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Franklin G. Wells (March 4, 1932 – April 3, 1994) was an American businessman who served as president of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until his death in 1994. [1] Life and career. Wells was born in Coronado, California and traced his ancestry back to the Mayflower. [2] . He attended Pomona College, which he left as Phi Beta Kappa in 1953. [3]
Apr 9, 2014 · On Easter Sunday 1994, Frank Wells, the patrician No. 2 man at the Walt Disney Co., and his close friend Clint Eastwood flew by helicopter with a small group to the remote slopes of...
Apr 5, 1994 · Frank G. Wells, an executive who helped propel the Walt Disney Company to new success by re-establishing its leadership in animated features and by guiding it into new realms of comedy and...
Apr 4, 1994 · Frank G. Wells, the president and chief operating officer of the Walt Disney Co. and a key part of one of the biggest turnarounds in American corporate history, was killed in a helicopter...
Frank Wells was Disney's president and COO from 1984 to 1994, when he died in a helicopter accident. He led Disney's expansion, revitalization, and international presence, and was also a mountaineer who climbed six of the seven summits.
Apr 4, 1994 · Frank Wells, who helped Disney's turnaround with films like "Pretty Woman" and "Aladdin", was killed in 1994 in a helicopter accident in Nevada. He was 62 and left Warner Brothers to join Disney as a Rhodes scholar.
Franklin G. "Frank" Wells was an American businessman, who served as president of Walt Disney Productions/The Walt Disney Company from September 1984, until his death in April 1994. Disney shareholders Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold recruited Wells to become Disney's president and chief...
