"Harris as the voice of Little John the Bear in the 1973 Disney animated film ""Robin Hood"", David Morrissey in ""Robin Hood"" and Nick Brimble in """" - both in 1991, and Eric Allan Kramer in 1993's """". Kevin Durand plays John in 2010's ""Robin Hood"". In this incarnation, he was a Scottish Foot Soldier in the Crusades and fought Robin over a lost bet, claiming he was cheating, then joined Robin, Will, and Alan when the King was killed. In the BBC's ""Robin Hood"", Little John is played by Gordon Kennedy. John meets Robin when his band of outlaws"
"one, """"Who's"" gonna be Robin Hood?"" """"You're"" gonna be Robin Hood!"". That decided, the Robin Hood squirrel names the middle squirrel as Little John, leaving the grumbling smallest squirrel to play the unwanted role of the rich old villain. The ""villain"" then trudges off to await the inevitable song-and-dance attack of Robin Hood and Little John, while a fox, lurking on the side, sees them as his dinner and devises a ruse through which he pipes up, in a falsetto voice, claiming to be Robin's sweetheart Maid Marian in trouble. Robin and Little John follow the bait into the fox's"
"Robin Hood (Disney character) Robin Hood is a fictional character who is the protagonist in Walt Disney Productions series' 21st animated feature film ""Robin Hood"" (1973). Robin Hood is voiced by Shakespearean and Tony Award winning actor Brian Bedford. The film is based on the legends of Robin Hood and Reynard the fox, a 12th-century Alsatian fairy tale character, but uses anthropomorphic animals rather than people. The story follows the adventures of Robin Hood, Little John and the inhabitants of Nottingham as they fight against the excessive taxation of Prince John, and Robin Hood wins the hand of Maid Marian."
"introduced when he tried to prevent Robin from crossing a narrow bridge, whereupon they fought with quarterstaves, and Robin was overcome. Despite having won the duel, John agreed to join his band and fight alongside him. From then on he was called Little John in whimsical reference to his size. This scene is almost always re-enacted in film and television versions of the story. In some modern film versions, Little John loses the duel to Robin. Starting from the ballad tradition, Little John is commonly shown to be the only Merry Man present at Robin Hood's death. Despite a lack"
"Friends are characters that don't often appear in Disneyland. Robin Hood (Disney character) Robin Hood is a fictional character who is the protagonist in Walt Disney Productions series' 21st animated feature film ""Robin Hood"" (1973). Robin Hood is voiced by Shakespearean and Tony Award winning actor Brian Bedford. The film is based on the legends of Robin Hood and Reynard the fox, a 12th-century Alsatian fairy tale character, but uses anthropomorphic animals rather than people. The story follows the adventures of Robin Hood, Little John and the inhabitants of Nottingham as they fight against the excessive taxation of Prince John,"
"Robin Hood (1973 film) Robin Hood is a 1973 American animated musical comedy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions which was first released in the United States on November 8, 1973. As the twenty-first Disney animated feature film, the story follows the adventures of Robin Hood, Little John and the inhabitants of Nottingham as they fight against the excessive taxation of Prince John, and Robin Hood wins the hand of Maid Marian. The idea to adapt ""Robin Hood"" into an animated feature dated back to Walt Disney's interest in the tale of Reynard the Fox during production of ""Snow White"
"Little John “Little” John is said to have been Robin's chief lieutenant and second-in-command of the Merry Men. Little John appears in the earliest recorded Robin Hood ballads and stories, and in the earliest references to Robin Hood by Andrew of Wyntoun in 1420 and by Walter Bower in 1440. In the early tales, Little John is shown to be intelligent and highly capable. In ""A Gest of Robyn Hode"", he captures the sorrowful knight and, when Robin Hood decides to pay the knight's mortgage for him, accompanies him as a servant. In ""Robin Hood's Death"", he is the only"
"Robin Hood Daffy Robin Hood Daffy is a 1958 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc theatrical cartoon comedy short, starring Daffy Duck (in the role of Robin Hood) and Porky Pig, as part of the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. It was the last of Jones' parody cartoons with the duo, and the last appearance of Porky in a theatrical cartoon directed by Jones during the Golden Age of Animation. It was also the second parody of Robin Hood directed by Chuck Jones, after the 1949 Bugs Bunny short ""Rabbit Hood"". An edited version of"
"Robin Hood and Little John Robin Hood and Little John is Child ballad 125. It is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad, and is one of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of traditional English ballads. When Robin Hood is twenty years old he meets another brisk and fit young man named Little John. Although called ""little"", John is seven feet tall, large-limbed, and fearsome to behold. This is"
