Kevin Philip Hyson; Marketed Films for Disney

Kevin Philip Hyson, 43, who marketed such films as “Aladdin,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Little Mermaid” for Disney. Hyson, who joined Disney six years ago, was recently promoted to executive vice president of theatrical marketing for the Disney subsidiary Buena Vista International. Other films he worked with included “Sister Act,” “White Fang,” “Pretty Woman,” “Dead Poets Society” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” Hyson began his career in 1969 with Universal Pictures in London and later worked for Cinema International Corp., holding posts in Latin America, South Africa and Japan. On Sunday in Los Angeles of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.