Walt Disney Family Tree

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CREDITS:
Chart by Ramiro Sottosanto
Narration by Matt Baker
Animation by Syawish Rehman
Audio editing by Ali Shahwaiz

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[DougVandegrift]

4:00 I just want to add a little context to Walt's mother tragically dying. The gas leak happened inside a house that was a gift from Walt and Roy. The house was bought and paid for in full so their parents could enjoy their retirement together debt free. Tragic!

[celticwolff]

Mr. Baker. I think more Family Trees episodes of famous corporate families would be great. Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Hilton, Westinghouse, etc. Seeing where the families came from and how they rose to prominence would be interesting.

[rebeccacuthbertson]

One minor correction on the CEO front, Iger is the current CEO but Bob Chapek served at CEO from 2020-2022. Iger's contract has ended in 2020 and he was on the board as chairman and planned to retire but stepped back in when Chapek was dismissed at the end of 2022.

Otherwise was fun to take a look at the extended Disney family for a bit. Thank you!!

[רוןזיתוני-ינ]

You mentioned William the Conqueror and the battle of Hastings. The battle took places exactly today, 957 years ago!

[salernolake]

Here's a little tidbit for you. My great-grandmother Margaret Murray (1851-1949) of Pictou, Nova Scotia had a younger sister Christina, who married a Thomas Disney, younger brother of Elias, in the 1880's in Goderich, Ontario. That branch of the Disneys died out in the 1970s. I remember my Dad and his brother being in Probate Court with representatives of Walt's two daughters, sorting out the estate.

[revmarkwillems]

My wife's maiden name is Dawson. I was able to track her father's side back to a Daniel Disney (1529-1588), then back to a Sir William D'Isney II (1245-1300). For some reason, Daniel's son, Henry, changed the family name from Disney to Dawson.

[MsDana-mofp]

That explains why during Walt's life, he did movies like Marry Poppins, Peter Pan, & Winnie the Pooh ( English); Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast ( French); & Daniel Boone, Johnny Apple Seed, & Old Yeller ( American Frontier).

[alexharris]

I just want to say i love this channel. I've been subscribed for about 3 years now and every time i see a new video i get so happy. Keep up the good work Matt and Jack

[peekaboo]

Matt’s rhetoric is pure art, like music to my ears.

[thecurdy]

I hope that Brad Lund will get what is rightfully own, so he does not have to fight for it anymore!

[cgt]

I hope you make a video about the Warner family as well since the WB company also celebrated 100 years of existence early this May.

[sdastoryteller]

Okay, so I'm probably going to use this in the animation class I teach. Always glorious work my guy!

[eduardog]

Correction: Brad Lund doesn't have an intellectual disability, a *judge claimed* he "may suffer from Down syndrome" as a reason to deny Brad his inheritance (which, that's not a good reason anyway, but our judicial system isn't great) and force a legal guardian on him. Brad has denied this and a DNA test has proven he indeed does not have Down Syndrome. The test was presented in court before the judge made that comment. The judge later removed the legal guardian and I think recused himself, but he's safe from an ADA discrimination lawsuit because of "judicial immunity".

This is a good example of how the judicial system is biased against disabled people (to put it lightly). Just the *perception* of being disabled, even with hard proof to the contrary, means they're happy to take rights away from you, like we see here denying his inheritance and forcing a legal guardian on him (at the age of *50* btw). Actual disabled people, especially the majority who are nowhere near as high profile as a literal Disney heir, have even worse done to them.

[Milk]

Here’s an interesting story about Brad Lund, Walt Disney’s grandson with an intellectual disability. I had (he passed away in an airplane crash) a cousin who had an intellectual disability. On my dad’s side. That side of the family has a lot of money. Well it seems Doug my cousin and Brad Lund went to the same school. There was a private school somewhere I believe in California that was for people with intellectual disabilities. It cost a lot of money to attend. I believe it was residential. They were roommates. I think this was 30 years ago. I remember my dad telling us about this.

[curtgozaydin]

Matt Baker thanks for doing this. I have had the opportunity when younger to go to both Disneyland Anaheim and Walt Disney World, Florida a few times, and in my ex wife’s family who have some Irish and then we made a point to watch on Saint Patrick’s day or week the Disney production call “Darby O’Gill and the Little people”.. why do I mention this? because it’s on DVD and it had extra supplementary material on it black-and-white footage that I assume is from one of those Saturday or Sunday Walt, Disney hour or wonderful world of Disney TV programs where he’s interviewing an Irish actor and they’re talking about Irish heritage, and then WED just briefly alludes to something like he has some Irish in him. Well, I have English in me but no Irish but I just thought it was neat how you could lay out the entire heritage of his family to include French, English and Irish (& Canadian?) bits to it. Thanks for this video!

[rjmckenzie]

I am suprised that one of Walts grand nieces would call out his deeds and the company as a whole. In addition I am happy that the decedents are in the filming business, going to show the legacy Walt laid out back in the day and his impact, as a fan of animation and Disney this was an amazing video. By the way I am also Canadian.

[jasonwelle]

Alwasy love your videos, but as a Disney Adult I especially appreciate this content.

[peterlyon]

My Wife's Grandfather was a neighbor of Roy Disney growing up. He considered him to be one of his nicer neighbors. I always assumed he meant the brother of Walt, but I suppose there are two notable Roys that he could have meant.

[royarievilo]

I love how families have deep lore, sometimes I even question my family tree