Disney was a heavy smoker throughout his life and died of lung cancer in 1966 before either the park or the EPCOT project were completed. Disney was a shy, self-deprecating and insecure man in private but adopted a warm and outgoing public persona.

2023年3月6日 · In 1966, an icon of animation, cinema, theme parks, and general pop culture was lost when Walt Disney died at the age of 65.

2024年4月26日 · Walt Disney passed away from a circulatory collapse caused by lung cancer. He was diagnosed with cancer on November 2, 1966, and was receiving cobalt therapy. He received surgery 19 days after his diagnosis to remove a portion of his left lung.

Walt Disney, the one-time Missouri farm boy who for more than a quarter of a century created fantasies that made a troubled world laugh, died Thursday.

2024年6月25日 · He passed away on Dec. 15, 1966, due to complications from surgery he had a month earlier to treat the cancer. Although there is a crazy conspiracy theory that Walt Disney had his body...

2023年4月23日 · Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, at age 65, in Los Angeles, California. How did Walt Disney die? Disney was a long-time sufferer of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),...

On the morning of December 15, he passed away at St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank, California, near the Disney Studios. The official cause of death was circulatory collapse caused by the spread of cancer. The impact of Walt Disney’s death was immense.

2010年12月16日 · Los Angeles, Dec. 15--Walt Disney, who built his whimsical cartoon world of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into a $100-million-a-year entertainment empire, died...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest men of our time, Walt Disney. He lost a battle to lung cancer from his chain-smoking on December 15, 1966, at 9:30 am.