Home›Figures›Birth Year›By Decade›1940sBrowse By1940sThis dimension orders media figures by the year each one was born. Wikipedia records Walt Disney lived from "December 5, 1901" to 1966, a lifetime that spanned the birth of sound film, Technicolor and the American theme park. Browsing by birth year sets a figure alongside the peers who were working in the same generation.1940sConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)1940sFilter Results151 entriesMediumAllAnimation (4)Comics (5)Film (71)Newspapers (1)Television (29)Video Games (5)AwardAllAcademy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (4)Academy Award for Best Director (7)Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (1)Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (2)Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (1)Academy Award for Best Picture (2)Academy Honorary Award (2)AFI Life Achievement Award (6)Akira Kurosawa Award (1)BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (1)BAFTA Award for Best Director (4)BAFTA Award for Best Film (2)BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay (1)BAFTA Fellowship (5)British Press Awards (1)Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director (7)Cecil B. 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Clover1940sCharles Burnett1940sChris Wallace1940sClaire Denis1940sCristina Perincioli1940sCurtis Hanson1940sDan O'Bannon1940sDaniel Schmid1940sDanny DeVito1940sDanny Glover1940sDave Lebling1940sDavid Chase1940sDavid Cronenberg1940sDavid Lynch1940sDavid Milch1940sDavid Secter1940sDavid Zucker1940sDick Wolf1940sDjibril Diop Mambéty1940sEd Logg1940sEd. Weinberger1940sEdward James Olmos1940sEdward Yang1940sEmilio Martínez-Lázaro1940sEric Idle1940sErrol Morris1940sGarrett Brown1940sGarrison Keillor1940sGarry Trudeau1940sGary Goldman1940sGeorge Lucas1940sGianni Amelio1940sGodfrey Reggio1940sGraham Chapman1940sGuido Knopp1940sGunpei Yokoi1940sHaim Saban1940sHarold Ramis1940sHayao Miyazaki1940sHeinz Emigholz1940sHema Malini1940sHenryk M. Broder1940sHou Hsiao-hsien1940sJack Sholder1940sJacques Perrin1940sJames Burrows1940sJames L. Brooks1940sJerry Springer1940sJim Abrahams1940sJim Davis1940sJim Sheridan1940sJohn Madden1940sJohn Sullivan1940sJohn Wagner1940sJohn Woo1940sJonathan Demme1940sJonathan Lynn1940sJosé Luis García Sánchez1940sJoseph Zito1940sJulia Reichert1940sJulian Fellowes1940sKrzysztof Kieślowski1940sLarry David1940sLawrence Kasdan1940sLorne Michaels1940sMarcell Jankovics1940sMargarethe von Trotta1940sMarleen Gorris1940sMartin Scorsese1940sMary-Ellis Bunim1940sMasato Harada1940sMeryl Streep1940sMichael Apted1940sMichael Crichton1940sMichael Haneke1940sMichael J. Leeson1940sMichael Palin1940sMike Leigh1940sNic Szeremeta1940sNicholas Meyer1940sNikita Mikhalkov1940sNolan Bushnell1940sNorman J. Warren1940sOliver Stone1940sPat Mills1940sPatrice Chéreau1940sPatricio Guzmán1940sPedro Almodóvar1940sPenny Marshall1940sPilar Miró1940sPirjo Honkasalo1940sRainer Simon1940sRainer Werner Fassbinder1940sRakesh Roshan1940sRamesh Sippy1940sRandal Kleiser1940sRichard Drew1940sRichard Pearce1940sRichard Pryor1940sRob Reiner1940sRobert Crumb1940sRobert De Niro1940sRobert Mark Kamen1940sRoger Allers1940sRoland Joffé1940sRoy Andersson1940sRustam Khamdamov1940sŞerif Gören1940sShuki Levy1940sSouleymane Cissé1940sSteven Bochco1940sSteven Spielberg1940sSusan Harris1940sTakeshi Kitano1940sTerrence Malick1940sTerry Gilliam1940sTerry Jones1940sTerry Zwigoff1940sTomohiro Nishikado1940sTony Gatlif1940sVictor Miller1940sVin Di Bona1940sWerner Herzog1940sWerner Schroeter1940sWim Wenders1940sWolfgang Petersen1940sYoshiyuki Tomino1940sŽelimir Žilnik1940sConnectionsShowing the first 400 of 1,418 connections.SourcesEncyclopedia BritannicaEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.View the SourceWikipediaWikimedia FoundationContains: Ralph BaerContains: Jerry SiegelContains: Joe ShusterContains: Will EisnerContains: Henry LuceContains: Adam CurryContains: Andrew WeinreichContains: Reed HastingsView the SourceNolan Bushnell (Wikipedia)Contains: Nolan BushnellView the SourceDave Winer (Wikipedia)Contains: Dave WinerView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. 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