SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Garner L. Holt, founder and president of Garner Holt Productions, Inc. (GHP), is the recipient of the Disneyana Fan Club’s (DFC) 2016 DFC Disney Legend Award.

The Disneyana Fan Club, founded in 1984 as the National Fantasy Fan Club to celebrate its members’ mutual love of all things Disney, presents the annual award to individuals whose accomplishments have helped to make an extraordinary and lasting impact on the entertainment, educational and cultural legacy of Walt Disney. Honorees are nominated by their peers, former recipients and members of the club, and are selected by the club’s Legends Committee.

“I’m humbled by the DFC’s award,” said Holt. “The entire focus of my company has been to create high-quality entertainment and educational animatronics and attractions in the style of Walt Disney. I’m moved and proud that my company and life’s work has been deemed a major contributor to that great man’s legacy.”

Holt founded the company which bears his name based largely on his love for Disney’s audio-animatronics attractions at Disneyland. In 1977, at age 16, he incorporated GHP in California to design and produce animatronic presentations. Since then, GHP has created nearly 5,000 individual animatronic characters for leading theme parks around the world, including work at all six Disney theme park resorts, Universal Studios, Knott’s Berry Farm and dozens of other theme parks and corporate clients (Hershey, Mattel, Chuck E. Cheese and Lockheed Martin among them). Today, GHP is the primary supplier of animatronic figures for Disney parks worldwide.

The award will be presented to Holt at DFC’s annual convention in Anaheim, CA, on July 14.

• «Previous Post
• Next Post »

---