Walt Disney
By Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, 1933
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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© Joanna T. Steichen

American film producer and animator Walt Disney, who helped invent the cartoon character Mickey Mouse, posed for Steichen in 1933. In this portrait, a smiling Disney sits at his drawing board, while his ebullient alter ego -- Mickey Mouse -- appears in duplicate, looming over the shoulders of his creator.