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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1996

Isolated in the bell tower of Notre Dame, Quasimodo longs to experience the world beyond the cathedral walls, despite the wishes of his stern guardian, the Judge of Paris Claude Frollo. His first venture into the city leads him to Esmeralda, a fearless Romani woman whose defiance of Frollo's tyranny draws her—and Quasimodo—into his dangerous obsession.

Vance Gerry

Writer · Known for The Jungle Book

Regarded as one of the most creative and talented story artists in the animation industry, Gerry joined the Walt Disney Studios in 1955 after studying at the Chouinard Art Institute. He rose quickly through the ranks to become a layout artist. He contributed to the television shows "Goofy's Cavalcade of Sports" and "How to Relax"; the short features "The Truth About Mother Goose" and "Donald in Mathmagic Land"; and the features "101 Dalmatians" and "The Sword in the Stone." Gerry moved to the studio's story department on "The Jungle Book," Walt Disney's last animated feature. Looking back on that collaboration, Gerry said, "There was an aura about Walt: When he came into the room, you felt it. He focused very closely on what the characters would do and say." Gerry later made major contributions to "Dalmatians," "The Aristocats," "Robin Hood," "The Rescuers," "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" and "The Fox and the Hound." In "The Rescuers," he drew the storyboards, a shot by shot blueprint, for the sequence in which kidnapper Madame Medusa primps before a mirror while cruelly dismissing Penny's wish to return to the orphanage: "Adopted? What makes you think anyone would want a homely little girl like you?" In the book "Before the Animation Begins: The Art and Lives of Disney Inspirational Sketch Artists," animation historian John Canemaker noted that Gerry needed only a few drawings to establish the type of shot, the mood of the sequence, the character's expressions, etc. Working from Gerry's sketches, animators developed their characters' actions: when Medusa would pull off her false eyelashes; how Penny would bow her head in resignation. Gerry told Canemaker how he liked to work. "I'd just as soon start with a title of a picture and start dreaming into it," he said. "A script is restricting because it tells you too much. I'd rather start earlier than that and look for possibilities for animation and entertainment, rather than story elements or structure." Gerry later received a story adaptation credit for "The Great Mouse Detective" and worked on the storyboards for "Fantasia/2000." Gerry shifted to visual development and character design in 1995, and contributed to "Pocahontas," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Tarzan" and "Home on the Range." Gerry also operated the Weatherbird Press, which published fine books. -http://articles.latimes.com/2005/mar/11/local/me-gerry11

Gary Trousdale

Cast · Director · Known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gary A. Trousdale (born June 8, 1960) is an American film director known for directing movies such as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He frequently directs films with Kirk Wise. Trousdale planned to become an architect, but decided instead to study animation at CalArts, where he studied for three years. He was hired in 1982 to design storyboards and do other animation. He then went to work designing restaurant menus and t-shirts. Trousdale was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1985 as an effects animator on The Black Cauldron. He gained true prominence in his field with the success of his animated film directorial debut Beauty and the Beast, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won a LAFCA Award. He later directed The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996. In 2001 he directed Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He moved to DreamWorks Animation in 2003, where he worked on projects such as The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, Shrek the Halls and more recently Scared Shrekless. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Trousdale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

David Wayman

Cast · Known for Graphic Desires

David was born on the 27th January in Enfield, North London, UK and spent his early education in and around Hertfordshire. At the age of 18, David began his Acting training at East 15 Acting School in East London. After a number of short films and theatre roles, David made his feature-film Début in British Zombie Movie 'The Dead Inside' (due for release 2012). Following on from this, David was cast as 'Tom' in BAFTA winner Martin Gooch's film "Death - It's a Mystery" (2011) playing opposite Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hot Fuzz), Nick Moran (Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels) and Leslie Phillips (of "Carry On" fame). More recently, he has played lead roles in romantic comedy "Art Ache" and ghost story "Wandering Rose". Theatre Credits include the title role in "A Picture of Dorian Gray", Benedick in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and Captain Phoebus in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" to name a few.

Murielle Hilaire

Murielle Hilaire is a Franco-American actress and model. She has been performing since the age of seven, beginning her career on stage portraying Esmerelda in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Martine of Molière, from the popular Belgian children's novel of the same name. She landed her first television role aged eighteen, portraying Cynthia in the French produced Baie Des Flamboyant. Her feature film debut was the thriller MUTI (2021), where she starred alongside Cole Hauser and Morgan Freeman.

