Nepotism aside, Roy Disney played an instrumental ... Well before his death, Walt Disney had been Disneyfied into a cartoon character, and enlisted into the canon of anthropomorphic mice and ...

A small town boy with big dreams went to Hollywood with only 40 dollars in his pocket. He started an animation studio in his ...

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Roy Edward Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney, died Wednesday after a yearlong battle with stomach cancer, according to a Walt Disney Co. spokesman. Disney "played ...

The pioneering animator and filmmaker — who co-founded the Walt Disney Company in 1923 with his brother Roy O. Disney — is the creator behind countless beloved characters, from Donald Duck and ...

EnchantedFairy / Getty Images Walt Disney (DIS ... creating a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. In 1928, Walt and Roy had the unpleasant surprise of finding out that all of their ...

In 1933, a Navy Reserve Squadron in New York asked Walt Disney's company to develop ... Others have been largely lost to history. Every major Disney character at that time appeared on insignia ...

Soon the cheerful character was a phenomenon; a symbol of resilience in depression-gripped America. As Neal Gabler wrote in his book, Walt Disney ... business partner Roy that Snow White would ...