This Week in Disney History (April 5-11)
1915: Actor Harry Morgan (The Barefoot Executive, Scandalous John, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Snowball Express, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, The Car From Outer Space) is born in Detroit, Michigan.
1924: Actress Jane Kean (Miss Taylor in Pete’s Dragon) is born in Hartford, Connecticut.
1928: Actor James Garner (Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Castaway Cowboy, One Little Indian, 8 Simple Rules…for Dating My Teenage Daughter) is born in Norman, Oklahoma.
1929: Actor Nigel Hawthorne (Professor Archimedes Q. Porter in Tarzan) is born in Coventry, England.
1930: Actress Mary Costa (Princess Aurora/Briar Rose in Sleeping Beauty) is born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1934: Actor Frank Gorshin (Iggy in the 1965 That Darn Cat!) is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1947: Actor John Ratzenberger (who’s voice can be heard in every Pixar-made film, including: Yeti in Monsters Inc., Hamm in Toy Story 1-3, Underminer in The Incredibles, Mack in Cars, John in WALL-E, Mustafa in Ratatouille, P.T. Flea in A Bug’s Life, School of Fish in Finding Nemo) is born in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1954: Actor Dennis Quaid (The Parent Trap, The Rookie, The Alamo, Cold Creek Manor) is born in Houston, Texas.
1974: In Walt Disney World, Treasure Island (aka Discovery Island) opens to the public.
1975: Actor Zach Braff (Dr. John Dorian in Scrubs, Chicken Little in Chicken Little) is born in South Orange, NJ.
1986: Disney’s Touchstone Pictures’ Off Beat premieres.
1989: Disney’s The Parent Trap III premieres.
1991: On the Disney Channel, Darkwing Duck premieres.
1992: Disney’s Newsies premieres.
1995: Disney’s A Goofy Movie premieres.
1998: In Walt Disney World‘s Adventureland, The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management) officially replaces Tropical Serenade.
2006: In Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Expedition Everest: Legend of the Forbidden Mountain opens to guests.
Mr. Harry Morgan another fine Detroiter. A fun actor who worked in a bunch of my favorite Disney movies.