Roy O. Disney

Walt Disney was the face and the creative force; his older brother Roy found the money. Roy co-founded the studio in 1923, kept it solvent through near-bankruptcies, arranged the loans that paid for Snow White and the financing for Disneyland, and after Walt's death in 1966 delayed his own retirement to see Walt Disney World built and opened in 1971. He insisted it carry Walt's name rather than his own.