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The Jungle Book

1967

The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.

Bill Peet

Writer · Known for Sleeping Beauty

American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios. He joined Disney in 1937 and worked first on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) near the end of its production. Progressively, his involvement in the Disney studio's animated feature films and shorts increased, and he remained there until early in the development of The Jungle Book (1967). A row with Disney over the direction of the project led to a permanent personal break. Other feature films that Peet worked on before he left include Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940, The Pastoral Symphony sequence), Dumbo (1941), The Three Caballeros (1944), Song of the South (1946, cartoon sequences), So Dear to My Heart (1948, cartoon sequences), Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Sleeping Beauty (1959), 101 Dalmatians (1961), and The Sword in the Stone (1963). Peet's subsequent career was as a writer and illustrator of children's books. -Wikipedia

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

Faran Tahir

Cast · Known for Paper Flowers, Iron Man, Warehouse 13

Faran Haroon Tahir (Urdu: فاران ہارون طاہر) is an American actor. Tahir made his film debut as Nathoo in Disney's 1994 film The Jungle Book. He went on to star in a variety of roles, such as Raza in Iron Man (2008), Captain Robau in Star Trek (2009), and President Patel in Elysium (2013). In 2016, he played the title role of Othello in a production by the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Description above from the Wikipedia article Faran Tahir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Ritesh Rajan

Ritesh Rajan (born October 23, 1988) is an American actor. He portrayed Linus Ahluwalia on the Freeform television series Stitchers (2015–2017) and also appeared as Mowgli's father in the 2016 adventure film The Jungle Book.

Roger S.H. Schulman

Writer · Known for Shrek

Roger S.H. Schulman co-wrote the animated feature Shrek, for which he won the British Academy Award for Best Screenplay and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay. He previously co-wrote the animated feature Balto for Executive Producer Steven Spielberg, and wrote the direct-to-video projects Mulan II and The Jungle Book II for Disney. He developed and wrote the screenplay for an animated feature about the true story of a tortoise who befriends a baby hippo after the 2004 tsunami. He's currently writing "Jungle Cruise," a screenplay for Walt Disney Pictures inspired by the Disney theme park attraction, slated to star Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. Schulman has also worked extensively as a producer and writer for television. He is currently co-creator and Executive Producer of the series JONAS for the Disney Channel, for which he was nominated for an Emmy award. He was also Executive Producer of Phil of the Future on Disney Channel. He developed and was Executive Producer of 2Gether for MTV; he was Executive Producer for “Living Single" with Queen Latifah, for which he won an NAACP Image Award; he also wrote on "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" and "Alf". In addition, he served as co-writer of the original pilot for "The Wayans Brothers" television series, as well as the pilots "The Mother Load", "Fresh Man" and "Just My Luck."

Jeremy Milton

Editor · Known for Encanto, Moana 2, Zootopia

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.

Jacques Duby

Cast · Known for The Novices

Jacques Duby (7 May 1922 – 15 February 2012) was a French stage, film and television actor. He was born in Toulouse. Some of his works include 101 Dalmatians (1961), Pinocchio (1968), and The Jungle Book (1967). He also served as narrator in a French audiobook recording of Treasure Island released in 2011. Source: Article "Jacques Duby" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Frank Puglia

Francesco Giuseppe "Frank" Puglia (9 March 1892 – 25 October 1975) was an Italian-American film actor. He had small, but memorable roles in films including Casablanca (a Moroccan rug merchant), Now, Voyager and The Jungle Book.

Glory Curda

Glory Curda is an American actor best known for her role as a young “Tifa Lockhard” in the Final Fantasy VII remake and as “Chloe Chen” on Disney’s The Loud House. Her previous television appearances include notable shows like NBC’s Law & Order: SVU and Nickelodeon’s Sam and Cat, as well as Brat’s Crown Lake, Amazon’s Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, The Messengers and Nickelodeon’s Game Shakers. Curda’s onstage experience includes Record Live’s premiere of Love Actually Live, Disney’s theatrical world premiere tour of The Jungle Book, Ella Minnow Pea/LMNOP and The Real Love. Growing up in a military family in Chicago as the fourth of five siblings, Curda enjoyed performing from a young age. At 16, she graduated summa cum laude with a triple major associate degree in gender and women studies, psychology and writing

