Walt Disney Filmography

Frank and Ollie

Actors: Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas

Synopsis: This documentary profiles Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the two artists responsible for the Disney style of animation. The two close friends are responsible for making 23 feature during their 40 years at Disney. Films include Snow White, Bambi and Pinnochio. Together they were a perfectly Read More

The Rose Parade: Through the Years

Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rex Allen, Ron Brown, Bryan Russell, Linda Wallace, Jim Wilson, Clifford Peterson

Synopsis: A wayward cougar in the Northwoods wanders into a lumber camp in this animal adventure story from Disney Studios. Charlie is torn between his affection for humans and the call of the wild. Rex Allen provides his usual folksy narration in this documentary-styled feature directed by Winston Hibler. Read More

The Jungle Book

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley

Synopsis: The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) Read More

The Happiest Millionaire

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Greer Garson, Geraldine Page, Gladys Cooper

Synopsis: Adapted from the book and play of the same name, The Happiest Millionaire is the (mostly) true story of eccentric Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle (Fred MacMurray). The Biddle mansion is the gathering place for a pugilistic boxing class, pet alligators and would-be opera singers. Read More

The Gnome-Mobile

Crew: Producer

Actors: Walter Brennan, Tom Lowell, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice, Ed Wynn, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: The Gnome-Mobile was Walt Disney's first all-out fantasy since Mary Poppins. Walter Brennan stars in a dual role, as kindly lumber tycoon D. J. Mulrooney and the irascible (and much tinier) 943-year-old gnome Knobby. Mulrooney likes Knobby and his fellow gnomes, but the feeling isn't reciprocal Read More

Scrooge McDuck and Money

Crew: Producer

Follow Me, Boys!

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charlie Ruggles, Elliott Reid, Kurt Russell

Synopsis: Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old reliable "kid hanging over cliff by rope" bit. Corny, sentimental and obvious though it may be, the film is a delight to watch, especially whenever Fred MacMurray dominates the Read More

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

Crew: Producer

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino, Bryan Russell, Richard Haydn

Synopsis: This rambunctious Disney comedy was based on the novel By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman. Roddy McDowall plays Griffin, the very proper butler of Bostonian Bryan Russell. When Russell runs off to California during the 1849 gold rush, Griffin dutifully tags along. Master and butler team up Read More

EPCOT

Actors: Walt Disney

Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Nancy Kwan, Akim Tamiroff, Arthur Malet, Tyler McVey

Synopsis: Dick Van Dyke stars as U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Robinson Crusoe in one of Disney's weakest comedies. Like in the Daniel Defoe story, Crusoe finds himself alone on a deserted island, but this time he arrives there after ejecting from his disabled plane on a mission in the South Pacific. He Read More

The Fighting Prince of Donegal

Crew: Producer

Actors: Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: During the 16th century, it was prophesied that "When Hugh succeeds Hugh, Ireland shall be free." Hugh was the Prince of Donegal and his son Red Hugh, his successor. This lush and lively Disney adventure chronicles the young man's tumultuous ascension to the throne and his attempts to unite the Read More

Monkeys, Go Home!

Crew: Producer

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Dean Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Bernard Woringer, Clement Harari

Synopsis: A man begins monkeying around with his new farm with hilarious results in this comedy for the whole family. American Hank Dussard (Dean Jones) inherits an olive plantation in a small French village after his uncle passes away. Hank soon gets a crash course in the expense of hiring pickers for the Read More

Goofy's Freeway Trouble

Crew: Producer

The Ugly Dachshund

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Charlie Ruggles, Kelly Thordsen, Parley Baer

Synopsis: Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette star in this Walt Disney family comedy as Mark and Fran Garrison, a dog-loving couple with different tastes in canines. When their dachshund gives birth to puppies, kindly veterinarian Dr. Pruitt (Charlie Ruggles) convinces Mark to take a Great Dane puppy home with Read More

Those Calloways

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon de Wilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn

Synopsis: Originally trade-previewed as Those Crazy Calloways, Disney's Those Calloways is a lengthy, anecdotal film about a highly individualistic New England family. Patriarch Cam Calloway (Brian Keith) is regarded as a crank by the local villagers because of his dream to build a bird sanctuary that will Read More

The Monkey's Uncle

Crew: Producer

Actors: Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames, Arthur O'Connell, Frank Faylen