Paul Kandel

Cast · Known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Paul Kandel (born February 15, 1951 in Queens, New York, USA) is an American musical theatre actor and tenor singer best known for his only film role in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) as the voice of Clopin. He also has appeared on Broadway a number of times, having appeared in Jesus Christ Superstar as King Herod, Titanic, The Who's Tommy, and The Visit. Kandel received a nomination for the 1993 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Uncle Ernie in The Who's Tommy.

Mary Stout

Mary Stout (born April 8, 1952) is an American actress and singer. In addition to numerous stage credits and guest roles in various television series, Stout is known as the singing voice of Laverne in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) and for starring as radio station organist Eugenia Bremer on the AMC series Remember WENN (1996 - 1998).

Jeremy Milton

Editor · Known for Encanto, Moana 2, Ralph Breaks the Internet

Jeremy Milton is an American editor and actor. He provided edits for Mulan 2, The Jungle Book 2, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, The Emperor's New Groove, Planes, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, Bambi II, Zootopia, Ralph Breaks the Internet. He also provided additional voices for the latter.

Kirk Wise

Director · Known for Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kirk Wise is an American animator, director and producer known for his work at Disney Wise graduated from Palo Alto High School and went on to study character animation at California Institute of the Arts. Wise worked as an animator on The Brave Little Toaster, and Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories episode "Family Dog". At Disney, he began as an assistant animator on The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver & Company before eventually landing in the story department, where he was reunited with former CalArts classmate Gary Trousdale. After working as storyboard artists on The Rescuers Down Under and The Prince and the Pauper, Wise and Trousdale were responsible for helming the celebrated Beauty and the Beast (1991), the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. They collaborated on two more features for Disney, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Wise also directed the English dubb of Hayo Miyazaki's Spirited Away. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kirk Wise, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Suzanne Neve

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Suzanne Neve (born 1939) is an English actress best known for her appearances on British television during the 1960s, notably the starring role of Isabel Osmond in the BBC's 1968 adaptation of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady. Neve first came to public attention as Ethel Brown in a 1962 series based on the William books of Richmal Crompton. She subsequently had leading roles in Smuggler's Bay (1964) and as Fleur de Lys in a 1966 dramatisation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Her big break came with the BBC's flagship production of The Forsyte Saga (1967), in which she played Holly. Following Portrait of a Lady, Neve continued to appear in television dramas, including further adaptations of the classics, such as Bel-Ami (1971). She also had a recurring role as Mary, the wife of Commander Straker in the science fiction series UFO (1970–71).Films in which Neve appeared included Naked Evil (1966), Mosquito Squadron (1969) and Scrooge (1970). Her last screen appearance was in the 1983 series Spooky. After this film, she devoted herself to teaching drama and still does so.

Henry Freulich

Cinematographer · Known for I Dream of Jeannie

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Freulich (April 14, 1906 – December 4, 1985) was an American cinematographer for 31 years. Freulich was born in New York City. He began his career as a cameraman with Lon Chaney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1922. While at Columbia Pictures in 1934, he was cinematographer for It Happened One Night with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. He worked on over a hundred Three Stooges films. In 1963, he shot a record (which he shared with Harry Neumann) 11 films. He worked in television later in his career. His career continued until 1969.

