Yale Gracey (September 3, 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.[1] Gracey was murdered while sleeping, on September 5, 1983, in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, California, by being shot to death by a transient. Gracey's wife, Beverly, was injured in the attack as well.[2][3] Gracey was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend in 1999. References ↑ http://legends.disney.go.com/legends/detail?key=Yale+Gracey ↑ http://www.mouseplanet.com/8867/Ghostly_Gracey_The_Merlin_of_WED ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hU8aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Rg4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6886,4243211&dq=yale+gracey&hl=en Categories: Imagineers Disney Legends 1910s births People Deceased 1980s deaths Males The Haunted Mansion Pirates of the Caribbean Writers Layout artists American people Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
