Walt Disney has often been help up as an example of the American dream in action.

A high school dropout, he found the Disney company in 1923 along with is brother.After a shaky start, he starred five years later as the voice of Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie, the world's first cartoon ever made with sound as well as pictures. Success in the field of animation led his company on to businedd as diverse as theme parks, shops, computer games and TV dramas of recent years have played out in its own boardroom and at meetings of shareholders.