Edward "Ted" Sears (1900-1958) is a real-world writer and animator who worked for the Walt Disney Company. He was a writer for several of the True-Life Adventures nature films where he was often partnered with one Winston Hibler. These films are what Adventureland and the Jungle Cruise were initially inspired by.
Jungle Cruise tributes[]
- In Disneyland's Jungle Cruise, Nigel Greenwater mentions a Doctor Sears as being a member of the True-Life Adventurers Club. He states that Doctor Sears and Doctor Hibler are collaborating to give a lecture on their research of, "The African Lion", referencing the True-Life Adventures film, "The African Lion" which inspired the lions in the Jungle Cruise's African veldt.
- The real-life Ted Sears is pictured in a photograph within Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar. Sears is shown outside the plane on the 1941 vacation to South America which he took with Walt Disney, here guided by Trader Sam.[1][2]
Gallery[]
Ted alongside Walt Disney and Trader Sam