Bill Walsh

William Crozier "Bill" Walsh was an American comic author, film producer, and screenwriter, who primarily worked on live-action films for Walt Disney Productions, most notably Mary Poppins, The Love Bug, The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, Blackbeard's Ghost, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Walsh began his work at Disney as a press agent while writing comic strips for characters, like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and gag-of-the-day strips before moving to television operations, which led to successes, like The Mickey Mouse Club and Davy Crockett. His greater success came when he moved to live-action feature films.
He co-wrote with Don DaGradi and produced an adaptation of P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins books which achieved commercial and critical acclaim as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. He and DaGradi would become a frequent collaborators in later productions.
After Walt Disney's death in 1966, Walsh was part of the seven man committee who ran the company. In 1970, an article in Variety magazine listed him as the second most successful film producer of all time in terms of money-earning movies even though he was "a guy no one's ever heard of."
Walsh died of a heart attack in 1975 and became a Disney Legend in 1991.
==Disney Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
Fun and Fancy Free 	1947 	songwriter: "My, What a Happy Day""My Favorite Dream"
One Hour in Wonderland 	1950 	writer, producer
The Walt Disney Christmas Show 	1951 	producer
The Disneyland Story 	1954 	writer, producer
The Magical World of Disney 	1954-1957	writer, producer
Davy Crockett 	1954–55 	producer
The Littlest Outlaw 	1955 	writer
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier 	1955 	producer
The Mickey Mouse Club 	1955–56 	producer
Corky and White Shadow 	1956 	producer
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure	1956 	producer
Adventure in Dairyland 	1956 	producer
Further Adventures of Spin and Marty 	1956 	producer
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates 	1956 	producer
Westward Ho, the Wagons! 	1956 	associate producer
The Fourth Anniversary Show 	1957 	producer
The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm 	1957 	producer
The Adventures of Clint and Mac 	1957 	producer
Walt Disney Presents: Annette 	1958 	producer, composer: additional music
Disneyland '59 	1959 	producer
The Shaggy Dog 	1959 	writer, associate producer
Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus 	1960 	writer, producer
The Absent-Minded Professor 	1961 	writer, associate producer
Bon Voyage! 	1962 	writer, associate producer
Son of Flubber 	1963 	writer, co producer
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones 	1964 	story
Mary Poppins 	1964 	writer, co-producer
That Darn Cat! 	1965 	writer, co-producer
Lt. Robin Crusoe USN 	1966 	writer, co-producer
Blackbeard's Ghost 	1968 	writer, co producer
The Love Bug 	1969 	writer, producer
Scandalous John 	1971 	writer, producer
Bedknobs and Broomsticks 	1971 	writer, producer
The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World 	1971 	writer, executive producer
The World's Greatest Athlete 	1973 	producer
Herbie Rides Again 	1974 	writer, producer
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing 	1975 	writer, producer
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