Leslie Iwerks
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469 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 18 Mar
Leslie Iwerks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think today the company has completely, you know, embraced the collaboration and seen it for what it is, which is an artist and a visionary technological genius with Walt being the visionary storyteller, showman, you know, just everything that Walt was.
Producer.
You know, just he was the seed that blossomed that everything blossomed from.
And so I think that and then Roy being the financial genius, I mean, the three of them together were so were so strong.
And but I've always said, you know, anyone can draw a mouse.
It's what you do with it that counts.
And Walt made Mickey famous.
You know, and so he was always very deferential self, you know, different, you know, he didn't want a lot of the, he didn't care.
He was happy to have drawn a mouse, animated the mouse, but he always felt like Walt was able to run with that character in a way that.
He hadn't been able to do it before with Oswald or even Alice in Cartoon Land because he didn't own those characters.
So he knew that he needed to own his own characters.
So that was great.
That was the beginning of everything.
Yeah, I think he was a master at... He was a master casting director.
He knew how to cast an amazing staff of people.
Artists, craftspeople, storytellers, writers, directors.
He knew... He could see within somebody that they had talents that were undeveloped yet.
That he could...
he could pull that latent talent out of somebody and say go over here like blaine gibson you know who was a an animator and he became disney's top sculptor for all the animatronic figure audio animatronic figure so he was really good at all that um you know but i think at the end of the day it was the walt disney studio and it was one man who who uh
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