The Lion King

…the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), The Lion King (1994), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Fantasia 2000 (1999). The company had experimented with computerized animation for the live-action feature Tron (1982) and realized the technology’s potential with the enormously successful Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2

The Lion King (1994), also from Disney, became one of the most popular films in motion-picture history in terms of all-time box-office receipts.

…adapted from the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name. The enormously popular, visually stunning musical is known for its inventive use of African- and Asian-inspired masks and beautiful, larger-than-life puppets that are worn and operated by the show’s actors. The production melds South African music with Broadway, classical,…

…wrote songs for the film The Lion King (1994), and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” won the Academy Award for best original song; the movie was adapted into a Broadway musical in 1997 (see The Lion King). The same year, a new version of his 1973 song “Candle in…

Rice had continued success with The Lion King (1994), collaborating with singer-songwriter Elton John on various songs, notably the Oscar-winning “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.” The two men also worked on the 2019 CGI “live-action” version of that movie and on The Road to El Dorado (2000). Rice’s other…

…in Disney’s popular animated feature The Lion King (1994), starring alongside Jim Carrey in the dark comedy The Cable Guy (1996), and opposite Meg Ryan in the rom-com Addicted to Love (1997). He also played Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman in Infinity (1996), for which his mother cowrote the

…and the Beast (1991) and The Lion King (1994). He also expanded the company into fields such as television, publishing, home video, and cruise ship travel. Disney’s profits rebounded spectacularly, and Eisner himself became a symbol of the Disney brand. Eisner also oversaw Disney’s 1991 partnership with the computer-animation studio…

Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King—fueled Disney’s growth. Moreover, they made Disney once more a weaver of richly textured fantasies comparable to those of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s.

…direction for the animated feature The Lion King (1994), and the play The House of Shaka (2005).

…of the animated Disney blockbuster The Lion King (1994) and appeared in the popular romantic comedy Love Actually (2003). In addition to his comedic work, Atkinson delivered a rare dramatic performance as Inspector Maigret in the police procedural Maigret (2016–17).

In the animated blockbuster The Lion King (1994), Irons provided the voice of a villainous lion.

…the wise Mufasa in Disney’s The Lion King. He was the only cast member to reprise his role in the 2019 remake. In addition, in 1977 he won a Grammy Award for best spoken word recording for Great American Documents.

…Timon in the animated film The Lion King (1994), his performance in McNally’s play Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994), and his role as the drag queen Albert in the movie The Birdcage (1996), opposite Robin Williams. Lane then went on to play the lead character Pseudolus in a Broadway revival of…