Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (b. 5 December 1901; d. 15 December 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

He was the grandson of Henrietta Gross, Charles Call, Mary Richardson, and Kepple Elias Disney, the son of Flora Call and Elias Charles Disney, the brother of Herbert Arthur Disney, Raymond Arnold Disney, Roy Oliver Disney, and Ruth Flora Disney, the husband of Lillian Marie Bounds, the father of Diane Marie Disney and (by adoption) Sharon Mae Disney, the father-in-law of Ronald William Miller, the uncle of Roy Edward Disney, the grandfather of Christopher Miller, Joanna Miller, Tamara Miller, Jennifer Miller, Walter Miller, Ronald Miller, and Patrick Miller, and the great-uncle of Timothy Disney, Roy Patrick Disney, Abigail Disney, and Susan Disney Lord.

Prior to his death, Disney selected three Imagineers – Farren Rales, George Colmes, and Preston Child – to create elaborate contingencies to protect interconnected parts of his legacy: Rales was charged with selecting a successor to inherit the secrets that Disney had collected throughout his lifetime, Colmes was charged with protecting the journals of Disney and Wernher von Braun, and Child was charged with securing a Norman Rockwell painting on the back of which the schematic for an experimental propulsion engine had secretly been sketched.

Following his death, a rumor spread that Disney had elected to be cryogenically preserved in order that he might be revived at some point in the future after a cure for cancer had been developed.

Appearances

 * The Key to the Kingdom (video)
 * Unlocking the Kingdom (mentioned)
 * Storming the Kingdom (mentioned)
 * Terror in the Kingdom (mentioned)