Rolly Crump, seen here in 2019, in his Carlsbad home surrounded by some of his designs for the Haunted Mansion.
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Rolly Crump, seen here in 2019, in his Carlsbad home surrounded by some of his designs for the Haunted Mansion. (Howard Lipin/The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

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Rolly Crump, Disney designer who helped define the look of Disneyland, dies at 93

Rolly Crump, Disney designer who helped define the look of Disneyland, dies at 93

Animator-turned-theme park designer Rolly Crump, who was instrumental in the design of early Disneyland, died Sunday in his Carlsbad home, where he had been in hospice care, said his son Christopher. Crump was 93. Crump received his big break at the Walt Disney Co. in 1952, when he was 22. Those at the animation studio liked to remind him that he was an oddball. "A diamond in the rough," as ...