Walt Disney

Walt Disney was born December 5, 1901 in Chicago, but he grew up on a farm in Missouri. His first job as an artist was drawing horses, cows & bags of feed for farm equipment catalogs. He learned about animation at the Kansas City Film Ad Co., then moved to Hollywood, California to start his own studio.

He is most famous for the Mickey Mouse character he created in 1928. For many years he did the voice of Mickey himself. Although he gave up drawing early in his career, his studio won many awards. His career spanned 43 years, and he won 26 Oscar awards and 7 Emmys. He also got many awards from colleges like Harvard, Yale, and the University of Southern California, as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and France's Legion of Honor medal. Walt Disney is considered a visionary cartoonist.

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