Editing Roy O. Disney (section)

== Biography ==
===Early life===
Disney was born to [[Irish Canadians|Irish-Canadian]] [[Elias Disney|Elias Charles Disney]] and English-German-American Flora Call Disney in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], Illinois, on June 24, 1893. The family moved to [[Marceline, Missouri]], and to [[Kansas City]] in 1911. 

On July 1, 1911, Elias purchased a newspaper delivery route for ''[[The Kansas City Star]]''. It extended from 27th Street to the 31st Street and from Prospect Avenue to Indiana Avenue. Roy and his brother Walt worked as newspaper delivery boys.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/roy-o-disney/|title=Roy O. Disney|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|language=en|access-date=March 24, 2019}}</ref>  The family delivered the morning newspaper, ''[[The Kansas City Times]],'' to approximately 700 customers and ''The Kansas City Star'' to more than 600. The number of customers served increased with time.<ref name="Barrier">{{Cite book|title=The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney|last=Barrier|first=Michael|publisher=Univ. of California Press|year=2008|isbn=9780520256194|location=Berkeley, Calif.|pages=18–20|language=en|oclc=254461789}}</ref>

Disney graduated from the Manual Training High School of Kansas City in 1912. He left the paper delivery route and worked on a farm in the summer. He was then employed as a [[Bank teller|bank clerk]] along with brother Raymond Arnold Disney at the [[First National Bank of Omaha#First National Bank Kansas|First National Bank]] of Kansas City.<ref name="Barrier" />  

Disney served in the [[United States Navy]] from 1917 to 1919.<ref name="Barrier" /> He military career was cut short by a contraction of [[tuberculosis]] during his service and Disney was honorably discharged from military duty.

While convalescing from a recurrence of tuberculosis at the [[Sawtelle Veterans Home]] in Los Angeles in October of 1923, his brother Walt came to visit late at night to ask for his help in establishing a cartoon studio. After Walt explained that he had secured a deal with New York distributor [[Margaret J. Winkler|Margaret Winkler]], Disney agreed and left the hospital the next morning—never again having a relapse of tuberculosis.<ref name=":1" />

===Walt Disney Productions===
Together Roy and Walt founded the Disney Brothers Studio in October of 1923.<ref name=":1" /> Unlike [[Max Fleischer|Max]] and [[Dave Fleischer]] of rival [[Fleischer Studios]], Roy was not a co-producer. But Roy was an equal partner in all facets of the production company. While Walt led the creative side, Roy guided the business side and finances.<ref name=":0" /> 

Roy became the company's first [[Chief executive officer|CEO]] in 1929, although the official title was not given to him until 1966. He also shared the role of chairman of the board with Walt from 1945 and succeeded Walt in the position of president around this time as well. He held the position until 1968 when he handed it to [[Donn Tatum]]. In 1960, Walt dropped the chairman title so he could focus more on the creative aspects of the company. Following Walt's death on December 15, 1966, from lung cancer, Roy postponed his retirement to oversee the construction of what was then known as Disney World.<ref name="waltdisney.org">{{Cite web |date=October 1, 2016 |title=Gentle Visionary: Roy O. Disney |url=https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/gentle-visionary-roy-o-disney |access-date=March 24, 2019 |website=The Walt Disney Family Museum}}</ref> Five years after Walt's death, Roy was able to open the resort at a cost of $400 million without having additional debt.<ref>{{Cite web|last=DiCologero|first=Brittany|date=October 25, 2022|title=Today in Disney History, 1971: Roy Disney's Disney World Dedication|url=https://www.wdw-magazine.com/today-in-disney-history-1971-roy-disneys-disney-world-dedication/|access-date=February 12, 2023}}</ref> He later named it [[Walt Disney World]] as a tribute to his brother.