Michelle Hurd

Cast · Known for Star Trek: Picard, Blindspot, One Night Only

Michelle Hurd (born December 21, 1966) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She is married to actor Garret Dillahunt. Michelle Hurd is the daughter of actor Hugh L. Hurd. She graduated from Saint Ann's School in 1984 and Boston University in 1988, and studied with the Alvin Ailey School. After her graduation from college, she studied at Great Britain's National Theatre . Her Broadway credits include the 1996 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth flop Getting Away with Murder. Other theater credits include Othello, A.M.L., Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Looking for the Pony  at Manhattan Theater Source with her sister Adrienne Hurd. She met her husband, Garret Dillahunt, in 900 Oneonta at Circle Repertory Theater Company. She has won several awards, including the Robbie Award and the California Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for the premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour. She has also appeared in several movies, including Random Hearts, Personals and as the comic book superhero B.B. DaCosta/Fire in the unshown TV-pilot Justice League of America (1997). After working in television roles such as The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover and The Practice, she appeared in a 1997 episode of Law & Order. Her performance as a corrupt FBI informant caught the attention of L&O producer Dick Wolf, who two years later cast her in the spin-off Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Det. Monique Jeffries. She co-starred with Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay for the first season before leaving the series in 2000, but she did appear in the first, seventh and sixteenth episodes of season two, her final appearance being in March 2001. In 2001, she appeared in the Showtime original series Leap Years, where her character was the on and off love interest of a bisexual character played by her real-life husband. Television roles include parts in Charmed, The O.C., According to Jim, Shark, Bones and Gossip Girl. In 2006 - 2007, she had a recurring role on ER as television news producer Courtney Brown, who became close to Dr. Kerry Weaver. She played Diana, the leading rôle, in the Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company's 10 February–29 March 2009 production of Lope de Vega's Dog in the Manger. She won a Robbie Award as "best actress" for her work in the world premiere of The Violet Hour at South Coast Repertory. She played in Hamlet at the North Shore Theater. In 2010, Hurd began a starring role on the A&E Network drama The Glades, playing Colleen Manus.

Lindsey Collins

Executive Producer · Producer · Known for Elio, John Carter, Toy Story 5

Lindsey Collins is an American film producer and studio executive known for her long career at Pixar Animation Studios. She joined the studio in May 1997 and worked in a variety of production capacities on several Pixar feature films, including A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille. She also provided the voice of Mia in Cars. Before joining Pixar, Collins worked for three years at Walt Disney Feature Animation, where she managed creative teams on Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Hercules. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College.

Tom Hulce

Cast · Known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Amadeus

Thomas Edward Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an American actor and theater producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Academy Award-winning film Amadeus (1984), as well as the roles of Larry "Pinto" Kroger in Animal House (1978), Larry Buckman in Parenthood (1989), and Quasimodo in Disney's animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Awards include an Emmy Award for The Heidi Chronicles, a Tony Award for Spring Awakening, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for Amadeus, and four Golden Globe nominations. He retired from acting in the mid-1990s to focus on stage directing and producing. In 2007, he won the Tony Award for Best Musical as a lead producer of Spring Awakening.

Will Finn

Director · Writer · Known for Home on the Range, The Tom and Jerry Show

Will Finn is an American animator, voice actor, and director. His work in animation includes characters from Disney and Don Bluth films such as The Secret of NIMH, Oliver and Company, and Pocahontas. His characters include Laverne (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Iago (Aladdin), and Cogsworth (Beauty and the Beast).

James Baxter

British character animator. He was first known for his work on several Walt Disney Animation Studios films, including various characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Rafiki in The Lion King, Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. After Notre Dame, Baxter moved over to DreamWorks Animation, where he worked on films such as The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2 and Madagascar. Early in 2005, Baxter left DreamWorks and set out on his own as an independent animator. He became the head of his own studio, James Baxter Animation, in Pasadena, California, where he has directed the animation for the 2007 film Enchanted and the opening credits to Kung Fu Panda, for which he received an Annie Award. As of the summer of 2008, James Baxter Animation has closed and Baxter has returned once again to DreamWorks Animation as a supervising animator. Baxter has also worked on Tummy Trouble, How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods. In May 2013, Baxter was a guest animator for an episode of Adventure Time entitled "James Baxter the Horse".The episode's story focused on the lead characters trying to emulate a horse who can cheer everyone up by neighing his name (James Baxter) and balancing on a beach ball. Both the horse's animation (which is visually distinct from the other characters) and voice were provided by Baxter. The episode's title card features a drawing of the horse drawing a horse on a beach ball, while sitting at an animation table. -Wikipedia

Bob Tzudiker

Writer · Known for Tarzan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Bob Tzudiker is an American screenwriter and actor best known for co-creating and writing Newsies with his wife, Noni White. Originally conceived as a historical drama inspired by the real-life 1899 newsboys’ strike, Newsies was reimagined as a musical at Disney’s direction and went on to become a beloved cult classic. The stage adaptation, which opened on Broadway in 2012, grossed over $100 million during its run and has since been seen by millions worldwide. As a screenwriter, Bob has shared writing credit on Disney’s Tarzan (1999), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and 102 Dalmatians (2000), as well as Fox’s Anastasia (1997). He also contributed to Disney’s The Lion King (1994) and has written screenplays for every major studio, earning multiple Annie Award nominations along the way. Before his writing career, Bob worked extensively as an actor, appearing in films such as Total Recall (1990), Ruthless People (1986), and Walker (1987), as well as on television in Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and other productions. He is a member of the Writers’ Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and teaches screenwriting as an adjunct professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. A graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, Bob brings both a rich creative background and a deep understanding of story to his work across film, stage, and the classroom.

