15 interesting facts about Walt Disney
- Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist.
- At age 16, during World War I, Walt Disney lied about his age to join the American Red Cross.
- Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
- He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in
the United States, Japan, France, and China. - Walt Disney didn’t graduate from high school.
- Walt Disney won more Oscars than anyone else.
- The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
- Walt Disney was the voice of Mickey Mouse for two decades.
- Walt Disney World Resort is about the size of San Francisco or two Manhattan islands.
- In the early 1923 Disney tackeld his most ambitious project to date. He made a version of Alice in Wonderland that combined animation with live-action footage.
- Walt Disney worked as an informant for the FBI.
- Walter Elias Disney won a special Academy Award in 1932 for creating the cartoon character named Mickey Mouse.
- Disney’s favorite song was “Feed the Birds,” from the film “Mary Poppins.”
- Walt Disney’s studios created the first multiplane camera.
- Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, a few years prior to the opening of Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
