- John Alvin
John Alvin (Born in Mass. USA 1948) is an award-winning artist who has illustrated some of the world's most recognized movie posters. Alvin graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and became a freelance artist. His first movie art campaign was for Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles" (1974), Since 1974, Alvin has created artwork for more than 125 film campaigns for New Line Cinema, Warner Bros.
- Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American Broadway and Academy Award winning film score composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1950-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. He is best known for his work on several Disney animated features, including "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Hercules", "Pocahontas", "Aladdin", …
- Ron Perlman
Ronald Francis Perlman (born April 13, 1950, in Washington Heights, New York), billed as Ron Perlman, is an American television, film and voice over actor.
- Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a four-time Tony-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, three-time Oscar-nominated, and eighteen-time Emmy-nominated English actress. Her multi-faceted career has spanned seven decades and she is well-known for her roles on both stage and screen. <br>
- Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman (May 17, 1950 - March 14, 1991) was an American playwright and movie music lyricist. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to achieve his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974. He collaborated with Alan Menken on several films, notably animated features for Disney, Ashman writing the lyrics and Menken composing the scores.
- Peabo Bryson
Peabo Bryson is an American R&B and soul singer, born in Greenville, South Carolina. He is well known for singing soft-rock ballads, often as a duo with female singers, and his contribution to several Disney animated feature soundtracks. Bryson won a Grammy Award in 1992 for his performance of the song "Beauty and the Beast" with Céline Dion and another in 1993 for "A Whole New World" (Aladdin's Theme) with Regina Belle.
- Paige O'Hara
Paige O'Hara (born Donna Paige Helmintoller on May 10 1956) is an American Broadway singer and actress. She is most notable for providing the singing and speaking voice of Belle in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", a role she has reprised for all subsequent spin-offs and sequels of the film, including the Square Enix/Disney "Kingdom Hearts" video game series. She previously performed on Broadway in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, …
- Linda Hamilton
Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American movie actress born in Salisbury, Maryland.
- Jerry Orbach
Jerome Bernard Orbach was an American actor best known for his starring role as Det. Lennie Briscoe in the "Law & Order" television series and for his musical theater roles.
- Gary Trousdale
Gary Trousdale (born in La Crescenta, California) is the director of such movies as "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" (2001), "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996), "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) and "Cranium Command" (1989), and the animated short, "The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper". He has been working for Disney since 1985. He attended CalArts for three years studying character animation.
- Kirk Wise
Kirk Wise (born August 24, 1963 San Francisco California) is an American film director and writer. Wise has directed such Disney movies as "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" (2001), "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996) and "Beauty and the Beast". He also directed the English version of "Spirited Away" (2002) As a writer his credits include "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", "The Lion King" (additional story material), …
- Robby Benson
Robby Benson (born Robin David Segal on 21 January 1956) is an American actor.
- David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers (born October 31, 1942) is an American character actor, voice actor and musician, most noted for his role in the television sitcom "M*A*S*H", and the science fiction drama "The Dead Zone". A connoisseur of classical music, Stiers has been a guest conductor for over 50 orchestras in North America and maintained a position as Associate Conductor of The Newport Symphony Orchestra and the Ernest Bloch Music Festival.
- Linda Woolverton
Linda Woolverton (born 1959 in Long Beach, California) wrote the screenplay for Disney's animated feature film Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) and co-wrote the screenplay for the The Lion King. Woolverton then went on to write the Broadway musical version of Beauty and the Beast and assisted in adapting The Lion King to the stage. She also wrote the books for the Broadway musicals Aida and Lestat.
- Richard White
Richard White (born August 4, 1953 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee) is an American Reverend, actor and voice actor. He is most famous for voicing the character of Gaston in the 1991 Disney film "Beauty and the Beast" and in the recent TV series "House of Mouse". He also played the character of Gaylord Ravenal in "Show Boat" at Paper Mill Playhouse and Robert Mission in "The New Moon", at the New York City Opera.
- Roger Allers
Roger Allers is a Animation director and Storyboard Artist of Disney animated films. Away from the Disney studio, he directed the animated movie, "Open Season" for Sony. He directed the Academy Award winning movie "The Lion King", with Rob Minkoff. He was also nominated for a Tony for writing the book of the hit Broadway musical version of "The Lion King". He was a Story Artist on Oliver & Company and The Little Mermaid.
