1987:
Fred MacMurray - Film Actor; The Absent Minded Professor
1988:
no awards given
1989:
Les Clark - Animation (given posthumously); one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Marc Davis - Animation & Imagineering; one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Ub Iwerks - Animation & Imagineering (given posthumously); the hand behind the mouse
Ollie Johnston - Animation; one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Milt Kahl - Animation (given posthumously); one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Ward Kimball - Animation & Imagineering; one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Eric Larson - Animation (given posthumously); one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
John Lounsbery - Animation (given posthumously); one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Wolfgang Reitherman - Animation (given posthumously); one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
Frank Thomas - Animation; one of Walt's "Nine Old Men"
1990:
Roger Broggie - Imagineering; mechanical genius
Joe Fowler - Attractions; theme park construction
John Hench - Animation & Imagineering; designer of Cinderella Castle
Richard Irvine - Imagineering (given posthumously); theme park architect
Herb Ryman - Imagineering (given posthumously); theme park designer
Richard Sherman - Music; "It's a Small World (after all)"
Robert Sherman - Music; "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
1991:
Ken Anderson - Animation & Imagineering; jack of all trades
Julie Andrews - Film Actress; Mary Poppins
Carl Barks - Animation & Publishing; Donald Duck comic books
Mary Blair - Animation & Imagineering (given posthumously); It's a Small World attraction
Claude Coats - Animation & Imagineering; stunning watercolor backgrounds
Don DaGradi - Animation & Film; screenwriter & misplaced cartoonist
Sterling Holloway - Animation, Actor; the original voice of Winnie the Pooh
Fess Parker - Film & Television Actor; king of the wild frontier - Davy Crockett
Bill Walsh - Film & Television (given posthumously); producer and writer
1992:
Jimmie Dodd - Television Actor (given posthumously); Adult Mouseketeer & musician
Bill Evans - Imagineering; horticulturist & landscape specialist
Annette Funicello - Film & Television Actress; everyone's favorite Mouseketeer
Joe Grant - Animation; story artist
Jack Hannah - Animation; director of TV shows and films
Winston Hibler - Film (given posthumously); narrator, writer & director
Ken O'Connor - Animation & Imagineering; genius layout artist and art director
Roy Williams - Animation & Television Actor (given posthumously); the Big Mooseketeer
1993:
Pinto Colvig - Animation & Voice (given posthumously); human library of sound effects
Buddy Ebsen - Film & Television actor; Davy Crockett's sidekick George Russel
Peter Ellenshaw - Film; special-effects artist, matte painter and production designer
Blaine Gibson - Animation & Imagineering; master sculptor
Harper Goff - Film & Imagineering; artist/designer
Irving Ludwig - Film; exhibitor/distributor
Jimmy Macdonald - Animation & Voice (given posthumously); 2nd voice of Mickey Mouse
Clarence Nash - Animation & Voice (given posthumously); original voice of Donald Duck
Donn Tatum - Administration; first president of Walt Disney World Company
Card Walker - Administration; president of Walt Disney Productions
1994:
Adriana Caselotti - Animation & Voice Actress; voice of Snow White
Bill Cottrell - Animation & Imagineering; first president of Walt Disney Imagineering
Marvin Davis - Film & Imagineering; art director & theme park designer
Van France - Attractions; founder of the University of Disneyland training center
David Hand - Animation (given posthumously); director of Snow White
Jack Lindquist - Attractions; Disneyland's first advertising manager
Bill Martin - Imagineering; art director and set designer
Paul Smith - Music (given posthumously); pioneer in motion picture music
Frank Wells - Administration (given posthumously); President and Chief Operating Officer
1995:
Wally Boag - Attractions; the original Pecos Bill of Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue
