Roy Disney
Walt Disney Productions
Roy Disney has credits as a writer,
producer, and/or director
on over 40 of Disney shows spanning the last five decades. His
career highlights include: assistant editing duties on Disney's True-Life Adventures, which include the Oscar-winning The Living Desert and The Vanishing Prairie; camera operator on the popular show Perri (filmed in Jackson Hole in 1955), production coordinator on The Wonderful World of Disney, and producer on Varda, the Peregrine Falcon. He received an Oscar nomination in 1959 for his work on the
short Mysteries of
the Deep, and has been
nominated again three times over the past four years. Most recently, he was
instrumental in getting newly restored DVD versions of the award-winning True Life Adventure films back into circulation. In 1967,
Disney joined the Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Company, and held the
posts of Vice Chairman, as well as Chairman of the studio's Feature Animation
Division. For five decades his career has bridged the gap between a family
business and the powerful multinational the company has become. Currently
serving as Director Emeritus, he has remained the titanic supporting structure
of Walt Disney Productions - the company's one link to the family that started
it all in 1924.