- Susan Egan
Susan Egan (b. February 18, 1970) is an American actress and singer best known for her work on the Broadway stage. An unknown at the time, she won the coveted role of Belle in the original Broadway cast of "Beauty and the Beast (musical)". Also on stage, she has won high praise for her portrayal of Maria in regional productions of "The Sound of Music".
- Jean Marais
Jean Marais, born Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais was a French actor, and the lover of Jean Cocteau. Born in Cherbourg, he starred in several movies directed by Cocteau, most famously "Beauty and the Beast (1946)". In the 1950s, Marais became a star of swashbuckling pictures, enjoying great box office popularity in France. He performed his own stunts. In the 1960s, he played the famed villain of the Fantômas trilogy.
- Paige Davis
Mindy Paige Davis (born October 15, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actress and theater arts performer living in Manhattan. Davis attended Charles H. Bird Elementary School in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin from first grade through part of fifth grade before moving to Texas. She graduated from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Much of her training has been in musical theater as well as dancing, …
- Chuck Wagner
Chuck Wagner (born June 20,1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA) is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the short-lived science fiction 1983 TV series "Automan" as the title character. He also starred on the soap opera "General Hospital" as Randall Thompson in 1987. Chuck has made guest appearances on numerous TV shows, including "The Dukes of Hazzard", "Dynasty", "Matlock", and "As the World Turns".
- Don Hahn
Don Hahn (born 1955 in Chicago) is a film producer who has produced some of the most successful Walt Disney animated films of the past 20 years. Hahn began his career in animation working for Disney Legend Wolfgang Reitherman as an assistant director. He later became production manager of "The Black Cauldron" (1985) before moving on as as associate producer of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988).
- Jesse Corti
Jesse Corti is a voice actor who is perhaps most famous for his voice roles in the 1991 Disney animated film "Beauty and the Beast" and in the 2005 video game "Resident Evil 4". He also voiced in the 2004 video game "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater". He also voiced Chief Angel Rojas during the first two seasons of The Batman.
- Glen Keane
Glen Keane (born on 1954) is the son of Bil Keane (an illustrator best known for the daily comic strip "The Family Circus") and Thelma "Thel" Carne Keane. He is perhaps the most famous traditional (2D) lead character animator in recent history. He is currently employed at Walt Disney Studios. Glen left CalArts in 1974 and joined Disney the same year. His debut work was featured in "The Rescuers" as an animator for Penny, alongside the famed Ollie Johnston, …
- Terrence Mann
Terrence Mann (born Terrance Vaughan Mann on July 1, 1951 in Kentucky) is a prominent singer and actor who has dominated the Broadway stage for the past two decades. Terrence made his Broadway debut in 1982 in the Tony Award-winning show "Barnum" (music by renowned Broadway writer Cy Coleman) at the St. James Theatre. He played the supporting role of Chester Lyman.
- Carlo Boszhard
Carlo Boszhard (born 26 June 1969) is a famous Dutch TV personality, singer, and host. His career took off in 1989 with RTL 4's "Telekids", co-starring Irene Moors, turning them both into TV icons of the Netherlands. His shows include "Cash en Carlo" ("Cash and Carlo"), the second version of The Price is Right to air in the Netherlands (the first was Prijzenslag, hosted by Hans Kazan and announced by Tom Mulder), …
- Georges Auric
Georges Auric was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, and under the composer Vincent D'Indy at the Schola Cantorum. Before he turned 20 he had orchestrated and written incidental music for several ballets and stage productions. As a young student of at the Paris Conservatory in 1920, and, …
- Jonathan Freeman
Jonathan Freeman (born February 5, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a Tony-nominated American actor known for voicing the villainous Jafar in Disney's "Aladdin" and its sequel "The Return of Jafar", as well as the "Kingdom Hearts" series. In 1994, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his role in "She Loves Me".
