| Gavan Disney | |
| Birth Name: | Gavin Francis Disney |
| Birth Date: | 27 May 1949. |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Occupation: | Television producer, manager |
| Known For: | Executive producer Hey Hey Its Saturday Healthy, Wealthy and Wise as co-creator |
| Notable Works: | Manager of John Blackman, Molly Meldrum and others |
Gavan Francis Disney (27 May 1949 – 6 November 2018[1]) was an Australian television producer.[2] [3] [4]
Disney was best known for being an executive producer of long-running Nine Network variety show Hey Hey It's Saturday and for being co-creator of Network Ten lifestyle program Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.[2] Television personality Bert Newton credited Disney with resurrecting his career in the 1990s by recruiting him to host Network Ten morning show Good Morning Australia.[5]
He also served as a manager for Hey Hey regular's John Blackman and Molly Meldrum and numerous other media personality's[2]
In 2009, a jury found Disney not guilty of ten counts of indecent assault and two counts of rape, after he was charged in 2008 with assaulting a 17-year-old employee while he was a senior executive at Ballarat television station BTV6 in the 1980s.[6] [7] The jury had previously been directed by the judge to find Disney not guilty of an additional three counts of indecent assault due to a lack of evidence.[8]
Disney died at the age of 69 in November 2018, following a long illness.[2]