Another Member of the Disney Family Leaves Us
It’s with sadness that we have to report that another member of the Disney family has left us today.
Roy Edward Disney, (January 10, 1930 – December 16, 2009) was a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt Disney founded. At the time of death he was a shareholder (over 16 million shares or about 1%), and served as a consultant for the company and Director Emeritus for the Board of Directors. He is perhaps best known for organizing the ousting of two top Disney executives: first, Ron Miller in 1984, and then Michael Eisner in 2005.
His death occurred 43 years and one day after Walt Disney died, also from cancer. Roy Disney was 79 years old.
