Frank Wells

See also: Wells

Frank Wells was a managing director (English COO) of the Walt Disney Company of 1984 to its brutal death the April 3rd 1994. It was born the March 4th 1932.

Before coming to Disney, Wells worked for Warner Brothers until in 1982. It occupied there the role of vice-president starting from 1969, then president in 1973, and as vice-chairman (chairman and managing director) starting from 1977.

The large shareholders of Disney which are Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold recruited it as managing director in 1984, the second nobody with the capacity, under Michael Eisner, during their fight to preserve the company and to push outside the former chairman Ron W. Miller.

Frank Wells one was impassioned of Escalade. It was close carrying out its dream, to climb more the high mountains of each continent. Six are with its prize list. Only the mount Everest passed to him under the nose, a bad weather forced its team to leave the day before to reach the top. He Co-wrote a book on this search with Dick Bass and Rick Ridgeway: Seven Summits: The Quest to Reach the Highest Not one Unintermitting Every

Attraction Matterhorn Bobsleds of Disneyland to Anaheim, offers to Wells a sincere posthumous homage with the installation into 1995 of boxes of forwarding to skis engraved in the name of Wells Expedition .

Wells died at the time of an accident of helicopter during the return of a voyage for the ski in Ruby Mountains of the Nevada.

Catalog of films

Frank Wells seems to have written the stories of several short films or films televised before becoming president of Warner Bros. (Cf Frank Wells on the pages of the NewYork Times).

Some scenarios:

1968 Escape from the Sea
1964 Seventy Deadly Pills
1964 Go Kart Go
1964 Daylight Robbery
1963 The Rescue Squad
1963 The Flood
1962 The Piper' S Tune
1961 The Missing Notes

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