Title supplied by cataloger. Roy Oliver Disney was partner and co-founder of Walt Disney Productions. Walt Disney was his younger brother and Roy Edward Disney, who acted as senior executive for the Walt Disney Company, was Roy Oliver Disney's son. In this photograph dated October 15, 1965 George L. Bagnall holds a check for $250,000 donated by the Disney Foundation to the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Bagnall, the president of the fund is joined by Roy Oliver Disney, center, and Gregory Peck at a luncheon held at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The donation went towards a 15-year, $40 million endowment and building campaign to help fund needed expansion of the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital at Woodland Hills. Gregory Peck was the general chairman of the campaign.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Disney, Roy O.--(Roy Oliver),--1893-1971 Peck, Gregory,--1916-2003 Walt Disney Company--Endowments Motion Picture Relief Fund, inc.--Endowments Beverly Hills Hotel Endowments--United States Hotels--California--Beverly Hills Luncheons--California--Beverly Hills Animators--United States Motion picture producers and directors--United States Motion picture actors and actresses--United States Beverly Hills (Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Group portraits Portrait photographs
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