Fulton Burley - Attractions; Golden Horseshoe Revue's silver-toned tenor
Dean Jones - Film Actor; The Love Bug
Angela Lansbury - Film Actress; Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Edward Meck - Attractions (given posthumously); publicist
Fred Moore - Animation; genius animator
Thurl Ravenscroft - Animation & Voice; lead vocalist on "Grim Grinning Ghosts"
Wathel Rogers - Imagineering; breathed life into Audio-Animatronics
Betty Taylor - Attractions; Sluefoot Sue of Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue
1996:
Bob Allen - Attractions (given posthumously); ride operator to vice president of WDW
Rex Allen - Film & Television Actor; narrator/singer/actor
X Atencio - Animation & Imagineering; animator, attraction developer, songwriter
Betty Lou Gerson - Animation & Voice; voice of Cruella De Vil
Bill Justice - Animation & Imagineering; Audio-Animatronics programmer
Sam McKim - Imagineering; creator of the Disneyland souvenir maps
Bob Matheison - Attractions; helped research and develop Walt Disney World
Bob Moore - Animation & Film; expert cartoonist
Bill Peet - Animation & Story; story developer & children's book author
Joe Potter - Attractions (given posthumously); engineering and logistical planning genius
1997:
Lucien Adés - Music (awarded posthumously); pioneer of first "read-along" record album
Angel Angelopoulos - Publishing (awarded posthumously); first Greek Disney magazine
Antonio Bertini - Character Merchandise; initiated production & marketing of 8-mm & 16-mm shorts
Armand Bigle - Character Merchandise; opened up merchandising markets throughtout Europe
Poul Brahe Pederson - Publishing (awarded posthumously); "Donald Duck" magazine in Europe
Gaudenzio Capelli - Publishing; editor-in-chief of "Topolino"
Roberto de Leonardis - Film (awarded posthumously); translated films for Italian audiences
Cyril Edgar - Film (awarded posthumously); joint managing director of Walt Disney Productions, Ltd Wally Feignoux - Film (awarded posthumously); continental cinema representative in Paris, FranceDidier Fouret - Publishing (awarded posthumously); built Disney's image in France
Mario Gentilini - Publishing (awarded posthumously); director of "Topolino" magazine
Cyril James - Film & Merchandise (awarded posthumously); business genius
Horst Koblischek - Character Merchandise; creator of the Sport Goofy Trophy
Gunnar Mansson - Character Merchandise; representative in the Nordic countries
Arnoldo Mondadori - Publishing (awarded posthumously); publishing genius
Armand Palivoda - Film (awarded posthumously); motion picture distributor in Switzerland
André Vanneste - Character Merchandise (awarded posthumously); promoted publications throughout Belgium
Paul Winkler - Character Merchandise (awarded posthumously); first to establish Disney's presence in France through publishing
1998:
James Algar - Animation & Film; The Living Desert
Buddy Baker - Music; composed more than 200 scores for motion pictures, TV & theme parks
Kathryn Beaumont - Animation & Voice; voice of Alice in Wonderland
Virginia Davis - Animation; star of first 13 Alice Comedies
Roy E. Disney - Film, Animation & Administration; Walt's nephew, Company vice chairman and head of animation department
Don Escen - Administration; administrator and company treasurer
Wilfred Jackson - Animation (awarded posthumously); devised method of synchronizing animation with music
Glynis Johns - Film Actress; Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins
Kay Kamen - Character Merchandise (awarded posthumously); the first Mickey watches
Paul Kenworthy - Film; photographer for The Vanishing Prairie
Larry Lansburgh - Film & Television; director of The Wetback Hound
Hayley Mills - Film Actress; Pollyana
Al and Emma Milotte - Film (awarded posthumously); wildlife film experts
Norman "Stormy" Palmer - Film; editor
Lloyd Richardson - Film; editor
Kurt Russell - Film Actor; The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Ben Sharpsteen - Animation & Film (awarded posthumously); director/producer
Masatomo Takahashi - Administration; Tokyo Disneyland
