Walter Peregoy - USA
Born Alwyn Walter Peregoy in Los Angeles in 1925, and raised on a small island in San Francisco Bay, Peregoy often described his background as American white trash.
As a teenager, he attended Saturday art classes at Chouinard Art Institute.
He dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, and was hired at Disney at the age of 17 in the position of traffic boy, the lowest rung employees at the studio who ferried artwork and supplies between offices.
He quit after just a few months, saying that the studio felt too much like a factory, and wouldn’t return for another eight years.