A Brief Biography Of Walt Disney

Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901. He was the fourth son of Elias and Flora Call Disney. He had three brothers, Herbert, Raymond, and Roy; he also had one sister, Ruth. He spent most of his childhood life on a farm in Marceline, Missouri. When they had to sell the farm because of their dad's illness they went to Kansas City. He attended school in Kansas City and then went to Chicago, where he and Walter Pfeiffer worked together to on plays and skits, and later staged and directed plays. For six years he worked as a newspaper boy and delivered newspaper throughout the whole year. After six years of that job a boy came up to him and said "There's sumpin' just forming here that you and I can get in." Walt said, "What is it?" the boy then said, "An ambulance unit."(Miller, 12) They then went down and signed up, and then they were off to France. While they were in France, their job included of transporting of personnel supplies. On the side of the ambulance they drove, there was a doughboy which he used a lot in is cartoons. After the ten months Walt was in this job he left and went back home because everybody had left that he knew and it was very lonesome. After he came back to Chicago from France, he told his dad, "Dad, I want to be an artist." Although his dad did not like the idea, Walt went back to Kansas City and got a job animating. While he was in Kansas City he was thinking and wanted to try something new. "If I had something with a novel to twist to it, I might crack the market."(Miller, 14) He spent nights working on different things to try. He then brought a young actress to the cartoon world, Virginia Davis; she would be playing Alice from Alice and Wonderland. He took a real person and put her into the drawing. H...

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...me with his wife, Lillian and his daughters, Diane and Sharon. Then they started back on the productions they had to but to the side, like Pinocchio. Even though, Walt Disney had many struggles he had many great things happen in his life. For example, in the past years he has won 61 movie awards.

Walt Disney sadly died on December 15, 1966. He was unable to see his dream come to life. "Walt Disney lives in the hearts of people around the world to whom he has brought joy and laughter and the conviction that when you truly believe, dreams do come true." Walt Disney once said "All our dreams come true if we have to courage to pursue them." I believe that Walt Disney's legacy will live on and that his dreams did come true even though he did not get to see it happen. Even though Walt Disney had many struggles had got past them and now look at what he has accomplished.