Vladimir (Bill) Tytla - Animation (awarded posthumously); responsible for Stromboli, the evil puppeteer in Pinocchio
Dick Van Dyke - Film Actor; Mary Poppins
Matsuo Yokoyama - Character Merchandise; president of Walt Disney Enterprises of Japan
1999:
Tim Allen - Television & Film Actor; the voice of Buzz Lightyear
Mary Costa - Animation & Voice; the voice of Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty
Norm Ferguson - Animation (awarded posthumously); supervising animator & sequence director
Bill Garity - Film (awarded posthumously); pioneer in sound and camera techniques
Yale Gracey - Animation & Imagineering (awarded posthumously); special effects & lighting artist
Al Konetzni - Character Merchandise; artist and idea man
Ham Luske - Animation (awarded posthumously); supervising animator
Dick Nunis - Attractions; director of park operations
Charlie Ridgway - Attractions; director of press and publicity
2000:
Grace Bailey - Animation (awarded posthumously); Ink & Paint department
Harriet Burns - Imagineering; designer and builder of prototypes for theme park attractions
Joyce Carlson - Animation & Imagineering; helped create it's a small world
Ron Dominguez - Parks & Resorts; executive vice president of Walt Disney Attractions
Cliff Edwards - Animation & Voice (awarded posthumously); the voice of Jiminy Crickett
Becky Fallberg - Animation; manager of the Ink & Paint department
Dick Jones - Animation & Voice; the voice of Pinocchio
Dodie Roberts - Animation; supervisor of the Studio paint lab
Retta Scott - Animation (awarded posthumously); the Studio's first woman animator
Ruthie Tompson - Animation; supervisor of the Scene Planning department for the Studios
2001:
Howard Ashman - Music (awarded posthumously); producer & lyricist
Bob Broughton - Film; camera effects artist
George Bruns - Music (awarded posthumously); composer of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
Frank Churchill - Music (awarded posthumously); composer of "Someday My Prince Will Come"
Leigh Harline - Music (awarded posthumously); composer of "When You Wish Upon A Star"
Fred Joerger - Imagineering; crafted three-dimensional miniature models of theme park attractions
Alan Menken - Music; composer of "A Whole New World"
Martin A. "Marty" Sklar - Imagineering; Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive
Ned Washington - Music (awarded posthumously); lyricist of "When You Wish Upon a Star"
Tyrus "Ty" Wong - Animation; landscape painter for Bambi
2002:
Ken Annakin - Film; director of Swiss Family Robinson
Hugh Attwooll - Film; producer
Maurice Chevalier - Film Actor (awarded posthumously); In Search of the Castaways
Phil Collins - Music; composer for Tarzan and Brother Bear
Sir John Mills - Film Actor; Swiss Family Robinson
Robert Newton - Film & Television Actor (awarded posthumously); Treasure Island
Sir Tim Rice - Music; lyricist for Beauty and the Beast
Robert (Bob) Stevenson - Film (awarded posthumously); director of Mary Poppins
Richard Todd - Film & Television Actor; The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
2003:
Neil Beckett - Merchandise (awarded posthumously); representative in New Zealand
Tutti Camarata - Music; co-founder of Disneyland Records
Edna Francis Disney - Family (awarded posthumously); wife of Roy O. Disney
Lillian Disney - Family (awarded posthumously); wife of Walt Disney
Orlando Ferrante - Imagineering; vice president of Engineering, Design, and Production
Richard Fleischer - Film; director of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Floyd Gottfredson - Animation (awarded posthumously); Mickey Mouse daily comic strips
Buddy Hackett - Film & Television; The Love Bug
Harrison "Buzz" Price - Research Economist; helped hand-pick optimum locations for US parks
Alfred Taliaferro - Cartoonist (awarded posthumously); Donald Duck daily comic strips
Ilene Woods - Music & Voice; voice of CInderella
2004:
Bill Anderson - Film, Television & Administration (awarded posthumously); prolific film & television producer
Tim Conway - Film Actor; The Apple Dumpling Gang
Rolly Crump - Imagineering; executive designer