Ben Wright

Cast · Known for The Little Mermaid, The Jungle Book, Have Gun, Will Travel

Benjamin Huntington Wright was an English actor. He was best known for playing Herr Zeller in The Sound of Music. He also played numerous roles in famous films and worked as voice actor, having roles in animated films by Disney Studios such as One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Jungle Book and The Little Mermaid

Claude Bertrand

Claude Bertrand (24 March 1919 – 14 December 1986) was a French film, television and voice over actor. In a career that has spanned four decades, Bertrand was best known in French film and television as a voice over actor. He was the French dub for Roger Moore, Charles Bronson, John Wayne, Bud Spencer and Burt Lancaster. He also shared his voice in animation, he provided the voice of Baloo in the French version of The Jungle Book, O'Malley in The Aristocats and Little John in Robin Hood. He also voiced Captain Haddock in Tintin and the Temple of the Sun and Tintin and the Lake of Sharks. He also dubbed Roger Moore into French in the James Bond series between 1973 and 1985. Bertrand died in 1986 after suffering from cancer. Source: Article "Claude Bertrand (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Christopher Walken

Cast · Known for Batman Returns, Dune: Part Two, Severance

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943) is an American actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs, including Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Dogs of War (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), Batman Returns (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Antz (1998), Vendetta (1999), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Joe Dirt (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Hairspray (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), the first three Prophecy films, The Jungle Book (2016), and Irreplaceable You (2018). He has received a number of awards and nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Deer Hunter.

Nigel Pilkington

Cast · Known for Thomas & Friends

Nigel Pilkington is a British actor, singer, and screenwriter. As a voice actor Pilkington has provided many voices for animated films like Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest, television shows like The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky, The Jungle Book and Peter Rabbit and also the video games Inazuma Eleven and Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch.

Lena Headey

Cast · Known for The Purge, The Brothers Grimm, Game of Thrones

Lena Kathren Headey (born October 3, 1973) is a British actress. She gained international recognition and acclaim for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister on the HBO epic fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination. Headey made her film debut in the mystery drama Waterland (1992). She continued to work steadily in British and American films and on television, before gaining further recognition with her lead performances in the films The Brothers Grimm (2005) and 300 (2007). Her other film credits include The Remains of the Day (1993), The Jungle Book (1994), Mrs Dalloway (1997), Ripley's Game (2002), Imagine Me & You (2005), Dredd (2012), The Purge (2013), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), and Fighting with My Family (2019). Outside of film, Headey starred as Sarah Connor in the science fiction television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009) and had a recurring role as Amelia Hughes in the animated web series Infinity Train (2019–2021). She provided voices for the role-playing video game Risen (2009) and the video game tie-in film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016), as well as the animated series Danger Mouse (2015–2017) and Trollhunters (2017–2018), and puppet-animated series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019).

Bob Joles

Cast · Known for Big City Greens, Puss in Boots, SpongeBob SquarePants

Robert Joles (born July 16, 1959, in Glendora, California) is an American voice actor and musician. He is known for voicing many characters in many TV shows, most notably the voice of Man Ray in SpongeBob SquarePants (replacing John Rhys-Davies), and Bill Green in Big City Greens. He also provided the voice of Bagheera in The Jungle Book 2, and currently voices Grape Ape. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Joles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Stephen Sommers

Director · Writer · Known for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Mummy, The Scorpion King

Stephen Sommers (born March 20, 1962) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for big-budget action films, such as The Mummy (1999), its sequel, The Mummy Returns (2001), Van Helsing (2004), and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009). He also directed The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), Disney's first live-action version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994), and the action-horror film Deep Rising (1998). Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Sommers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Stefan Kalipha

Stefan Kalipha (born Stephen Siegfried Behrendt, 1940) is a retired Trinidad-born British actor who has been active since about 1970. He played Ramon, the Cigar Factory Foreman in the film Cuba (1979), Daoud in The Curse of King Tut's Tomb and Fat Larry in Babylon (both 1980). He also appeared as Hector González, a Cuban hitman, in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981). Kalipha's other film roles include Wali Dad in The Crucifer of Blood (1991) and Buldeo in The Jungle Book (1994). His television roles include Quiller, episode: "Objective Caribbean" and Tales of the Unexpected, episode: "The Finger of Suspicion".

