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First Disney Legend

First Disney Legend
Who
Fred MacMurray
What
First
Where
United States
When
13 October 1987

The Disney Legends award was established by The Walt Disney Company in 1987 to recognise “gifted animators, imagineers, songwriters, actors and business leaders [who have] made a significant impact on the Disney legacy”. The first recipient was US actor Fred MacMurray (1908-91), who starred in a number of Disney productions including The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Son of Flubber (1963), The Happiest Millionaire (1967) and Charley and the Angel (1973).

At the 19th Golden Globe Awards in 1962, MacMurray was nominated (alongside Fred Astaire and Bob Hope) for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of Professor Ned Brainard in the sci-fi comedy The Absent-Minded Professor.

When MacMurray picked up his Legends award, at California’s Burbank Studios on 13 October 1987, he arrived in the back of a 1915 Model T Ford in deference to the one he flew as Ned Brainard in The Absent-Minded Professor.