Disney Legend Bob Gurr

Maltin on Movies

Leonard Maltin

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.3 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

It's not just a compliment, it's a fact: Bob Gurr is a bona fide Disney Legend and at age 93 he shows little sign of slowing down. With a background in automobile design, Walt Disney sought him out in 1954 and immediately put him to work. For the next twenty years he had a hand in almost every major attraction in Disneyland, beginning with Autopia. He then opened his own shop and worked for theme parks around the globe. Jessie has vivid memories of the 30-foot King Kong he built for Universal. She and Leonard were delighted to spend an hour with such an inspiring man.

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0:35.4	Hi, everybody. I'm Leonard Malton.
0:37.2	And I'm Jesse Malton. And I'm Jesse Malton.
0:38.3	You're listening to Malton on Movies, and we are at last recording a live interview where it is occurring.
0:47.5	Not in our home via Zoom, but in person.
0:52.3	And we're in the home of a wonderful man named Bob Gur.
0:56.8	And if you don't know who Bob Gur is, you're going to find out right now.
0:59.7	And if you're a Disney file or a Disneyland fan...
1:04.1	He is both literally and figuratively a legend.
1:06.8	He is.
1:07.7	You are a Disney legend, but we just found out that you have a booth.
1:12.4	A booth named after you at a local Mexican restaurant.
1:15.6	Yes.
1:16.2	Now, that's impressive.
1:18.0	Well, that, as people say, well, tell me the story of that.
1:22.5	Because it's tied up with a movie.
1:24.7	Yeah?
1:25.2	Yes.
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