“I look back on it now and I realize I was this kid, and he was taking the time to pick my brain, because I think that was an important thing for him to do with young people. On Walt’s desks are copies of the company magazine, The Disney World, along with other papers including a note “to discuss with Card Walker and others” about the “Progress Report on the Disney World Project” (dated September 8, 1966).

I think he was quite impressed even though Walt misspelled it. Russell, of course, was a child actor making a series of Disney movies — including 1966’s “Follow Me, Boys!” with Fred MacMurray — when Walt Disney died that same year. "And in return, I got to listen to him talk about arcs of movies and characters.

Fox411: As a child actor, Russell got career advice from an unlikely mentor, Walt Disney himself. or redistributed. At that moment, I immediately appreciated the time I shared with Walt more than ever. He began acting on television at the age of 12 in the western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). featuring Fred MacMurray as a Boy Scout master who adopts Russell’s character, a troubled youth. 2 .”

In the early 1970s, when we still had this office up at the Studio, Kurt Russell was on the lot filming Now You See Him, Now You Don’t. He didn’t get the part he auditioned for, but did win a role in Elvis Presley’s It Happened at the World’s Fair; this led to television’s Travels with Jamie McPheeters and, ultimately, to the Disney Studios. Walt liked the clean-cut, enthusiastic young actor, but he liked a lot of the other young performers who worked for the studio, as well. Yes, that’s right: this is a movie in which bookies kidnap and then try to kill a kid so that they can protect their investment in a huge multi-vac computer that helps them cheat. At 15, Kurt was cast in his first Disney picture, Follow Me, Boys!

JAMES GUNN loves a good Hollywood story, so he weighs for a moment whether to embellish a bit of ol’ entertainment lore. “I’m wondering how much trouble I’m in,” recalled Russell. Disney should also hire Disney Historian Jim Fanning to do a special featurette for the release, as well.). MousePlanet is not associated in any official way with the Walt Disney Company, its subsidiaries. You can find all of these pieces here, alongside our forthcoming review of Tarantino’s latest. The company would barely survive a hostile takeover attempt in the ‘80s, and seemed on the verge of collapse at points, before a change in leadership eventually steered them back towards profitability. During a friendly football game, three young boys search for their lost ball after a bad pass and discover an entrance to a secret tunnel hidden in the ruins of a burned-out church.

Over the years, Kurt has never lost his boyish charm, nor forgotten his Disney roots. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten,