Roy Williams

Roy Williams was an American artist and entertainer for The Walt Disney Studios, perhaps best known as "Big Roy", the adult Mouseketeer for four seasons on the Mickey Mouse Club TV series.
==Early life and career==
Williams was born in Colville, Washington and raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Fremont High School. After graduating, he was hired as an artist by Walt Disney in 1930. He worked on animated shorts while attending Chouinard Art Institute at night. He later also developed story ideas for Disney. He also designed over 100 insignias for the U.S. armed forces during World War II, and is credited with designing the mouse ears worn on the Mickey Mouse Club. Roy traveled across the country to promote the re-release of Disney films, such as Cinderella, while in 1959, he served as goodwill ambassador for The Walt Disney Studios. Later, he worked as a Disney comic strip artist, cartoonist at Disneyland (as seen in the photo posted here), and consultant on the traveling arena show "Disney on Parade".
Disney director Jack Kinney described Williams as a "big fat balding hot-headed unpredictable bastard", but hugely admired his prolific talent, saying that he could "sit down and grunt out a few pounds of gags as if it were nothing".
The Mouseketeers who worked with him on the original Mickey Mouse Club series, conversely, remembered him fondly. Former Mouseketeer Lonnie Burr, appearing on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow show on NBC in 1975 to talk about the Mickey Mouse Club at the time of its 20th anniversary, called Williams "a warm guy, who liked kids, always had time for kids, and always helped us any way he could."
Williams died in Burbank, California on November 7, 1976. He was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend in 1992.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1932 	The Klondike Kid 	animator - uncredited
1933 	Mickey's Mellerdrammer 	animator - uncredited
1933 	Father Noah's Ark 	animator - uncredited
1933 	The Mail Pilot 	animator - uncredited
1933 	Old King Cole 	animator - uncredited
1933 	Lullaby Land 	animator - uncredited
1933 	The Night Before Christmas 	animator - uncredited
1934 	Shanghaied 	animator - uncredited
1934 	The Hot Chocolate Soldiers 	animator - uncredited
1934 	Hollywood Party 	animator - uncredited
1934 	Servants' Entrance 	animator - uncredited
1934 	Mickey Plays Papa 	animator - uncredited
1934 	Two-Gun Mickey 	animator - uncredited
1935 	The Band Concert 	animator - uncredited
1935 	Water Babies 	animator - uncredited
1935 	Mickey's Fire Brigade 	animator - uncredited
1936 	Elmer Elephant 	writer - uncredited
1936 	Donald and Pluto 	writer - uncredited
1936 	Orphans' Picnic 	animator - uncredited
1937 	Donald's Ostrich 	animator - uncredited
1938 	Mother Goose Goes Hollywood	writer - uncredited
1940 	Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip 	story
1942 	Saludos Amigos 	story"Lake Titicaca"
1944 	Donald Duck and the Gorilla	story - uncredited
1944 	The Three Caballeros 	story
1945 	Cured Duck 	story
1946 	Make Mine Music 	story
1946 	Donald's Double Trouble 	story
1946 	A Feather in His Collar 	writer
1946 	Wet Paint 	story
1947 	Sleepy Time Donald 	story
1947 	Donald's Dilemma 	story
1948 	Donald's Dream Voice 	story
1950 	Pluto's Heart Throb 	story
1950 	Crazy Over Daisy 	story
1950 	Trailer Horn 	story
1953 	Working for Peanuts 	story
1954 	Spare the Rod 	story
1954 	Dragon Around 	story
1954 	The Flying Squirrel 	story
1955-1957	The Mickey Mouse Club 	Himself - Performer
1956 	Jack and Old Mac 	story
1956 	A Cowboy Needs a Horse 	story
1956-1971	The Magical World of Disney	writerstoryspecial material: "Disney on Parade"
1960 	Gala Day at Disneyland 	Himself - in parade riding make-believe donkey
==Gallery==
Three Caballeros homer brightman ted sears roy williams.jpg|Williams with Homer Brightman and Ted Sears.
Mouseketeer adults.jpg|Williams with Jimmie Dodd and Bob Amsberry.
1956-journee-vie-donald-14.jpg|Williams in "A Day in the Life of Donald Duck."
==External links==
*Disney Legends at go.com.
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*MMC Cast: Roy Williams
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