"of Hercules. The character appears in the 1994 video game ""The Lion King."" According to AllGame, Scar appears towards the end of video game as Simba finally ""must defeat his Uncle Scar"" and ""stop Scar and reclaim what is rightfully his."" Scar plays a similar role in the video game "" ""(2000); Simba's climactic ""battle with Scar concludes the first six levels of the game."" According to IGN, the video game features the voices of the film's cast, including Jeremy Irons as Scar. Voiced by James Horan, Scar appears as a non-player character in ""Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure ""(2003)"" ""and"
"also done voice over work in many radio plays including ""Doctor Who"", ""Songs from Jesus Christ Superstar"" and ""Vanity Fair"". Carlile also appeared in the 2008 drama film ""Brideshead Revisited"" as English Lord. Stephen Carlile Stephen Carlile (born Bath, Somerset, England) is a British actor well known for portraying the villain Scar in the 2013 European musical adaptation of the Disney film ""The Lion King"". Carlile was trained in acting at the Guildford School of Acting. Carlile has performed in many theatre works including ""The Go-Between"" as Viscount Trimingham, ""Evita"", ""The Producers"" as Lead Tenor, ""Peter Pan"" as Smee, ""The"
"Stephen Carlile Stephen Carlile (born Bath, Somerset, England) is a British actor well known for portraying the villain Scar in the 2013 European musical adaptation of the Disney film ""The Lion King"". Carlile was trained in acting at the Guildford School of Acting. Carlile has performed in many theatre works including ""The Go-Between"" as Viscount Trimingham, ""Evita"", ""The Producers"" as Lead Tenor, ""Peter Pan"" as Smee, ""The Wizard of Oz"", ""My Fair Lady"" as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, ""Next Door's Baby"" as Dickie O' Brien, ""The Pirates of Penzance"" as Frederic, ""Space Family Robinson"" and ""The Phantom of the Opera"". Carlile has"
"Irons' prominent British accent, critics have compared both the actor and Scar to Shere Khan, the villain of Disney's ""The Jungle Book ""(1967), voiced by English actor George Sanders. Chiwetel Ejiofor was officially chosen on November 1, 2017 for the role of Scar for the CGI live action remake, ""The Lion King"" (2019) directed by Jon Favreau, as he had impressed him after watching his antagonistic performance as Baron Mordo in the Marvel film ""Doctor Strange"" (2016). The studio originally dismissed ""The Lion King ""as a risk because, at the time, it was believed that the greatest films starred people."
"he may occasionally remind you of Claus, comes from the fact that they both share the same voice box."" While recording Scar's song ""Be Prepared,"" Irons encountered challenges with his voice. The actor reportedly ""blew out his voice"" upon belting the line ""you won't get a sniff without me,"" rendering him incapable of completing the musical number. Consequently, Disney was forced to recruit American voice actor Jim Cummings, who had also been providing the voice of ""The Lion King""s laughing hyena Ed at the time, to impersonate Irons and record the rest of the song. Jim Cummings told ""The Huffington"
"is not a lion to be trifled with."" A film that features the voices of several well-known A-list actors, namely Irons as Scar, Matthew Broderick as Simba, James Earl Jones as Mufasa and Whoopi Goldberg as Shenzi, ""The Lion King ""has since gone on to be acclaimed as ""one of the most impressive arrays of voice talents ever utilized in an animated film."" Critics have repeatedly singled out Irons's performance, praising it extensively: Cindy White of IGN called Irons's performance ""deliciously smarmy,"" while Andy Patrizio of IGN wrote that Irons voices Scar ""in perfect Shakespearean villain mode."" ""Rolling Stone""s Peter"
"Jason Raize Jason Raize Rothenberg (July 20, 1975 – February 3, 2004), known professionally as Jason Raize, was an American actor, singer and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme. He was best known for his roles as the adult Simba in the Broadway stage musical version of ""The Lion King"" and the voice of Denahi in the animated Disney film ""Brother Bear"". Born Jason Raize Rothenberg, in Oneonta, New York, he grew up in the Catskills in upstate New York and started acting as a teenager, when his stepmother enrolled him in a summer Shakespeare workshop. In"
