Jack Wrather

Director

Date of birth : 05/24/1918

Date of death : 11/12/1984

City of birth : Amarillo, Texas, USA

Oil millionaire who bought the rights to "The Lone Ranger". Also produced "Lassie and "Sgt. Preston of the Yukon". He built the Disneyland Hotel, founded Los Angeles' PBS station KCET and turned the Queen Mary and Howard Hughes' experimental airplane, "The Spruce Goose", into tourist attractions in Long Beach, California. The Spruce Goose was later moved to Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.