1960





Feature Films

 * January 21 - Toby Tyler
 * February 24 - Kidnapped
 * May 19 - Pollyanna
 * August 10 - The Hound That Thought He Was A RaccoonGoliath-ii-original.jpg
 * June 11 - The Sign of Zorro
 * November 1 - Ten Who Dared
 * December 23 - Swiss Family RobinsonSwiss_family_robinson322.jpg

Shorts

 * January 21 - Goliath II

Television

 * Zorro and The Mickey Mouse Club are cancelled.
 * ABC moves Walt Disney Presents from Friday nights to Sunday nights.

Theme park happenings

 * September - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is refused entry to Disneyland, due to security concerns
 * Disneyland welcomes its 20 millionth guest.

Events

 * Walt Disney begins negotiations with P.L. Travers to make a movie based on her book Mary Poppins.
 * Gene Autry appoints Walt Disney to the Board of Directors of his Los Angeles Angels Major League Baseball team, which would begin play in 1961. Walt would later play a role in convincing Autry to move the team from Los Angeles to Anaheim, the home of Disneyland, in 1966. The Walt Disney Company would later own the team from 1996 to 2003, under which the team would win the World Series in 2002. A fictional version of the team was featured in the films Angels in the Outfield and Angels in the Infield.
 * The Sherman Brothers songwriting team are hired by Disney.
 * Disney purchases the story rights to The Small One; it won't be made into a movie until 1978.

Births

 * January 4 - April Winchell - Voice artist
 * January 15 - Kelly Asbury - Story supervisor
 * March 13 - Joe Ranft - Voice artist and animator
 * April 11 - Jeremy Clarkson - Voice artist
 * April 14 - Brad Garrett - Voice artist
 * May 20 - Tony Goldwyn - Voice artist
 * July 14 - Jane Lynch - Actress and comedian
 * September 10 - Colin Firth - Voice artist
 * September 17 - Kevin Clash - Puppeteer
 * December 9 - Jeff "Swampy" Marsh - Writer, singer, and voice artist