Franklin G Wells was an American businessman who served as president of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until his death in 1994.
12 Facts About Frank Wells
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Frank Wells attended Pomona College, which he left as Phi Beta Kappa in 1953.
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Frank Wells was a recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship, through which he obtained a BA at Oxford University.
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Frank Wells went into the army for two years as an infantry first lieutenant and then graduated from Stanford Law School and became a lawyer.
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The Disney board then recruited Frank Wells to become Disney's president and chief operating officer, along with Michael Eisner as chairman and CEO, and Jeffrey Katzenberg as head of Walt Disney Studios.
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Frank Wells was unique among the management troika in that he had the highest academic achievement.
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Frank Wells was an avid alpinist and came close to achieving his goal of climbing the Seven Summits, the highest mountains on each of the seven continents:.
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Frank Wells died in a helicopter crash on Easter 1994 while returning from a heliskiing trip in Nevada's Ruby Mountains.
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Frank Wells was a good friend of Clint Eastwood, who had been skiing with Wells that weekend.
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Frank Wells was buried at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.
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At the funeral, Eastwood sang a tribute of The Beatles' "Hey Jude", which Frank Wells liked to sing on the slopes.
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The Lion King, which came out the summer after Frank Wells' death, includes a dedication right before the Walt Disney Pictures logo appears.