- J. M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 - 19 June 1937), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys. He is also credited with the popularisation of the name "Wendy", which was little-known in either Britain or America before he gave it to the heroine of "Peter Pan". - Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-nominated, BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning British actress. She is noted for having played a wide range of diverse characters over her career, but is probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Juliet Hulme in "Heavenly Creatures" (1994), Rose DeWitt Bukater in the highest-grossing film of all time, "Titanic" (1997), … - Jeremy Sumpter
Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter (born February 5, 1989) is an American actor. He is known for playing the title role in the 2003 film version of "Peter Pan" - Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is a British actor. Raised in Liverpool and later in London, he fell accidentally into acting during his first year at university, and went on to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Initially known as a TV actor in the UK, his biggest international film break was being selected to portray the villain, Colonel William Tavington, opposite Mel Gibson in the Revolutionary War epic "The Patriot" (2000). - P. J. Hogan
Paul John "P. J." Hogan (born 1962) is an Australian film director born in Brisbane, Queensland. His first big hit was the 1994 Australian film "Muriel's Wedding", which helped launch the careers of actors Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths. The success of the film also led him to be chosen by Julia Roberts to direct his 1997 American debut "My Best Friend's Wedding", which also starred Cameron Diaz and Dermot Mulroney. - Cathy Rigby
Cathleen Roxanne Rigby (born December 12, 1952), best known as Cathy Rigby, is a gymnast, actress and speaker. - Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean (pronounced "Mc-"cork"-ran") (born 6 June 1951) is a British children's novelist. - Clyde Geronimi
Clyde "Gerry" Geronimi (June 12 1901 - April 24 1989) was an Italian-American animation director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Studio. Geronimi was born in Italy, immigrating to the United States as a young child. Geronimi's earliest work in the animation field was for the J.R. Bray Studios, where he worked with Walter Lantz. Geronimi left Bray in 1931 to join Walt Disney Studio, where he remained for the rest of his career. - Ludivine Sagnier
Ludivine Sagnier is a French actress and model. She was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, in the Yvelines "département". She started taking acting classes at a very young age and had her film debut at age 10 in "Je veux rentrer a la maison" and "Les maris, les femmes, les amants". In 2001, she was named one of the Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion. Sagnier performed in two films in competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, … - Bobby Driscoll
Robert Cletus Driscoll (March 3, 1937 - March 30, 1968), known as Bobby Driscoll, was a successful American child actor. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and died in East Village, Manhattan in New York. Driscoll made his first film appearance in 1943. His role in the 1949 drama "The Window" earned him an Academy Juvenile Award. - Mary Blair
Mary Blair (October 21, 1911-July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson, was an American artist best remembered today for work done for The Walt Disney Company. Blair produced striking concept art for such films as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Peter Pan". Her style also lives on through the character designs for the Disney attraction "it's a small world", as well as an enormous mosaic inside Disney's Contemporary Resort. - Kathryn Beaumont
Kathryn Beaumont (born 27 June 1938) is an English born voice actress/school teacher. She is best known for playing the voice of both Alice, in "Disney's Alice in Wonderland" and Wendy in "Disney's Peter Pan". In addition to playing the voice of Alice and Wendy, Kathryn served as a live-action model for the animators. After Peter Pan, Kathryn went to college, where she earned a teaching credential. - Marc Davis
Marc Fraser Davis was a prominent artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films. Some of the animated characters Davis mainly designed and animated are Thumper from "Bambi" (1942), Brer Rabbit from "Song of the South" (1946), "Cinderella" (1950), Alice of "Alice in Wonderland" (1951), Tinker Bell in "Peter Pan" (1953), … - Ridley Pearson
Ridley Pearson is a novelist, writing mostly suspense and thrillers. His books include "Undercurrents" (1988), "The Angel Maker" (1993), "No Witnesses" (1994), "Chain of Evidence" (1995), "Beyond Recognition" (1997), and "The Body of David Hayes" (2004). Pearson became the first American to receive the Raymond Chandler-Fulbright Fellowship at Oxford University in 1991. - Frank Thomas
Franklin Thomas was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. He graduated from Stanford University - where he worked on campus humor magazine the Stanford Chaparral with Ollie Johnston -- then later attended Chouinard Art Institute, then joined The Walt Disney Company on September 24, 1934 as employee number 224. There he animated dozens of feature films and shorts, and also was a member of the Dixieland band Firehouse Five Plus Two, … - Ron Clements
