Roy E. Disney, whose efforts to instill his will on the company co-founded by his father and uncle included the ousting of two CEOs and a renewed commitment to animation, died Wednesday, one month shy of his 80th birthday.
The nephew of Walt Disney and only child of Roy O. Disney died after a yearlong battle with stomach cancer at a hospital in Newport Beach, Calif. Funeral services will be private; plans for a "life celebration" will be announced.
HIs body will be cremated and ashes scattered at sea, a fitting tribute to a man with a passion for racing sailboats. In fact, the latest entry in a long list of movie and television credits dating to 1952 when he was an assistant editor on the "Dragnet" TV series, ends with "Morning Light," a documentary about sailing that he exec produced in 2008.
But Disney is best known as the primary agitator who,...
The nephew of Walt Disney and only child of Roy O. Disney died after a yearlong battle with stomach cancer at a hospital in Newport Beach, Calif. Funeral services will be private; plans for a "life celebration" will be announced.
HIs body will be cremated and ashes scattered at sea, a fitting tribute to a man with a passion for racing sailboats. In fact, the latest entry in a long list of movie and television credits dating to 1952 when he was an assistant editor on the "Dragnet" TV series, ends with "Morning Light," a documentary about sailing that he exec produced in 2008.
But Disney is best known as the primary agitator who,...
- 12/16/2009
- by By Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
An all-together ho-hum experience considering the coolness of the subject matter, .Morning Light. is Roy E. Disney.s attempt to document the open-sea race, Transpac, a harrowing 2,500 race from California to Hawaii. Expertly captured, the problem lies with its reality television-like approach. Roy E. Disney has sailed the Transpac over fifteen times now clearly in love with both sailing and the challenges this long journey presents. But instead of documenting himself, he and producer Leslie DeMeuse decide to rope in a younger audience by selecting a group of 15 candidates whom only 11 will be chosen for the race through a series of training vignettes. These fifteen kids (three females and one black guy although they...
- 7/3/2009
- by Frankie Dees
- Monsters and Critics
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