Synopsis: The sequel to 1963's Misadventures of Merlin Jones finds young Mr. Jones (Tommy Kirk) still in college and still going out with Jennifer (Annette Funicello). In this movie, he must help football players pass their tests and invent a flying machine win a contest for the school. Funicello and the Read More

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: "Bears love honey and I'm a Pooh bear," sings Winnie the Pooh setting the stage for the goings-on in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, the first of four Disney featurettes based upon the A.A. Milne characters. Indeed, Pooh has rather an insatiable desire for honey, and when he spies a group of Read More

A Tiger Walks

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Pamela Franklin, Sabu, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: After a dangerous tiger turns on its trainer and escapes from the circus, a small town in Texas finds itself in an uproar over its capture. As it is hunted by numerous parties, a young girl begins protesting and starts a nationwide movement to plead for the tiger's safety. As the situation gains Read More

Emil and the Detectives

Crew: Producer

Actors: Walter Slezak, Bryan Russell, Roger Mobley, Heinz Schubert, Peter Ehrlich

Synopsis: Erich Kastner's oft-filmed children's story Emil and the Detectives was given the Disney treatment in 1964. Though the plot is still set in Berlin, the younger characters have been extensively Americanized, none more so than the title character (played by Bryan Russell) and aspiring teenaged Read More

Son of Flubber

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Synopsis: Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the earlier film was the 1961 moneyspinner The Absent-Minded Professor. While Flubber is more formula-bound than Professor, it proved an instant audience-pleaser, and a hit to the Read More

Summer Magic

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Deborah Walley, Eddie Hodges

Synopsis: A young widow from Boston travels with her three children to Maine to enjoy their summer vacation. Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire) is helped by the friendly Osh Popham (Burl Ives), who finds the family a rent-free house vacated by a vacationing landowner. Daughter Nancy (Hayley Mills) catches the Read More

The Incredible Journey

Crew: Producer

Actors: Emile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed, Sandra Scott, Syme Jago

Synopsis: Filmed in Canada as a joint project involving Walt Disney studios and Calgary Ltd., The Incredible Journey stars a cat named Tao and two dogs named Bodger and Luath. When their family goes on vacation, the animals are left in charge of family friend Emile Genest. Genest goes off to hunt for a Read More

Bon Voyage!

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley

Synopsis: An Indiana family embarks on their dream vacation to France. The Willard family, led by Harry (Fred MacMurray) and Katie (Jane Wyman), bring their three children along to experience a slice of continental culture abroad. Amy (Deborah Walley) is the lovestruck teenager whose brother Elliott (Tommy Kirk Read More

Miracle of the White Stallions

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens, Eddie Albert, James Franciscus

Synopsis: In a rather confusing and slow-paced manner, this wartime drama about a real-life dilemma is meant to highlight the dedication of Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), the instructor at a prestigious Vienna equestrian school. The colonel is in charge of the safety and health of the royal Read More

Big Red

Crew: Producer

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Gilles Payant, Emile Genest

Synopsis: Big Red is one of several Disney pictures filmed in Canada during the 1960s. Orphaned Gilles Payant goes to work for wealthy Walter Pidgeon, who raises prize dogs. Pidgeon's particular favorite among his canines is Big Red, who unfortunately resists all efforts to be trained. Young Payant manages Read More

A Symposium on Popular Songs

Crew: Producer

In Search of the Castaways

Crew: Producer

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Michael Anderson, Jr.

Synopsis: Based on Jules Verne's novel Captain Grant's Children, In Search of the Castaways is a roller-coaster of a Disney film, making up in excitement what it lacks in credibility or coherence. Hayley Mills and Keith Hamshere play the children of long-missing ship's captain Jack Gwillim. By chance, a Read More

Babes in Toyland

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Synopsis: This second film adaptation of the Victor Herbert operetta Babes in Toyland was producer Walt Disney's Christmas offering for 1961. The 1903 Herbert original had very little in the way of a plot, so screenwriters Joe Rinaldi, Lowell S. Hawley, and Ward Kimball lifted elements from the 1934 Read More

Aquamania

Crew: Producer

The Absent-Minded Professor

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames

Synopsis: One of Disney's most entertaining forays into live-action, this hit family comedy stars Fred MacMurray as a college professor so forgetful that he missed his own wedding twice. He creates an extremely resilient flying rubber, dubbed "Flubber," and manages to make his old Model-T bounce all the way Read More