- Roy Dotrice
Roy Dotrice (born May 26, 1925) is a British actor. Dotrice was born in Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. He served in World War II, and was imprisoned in a German POW camp. He married Kay Newman in 1947, and they have three children: Michele, Yvette and Karen, all of whom are actresses. Dotrice is arguably best known to North American audiences for playing the role of "Father" in the 1980s hit TV series, "Beauty and the Beast", …
- Ashley Brown
Ashley Brown (born February 3, 1982 in Gulf Breeze, Florida) is an actress currently starring as the title character in the new Broadway production of "Mary Poppins". Brown initially caught the attention of casting director Tara Rubin not long after graduating from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
- John Tartaglia
John Nicholas Tartaglia (born February 16 1978) is an American singer, actor, dancer, and puppeteer. Tartaglia was born on February 16, 1978 in Maple Shade, New Jersey, USA. He joined "Sesame Street's" puppetry team at the age of 16 part-time, performing as a right hand and many minor characters, including Phoebe and being the backup for Kevin Clash's Elmo.
- Marc Kudisch
Marc Kudisch (born September 22, 1966) is an American stage actor. A native of Hackensack, New Jersey, Kudisch grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He enrolled at Florida Atlantic University to study political science and switched to theatre. After receiving his degree, Kudisch went to New York City and was cast as Conrad Birdie in the Barry Weissler-produced national tour of "Bye Bye Birdie" with Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking.
- Chris Sanders
Christopher Michael Sanders (born 15 March, 1960) is an American film animator and voice actor best known for co-directing the Disney animated feature "Lilo & Stitch", and providing the voice of Experiment 626 from Lilo & Stitch and Leroy from Disney's "Leroy & Stitch". A 1984 graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Sanders began his career as a character designer for "Muppet Babies". He also served as a storyboard artist, artistic director, …
- Andreas Deja
Andreas Deja is a Polish-born German character animator for The Walt Disney Company. He lived since 1958 in Dinslaken/Germany and studies Graphic-Design at the Folkwang-Schule in Essen/Germany. A lifelong fan of Disney animated films, he started with the studio in 1980. The first film on which he worked was "The Black Cauldron," during which time he shared a cubicle with Tim Burton.
- Rex Everhart
Rex Everhart (born June 13 1920 in Watseka, Illinois - died March 13 2000 in Branford, Connecticut) was an American actor. Everhart appeared in such films as the 1978 classic hit film "Superman", and also is best known for his role in the 1980 classic horror film "Friday the 13th" as Enos the truck driver. He provided the voice of Belle's father, Maurice, in the 1991 musical animated Disney classic, Beauty and the Beast.
- Christopher Sieber
Christopher Sieber (born February 18, 1969 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American actor and musical theatre performer. Christopher's middle name is Luvern afer his maternal grandfather. Christopher if the middle sibling of Michael (eldest) and Marc (youngest). Sieber studied acting and musical comedy at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.
- Beth Fowler
Beth Fowler (born November 1, 1940) is an American actress and singer. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Fowler was a teacher with a fondness for Broadway theatre when she decided to audition for "Gantry" in 1970. She was signed for the chorus and as understudy for the lead, but the show unfortunately closed on opening night. She had better luck with her next outing, Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music".
- Bradley Pierce
Bradley Pierce (born October 23, 1982) is an American voice-over artist and character actor with numerous roles and bit parts in television, movies, direct-to-video animation, advertising, and video games. He played the role of Andrew Shawn Donovan IV on Days of our Lives for about a year. He is perhaps most famous for his roles as Chip in "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) and as Peter in "Jumanji" (1995).
- Jeff McCarthy
Jeff McCarthy is an American character actor who has appeared in television, theatre and films. He has made guest appearances on two Star Trek series; on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", he appeared in the season 3 episode "The Hunted" as Roga Danar, and in the pilot episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" entitled "Caretaker" as Doctor Fitzgerald, the first doctor of the USS Voyager. Jeff McCarthy has appeared in films such as the 1990 sequel "RoboCop 2", …
- Will Finn
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"). Finn also co-wrote and co-directed the film "Home on the Range" and did some voice acting in Chicken Little.
- John Claspill
I live in a small mountain town called Mariposa. I am 21 years old and I am going to college and at the moment my major is Psychology. I like to go out and have a good time with my friends, but I also enjoy just hanging out. I love all of my friends, they are the best and I don't know what I would do without them. I love to go shopping, especially in L.A. I hate drama and try to stay out of it.