| GENUS PEDIGREE: |
Human |
| KNOWN ALIASES: |
Mr. Sorcerer; Dalt Wisney; Yensid Retlaw. |
| KNOWN RELATIVES: |
unknown. |
| KNOWN PETS: |
unknown
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| CITIZENSHIP: |
unknown
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| KNOWN CONFIDANTS: |
Mickey Mouse, his apprentice. |
| KNOWN RIVALS: |
unknown
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| PARAPHERNALIA: |
Broom, magic tome, wand and hat. |
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| 1st PRINT APPEARANCE: |
"Silly Symphonies" tale "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" #2 (Yen Sid was simply called "Mr. Sorcerer" by Mickey - 1953); "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" #94 in "Dalt Wisney" (Big Bad Wolf poses as the famous director Dalt Wisney in an attempt to eat the Three Little Pigs and Chicken Little - July 1948). |
| 1st FILM APPEARANCE: |
"Fantasia" segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (Nov. 13, 1954).
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| VOICE ACTOR: |
N/A
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| SIGNATURE: |
unknown
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| BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: |
The sorcerer from "Fantasia" was retroactively named Yen Sid in honor of the Disney Company's founder: Walt Disney (i.e., Yensid is Disney backwards). Yen Sid was portrayed as a stern father-figure for the young impetuous Mickey Mouse in "Fantasia" (obviously a role he was made for). |
| HISTORICAL FACTS: |
unknown |
| LITTLE KNOWN SECRETS: |
"Yensid Retlaw" was the pseudonym used by Walt Disney for story credit in the live action film "Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N." The name Yen Sid is also one of the very few "Y" named characters in Disney animation (the others include the frequently reused Yellow Beak the Parrot form several comics, like "Four-Color" #9 in "Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold" - Aug. 1942 (see the profile for "Jose Carioca"), and an unused movie script "Morgan's Ghost" -1942; Yascha the Hunter from "Peter and the Wolf" in "Make Mine Music" Apr. 20, 1946; though some use Yellow the Playful Fluppy, his real name was Dinki in "Disney's Fluppy Dogs" - Nov. 27, 1986), while Xerxes, Mozenrath's pet flying lamprey from "Aladdin: The Series," and Xanatos from "Gargoyles" are the only "X" named Disney cartoon characters (for those alphabetical requirements some may have). |
| WORKING THEORIES: |
none |
Yen Sid, "The Sorcerer" 