Which character did Nathan Lane play in the 1994 Disney animated hit?
The Lion King The Lion King is a 1994 American animated epic musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd Disney animated feature film, and the fifth animated film produced during a period known as the Disney Renaissance. "The Lion King" was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, produced by Don Hahn, and has a screenplay credited to Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. Its original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, and original scores were written by Hans Zimmer. The film features an ensemble voice cast that includes Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson, Robert Guillaume, Madge Sinclair, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, and Jim Cummings. The story takes place in a kingdom of lions in Africa and was influenced by William Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
Bruce Lanoil Bruce Lanoil (born July 5, 1960) is an American actor, voice actor and puppeteer for The Jim Henson Company and for The Walt Disney Company, who frequently works with puppeteer David Alan Barclay. Lanoil hails from Brooklyn, New York. He voiced the Cat in the Hat and Fox in Socks in the first season of "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss". For Disney, he is also a voice double for Timon from "The Lion King". So far he has voiced Timon in "Kingdom Hearts II" and Disney's "Wild About Safety" shorts. He has also performed a voice sample for an additional character in the 2011 "Spyro" game, "".