101 Dalmatians

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rod Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley, Betty Lou Gerson, Martha Wentworth, Ben Wright

Synopsis: This Disney animated classic is based on the children's story by Dodie Smith. The story involves the canine pets of a struggling composer and his wife: Dalmatians Pongo (male) and Perdita (female). Perdita gives birth to fifteen spotted pups, cuing the entrance of the scheming Cruella De Vil. She Read More

Nikki - Wild Dog of the North

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean Coutu, Emile Genest, Uriel Luft, Robert Rivard

Synopsis: One of several feature-length collaborations between Disney Studios and Canada's Calgary productions (others include Big Red and The Incredible Journey), Nikki -- Wild Dog of the North concentrates on the adventures of the eponymous canine and his master, trapper Andre Dupas (Jean Coutu). Nikki, a Read More

The Litterbug

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this Disney live-action/animated "special", we are given a sneak peak at a new book called "Pest Control" by one D.D. Tee. The author/narrator explains that, while Mankind has for the most part netutralized such predatory pests as the mosquito and boll weevil, we have not yet rid ourselve of Read More

Saga of Windwagon Smith

Crew: Producer

Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog

Crew: Producer

Actors: Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Kay Walsh, Andrew Cruickshank

Synopsis: Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and both feature Donald Crisp in a major role. A true story, set in Edinburgh around 1875, the Disney version stars Alex McKenzie as the shepherd Old Jock, the owner of a loyal Read More

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: An Adventure in Color and Donald in Mathmagic Land

Actors: Walt Disney, Paul H. Frees, Clarence Nash

Synopsis: Although advertised as a "premiere," the first episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color was actually a continuation of the ABC anthology series that had run under the titles Disneyland and Walt Disney Presents since 1959. The major changes in the "new" version were twofold: Disney was now Read More

Ten Who Dared

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brian Keith, John Beal, James Drury, Ben Johnson, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Critics consistently consider this historical drama one of the worst films Disney ever made. It is the true-tale of ten heroes from the Civil War who ride down the raging Colorado in hopes of mapping it. The mission is led by the Major John Wesley Powell who lost an arm during the war. Their Read More

Walt Disney Presents: This Is Your Life, Donald Duck

Actors: Clarence Nash, Cliff Edwards, Walt Disney, Billy Bletcher

Synopsis: This animated spoof of the popular TV series This Is Your Life (the creator of which, Ralph Edwards, is given special acknowledgement in the closing credits) first aired on the Walt Disney Presents TV anthology. Jiminy Cricket is all set to give a testimonial to his cartoon comrade Donald Duck Read More

Goliath II

Crew: Producer

Islands of the Sea

Crew: Producer

Kidnapped

Crew: Producer

Actors: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, Niall MacGinnis, John Laurie

Synopsis: Disney produced this historical adventure of old Scotland, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. James MacArthur stars as David Balfour, a wealthy lad cheated out of his inheritance and sold into servitude by his duplicitous and greedy uncle, Ebenezer (John Laurie). Aboard the ship Read More

Pollyanna

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis: Eleanor H. Porter's story of Pollyanna, "The Glad Girl," was first filmed in 1920 by Mary Pickford. While entertaining, the Pickford version tended to reduce the supporting characters to stereotypes. Disney's 1960 remake of Pollyanna wisely offers three-dimensional characterizations, enhancing the Read More

The Sign of Zorro

Crew: Producer

Actors: Guy Williams

Synopsis: Taken from the Walt Disney "Zorro" television series, this film was created from a number of episodes starring the popular masked hero (Guy Williams). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Noah's Ark

Crew: Producer

How to Have an Accident at Work

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this sequel to How to Have an Accident at Home, eternal "fall guy" J. Jonah Fate takes us into the home of a typical suburbanite named Donald Duck. A stickler for household safety, Donald makes certain that everyone in his family avoid accidents by anticipating them. But once Donald is at the Read More

Sleeping Beauty

Crew: Producer

Actors: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton

Synopsis: Disney produced this lavish animated fairy tale, the most expensive cartoon ever made up to its release with a budget of $6 million. When the young princess Aurora is cursed at birth by the evil fairy Maleficent, the baby is kidnapped by a trio of good fairies who raise the girl themselves, hoping Read More

Walt Disney Presents: I Captured the King of the Leprechauns

Actors: Walt Disney, Pat O'Brien, Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery

