Frank Wells

Frank Wells ( born March 4, 1932 † 3 April 1994) was President and Chief Operating Officer of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until his death.

Previously, Wells had worked for Warner Brothers in 1969 as Vice President, since 1973 as president and since 1977 as vice chairman until he left the company in 1982. Disney shareholders Roy Disney and Stanley Gold hired as part of their attempt to oust President Ron W. Miller, Wells, to make him the second man behind Michael Eisner at Disney.

He came to his goal, the Seven Summits to climb the highest mountains in each of all seven continents, close, but he did not reach. Only the Mount Everest eluded him because bad weather forced him and his companions to give up a day before reaching the summit. The Matterhorn Bobsled attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim honors Wells based on his love of mountaineering through distributed in the landscape ski lodge with the inscription " Wells Expedition".

Wells died in a helicopter crash, when he returned from a ski trip from the Ruby Mountains in Nevada. The film The Lion King, which was published in the summer after Wells' death, is dedicated to him.

• Disney
• Americans
• Born in 1932
• Died in 1994
• Man