... honor to create the wonderful world of Disney. Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois, to his father, Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-American descent (A., Brad). Walter is named after Reverend Walter Parr. Walt was the fourth child ... Red Cross. Within a week he was sent to the front and didn't return for one to two years (Mosely). When Walt returned from he war he told his father that he wanted to become an animator, but his father did not approve. Walt ignored his father's advice and enrolled in ... ...

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