Walt Disney Company
Tatum joined Disney as production business manager in 1956 and 15 years later succeeded Roy O. Disney as chief executive and board chairman — becoming the first non-Disney family member to head the company. Tatum served as CEO until November 1976 and as chairman until 1980, when he handed over the company to Card Walker.
He was CalArts board chairman and president of the Disney Foundation, California Broadcasting Assn., United Cerebral Palsy Assn. and Stanford Club of Los Angeles.
Tatum was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and an honorary member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Hollywood Radio & Television Society.
He served as a board member of The Huntington Library, California State Fair and Exposition, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association., Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Better Business Bureau of Los Angeles, the John Tracy Clinic, Western Digital, Union Oil, Bank of America and Greyhound Lines.
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