Ron Clements (born April 25, 1953 in Sioux City, Iowa) is an American animation Director. He is one half of America's leading contemporary animation team with John Musker. Clements began his career as an animator for Hanna-Barbera. After a few months there, he was accepted into Disney's Talent Development Program, an animator training ground and workshop. After that, he served a two year apprenticeship with famed animator Frank Thomas, … - Hans Conried
Hans Conried was a comic character actor and voice actor. Born Hans Georg Conried, Jr. in Baltimore, Maryland of Jewish descent. He was raised there and in New York City. He studied acting at Columbia University and went on to play many major classical roles onstage. He worked in radio before breaking into movies in 1939. He was also a member of the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre Company. - Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
Sylvia Jocelyn Llewelyn Davies was the daughter of cartoonist and writer George du Maurier, and the mother of the boys who served as the inspiration for Peter Pan and the other children of J. M. Barrie's stories of Neverland. She was an elder sister to actor Gerald du Maurier. A renowned beauty and socialite of her day, she married the lawyer Arthur Llewelyn Davies. They had five children, all boys: George (1893–1915), Jack (1894–1959), Peter (1897–1960), … - Sandy Duncan
Sandra Kay "Sandy" Duncan (born February 20, 1946) is an American singer and actress of stage and television. Her most notable trademarks are her pixie blonde hairdo and her perky demeanor. She was born in Henderson, Texas. Among her most prominent roles is playing Sandy Hogan on the sitcom "The Hogan Family". A brilliant dancer, she also captivated Broadway audiences with her engaging personality. - Michael Goldenberg
Michael Goldenberg (born 1965) is an American playwright and more recently a Hollywood screenwriter and director. Goldenberg was the co-screenwriter for the film adaptation of "Contact" and co-adapted the 2003 live-action version of "Peter Pan" with director P.J. Hogan. He is also the co-screenwriter for Spike Jonze's upcoming Warner Bros. - Bill Peet
Bill Peet (January 29, 1915 - May 11, 2002) was a children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Studios. He joined Disney in 1937 and worked on "The Jungle Book", "Song of the South", "Cinderella", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians", "The Sword in the Stone", "Goliath II", "Sleeping Beauty", "Peter Pan", "Alice in Wonderland", "Dumbo", "Pinocchio", "Fantasia", … - Mabel Lucie Attwell
Mabel Lucie Attwell (4 June, 1879 - 5 November, 1964) was a British children's illustrator. She was known for her cute, nostalgic drawings of children, based on her daughter, Peggy. Her drawings are featured on many postcards, advertisements, posters, books and figurines. The author, J.M. Barrie personally requested her to illustrate the gift-book edition of Peter Pan, in 1921 - Fred Moore
Fred Moore (born September 7, 1911 in Los Angeles, California, USA; died November 23, 1952 in Burbank, California, USA in a road accident), was an American character animator for Walt Disney Productions, best known for being the resident specialist of the animation of Mickey Mouse. Moore is most notable for re-designing the character in 1938 for his landmark role as The Sorcerer's Apprentice in "Fantasia", a look which remain's Mickey's official look to this day. - Ute Lemper
Ute Lemper is a German chanteuse and actress. Born in Münster, she graduated from the Dance Academy in Cologne and the Max Reinhardt Seminary Drama School in Vienna. At age 16, she joined the punk music group the Panama Drive Band. Her diverse credits include musicals, such as her breakthrough role in the original Viennese cast of the "Cats", the title role in Peter Pan, a recreation of the Marlene Dietrich-created Lola in "The Blue Angel", … - Peter Llewelyn Davies
Peter Llewelyn Davies MC (1897-April 5, 1960) was one of the Llewelyn Davies family sons befriended by J. M. Barrie. Barrie publicly identified him as the source of the name for the title character in his famous play Peter Pan. The association would plague Llewelyn Davies throughout his life. After Llewelyn Davies' parents died young, Barrie, who had become a friend of the family, adopted him and his four brothers (George, Jack, Michael and Nicholas). - Sammy Fain
Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music. He was born in New York City. Fain worked extensively in collaboration with Irving Kahal. Together they wrote classics such as "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella". Another lyricist who collaborated with Fain was Lew Brown, with whom he wrote "That Old Feeling". His Broadway credits also include "Everybody's Welcome", "Right This Way", "Hellzapoppin'", "I'll Be Seeing You", "Flahooley", … - Carolyn Leigh
Carolyn Leigh (born August 21, 1926 New York City, USA died November 19, 1983 New York City) was an American lyricist and composer for Broadway and movies. Her lyrics for Broadway shows include "Wildcat" (music by Cy Coleman), "Peter Pan" (music by Moose Charlap, additional music and lyrics by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green), "Little Me" (music by Coleman, book by Neil Simon), and "How Now, Dow Jones" (music by Elmer Bernstein). - Blayne Weaver
