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Michael Eisner

Acting Born Mar 7, 1942 Mount Kisco, New York, USA 24 credits

Biography

Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) is an American businessman.

Eisner was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005. Prior to Disney, Eisner was President and CEO of rival film studio Paramount Pictures from 1976 to 1984, and had brief stints at the major television networks NBC, CBS, and ABC.

Eisner was born to an affluent, secular Jewish family in Mount Kisco, New York. He was raised on Park Avenue in Manhattan. His mother, Margaret (née Dammann), whose family founded the American Safety Razor Company, was the president of the Irvington Institute, a hospital that treated children with rheumatic fever. His father, Lester Eisner, Jr., was a lawyer and regional administrator of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. His great-grandfather, Sigmund Eisner, established a very successful clothing company that was one of the first uniform suppliers to the Boy Scouts of America, and his great-grandmother, Bertha Weiss, belonged to an immigrant family that established the town of Red Bank, New Jersey.

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Known for

The View

as Self
Film

True Romance

as Self

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Self - Host

Cuckoo

as Self

Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars!

as Self

Full filmography

  • The View (1997) as Self
  • The Tony Danza Show (2004) as Self
  • The Wonderful World of Disney (1954) as Self - Host
  • The Wonderful World of Disney (1997) as Self - Host
  • Wahl Street (2021) as Self - Former Chairman & CEO of The Walt Disney Company
  • The Pixar Story (2007) as Self
  • Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009) as Self
  • Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) as Self (archive footage)
  • On Broadway (2019) as Self
  • Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration (1990) as Self - Host
  • The Most Magical Story on Earth: 50 Years of Walt Disney World (2021) as Self
  • The Happy Days of Garry Marshall (2020) as Self
  • The Making of Captain EO (1986) as Self
  • Mickey's 60th Birthday (1988) as Self
  • Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006) as Self
  • Mickey's Audition (1992) as Michael Eisner
  • Disney's California Adventure Grand Opening Special (2001)
  • The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic (1991) as Self
  • In Their Own Words: Jim Henson (2015) as Self - Former CEO, Walt Disney Company
  • Treasures Untold: The Making of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid' (2006) as Self
  • The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland (1992) as Self
  • Conversations with Michael Eisner (2006) as Himself - Host
  • Arata Isozaki II: International Projects (1990) as Self
  • Once Upon a Time in Anaheim (2023) as Self