Kiran Bhakta Joshi

Executive Producer · Known for A Million Ways to Die in the West

Kiran Bhakta Joshi, is an award-winning director, producer, and animation pioneer who began his career at Walt Disney Studios, where he helped bring to life classics such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. His groundbreaking work on the wildebeest stampede in The Lion King became a benchmark in CG animation. In 2007, Kiran returned to his native Nepal to found Incessant Rain, a world-class animation and VFX company based in Kathmandu. Kiran’s short film Mandala won multiple awards at various international film festivals. He was the co-Director & Producer for the award-winning documentary Moving Mountains: The Awakening. He was the Executive Producer on Bobblehead: The Movie. He also worked as the VFX Producer on House of Dragons, The Hunger Games, John Wick: Chapter 4, Stranger Things, One Piece, Chappie, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Red Sparrow, Wednesday, Yellowjackets, Gangs of London and many other films. He is a member of the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences and serves as a special advisor to Women in Animation Nepal (WIA-Nepal), a nonprofit affiliated with Women in Animation Global, based in Los Angeles.

Tony Jay

Cast · Known for The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Fantastic Four, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Tony Jay was an acclaimed British-American actor, voice artist, and singer. He was widely celebrated for his remarkably deep, distinctive baritone voice. His deep register made him a definitive talent for portraying sophisticated, authoritative, and sinister villains across television, film, and video games. He is best known as the voice of Claude Frollo in Walt Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the virus Megabyte in the award-winning CGI animated series ReBoot. A former member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company, Jay built a decades-long legacy as one of the most memorable voice actors in modern entertainment history.

Alan Menken

Composer · Known for Aladdin, Enchanted, Hercules

Alan Irwin Menken (born July 12, 1949) is an American composer, pianist, music director, and record producer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Menken's music for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) has each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Newsies (1992), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Home on the Range (2004), Enchanted (2007), Tangled (2010), and Disenchanted (2022), among others. His accolades include winning eight Academy Awards — becoming the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman (who has 9 Oscars), a Tony Award, eleven Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and a Daytime Emmy Award. Menken is one of nineteen people to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony ("an EGOT").

Stephen Schwartz

Executive Producer · Known for Wicked, Wicked: For Good

Stephen Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals such as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics to a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt (1998, music and lyrics), Enchanted (2007), and Disenchanted (2022). Schwartz has earned numerous accolades, including three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He has received nominations for six Tony Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. He received the Tony Award's Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2015. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Schwartz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Charles Laughton

Cast · Known for Witness for the Prosecution

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English-American stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a play with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death. He played a wide range of classical and modern parts, making an impact in Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His film career took him to Broadway and then Hollywood, but he also collaborated with Alexander Korda on notable British films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the title character. He portrayed everything from monsters and misfits to kings. Among Laughton's biggest film hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ruggles of Red Gap, Jamaica Inn, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Big Clock. In his later career, he took up stage directing, notably in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, in which he also starred. He directed one film, the thriller The Night of the Hunter. Daniel Day-Lewis cited Laughton as one of his inspirations, saying: "He was probably the greatest film actor who came from that period of time. He had something quite remarkable. His generosity as an actor, he fed himself into that work. As an actor, you cannot take your eyes off him."

Ciara Renée

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ciara Renée Harper (born October 19, 1990), better known as Ciara Renée is an American actress, singer, and musician. She is best known for her roles on Broadway as The Witch in Big Fish and the Leading Player in Pippin, as well as portraying Esmeralda of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Playhouse and La Jolla Playhouse. She stars as Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl in the CW series DC's Legends of Tomorrow, a spin-off of Arrow and The Flash.

Nickolas Grace

Nickolas Andrew Halliwell Grace (born 21 November 1947) is an English actor notable for his roles on television, including Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited (1979-1981), and the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin of Sherwood (1984–1986). Other credits include Survivors (1975), The Professionals (1980), Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987), Salome's Last Dance (1988), Birds of a Feather (1989), The Green Man (1990), Evita (1996), The Hunchback (1997), Merlin (1998), Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005), My Family (2008), Doctor Who (2011), and Killing Eve (2019).