Sebastian Cabot

Cast · Known for The Jungle Book

Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot (July 6, 1918 – August 22, 1977) was an English film and television actor, best remembered as the gentleman's gentleman, "Giles French," opposite Brian Keith's character, in the 1960s sitcom Family Affair. He was also known for playing Dr. Carl Hyatt in the series Checkmate and for doing the voice of Bagheera in The Jungle Book.

Richard M. Sherman

Richard Morton Sherman (June 12, 1928 - May 25, 2024) was an American songwriter. He worked in musical movies with his brother Robert B. Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known songs were in live action and animated musical films including: "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book," "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "Bedknobs and Broomsticks," "The Slipper and the Rose," and "Charlotte's Web." Their most well-known work is the theme park song "It's a Small World (After All)."

Molly Allen

Executive Producer · Known for The Equalizer 2

Molly Allen is a producer who began as a location manager on films including Final Mission, Empire Records, Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Antwone Fisher, Bringing Down the House, Constantine and Fun with Dick and Jane. She moved into production supervision and producing, as co-producer of The Great Debaters and Seven Pounds, production supervisor on The Town and Django Unchained, and executive producer of Fences, The Jungle Book, The Equalizer 2, A Journal for Jordan and Nine Perfect Strangers.

Robert B. Sherman

Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) was an American songwriter, best known for his work in musical films with his brother, Richard M. Sherman. The Sherman brothers produced more motion picture song scores than any other songwriting team in film history. Some of their songs were incorporated into live action and animation musical films including Mary Poppins, The Happiest Millionaire, The Jungle Book, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Slipper and the Rose, and Charlotte's Web. Their best-known work is "It's a Small World (After All)" possibly the most-performed song (in public) in history.

Darby Stanchfield

Cast · Known for Scandal

Darby Leigh Stanchfield (5' 7" (1.7 m) born on April 29, 1971 in Kodiak, Alaska, USA, where her father owned a successful commercial fishing business, is an American actress. She received a Masters in Fine Arts from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Currently married to Joseph Mark Gallegos (2009 - present), and is the niece of legendary Disney Studios animator, Walt Stanchfield, whose work includes major features The Jungle Book (1967), The Aristocats (1970), and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). She is best known for her role as Abby Whelan in the ABC political drama series Scandal. Stanchfield is also known for roles as April Green in the CBS post-apocalyptic drama series Jericho, and as Helen Bishop in the AMC period drama series Mad Men.

George Bruns

Composer · Known for Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book

George Edward Bruns (July 3, 1914 – May 23, 1983) was an American composer of music for film and television. His accolades include four Academy Award nominations and three Grammy Award nominations. He is mainly known for his compositions for numerous Disney films from the 1950s to the 1970s, among them Sleeping Beauty (1959), One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Absent-Minded Professor (both 1961), The Sword in the Stone (1963), The Jungle Book (1967), The Love Bug (1968), The Aristocats (1970), and Robin Hood (1973). In the 1930s he worked as a musician with various groups in the Portland, Oregon area. In 1946 he was appointed musical director at radio station KEX in Portland, Oregon, and also was the bandleader for the Rose Bowl room of the Multnomah Hotel. From 1947 to 1949 he performed and recorded on trombone with Portland's Castle Jazz Band, led by banjoist Monte Ballou. In the late 1940s he moved to Los Angeles, where he did studio work, and performed and recorded with trombonist Turk Murphy's Jazz Band. In 1953 he was hired by Walt Disney as an arranger, eventually becoming Disney's musical director, a position he held until his retirement in 1976. Despite his retirement he continued to work on Disney projects. Among his work is the song "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" (which he co-wrote with Xavier Atencio), used in the Disney theme park attraction Pirates of the Caribbean and the movies based on that ride. He also co-wrote "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" with Tom W. Blackburn, as well as the song "Love" for the Disney animated film Robin Hood. During the mid-1950s, he adapted the music from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet for use as background score in the 1959 Disney film version. He also composed the score for The Jungle Book, and provided Herbie the Love Bug with his sprightly theme song, featured prominently throughout the series. During his tenure with Disney Studios, Bruns continued to play dixieland jazz, leading his Wonderland Jazz Band on two recording sessions, and playing and recording occasionally with the Disney "house" band, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. Bruns retired from Disney in 1976 and moved back to Sandy, Oregon.He taught part-time at Lewis & Clark College and continued to play and compose music, including recording at least one locally distributed album of jazz.-Wikipedia