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Conference koolit::disney

Title:	The Disneyphile's Disney File
Notice:	This Conference can show you The World
Moderator:	DONVAN::SCOPA.zko.dec.com::manana::eppes

Created:	Thu Feb 23 1989
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	536
Total number of notes:	19961

533.0. "Disney voices" by GEMGRP::PARMLIND () Wed Apr 30 1997 15:15

    I have a question about the actors that provide the voices for
    Disney animated films.  But first an explanation.  My kids are
    bi-lingual (english/swedish).  We own a fair number of Disney
    films that have been dubbed in Swedish.  We find it's a good
    way to keep the kids hearing Swedish on a regular basis.
    
    The thing that bugs me is that the number of actors providing
    the voices seems to be really limited.  For example, I hear
    the same voice on The Lion King (Lejon Kungen), The Little
    Mermaid, Pocahontas etc.
    
    Does this happen in English too?  I must admit I'm not that
    familiar with the movies in English.
    
     
    Thanks for any insight,
    
    Elizabeth

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
533.1		ABBYRD::RMULAC.DVO.DEC.COM::S_WATTUM	Scott Wattum - FTAM/VT/OSAK Engineering	`Wed Apr 30 1997 15:24`	10
	Not for the lead roles. John Smith's voice was Mel Gibson, Mufasa was James Earl Jones, Robin Williams was the voice of the Genie, etc. I can't think of any major overlap in the full length features with the exception of the Aladdin trilogy. It sounds like they have a limited pool of people to draw from when dubbing into other languages. --Scott
533.2		GAVEL::JANDROW		`Wed Apr 30 1997 17:42`	12
	while we are on this topic, and this may have been covered before... how come a song in a disney movie is sung by the person supplying the voice for the character...but if the song goes mainstream a different person sings it?? (i.e., vanessa williams redoing that song in "pocohantos", and celine redoing the song in "beauty and the beast") why doesn't the singer just voice the character and then the song doesn't have to be done over.... -raquel
533.3		ABBYRD::RMULAC.DVO.DEC.COM::S_WATTUM	Scott Wattum - FTAM/VT/OSAK Engineering	`Wed Apr 30 1997 19:20`	13
	> how come a song in a disney movie is sung by the person supplying the > voice for the character.. Actually, this isn't always the case. The speaking voice and the singing voice are frequently 2 different people. The voice of Aladdin didn't sing Aladdin's songs, though Robin Williams did both the singing and speaking voice for the Genie. My guess as to the other part is that you'll get better air play time for a song with a known voice than you will for the sometimes unknown person that does the singing in the movie. --Scott
533.4		HYDRA::SCHAFER	Mark Schafer, SPE MRO	`Wed Apr 30 1997 20:55`	2
	maybe vanessa and celine don't have time to voice-over movies, or can't get the money they'd like from DISNEY.