"Scar (The Lion King) Scar is a fictional character who appears in Disney's ""The Lion King"" franchise. Scar was created in 1989 by screenwriters Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton, and animated by Andreas Deja. The Pride Lands' reclusive heir presumptive, Scar is introduced in the first film as Simba's uncle and Mufasa's younger brother. Originally first-in-line to Mufasa's throne until he is suddenly replaced by Simba, Scar decides to lead an army of hyenas in his plot to take the throne by killing Mufasa and exiling Simba, ultimately blaming his brother's death on his nephew. Loosely based on"
"(1990), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, ""Kafka"" (1991), ""Damage"" (1993), ""M. Butterfly"" (1993), ""The House of the Spirits"" (1993) appearing again with Glenn Close and Meryl Streep, the voice of Scar in ""The Lion King"" (1994), portraying Simon Gruber in ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"" (1995), co-starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, Bernardo Bertolucci's ""Stealing Beauty"" (1996), the 1997 remake of ""Lolita"", and as the musketeer Aramis opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1998 film version of ""The Man in the Iron Mask"". Other roles include the evil wizard Profion in the film ""Dungeons and"
"Jason Weaver Jason Michael Weaver (born July 18, 1979), also known by his stage name J-Weav, is an American actor and singer best known for his roles as Marcus Henderson on The WB sitcom ""Smart Guy,"" Jerome Turrell on the short-lived ABC sitcom ""Thea"" from 1993–1994, and the pre-teenaged Michael Jackson on the 1992 ABC miniseries "". Jason was also the singing voice of the young Simba in Walt Disney Feature Animation's 1994 film The Lion King.[1] One of Weaver's earliest acting roles was on Oprah Winfrey's 1990 television series ""Brewster Place"". He went on to portray a young Michael"
"2015 for work purpose only. Michael Hollick Michael Andrew Hollick (born August 5, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor. He is best known for being the voice and physical actor of Niko Bellic in ""Grand Theft Auto IV"". Hollick has appeared in plays like ""De La Guarda"", ""Fuerzabruta"" on off-Broadway, and ""Tarzan"" and ""Jumpers"" on Broadway. Other credits include minor TV-roles in ""Law & Order"", ""Hawaii Five-0"", """", """" and ""Sex and the City"". He is currently playing the villainous character Scar in the Las Vegas-production of ""The Lion King"". He argued that he was not paid"
"(1996) in favor of working on Hercules from ""Hercules ""(1997), along with Mickey Mouse in the animated short ""Runaway Brain ""(1995). Comparing Scar to other villains that he has played, Irons said that he ""measures very highly,"" having ""charm,"" ""Machiavellian qualities"" and being ""iconic in some of the things he says."" Scar became the first Disney villain to successfully explicitly kill someone. Like Disney's ""Bambi ""before it, ""The Lion King ""– dubbed the studio's ""darkest"" film at the time of its release – was unprecedented in terms of its serious themes, namely guilt, murder, treachery, revenge and death, specifically the"
"Scar was depicted as Hitler. Although hesitant that then-Disney Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg would approve, the filmmakers ultimately decided to pursue it, describing the sequence as a """"Triumph of the Will""-style mock-Nuremberg rally."" The ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch ""reviewed, ""those goose-stepping hyenas seem a little much in hindsight,"" while Film School Rejects coined it a ""hellish gathering."" Scar debuted in ""The Lion King"" (1994). The jealous younger brother of Mufasa, Scar was next-in-line to take the throne until his nephew Simba, Mufasa's son, was born, replacing him. Determined to regain his birthright, Scar devises a plan to kill both Simba and"
"David di Donatello Award ceremonies of 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015. As a voice actor, Solenghi provided the Italian voice of Scar in ""The Lion King"". Tullio Solenghi Tullio Alberto Solenghi (born March 21, 1948) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, television presenter and impressionist. Together with fellow actors Anna Marchesini and Massimo Lopez, he has been a member of the comic group known as ""Il Trio"" (""The Trio""). At the age of 17, Solenghi attended the Genoa Stable Theater School, where he met Massimo Lopez and in 1970 he began his acting career. After several experiences"