"the two exit the cabin, only to be greeted by the smallest squirrel, who asks them with a grin, """"Who's"" gonna be Robin Hood?"" Robin Hood Makes Good Robin Hood Makes Good is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon short, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Dave Monahan, and released by Warner Bros. on February 11, 1939. Three little squirrels, after reading a book about Robin Hood, decide to act out the part of the legendary medieval outlaw. The smallest of the three declares that he will be Robin Hood, prompting the middle squirrel to breathe down his neck and"
"one of the Merry Men that Robin takes with him. In the 15th-century ballad commonly called ""Robin Hood and the Monk"", Little John leaves in anger after a dispute with Robin. When Robin Hood is captured, it is Little John who plans his leader's rescue. In thanks, Robin offers Little John leadership of the band, but John refuses. Later depictions of Little John portray him as less cunning. The earliest ballads do not feature an origin story for this character. According to a 17th-century ballad, he was a giant of a man who was at least seven feet tall, and"
"Robin Hood Makes Good Robin Hood Makes Good is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon short, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Dave Monahan, and released by Warner Bros. on February 11, 1939. Three little squirrels, after reading a book about Robin Hood, decide to act out the part of the legendary medieval outlaw. The smallest of the three declares that he will be Robin Hood, prompting the middle squirrel to breathe down his neck and demand, """"Who's"" gonna be Robin Hood?"", prompting an intimidated reply of """"You're"" gonna be Robin Hood!"" In turn, the biggest squirrel bullies the middle"
"first played Little John as a young squire in 1922's ""Robin Hood"" starring Douglas Fairbanks. He reprised the role opposite Errol Flynn's Robin in 1938's ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"". And finally, he played an older Little John opposite John Derek, as Robin's son, in ""Rogues of Sherwood Forest"" from 1951. Other notable film and TV Little Johns include Archie Duncan in the 1950s TV series, Nicol Williamson in ""Robin and Marian"", James Robertson Justice in the 1952 Disney film ""The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men"", Clive Mantle in the 1980s TV series ""Robin of Sherwood"", Phil"
"author Howard Pyle's ""The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1883) which cast John as the principal villain of the Robin Hood narrative. During the 20th century, John also appeared in fictional books and films with Robin Hood. Sam De Grasse's John, in the 1922 film version, commits atrocities and acts of torture. Claude Rains' John, in the 1938 version with Errol Flynn, began a cinematic trend in which John was an ""effeminate ... arrogant and cowardly stay-at-home"". John's character highlights Richard's virtues and contrasts with Guy of Gisbourne, the ""swashbuckling villain"" opposing Robin. In the Disney cartoon version, John (voiced"
"The short is also available on the """" and ""Essential Daffy Duck"" DVD sets, as well as the """" Blu-Ray set. Robin Hood Daffy Robin Hood Daffy is a 1958 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc theatrical cartoon comedy short, starring Daffy Duck (in the role of Robin Hood) and Porky Pig, as part of the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. It was the last of Jones' parody cartoons with the duo, and the last appearance of Porky in a theatrical cartoon directed by Jones during the Golden Age of Animation. It was also the"
"the character designs for ""Robin Hood"" (1973) such as the animal counterparts (e.g. Robin Hood like Reynard is a fox while the Sheriff of Nottingham like Isengrim is a wolf). In 1985, a French animated series, """" (""I Reynard""), was created that was loosely based on Reynard's tales. In it, the original animals are anthropomorphic humanoid animals (to the point that, primary, only their heads are that of animals) and the action occurs in modern Paris with other anthropomorphic animals in human roles. Reynard is a young mischievous fox with a little monkey pet called Marmouset (an original creation). He"
"anti-poaching notices and wanted posters of Robin Hood and Little John. Bugs is trying to silence an alarm attached to a carrot he just pulled out of the King's Carrot Patch. He is caught by the Sheriff of Nottingham and is about to be put to the rack when Little John (depicted as a fat goonish fellow) appears and introduces Robin Hood. However, Robin Hood does not appear. Bugs and the Sheriff continue to converse, and Bugs averts the latter's attention by lying about the king's arrival. Bugs clubs the Sheriff while the latter is bowing and runs off. While"
