Feature Film2015Actor / Executive Producer / Writer
Walt Before Mickey
Before the mouse, there was a man nobody believed in.
Directed by Khoa Le
Adapted from Timothy S. Susanin’s book “Walt Before Mickey: Disney’s Early Years, 1919–1928,” the film follows Walt Disney from age seventeen to the eve of Steamboat Willie — the lean decade in which he failed, went bankrupt, and kept drawing anyway.
It is a portrait of persistence rather than legend: the animator who lost his first studio, slept in his office, and gave jobs to women animators in the early 1920s, years before the world knew his name.
Involvement
Bernstein executive-produced the film and shares screenplay credit with Diane Disney, Armando Gutierrez, and Timothy Susanin. He also appears in the film as Frank L. Newman, the Kansas City theater magnate who gave Disney his first real screen.
Executive producer and co-writer; appears on screen as theater owner Frank L. Newman.
- Year
- 2015
- Format
- Feature Film
- Credit
- Actor / Executive Producer / Writer
- Directed by
- Khoa Le
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