suptic, Victor Papanek, Christopher Willits, Mercedes Matter, Robert Berdella, Ellen Fullman, Nick Cave, Debra Di Blasi, Frederic James, David Askevold, Robert Merrell Gage, Margot Peet, Jim Mahfood, Arthur Kraft, Mikel Rouse, Steve Heineman, Carl Blair, Calvin Maglinger, Archer Prewitt, Archie Scott Gobber, Frank S. Land, Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Doris Lee, Rod Keenan, Anthony Angarola, Martin Arnold, Eric Sall, Jessica Straus, Nathan Mabry, Christian Holstad, John de Martelly, John E. Buck, Sam Prekop, Glenn Gant, Howard Vanderslice, Stefan Lindfors, Michael Greathouse, Jackson Lee Nesbitt, C. Stanley Lewis, Roger Medearis, Nemo Gould, Richard Notkin, Stephen Sidelinger, Angela Dufresne, Jim Campbell, Nelson Shanks, Jon Gnagy. Excerpt: 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. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and has annual revenues of approximately USD $35 billion. Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime 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. Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and 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. The year after his December 15, 1966 death from lung cancer in Burbank, California, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971. 10-year old Walt Disney (center right) at a gathering of Kansas City newsboys in 1912.Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 2156 N. Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa community area to Irish-Canadian father Elias Disney and German-American mother Flora Call Disney. His great-grandfather, Arundel Elias Disney, had emigrated from Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland where he was born in 1801. Arundel Disney was a descendant of Robert d'Isigny, a Frenchma