Yale Gracey

Yale Gracey (1910 – September 5, 1983) was an Imagineer, writer, and layout artist for many Disney animated shorts. Gracey created many of the special effects for Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion attractions. He retired on October 4, 1975.

Gracey was murdered while sleeping, on September 5, 1983, in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, along with his wife, shot to death by a transient.

Gracey was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend in 1999.