"allow spectators to slide back to admit newcomers rather than standing), the hand fire extinguisher, and greaseless potato chips. His first film role was in the 1911 silent movie ""The Cowboy and the Lady"". He played ""Little John"" in the 1922 film ""Robin Hood"", with Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, reprised the role 16 years later in the 1938 ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" with Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone, then played him yet again in ""Rogues of Sherwood Forest"" in 1950 with John Derek as Robin Hood's son, an unprecedented 28-year span of portrayals of the same character in"
"of ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" (1969), so Little John was the only Merry Man who remained in the film, while Friar Tuck was put as a friend of Robin's who lived in Nottingham, and Alan-a-Dale was turned into the narrator. Because of the time spent on developing several settings and auditioning actors to voice Robin Hood, production fell behind schedule. In order to meet its deadline, the animators decided to recycle dance sequences from ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), ""The Jungle Book"" (1967), and ""The Aristocats"" (1970). By October 1970, most of the voice actors were"
"Phil Harris Wonga Philip Harris (June 24, 1904 – August 11, 1995) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and jazz musician. He was an orchestra leader and a pioneer in radio situation comedy, first with Jack Benny, then in a series in which he co-starred with his wife, singer-actress Alice Faye, for eight years. Harris is also noted for his voice acting in animated films. He played Baloo the bear in ""The Jungle Book"" (1967), Thomas O'Malley in ""The Aristocats"" (1970), and Little John in ""Robin Hood"" (1973). In 1981, he sang ""Back Home Again in Indiana"" before the Indianapolis"
"Robin and Marian Robin and Marian is a 1976 British-American romantic adventure period film from Columbia Pictures, shot in Panavision and Technicolor, that was directed by Richard Lester and written by James Goldman, based on the legend of Robin Hood. The film stars Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn as Lady Marian, Nicol Williamson as Little John, Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Richard Harris as Richard the Lionheart. It also features comedian Ronnie Barker in a rare film role as Friar Tuck. ""Robin and Marian"" was filmed in Zamora, Spain and also in Artajona, Urbasa, Quinto"
"in the 1954 series ""Sherlock Holmes"" and as Little John in ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" from 1955 to 1960. Duncan was replaced in the Little John role by Rufus Cruikshank for 13 episodes after Duncan was injured when a horse bolted toward spectators, mostly children, watching the location filming of the episode ""Checkmate"" on 20 April 1955. He grabbed the bridle, stopping the horse, but the cart it was pulling ran him over, causing a fractured kneecap and cuts and bruises. He received the Queen's Commendation for Bravery Award and £1,360 in damages from Sapphire films. He also played"
"in ""Red Riding Hood"" (1977), Anna Karen in ""Dick Whittington"" (1979), Clive Dunn, Janet Fielding and Valentine Dyall in ""Aladdin"" (1983), Dave Lee Travis in ""The Pied Piper"" (1984) and ""Babes in the Wood"" (1991), Sally James in ""Dick Whittington"" (1985), Arthur English in ""Cinderella"" (1986), Johnny Ball in ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" (1988) and ""Mother Goose"" (1989), Keith Chegwin in ""Aladdin"" (1990) and ""Cinderella"" (1992), Danny John Jules and Nigel Pivaro in ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" (1994), Carmen Ejogo in ""Robin Hood"" (1995), Michael Fenton Stevens in ""The Wizard of Oz"" (2000), Bodger & Badger in ""Jack and the"
"Films for Archival Preservation"". A print of the film was discovered by a British collector in a London film library in 1998 and was restored the same year. The film introduces the prototype for Julius the Cat, who would become Disney's first named, recurring character. A second American short film with the same title was also released in 1922 which starred Baby Peggy. Little Red Riding Hood (1922 film) Little Red Riding Hood (1922) is a Walt Disney short cartoon, and is a rendition of the traditional story of Little Red Riding Hood. The film is part of the Laugh-O-Grams"
"to signal victory to the Sheriff. Disguised as Guy, and carrying what he passes off as Robin Hood's head, Robin goes to rescue Little John. He convinces the sheriff to be allowed to kill Little John, but instead cuts him loose with an ""Irish knife"". John then takes a bow and shoots the Sheriff through the heart. Although he has made many appearances in 19th and 20th century variants of the Robin Hood legends, Guy's only constant is villainy, but a frequently occurring theme is the ""love triangle story"" involving Robin, Marian, and Guy, a theme adopted from 19th-century theatrical"