Synopsis: In its promotional material for the 1959 theatrical feature Darby O'Gill and the Little People, the Disney studio went into whimsical overdrive, hoping to convince the younger viewers that the leprechauns appearing in the film were not merely normal-sized actors made small via special effects, but Read More

Donald in Mathmagic Land

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This Oscar-nominated featurette is a typically felicitous Disney combination of music and live action. In search of big game, hunter Donald Duck stumbles into a strange and wonderous land dominated by numbers: numbers on the ground, numbers in the trees, numbers in the river, even numbered Read More

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Crew: Producer

Actors: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: Baby boomers who may not remember the plot particulars of Walt Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People nonetheless retain fond memories of Disney's publicity campaign, which included an episode of the producer's weekly TV series, wherein the actor playing leprechaun king Brian (Jimmy O'Dea) Read More

The Shaggy Dog

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Tim Considine

Synopsis: This is a routine Disney comedy-fantasy about a boy who turns into a large sheep dog at the most inopportune moments. That is assuming there would be opportune moments. Young Wilby Daniels (Tommy Kirk) finds a magic ring that used to belong to the Borgia family. When he pronounces an inscription Read More

Paul Bunyan

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Retelling the fabled story of the American frontier, Paul Bunyan features the adventures of the giant lumberjack and his companion, Babe the blue ox. With the voice talents of Thurl Ravenscroft as Bunyan, this short finds the legendary character facing off against a chainsaw in a classic battle Read More

The Light in the Forest

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur, Jessica Tandy

Synopsis: Those who learned to dislike Conrad Richter's novel The Light in the Forest when it was required reading in high school will be pleasantly surprised by this Disney adaptation. In his second film appearance, James MacArthur plays Johnny Butler, a white youth who was captured by the Delaware Indians Read More

The Truth About Mother Goose

Crew: Producer

Zorro [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Actors: Guy Williams, George Lewis, Gene Sheldon, Britt Lomond, Henry Calvin

Old Yeller

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Chuck Connors, Jeff York

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Fred Gipson, Old Yeller is set in Texas in 1869. While his father is away on a cattle drive, 15-year-old Travis Coates (Tommy Kirk) takes over management of the family farm. Adopting a "strictly business" policy, Travis is irritated when younger brother, Arliss (Kevin Corcoran Read More

Disneyland: Fourth Anniversary Show

Actors: Walt Disney, Sharon Baird, Bobby Burgess, Lonnie Burr, Tommy Cole

Synopsis: Disneyland began its fourth season on the air with a gala, all-star "special", essentially designed to promote all three of Disney's network TV series. Pressured by his cartoon creations and the latest crop of Mouseketeers to tell them what's in store for the 1957-58 season, host Walt Disney Read More

The Story of Anyburg, USA

Crew: Producer

Johnny Tremain

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hal Stalmaster, Luana Patten, Jeff York, Sebastian Cabot, Richard Beymer

Synopsis: This Walt Disney filmization of Esther Forbes' Revolutionary-War novel Johnny Tremain was appropriately released on July 4, 1957. New Disney discovery Hal Stalmaster plays the title character, an apprentice silversmith in 1773 Boston. An on-the-job injury prevents Johnny from finding a job, but he Read More

Disneyland: The Plausible Impossible

Actors: Walt Disney

Synopsis: In this classic Disneyland episode, host Walt Disney explains that anything is possible in an animated cartoon so long as one establishes "suspension of disbelief" (sometimes literally, as when Mickey Mouse stands in mid-air without realizing that he's in danger of falling). This technique is Read More

Hooked Bear

Crew: Producer

Chips Ahoy

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: On the verge of starvation, Chip and Dale want to get to an acorn-laden island in the middle of a river. Unfortunately, they can't swim, so they "borrow" a model ship from a bottle owned by (who else?) Donald Duck. To force the chipsters off the vessel, Donald tries everything from flooding the Read More

A Cowboy Needs a Horse

Crew: Producer

How to Have an Accident in the Home

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In the first of two safety-oriented Disney cartoons, we are introduced to J. Jonah Fate, eternal fall guy. Introducing an average citizen--Donald Duck!--who must duck and dodge all sorts of accidents when heading home at night, Fate reveals that Donald is his own worst enemy when it comes to Read More

Samoa

Crew: Producer

In the Bag

Crew: Producer