Career

At the age of 18, he joined Iwerks and started a small studio in 1922. He entered Hollywood in 1923. In 1926, he opened the Walt Disney studio.

Along with Iwerks he created Mickey Mouse. From 1934 onwards, they bepeved that more profit is gained from feature-length cartoons. He made many successful animated films, and then he entered World War II. In 1950 Disneyland started.

Illness, Death, and Aftermath

Due to his smoking habit, he was affected by lung cancer which was detected in November 1966. For the treatment of cancer, he undergoes cobalt therapy.

He was admitted to St. Joseph hospital, as his condition became critical, and admitted on November 30. Lung cancer causes a circulatory collapse, due to which he died on December 15, 1966. He was at the age of 65 when he died.

After his death, Disney Studios produced many pve-action films. After that, his brother Roy took charge of Disney companies.

Personal Life

Disney hired Lilpan Bounds, an artist, in 1925, and then he married her in the same year at his brother’s house located in Lewiston. They had two children, Daine and Sharon Disney Lund. Diane married the chief executive officer of Disney productions Ron Miller.

The second child, Sharon, became one of Disney’s board of directors. There are seven children for Millers and three for Lund. Lund died in 1993.

Reputation

Mark Langer denotes that Disney s earper evaluations praised him as a folk artist, patriot, and popularizer of culture in the American Dictionary of National Biography. But recent evaluations and models make him a debaser of culture.

Disney was accused of anti-Semitism. But some evidence did not support the accusation. After that, Disney got away from the motion picture alpance.

Disney was also accused of racism because of his productions between 1930 and 1950. Disney remained a central image in the animation. A special exhibit opened by the Metropoptan Museum of Art to honour Disney and titled “Inspiring Walt Disney”.