Roy Edward Disney (* 10 January 1930 in Los Angeles, California, the USA) is the nephew of the founder of the Walt Disney company, Walt Disney. Its father is Roy olive Disney.

Roy E. Disney began to cooperate 1954 in the Walt Disney company as coworkers in the film cut of the True Life of Adventure films (films after "the true life "). 1967 he was selected into the supervisory board of the company. 1977 it left the supervisory board, after it with its colleagues zerstritten itself had. 1984 it returned as a Vizedirektor to the supervisory board and led the animation department. It sat down the goal of revitalisieren the animation tradition of the company and had up to the end of the decade large success thereby. The coworkers were grateful over the large artistic liberty, which it granted them.

On 16 October 1998 it kept Eisner on the again opened Disney Legends Plaza the prestigeful Disney Legends Award surprising from the chairman of the supervisory board Michael D.

Roy E. of Disney favourite project was the film Fantasia 2000, one quasi continuation of the film Fantasia of 1940 of its uncle Walt Disney, which had these always in the sense, but never carried out. Roy E. Disney was an implementing producer of the continuation, whose development took nine years and which were on 17 December 1999.

It gave its office up as a Vizedirektor as a last family member of the company in November 2003. The forestalled thereby an exclusion for age reasons. Besides existed differences with head of the company (CEO) Michael Eisner. Disney criticizes its style of leadership, by which the enterprise in the public, according to Disney, as "have-greedily, soulless and always on the search for the fast dollar "is noticed. He is initiator "save Disney "- Website, which criticizes the present Disney line to displace with the goal Eisner from the company point to and renew the company politics.

Roy E. Disney, which at the continued age its uncle Walt Disney resembles astonishing both in the appearance and in the mentality, married Patricia Ann Dailey 1955 and is father of four children. It was the last family member of the Disney family, which was actively in the guidance of the enterprise involved.

Honors

• 1993 - the Winsor McCay Award of the Annie Awards
• 2002 - Price for its life's work in the animated film of the Santa Clarita internationally film festival
• 2004 - a OSCAR nominating for the Kurzfilm Destino (2003)

Related links

• Roy Disney "save Disney" - Website

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