Orlando Ferrante

{{short description|American former football player and theme park engineer}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Orlando Ferrante

| image = Orlando Ferrante 1961.jpg

| number = 68

| position = Guard

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1932|9|24}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lbs = 230

| high_school = Mount Carmel {{avoid wrap|(Los Angeles)}}

| college = USC

| undraftedyear =

| pastteams =

• Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers (1960–1961)

| highlights =

• Second-team All-American (1955)
• First-team All-PCC (1955)

| pfr = F/FerrOr20

}}

Charles Orlando Ferrante (born September 24, 1932) is an American former professional football player and Disney Imagineer. He played college football for the USC Trojans and served two years in the U.S. Navy before playing two seasons with the Los Angeles Chargers.{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FerrOr20.htm|title=Orlando Ferrante NFL & AFL Football Statistics | Pro-Football-Reference.com|publisher=pro-football-reference.com|access-date=2015-09-29}}

In 1962 he joined Walt Disney Imagineering, where he worked on the 1964 New York World's Fair, contributed to the design of Disneyland Paris, and helped launch the second Disney Cruise Line in Venice, eventually becoming the company's vice president of engineering, design and production. In 2002 he retired after 40 years with Disney.{{cite web |url=https://d23.com/walt-disney-legend/orlando-ferrante/ |title= Walt Disney Archives / Disney Legends / Orlando Ferrante |website= d23.com|access-date=2021-01-27}}

On November 28, 1959, he married Lucille Melkesian (b. 1936) in Los Angeles, California.