"times voice sound-alikes were used; for instance in ""Toy Story"" Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks' brother, provided the voice of Woody. ""The Lion King"" was narrated by ""The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"" actor James Avery, while ""Toy Story"" is narrated by ""Cheers"" actor John Ratzenberger, who plays Hamm in the film. Pixar subsidiary The Interactive Products Group, with a staff of 95, created ""Disney's Animated Storybook: Toy Story"" and ""Toy Story Activity Center"" in 1996 under intense time pressure, to meet the VHS release date for ""Toy Story"". Between the two products, the group had created as much original animation as"
"died, attempting to rescue him. Scar intervenes, however, and then turns into Kovu and throws Simba off the cliff. Scar makes another cameo appearance in a pool of water, as a reflection, after Kovu is exiled from Pride Rock. Scar makes a brief cameo in Disney's animated feature film ""Hercules"" (1997) in the form of a limp lion skin coat worn by Hercules, parodying the Nemean lion. This is also likely a reference to Zazu's remark (in the first film) that Scar would ""make a very handsome throw rug"". Scar's supervising animator Andreas Deja also served as the supervising animator"
"other known animation voice credit. The semi-antagonistic circus director was voiced by Herman Bing, a German-American character actor remembered for his wild-eyed facial expressions and thick German accent in several comedy works. The pompous matriarch of the elephants was voiced by Verna Felton, who also voiced the Fairy Godmother in ""Cinderella"", the Queen of Hearts in ""Alice in Wonderland"", and Flora of the Three Good Fairies in ""Sleeping Beauty"". Other voice actors include the perennial Sterling Holloway in appearing as Mr. Stork, Cliff Edwards, better known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket, as Jim Crow, the leader of the crows,"
"in California and in Florida, were responsible for establishing the personalities and setting the tone for the film's main characters. The animation leads for the main characters included Mark Henn on young Simba, Ruben A. Aquino on adult Simba, Andreas Deja on Scar, Aaron Blaise on young Nala, Anthony DeRosa on adult Nala, and Tony Fucile on Mufasa. Nearly 20 minutes of the film, including the ""I Just Can't Wait to Be King"" sequence, were animated at the Disney-MGM Studios facility. More than 600 artists, animators, and technicians contributed to ""The Lion King"". Weeks before the film was to be"
"Snake. Varney also lent his voice to Slinky Dog in Disney/Pixar's ""Toy Story"" and ""Toy Story 2"" in the Toy Story series (Varney was replaced by Blake Clark in ""Toy Story 3"" due to his death in 2000). Varney played numerous other characters, including ""Cookie"" Farnsworth, from """", released the year after his death (Steve Barr replaced Varney for the sequel """"), the carny character Cooter in the ""Bart Carny"" episode of ""The Simpsons"", the character Walt Evergreen in the ""Duckman"" episode ""You've Come a Wrong Way, Baby"", Prince Carlos Charmaine (a royal suitor Jackie dates) for a few episodes"
"Kip King Kip King (born Jerome Charles Kattan; August 11, 1937 – July 15, 2010) was an American film, television and voice actor. He was the father of American television sketch comedian Chris Kattan. King was born Jerome Charles Kattan in Chicago, Illinois, the son of an Iraqi Jewish father and a Polish Jewish mother. King was probably best known for voicing Tailor Smurf in the 1980s television cartoon series The Smurfs. Long associated with Hanna-Barbera, King provided the voice of Shecky in ""The Biskitts"" (1983). He was also in the voice casts of ""The Little Rascals"", ""Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo"""
