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Apr 11, 1986 · Louis Debney, who began a long affiliation with Walt Disney when he sold the famed animator newspapers as a boy and then went on to produce 100 episodes of the “Mickey Mouse Club” and 80...
Lou Debney was born on 3 January 1916 in Wisconsin, USA. He was an assistant director and producer, known for The Magical World of Disney (1954), Zorro (1957) and The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967). He died on 8 April 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Louis Debney
- April 8, 1986
- January 3, 1916
Louis Debney, began a long affiliation with Walt Disney when he sold the famed animator newspapers as a boy and then went on to produce 100 episodes of the "Mickey Mouse Club" and 80 episodes of "Zorro" for television. He is my 106th choice as a Disney Legend.
Debney was 14 and selling newspapers outside the old Disney Studios near Vermont and Kingswell avenues in the Silver Lake district. Three years later he had gone to work for Walt Disney as a cutter and soon was put in charge of the assembly operation for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937.
Lou Debney was born on January 3, 1916. He and Les Clark, one of the Nine Old Men of Animation, knew each other and Walt and Roy Disney from the Kingswell Avenue studio neigh-borhood before Lou and Les came to work for the studio.
His father was the producer Louis Debney who worked for the Walt Disney Studio for 40 years making classic shows including Zorro and The Mickey Mouse Club along the way. “He was there at the very beginning with Walt Disney.
Louis Debney - Debney was 14 and selling newspapers outside the old Disney Studios near Vermont and Kingswell avenues in the Silver Lake district....