"Little John a Begging Little John A Begging is Child ballad 142 and about Robin Hood. It exists in two variants, one fragmentary. In one variant, Robin Hood sends Little John out, disguised as a beggar. In the fragmentary one, Little John apparently exchanges clothing with a beggar, as the surviving ballads opens with his complaint that they do not fit. In both variants, he meets up with beggars who realize that he is not one of their company. They fight, and Little John wins. The fragmented version breaks off there, but in the complete one, Little John discovers they"
"his staff, and soon adapts to the use of his metal-clad stump as another weapon in combat. In the British television show ""Fact or Fiction"", episode 4, hosted by Tony Robinson, it is postulated that ""Little John"" is in actuality the person Reynolde Greenleaf from near Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Little John “Little” John is said to have been Robin's chief lieutenant and second-in-command of the Merry Men. Little John appears in the earliest recorded Robin Hood ballads and stories, and in the earliest references to Robin Hood by Andrew of Wyntoun in 1420 and by Walter"
"and anti-authoritarian figure by turning him into the bandit Robin Hood. Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He is known for his mastery of archery as well as his talent for disguising himself. Despite being declared an outlaw, Robin Hood is a good and generous person at heart, and is beloved by the townspeople for his deeds. Robin Hood is a slender red fox with brown eyes who wears a yellow hat with a red feather on it, but later changed to green, and wears green clothing and shoes. Tony"
"1938 colour version alongside Errol Flynn, starting a trend for films to depict John as an ""effeminate ... arrogant and cowardly stay-at-home"". The character of John acts either to highlight the virtues of King Richard, or contrasts with the Sheriff of Nottingham, who is usually the ""swashbuckling villain"" opposing Robin. An extreme version of this trend can be seen in the 1973 Disney cartoon version, for example, which depicts John, voiced by Peter Ustinov, as a ""cowardly, thumbsucking lion"". Popular works that depict John beyond the Robin Hood legends, such as James Goldman's play and later film, ""The Lion in"
"Disney cartoons. Billy Bletcher parodied his own Disney performance in this cartoon, voicing Big Bad Wolf, just as he did in Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning classic, Three Little Pigs and its later spinoff, The Big Bad Wolf, the latter of which also incorporated the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Like other Bugs Bunny shorts released during World War II, this film features ""a more violent rabbit with a more sadistic and mocking agenda"". This was not the only depiction of Little Red Riding Hood in an animated short. Others include ""Little Red Riding Hood"" (1922) and ""The Big Bad"
"miniseries' supervising directors, and Sandra Lee served as art director. The miniseries features vocal performances from the show's regular crew: Jeremy Shada (who voices Finn the Human), John DiMaggio (who portrays Jake the Dog), Olivia Olson (who portrays Marceline), Tom Kenny (who lends his voice to Ice King), Hynden Walch (who voices Princess Bubblegum), Ward (who voices Lumpy Space Princess), and Niki Yang (who voices the sentient video game console BMO in English, as well as Jake's girlfriend Lady Rainicorn in Korean). Polly Lou Livingston, a friend of Pendleton Ward's mother, Bettie Ward, plays the voice of the small elephant"
"Little John. Richard Dimitri played a dual role as identical twin brothers; Renaldo, one of the Merry Men, and Bertram, the Sheriff's right-hand man. Brooks again spoofed the Robin Hood legend in his 1993 film """". One-liners, sight gags and literal humor were hallmarks of the show's style, e.g., complaining villagers, commanded to ""Hold your tongues!,"" obediently reach into their mouths. In another episode, the Sheriff asked to hang the banners, with an immediate cutaway to a husband, a wife, and their two children on a wall, saying ""Hi, we're the Banners."" There was also occasional breaking of the fourth"
"promoting communism because he stole from the rich to give to the poor. In the 1973 animated Disney film, ""Robin Hood"", the title character is portrayed as an anthropomorphic fox voiced by Brian Bedford. Years before ""Robin Hood"" had even entered production, Disney had considered doing a project on Reynard the Fox. However, due to concerns that Reynard was unsuitable as a hero, animator Ken Anderson adapted some elements from Reynard into ""Robin Hood"", thus making the title character a fox. The 1976 British-American film ""Robin and Marian"", starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood and Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian,"