"""a fantastic villain and easily the most fully realized of the film's characters, thanks both to Jeremy Irons's marvelously wicked vocal performance and some clever character flourishes on behalf of the animators."" David Denby of ""New York"", who otherwise criticized the film, felt that ""Irons ... sounds like he's having a better time than he's ever had in movies before."" In a rare lukewarm review, Anthony Quinn of ""The Independent"" felt that Irons's performance was too campy: ""more Liberace than George Sanders."" According to IGN, Scar, Simba and Mufasa have since become ""household names thanks to the [film's] enormous popularity"
"Jim Cummings as the voice of Scar. In the Pride Lands of Africa, King Simba and Queen Nala's newborn daughter, Kiara, is presented to the assembled animals by Rafiki, a baboon who serves as shaman and advisor. Simba's father Mufasa proudly watches over the ceremony from the Heavens above. Kiara becomes annoyed with her father's overprotective parenting. Simba assigns Timon and Pumbaa, a meerkat and warthog, to follow her. After entering the forbidden ""Outlands,"" Kiara meets a young cub, Kovu, and they escape from crocodiles while befriending each other. When Kovu retaliates to Kiara's playing, Simba confronts the young cub"
"Land"", he went on to record ""Four Quartets"" in 2014, ""The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"" on the centenary of its publication in 2015, and ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" in 2016. He finally completed recording the entire canon of T.S. Eliot which was broadcast over New Year's Day 2017. One of his best known film roles has turned out to be lending his distinctive voice to Scar in ""The Lion King"" (1994) serving as the main antagonist of the film. Irons has since provided voiceovers for three Disney World attractions. He narrated the ""Spaceship Earth"" ride, housed"
"Thurl Ravenscroft Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (; February 6, 1914May 22, 2005) was an American voice actor and bass singer known as the booming voice behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades. He was also the uncredited vocalist for the song ""You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"" from the classic Christmas television special, Dr. Seuss' ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" Ravenscroft did some voice-over work and singing for Disney in both the films and the attractions at Disneyland (which were later featured at Walt Disney World). The best known of these attractions are Haunted"
"Kion. Scar (The Lion King) Scar is a fictional character who appears in Disney's ""The Lion King"" franchise. Scar was created in 1989 by screenwriters Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton, and animated by Andreas Deja. The Pride Lands' reclusive heir presumptive, Scar is introduced in the first film as Simba's uncle and Mufasa's younger brother. Originally first-in-line to Mufasa's throne until he is suddenly replaced by Simba, Scar decides to lead an army of hyenas in his plot to take the throne by killing Mufasa and exiling Simba, ultimately blaming his brother's death on his nephew. Loosely based"
"Jonathan Taylor Thomas Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born Jonathan Taylor Weiss; September 8, 1981) is an American actor, voice actor, and director. He is known for portraying Randy Taylor on ""Home Improvement"" and voicing young Simba in Disney's 1994 film ""The Lion King"". Thomas was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the son of Claudine (born Gonsalves), a personal manager and social worker, and Stephen Weiss, an industrial sales manager. The two divorced in 1991. His uncle is playwright and actor Jeff Weiss. Thomas has Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and Portuguese ancestry. In 2000, Thomas graduated with honors from Chaminade College Preparatory School in"
"initially met with mild controversy, perceived by some as racist and homophobic. Nevertheless, Scar continues to be revered as one of Disney's greatest villains by various media publications, topping ""The Huffington Post""s list and ranking within the top ten of similar lists published by Yahoo! Movies, the ""Orlando Sentinel"", E! and CNN. Scar has also been ranked among the greatest villains in film history by ""Digital Spy ""and ""Entertainment Weekly."" ""The Lion King"" was first conceived in 1988. The film was eventually pitched to Disney executives, one of whom was among the first to observe similarities between author Thomas M."