Alice Davis - Imagineering; designed and dressed animated figures for park attractions
Karen Dotrice - Film & Television Actress; Mary Poppins
Matthew Garber - Film Actor (awarded posthumously); Mary Poppins
Leonard H. Goldenson - Television (awarded posthumously); ABC Founder & Chairman of the Board
Bob Gurr - Imagineering; developer of park attractions
Ralph Kent - Imagineering & Attractions; designer of first limited-edition Mickey Mouse watch for adults
Irwin Kostal - Music (awarded posthumously); Award-winning conductor & orchestrator
Mel Shaw - Animation; animator & story man
2005:
Chuck Abbott - Parks & Resorts; one of Disneyland's foremost Attractions Hosts
Milt Albright - Parks & Resorts; founder of the Magic Kingdom Club
Hideo Amemiya - Parks & Resorts; vice president and general manager of the Disneyland Hotel
Hideo Aramaki - Parks & Resorts; executive chef over all food establishments in Disneyland
Chuck Boyajian - Custodial; first manager of Custodial Operations at Disneyland
Charles Boyer - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland's master illustrator
Randy Bright - Imagineer; executive producer, Disneyland and Walt Disney World Theme Parks
James Cora - Parks & Resorts; one of three production directors for WDW, responsible for Fantasyland and Tomorrowland.
Robert Jani - Parks & Resorts; master plan consultant for Disneyland Paris and Disney-MGM Studios
Mary Jones - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland Community Relations
Art Linkletter - Parks & Resorts; co-host of Disneyland's opening TV broadcast
Mary Anne Mang - Parks & Resorts; Convention & Tour Sales department
Steve Martin - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland Cast Member
Tom Nabbe - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland's original Tom Sawyer
Jack Olsen - Parks & Resorts; novelties & souvenirs
Cicely Rigdon - Parks & Resorts; Tour Guide Department
William Sullivan - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland operations supervisor
Jack Wagner - Parks & Resorts; official park announcer
Vesey Walker - Parks & Resorts; Disneyland's first bandmaster
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2006:
Tim Considine - Television Actor; The Adventures of Spin and Marty
Kevin Corcoran - Film Actor; Swiss Family Robinson
Don Edgren - Imagineer; Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean & Space Mountain
Al Dempster - Animation (given posthumously); background artist on Fantaisa & Dumbo
Paul Frees - Film & Parks (given posthumously); The Haunted Mansion
Peter Jennings - Television (given posthumously); ABC news anchor
Sir Elton John - Music; songwriter for The Lion King & Aida
Jimmy Johnson - Music (given posthumously); founder of Walt Disney Records
Tommy Kirk - Film & Televison Actor; Old Yeller & The Mickey Mouse Club
Joe Ranft - Film (given posthumously); Pixar story artist for Toy Story 2 & Monsters, Inc.
David Stollery - Television Actor; The Adventures of Spin and Marty
Ginny Tyler - Television & Film Actress; Disneyland Records' Disneyland Storyteller
The Disney Legends awards are given annually by The Walt Disney Company to honor those who have made a
notable contribution
to the company.
2007:
Roone Arledge - Television (given posthumously); president of ABC news
Art Babbitt - Animation (given posthumously); "The Greatest Animator Ever"
Carl Bongirno - Imagineer; resort finance
Marge Champion - Animation; actress/live-action reference model
Dick Huemer - Animation (given posthumously); jack of all trades
Ron Logan - Parks & Resorts; music director
Lucille Martin - Administration; Walt's personal assistant
Tom Murphy - Administration; built Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from a single TV and radio station into a multibillion-dollar international media conglomerate
Randy Newman - Music; Academy Award winning songwriter
Floyd Norman - Animation; cartoonist/animator/author
Bob Schiffer - Film Production (given posthumously); head of makeup department
Dave Smith - Archives; historian/author
email: disneyhistory@gmail.com
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