Blayne Weaver (born 1976) is an American actor and writer and was born in Bossier City, Louisiana. Weaver began to perform in the children's theater group The Peter Pan Players in Shreveport, Louisiana. His first major film performance was in the independent film "Where the Red Fern Grows (Part Two)". In the late 1990s, he appeared in several TV movies and was also a guest star on several shows including "ER", "JAG" and "Chicago Hope". - Heather Angel
Heather Grace Angel (February 9, 1909 - December 13, 1986) was a British actress. - Margaret Kerry
Margaret Kerry (born Peggy Lynch, circa 1930, Los Angeles) is an American actress, motivational speaker and radio host best known for her 1953 work as the model for Tinker Bell in the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature, "Peter Pan". Kerry answered an audition call during the planning stages of the film. The audition, supervised by Disney animator Marc Davis, required her to pantomime the motions that would eventually be animated as Tinker Bell, … - Eyvind Earle
Eyvind Earle (April 26 1916-- July 20 2000), was an American contemporary artist, author and illustrator. Earle was critically acclaimed by such publications as "Time", "The Los Angeles Times", "The New York Times", "The New York World-Telegram", "The Art News" and "The New York Sun". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rahr-West Art Museum, … - Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon (January 13, 1880 - June 21, 1958) was a film director during the era of silent movies through the 1930s. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. Before becoming a director, he performed in vaudeville acts with his wife, Helen Oberg. Some of his more noteworthy films were the first movie adaptations of "Peter Pan" (1924) and "Beau Geste" (1926), … - Charlie Korsmo
Charles Randolph Korsmo (born July 20, 1978) is an American former child actor who starred in several major Hollywood films during the early-1990s. Korsmo was born in Fargo, North Dakota to John Korsmo, a hospital administrator and chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board, and Deborah Ruf, an educational psychologist. He was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he attended and graduated from Breck School. He has one older brother, Ted (born 1976), … - Eric Larson
Eric Larson (September 3, 1905 - October 25, 1988) was an animator for the Walt Disney Studios starting in 1933 and was one of the "Disney's Nine Old Men." Larson worked on such films as "Snow White", "Fantasia", "Bambi", "Cinderella", "Alice in Wonderland", "Peter Pan", "Lady and the Tramp", "Sleeping Beauty", "101 Dalmatians", and "The Jungle Book". - Randy Constan
Randy Constan is a Peter Pan impersonator who posted his cosplay pictures on an Internet website in 2001 in what he stated was an attempt to find a girlfriend. The website became a widely-circulated internet meme, and in 2001 Constan's website, pixyland.org (aka Peter Pan's Home Page) won a Webby Award in the "weird" category. Constan also made numerous television appearances (always wearing the costume), … - John Lounsbery
John Lounsbery (March 9, 1911 - February 13, 1976) was an American animator who worked for The Walt Disney Company. He is best known as one of Disney's Nine Old Men. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in Colorado. He attended East Denver High School and the Art Institute of Denver. While attending the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, an instructor sent him to interview with Walt Disney. Lounsbery was hired by Disney on July 2, 1935, … - Harry Eden
Harry Eden (born March 1 1990 in London) is an English actor who won a British Independent Film Award in 2003 for Most Promising Newcomer for his role in "Pure". Eden was born in London, and lives in Essex. He attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. He played Nibs in the 2003 movie "Peter Pan", and the Artful Dodger in Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist". He was inspired by Lionel Bart's "Oliver!" and the role of the Artful Dodger. - George Mackay
George Mackay was born on 13th March 1992. At the age of five, he produced, directed and created his very own production of the play "Peter and the Wolf" with his friends playing the characters. He cast himself as in the lead role of the Wolf so that he could swing from trees. In 2002, George was spotted at his school by an acting scout, who asked the then ten-year-old if he would like to audition for a role in Peter Pan (2003). - George Llewelyn Davies
George Llewelyn Davies (20 July 1893 - 15 March 1915) was the eldest son of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, and along with his brothers was the inspiration for playwright J. M. Barrie's characters of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. The character George Darling was named after him. Davies and his brother Jack met Barrie during their regular outings to Kensington Gardens, with their nurse Mary Hodgson. - Candy Candido
Candy Candido (December 25, 1913 - May 19, 1999) was an American actor and bass player. Born Jonathan Joseph Candido in New Orleans, Louisiana, Candy and his distinctively deep voice became a fixture on early American radio where he made a catchphrase of the sentence "I'm feelin' mighty low", …
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