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Father of Breck Eisner and Eric Eisner. When The Walt Disney Company bought ABC, Eisner controlled the network that gave him his start as a young executive. He wrote his autobiography, a second book about his summer camp and was the subject of two other books, "The Keys to the Kingdom" and "Disney War". His favorite film is Hayao Miyazaki's Tonari no Totoro (1988). The film became Disney property in 2004; it was previously owned by Fox and Troma. Worked his way up from an mid-level manager to the VP of Prime Time Production at ABC (1966-1976). When Barry Diller brough Eisner to Paramount in 1976, the company was firmly in sixth place (out of six) in the movie industry, without a single release in the box-office top ten. Two years later, half of the top box-office were Paramount productions, and Paramount was the top movie studio. Under his leadership, Disney was transformed from a film studio and theme park company to one of the largest media powerhouses in the world. The company's market capitalization grew from $2 billion in 1984 to $61 billion in 2001. The company is now worth $50 billion. Has been criticized in recent times for having a fractious style of management which has led to a string of top executives leaving the company. After receiving an unprecedented rebuke from shareholders in 2004 with 43% of shares being withheld for his re-election, he stepped down as the Chairman of the Board, and continued to hold the position of CEO. While he was an executive at Paramount, he said the best script he ever read was Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).