Cinderella's Father

Cinderella's Father was a good-natured, handsome, and wealthy gentleman, possibly a baron or a lord, in Disney's 1950 hit feature film Cinderella.

He loved his only daughter with all his heart and lavished every imaginable care and tenderness on her. His grand chateau attests to his great wealth. His wife had died when their daughter was very young.

Despite the fact that he did everything to make life better for his little girl, he was depressed by the death of his wife and felt his daughter needed a maternal figure, so he remarried; his second wife being Lady Tremaine, who had two daughters of her own, Anastasiaand Drizella. He welcomed his new wife and stepdaughters into the family, and it seemed his second marriage ran smoothly until the day he died.

Upon his untimely death, Lady Tremaine showed her true colors. She tyrannically took over his chateau, the remnant of his fortune (which she squandered on her own vain and selfish daughters), and even forced his daughter to become the servant of her own house. As a result of this, his chateau "fell into disrepair", his fortune tragically dwindled and was eventually exhausted.