Ron W. Miller
Ronald William Miller ( born April 17, 1933) is a film producer, former American football player and the son of Walt and Lillian Disney. He was president from 1980 to 1984 and from 1983 to 1984 CEO of The Walt Disney Company.
Life
Miller was in the early 1950s, a football star at the University of Southern California and occasionally plays for the Los Angeles Rams. In 1954, he married Diane Marie Disney Walt Disney's daughter ( born December 18, 1933), since 1957, he worked for the company. He worked as a producer and co-producer of many live-action features and was appointed after the death of Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney of his successor at the instigation of President Card Walker (1980) and CEO (1983). His outstanding achievements included the establishment of the label Touchstone Pictures (1983) and the television channel Disney Channel.
However, as the initiator expensive, but little successful with the public projects such as the equipped with early computer animation feature film Tron, he was criticized. After the unsatisfactory economic development had already triggered hostile takeover attempts and he was asked to resign in August 1984, he resigned his offices and retired from the business and the film business from.