Bill Evans
Morgan “Bill” Evans was born on June 30, 1910, in Santa Monica, California. His first experience with gardening came from his father’s three-acre garden filled with exotic plants. In 1928, Bill joined the Merchant Marine and while he traveled the world aboard the S.S. President Harrison, he gathered exotic seeds for his father’s garden from distant lands, including the West Indies, South Africa, and Australia.
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In 1952, Bill Evans and his brother Jack were called to landscape the grounds of Walt Disney’s Holmby Hills home, including the gardens that surrounded his backyard railroad, the Carolwood Pacific. Walt was pleased with their work and asked them in 1954 to landscape the new theme park he was building called Disneyland.
“We landscaped all of Disneyland in less than a year with a maximum of arm-waving and a minimum of drawings,” laughed Bill. […]
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- 1 - Hugh Harman (Michael Barrier)
- 2 - Nadine Missakian (Dave Smith)
- 3 - Ward Kimball (Rick Shale)
- 4 - Erwin Verity (Dave Smith, Rick Shale)
- 5 - James Algar (Richard Hubler)
- 6 - Winston Hibler (Richard Hubler)
- 7 - Bill Anderson (Richard Hubler)
- 8 - Bill Walsh (Richard Hubler)
- 9 - Bill Walsh (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 10 - George Bruns (Richard Hubler)
- 11 - Buddy Baker (John Burlingame)
- 12 - Buddy Baker (Jérémie Noyer)
- 13 - Fess Parker (Michael Barrier)
- 14 - Walt Stanchfield (Christian Renaut)
- 15 - Marc Davis (Richard Hubler)
- 16 - Alice Davis (Dave Oneil)
- 17 - T. Hee (Richard Hubler)
- 18 - Maurice Noble (Harry McCracken)
- 19 - Al Dempster (Christopher Finch, Linda Rosenkrantz)
- 20 - Walt Peregoy (Bob Miller)
- 21 - Taking My Best Shot - Working on Disney's "The Saga of Windwagon Smith" (Floyd Norman)
- 22 - The Making of The Jungle Book - as remembered by Floyd Norman (Floyd Norman)
- 23 - Bill Evans
- 24 - Jack Bradbury (Alberto Becattini)
- 25 - Lynn Karp (Alberto Becattini)
- 26 - Dave Michener (Didier Ghez)
- 27 - In Memory of Vance Gerry (John Musker)
- 28 - Vance Gerry (Charles Solomon)
- 29 - Vance Gerry (Christian Renaut)
- 30 - Ron Clements and John Musker (Clay Kaytis)
