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2 unusual facts about Roy O. Disney


Roy Disney

Roy O. Disney (1893–1971), Walt Disney's elder brother and the financier of his efforts

Roy O. Disney

While Walt was the creative man, Roy was the one who made sure the company was financially stable; Roy and Walt both founded Disney Studios as brothers, but Walt would buy out most of Roy's share in 1929 and, unlike Max and Dave Fleischer of rival Fleischer Studios, Roy was not a co-producer.


1994 in radio

April 15 – Roy Disney's Shamrock Broadcasting, which merged with Cleveland-based Malrite Communications Group's radio group in the previous year, spins off Cleveland stations WHK and WMMS to OmniAmerica, headed by former Malrite executives Carl Hirsch and Dean Thacker.

Brian O'Donnell

After successfully securing Roy O'Brien's signature after the player was about to walk away due to a break of contract from the board, O'Donnell pledged to take on the job full-time with the support of senior players Mark Jermyn and Jamie Gleeson.

Dream On Silly Dreamer

The film was produced and released in the midst of a public corporate battle between The Walt Disney Company's CEO Michael Eisner and Roy E. Disney, formerly a Disney board member and the chairman of Feature Animation.

Franklin Hills, Los Angeles

Brothers Roy and Walt Disney both owned homes at the corner of Lyric and St. George during the late 1920s so that they could walk to their first animation studio, located a few blocks away at Hyperion and Griffith Park Blvd.

Howard Ashman

The 2010 documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, about Disney's animation renaissance, is dedicated to him, as well as Frank Wells, Joe Ranft, and Roy E. Disney.

KTAB-TV

Shamrock Broadcasting, Roy E. Disney's broadcasting company, bought the station from the Terry group in the late 1980s, then sold it to Shooting Star Broadcasting in 1997.

Morning Light

Morning Light is a 2008 film directed by Mark Monroe and executive produced by Roy E. Disney.

Outerwall

March 25, 2008 Roy Disney, used his Shamrock Activist Value Fund of Burbank to ask for regulatory changes in Outerwall governance.

Pat Dolan

Dolan had finished building a strong team at Cork, following the good work first laid out by Dave Barry and then Liam Murphy, and the club went on to win the league title in 2005 under new manager Damien Richardson, with the notable addition of Roy O'Donovan.

Pensacola Dam

Eventually, on September 18, 1937, with the help of Oklahoma Representative Wesley E. Disney, Senator Elmer Thomas and engineer W. R. Holway, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved $20 million in funding through the New Deal's Public Works Administration for the dam.

Pyewacket

Pyewacket (yacht), a MaxZ86-class sailing yacht commissioned in 2004 by Roy E. Disney; also a Santa Cruz 70 sailed by the Disney family.

Roy Disney

Roy E. Disney (1930–2009), his son, director emeritus of The Walt Disney Company

Roy O. Woodruff

In 1912, Woodruff defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Representative George A. Loud to be elected as the candidate of the Progressive Party from Michigan's 10th congressional district to the 63rd Congress, serving from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915.

In 1920, Woodruff returned to Congress, elected as a Republican from the same district to the 67th Congress.

Toledo War

In June 1835, Lucas dispatched a delegation consisting of U.S. Attorney Noah Haynes Swayne, former Congressman William Allen, and David T. Disney to Washington D.C. to confer with President Andrew Jackson.

W. George Bowdon, Jr.

Bowdon, an Alexandria native, graduated in 1939 from Bolton High School in Alexandria; among his classmates were Joe D. Smith, Jr., later publisher of the Alexandria Daily Town Talk and the industrialist and philanthropist Roy O. Martin, Jr. (1921–2007).

Walt Disney Classics

This move was rejected by chairmen Roy E. Disney and Jeffrey Katzenberg, out of the concern that, once again Cinderella would lose its value if it were to be released on video.


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