Excerpt from Who Really Controls Hollywood by John Cones

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Disney
The top several executives at the Walt Disney Company, since its founding in 1923, (including Buena Vista, Hollywood Pictures and Touchstone), have been:

Name	Race	Sex	Heritage	Source
Walt Disney	White	Male	Irish-Canadian Protestant	Disney Archives
Roy O. Disney	White	Male	Irish-Canadian Protestant	Disney Archives
Donn B. Tatum	White	Male
Cardon Walker	White	Male
Ronald W. Miller	White	Male
Roy E. Disney	White	Male	Irish-Canadian Protestant	Disney Archives
Raymond L. Watson	White	Male
Richard L. Berger	White	Male	Jewish Name	Variety, 3-4-83.
Michael D. Eisner	White	Male	Jewish Name	Friedman, 76.
Frank G. Wells	White	Male		London Times, 4-5-94, 19.
Michael L. Bagnall	White	Male
Carl G. Bongirno	White	Male
Ronald J. Cayo	White	Male
James P. Jimirro	White	Male		View, June, '84, 65.
Jack B. Lindquist	White	Male	Jewish Name
Richard A. Nunis	White	Male
Martin A. Sklar	White	Male	Jewish Name
Barton K. Boyd	White	Male
Gary L. Wilson	White	Male
Lawrence P. Murphy	White	Male
Joe Shapiro	White	Male	Jewish Name
Sanford M. Litvak	White	Male	Jewish Name
Richard D. Nanula	(African-American)	Male		(pending confirming source)
Jeffrey Katzenberg	White	Male	Jewish Name	H'wd Rptr, 10-13-94.
Richard Frank	White	Male
David Hoberman	White	Male
Ricardo Mestres	White	Male
Joe Roth	White	Male	Jewish Name
David Vogel	White	Male	Jewish Name
Michael Lynton	White	Male
Donald DeLine	White	Male
Chris McGurk	White	Male

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