who played the voice of aladdin?
Scott Weinger
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 Scott Weinger as Aladdin , a poor , but kind @-@ hearted Agrabah thief . Weinger sent in a homemade audition tape with his mother playing the Genie , and after several call backs he found six months later that he had the part . Aladdin 's supervising animator was by Glen Keane . Brad Kane provides Aladdin 's singing voice . 

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 Aladdin , released in November 1992 , continued the upward trend in Disney 's animation success , earning $ 504 million worldwide at the box office , and two more Oscars for Best Song and Best Score . Featuring songs by Menken , Ashman , and Tim Rice ( who replaced Ashman after his passing ) and starring the voice of Robin Williams , Aladdin also established the trend of hiring celebrity actors and actresses to provide the voices of Disney characters , which had been explored to some degree with The Jungle Book and Oliver & Company , but now became standard practice . 

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 Robin Williams as The Genie , a comedic genie , with nigh omnipotent power that can only be exercised when his master wishes it . The Genie 's supervising animator was Eric Goldberg . Clements and Musker wrote the part of the Genie for Williams , and , when met with resistance , created a reel of Williams ' stand @-@ up to animation of the Genie . The directors asked Goldberg to animate a Genie over one of Williams ' old stand @-@ up comedy routines to pitch the idea to the actor . The resulting test , where Williams talking about schizophrenia was translated into Genie growing another head to argue with himself , made Williams " laugh his ass off " and convinced him to sign on for the role . Williams ' appearance in Aladdin ( despite his appearance along with Christian Slater and Tim Curry in the early 1992 animated film FernGully ) marks the beginning of a transition in animated film to celebrity voice actors , rather than specifically trained voice actors in animated film . Williams provided many celebrity impressions during recording sessions , which were re @-@ adapted into the fabric of the character . These included Ed Sullivan , Jack Nicholson , Robert De Niro , Groucho Marx , Rodney Dangerfield , William F. Buckley , Peter Lorre , Arnold Schwarzenegger , and Arsenio Hall . Williams also voices the Peddler , a mysterious merchant who appears at the beginning of the film . After promoting useless goods to the audience , he reveals the magic lamp and begins the story of Aladdin . Bruce Adler supplies his singing voice . The scene was completely unscripted — the production left Williams a table with props covered with a sheet and asked him to pull out objects without looking at them and describe them in @-@ character . The double role originally led to the Peddler revealing to be the Genie disguised , but that idea was later dropped . In October 2015 , Clements and Musker claimed that the Peddler is actually the Genie 's human form . 

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 In gratitude for his success with Touchstone Pictures ' Good Morning , Vietnam , Robin Williams voiced the Genie for SAG scale pay ( $ 75 @,@ 000 ) , on condition that his name or image not be used for marketing , and his ( supporting ) character not take more than 25 % of space on advertising artwork , since Williams ' film Toys was scheduled for release one month after Aladdin 's debut . For financial reasons , the studio went back on the deal on both counts , especially in poster art by having the Genie in 25 % of the image , but having other major and supporting characters portrayed considerably smaller . The Disney Hyperion book Aladdin : The Making of an Animated Film listed both of Williams ' characters " The Peddler " and " The Genie " ahead of main characters , but was forced to refer to him only as " the actor signed to play the Genie " . 

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 Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures . Aladdin is the 31st animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series , and was part of the Disney film era known as the Disney Renaissance . The film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements , and is based on the Arab @-@ style folktale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from One Thousand and One Nights . The voice cast features Scott Weinger , Robin Williams , Linda Larkin , Jonathan Freeman , Frank Welker , Gilbert Gottfried , and Douglas Seale . 