"a planned release for 2018. Deja is openly gay. His sexuality has been discussed as an influence on the development of some Disney characters. Andreas Deja Andreas Deja (born April 1, 1957) is a Polish-born German-American character animator, most noted for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Deja's work includes serving as supervising animator on characters in several Disney animated films, including the Disney villains Gaston in ""Beauty and the Beast"", Jafar in ""Aladdin"", Scar in ""The Lion King"" and the title character in ""Hercules"". Deja was born in Poland, but moved with his family to Germany. He credits"
"Matthew Broderick Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor and singer. His roles include the title character in ""Ferris Bueller's Day Off"" (1986), the voice of the adult Simba in Disney's ""The Lion King"" trilogy (1994–2004), David Lightman in the Cold War thriller ""WarGames"" (1983), and Leo Bloom in the Broadway production of ""The Producers"" (2005), and John Brown in Inspector Gadget (1999). Broderick has won two Tony Awards, one for Best Featured Actor in a Play for ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" (1983), and one for Best Actor in a Musical for ""How to Succeed in Business Without"
"Andreas Deja Andreas Deja (born April 1, 1957) is a Polish-born German-American character animator, most noted for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Deja's work includes serving as supervising animator on characters in several Disney animated films, including the Disney villains Gaston in ""Beauty and the Beast"", Jafar in ""Aladdin"", Scar in ""The Lion King"" and the title character in ""Hercules"". Deja was born in Poland, but moved with his family to Germany. He credits seeing Disney's ""The Jungle Book"" as an 11-year-old with inspiring him to become an animator. At that young age, he promptly wrote to Walt"
"Beast ""(1991)"" ""and ""Aladdin ""(1992), respectively. Initially, Deja had been considering the idea of animating a hero as opposed to a villain for a change, contemplating taking on the task of animating Simba instead. However, Deja soon relented upon learning that Scar would be voiced by Irons, feeling that it would be ""fun"" to animate a character voiced by such a prestigious actor. Meanwhile, Minkoff and Allers had already had Deja in mind for animating Scar long before the animator approached the directors about the position. The level anthropomorphism used in ""The Lion King"" exceeded that of any Disney animated"
"Marvin Goldhar Marvin Goldhar (April 29, 1933- March 31, 2002) was a Canadian actor, best known for his voice work in animated programs and in made-for-TV movies. Among his voice credits include Cedric Sneer on ""The Raccoons"", Mr. Weatherbee on ""The New Archies"" and Bronto Thunder and Bonehead in ""Dinosaucers"". He has also done voices for television and films including """", """", ""Garbage Pail Kids"", ""AlfTales"", ""The Legend of Zelda"", ""The Nutcracker Prince"", ""Babar"", """", ""Maxie's World"", ""Beverly Hills Teens"", ""The Care Bears"", ""Rupert"", ""C.O.P.S."", ""Overdrawn at the Memory Bank"", """", ""Sylvanian Families"", """", ""Police Academy"", ""WildC.A.T.s"", ""The Magic School"
"Marvin Goldhar Marvin Goldhar (April 29, 1933- March 31, 2002) was a Canadian actor, best known for his voice work in animated programs and in made-for-TV movies. Among his voice credits include Cedric Sneer on ""The Raccoons"", Mr. Weatherbee on ""The New Archies"" and Bronto Thunder and Bonehead in ""Dinosaucers"". He has also done voices for television and films including """", """", ""Garbage Pail Kids"", ""AlfTales"", ""The Legend of Zelda"", ""The Nutcracker Prince"", ""Babar"", """", ""Maxie's World"", ""Beverly Hills Teens"", ""The Care Bears"", ""Rupert"", ""C.O.P.S."", ""Overdrawn at the Memory Bank"", """", ""Sylvanian Families"", """", ""Police Academy"", ""WildC.A.T.s"", ""The Magic School"