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Welcome to part three in our look at Walt Disney’s “Nine Old Men.” Our previous posts have featured Les Clark and Ollie Johnston. This week, we look at Frank Thomas. 
Contents:
Biography
Work at the Studios
Spare Time & Retirement

Frank Thomas, born September 5, 1912, was raised in Fresno, California. At the age of nine, he asked his father (President [...]

E! Online is reporting that writer Richard Fronduto claims that he created the premise for Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel. He maintains that he presented a script to Disney in 1990 entitled The Secret Life of Sindi (later renamed Family Business). Reportedly, Disney liked his idea and ordered a two-hour pilot only to scrap it. 
Mr. [...]

The Walt Disney Company will be cutting about 400 jobs from the ABC TV unit. According to one ABC News executive, 37 of the cuts were new jobs that had not been filled in the news department. Another ABC executive said that only 200 active workers were being laid off and the rest [...]

For Thanksgiving weekend, Florida State University Basketball will take part in the 2009 Old Spice Classic at Disney’s Milk House according to the Orlando Sentinel. In addition to FSU, Alabama, Baylor, Creighton, Iona, Marquette, Michigan and Xavier will be invited to the classic. This is the fourth year for the Old Spice Classic [...]

1832: Author Lewis Carroll (author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) is born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England.
1905: Actor Charles Lane (The AristoCats, The Ugly Daschund, The Gnome-Mobile, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes) is born in San Francisco, California.
1918: Actor Vito Scotti (Herbie Goes Bananas, Herbie Rides Again, The World’s Greatest Athlete, The Aritocats) is born in San Francisco, California.
1915: [...]

Media Week is reporting that the Walt Disney Company is closing the magazine Wondertime, a parenting magazine. After March, the magazine will no longer be available and the online content will be folded into Disney’s other family-focused web sites.
Disney will mainly be laying off editors for the magazine as most of the other staff [...]

The Walt Disney Company will buyout 619 executives at it’s U.S. resorts. 313 of the buyouts are being made for executives at Walt Disney World, Disney Vacation Club and Disney Cruise Line. The company is doing this to cut costs during a worsening recession and plans to layoff employees if enough of the [...]

The Walt Disney Company finalized a deal to outsource 10 jobs dealing with document and package handling at 5 of its business and convention centers. Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resorts, Disney’s BoardWalk Inn, and Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort were the resorts with the change. [...]

The New Orleans Museum of Art will present the Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from November 15, 2009 to March 14, 2010. This will be a major exhibit featuring 600 original artworks that shaped Disney animated features such as Snow White to The Princess and The Frog, Disney’s upcoming animated [...]

Danielle Farve, a writer for the Examiner.com, has written up a positive review of the Netcot Podcast. Originally she had written an article earlier this week discussing her favorite Disney podcasts when her readers recommended the Netcot podcast.

1882: Author Alan Alexander Milne (creator of Winnie-the-Pooh) is born in London, England.
1900: Animator David Dodd Hand is born in Plainfield, New Jersey.
1902: Actor Leon Ames (The Monkey’s Uncle, The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, Son of Flubber, The Absent Minded Professor) is born in Portland, Indiana.
1906: Director, and Disney Legend, Wilfred Jackson (Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp, Steamboat [...]

Robert Iger, Disney’s CEO, received $51.1 million in compensation from the company during the fiscal 2008 year. Most of the money came as stock options since his salary was $2 million and a $13.9 million performance-related bonus.

Welcome to the second of nine parts focusing on Walt’s “Nine Old Men.” This week: Ollie Johnston.
Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr, (aka Ollie) Johnston was born in Palo Alto, California, on October 31, 1912. His elementary school was located on Stanford University’s campus (where his father was a professor of romance languages). Ollie returned to Stanford [...]

Netcot made a guest appearance on The Muppet Cast podcast this month. The episode posted on Jan. 4, 2009 and features myself talking with Muppet Cast host Steve Swanson in his “profile of a podcaster” series. The show features background on how the Netcot podcast came about and what fuels it to continue. You can [...]

1890: Artist, and Disney Legend, Edna Francis (married to Roy O. Disney, mother of Roy E. Disney) is born in Reece, Kansas.
1913: Imagineer, and Disney Legend, Claude Coats (Pinocchio, Snow White, Fantasia, Cinderella, the Lady and the Tramp; backgrounds for the Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion rides).
1924: Actor Guy Williams (Zorro in Zorro the TV series) is born [...]