Eddie Sotto
Author: Didier Ghez, Walt's People: Volume 14 - Talking Disney with the Artists Who Knew Him, Volume 14, 2008, 2009, Chapter 24,pp. 367-401,EN
One of most famous members of the “new generation” of Disney Imagineers, who took the relay from the Disney Legends who worked with Walt, Eddie Sotto spent thirteen years with WDI (1986 to 1999), eventually being named senior vice president of Concept Design in 1994. He was involved in early development of the Indiana Jones Adventure attraction for Disneyland, directed the master planning of Tokyo Disneyland for three years, and was the show producer of Disneyland Paris’ Main Street, U.S.A. His proposal to include a hotel at the entrance of Euro Disneyland led to the first instance of guest accommodations being incorporated into a Disney theme park. […]
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- 1 - Carman Maxwell (Bob Thomas)
- 2 - Dick Lundy (Mark Mayerson and Leonard Maltin)
- 3 - Phil Klein (Leonard Maltin)
- 4 - Zach Schwartz (Leonard Maltin)
- 5 - Ray Patterson (John Culhane)
- 6 - Marge Champion (Didier Ghez)
- 7 - Joe Grant (John Canemaker)
- 8 - Bob Jones (Dave Smith)
- 9 - Bob Baker (Jim Korkis and Didier Ghez)
- 10 - A Life Rendering - The Unrealized Art of Richmond “Dick” Kelsey (Vincent Randle)
- 11 - Eric Knight at the Walt Disney Studio (David Culbert)
- 12 - The Holling C. Holling Letters
- 13 - Bill Justice (John Culhane)
- 14 - Irvin Graham (John Culhane)
- 15 - Lillian Disney (Michael Broggie)
- 16 - Carson Van Osten (Alberto Becattini)
- 17 - Bruce Bushman (George Sherman)
- 18 - Bob Mattey (George Sherman)
- 19 - Chris Mueller Jr. (Dave Smith)
- 20 - Arthur J. Vitarelli (John G. West)
- 21 - Alice Davis (Charles Solomon)
- 22 - Lucile Bosché (Didier Ghez)
- 23 - Joe Fowler (Harry Wessel)
- 24 - Eddie Sotto
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