
Tarzan is a 1999 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 37th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, it is based on the story Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and is the first animated major motion picture version of the Tarzan story. Directed by Chris Buck and Kevin Lima with a screenplay by Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, and Noni White, Tarzan features the voices of Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, and Rosie O'Donnell with Brian Blessed, Lance Henriksen, Wayne Knight, and Nigel Hawthorne.
Pre-production of Tarzan began in 1995 with Kevin Lima selected as director, being later joined by animator Chris Buck the same year. Following a first draft by Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, and Dave Reynolds were brought in to re-construct the third act and add additional humor to the screenplay. English musician Phil Collins was recruited to compose and record songs which were integrated with a score by Mark Mancina. Meanwhile, the production team embarked on a research trip to Uganda and Kenya to study the gorillas. Animation for the film was done in California, Orlando, Florida, and Paris with Deep Canvas, the pioneering computer animation software system, predominantly used to create three-dimensional backgrounds.
Tarzan was released to a positive reaction from critics who praised the film's animation and music. Against a production budget of $130 million (then the most expensive animated film ever made until Disney's Treasure Planet (2002) which cost $140 million), the film grossed $448.2 million worldwide becoming the fifth-highest film release in 1999, second-highest animation release of 1999 behind Toy Story 2 (1999), and the first Disney animated feature to open at first place at the North American box office since Pocahontas (1995). The film has led to many derived works, such as a Broadway adaptation, a television series The Legend of Tarzan, and two direct-to-video follow-ups—the sequel Tarzan & Jane (2002) and the midquel Tarzan II (2005).
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Tarzan (Young) | Alex D. Linz | HéctorEmmanuel Gómez | Wataru Kitao | Marcus Júnior | Vincent Roy | Max Felder | Maxime Nivet | Alessio Ward | Adam Pluciński | Kováts Dániel | Max Wiberg | Scott Maurstad | Rasmus Albeck | Ian Lleonart | Javier Ávila | Oh SeungYoon | Daniel Magon | |||||
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Tarzan | Tony Goldwyn | Eduardo Palomo | Kaneshiro Takeshi | Eduardo Moscovis | Denis Roy | Jaron Löwenberg | Emmanuel Jacomy | Massimo Rossi | Andrzej Nejman | Reisenbüchler Sándor | Peter Franzén | OveChristian Owe | Nikolaj Lie Kaas | Marian Marinov | Abel Folk | José Luis Gil | Kim Seungjun | Lior Ashkenazi | ||||
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Jane Porter | Minnie Driver | Lucero | Mayumi Suzuki | Miriam Ficher | Julie Burroughs | Anke Engelke | Valérie Lemercier | Francesca Fiorentini | Edyta Olszówka | Kiss Eszter | Jonna Järnefelt | Laila Goody | Meike Bahnsen | Victòria Pagès | Carla de Sá | Kim Ohk-Gyeong | Chen Liony | |||||
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Terk (Young) | Rosie O'Donnell | Gabriela Teissier | Indiane Christine | Camille Donda | Ilaria Stagni | Jang Soo-hye | Sarit Vino-Elad | |||||||||||||||
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Terk | Rosie O'Donnell | Gabriela Teissier | Doi Yūko | Mayra Bravo | MarieAndrée Corneille | Heike Makatsch | Muriel Robin | Ilaria Stagni | Joanna Wizmur | Csere Ágnes | Elina Knihtilä | Linn Skåber | SidseBabett Knudsen | María Moscardó | Cecilia Santiago | Ham Su-Jung | Sarit Vino-Elad | |||||
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Tantor (Young) | Taylor Dempsey | Marco Portillo | Yamashita Natsuki | Caio César | Yan Beauregard | Tim Schwarzmaier | Camille Donda | Edoardo Natale | Zuzanna Kolanowska | Baradlay Viktor | Felix Janhonen | Rasmus Skjegstad | JulianChristian ThiesgaardKellerman | José Masegosa | David Balas | Jeong Hyeon-Bin | Yasmin Ayun | |||||
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Tantor | Wayne Knight | Arturo Mercado | Tessho Genda | Renato Rosenberg | Pierre Verville | Detlev Buck | Jean-Éric Bielle | Roberto Stocchi | Krzysztof Kowalewski | József Kerekes | Jarkko Tiainen | Trond Høvik | Amin Jensen | Slobodan "Boda"Ninković | JuanAntonio Bernal | Guillermo Romero | Kim Hwan-jin | Lior Zohar | Engin Alkan | |||
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Kala | Glenn Close | Rosanelda Aguirre | Toshiko Fujita | Suely Franco | Danièle Panneton | Eva Mattes | Frédérique Tirmont | Sonia Scotti | Marzena Trybała | Menszátor Magdolna | Merja Larivaara | Kjersti Holmen | Birgitte Raaberg | Mercedes Sampietro | Lee Sun-Young | Effi Ben Israel | ||||||
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Clayton | Brian Blessed | Christopher Smith | Banjō Ginga | Dário de Castro | Denis Mercier | Michael Brennicke | Gérard Rinaldi | Stefano De Sando | Marcin Troński | János Papp | Esko Salminen | Even Stormoen | Jørn Gottlieb | Juan Carlos Gustems | Kim Jin-Tae | Eli Gorenstein | ||||||
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Kerchak | Lance Henriksen | José Lavat | Kenji Utsumi | Leonardo José | Yves Corbeil | Joachim Höppner | JeanBernard Guillard | Ennio Coltorti | Krzysztof Gosztyła | Vass Gábor | Juha Hyppönen | Erik Hivju | Dick Kaysø | Josep María Ullod | Han Sang-Deok | Ami Mandelman | ||||||
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ProfessorArchimedes Q, Porter | Nigel Hawthorne | Jesús Colín | Tamio Ôki | José SantaCruz | Serge Bossac | Osman Ragheb | Henri Labussière | Ettore Conti | Witold Pyrkosz | Dobránszky Zoltán | Aarre Karén | Helge Reiss | Paul Hüttel | Joaquín Díaz | Eduardo Moreno | Pedro Pinheiro | Jeong Gi-Hang | Avraham Mor | ||||
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Sabor | Frank Welker | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Mungo | Jason Marsden | Ricardo Tejedo | Toshiharu Sakurai | Paulo Vignolo | Hubertus von Lerchenfeld | Éric Métayer | Nanni Baldini | Jukka Rasila | Eirik Espolin Johnson | MiguelÁngel Garzón | ||||||||||||
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Flynt | Erik von Detten | Raúl Aldana | Cláudio Galvan | Manuel Straube | Mark Lesser | Fabrizio Vidale | Petteri Summanen | Eduardo Gutiérrez | ||||||||||||||
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Terk's Mother | Mickie McGowan | Liza Willert | Maija-Liisa Peuhu | Lucía Esteban | ||||||||||||||||||
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Tantor's Father | Phil Proctor | Francisco Colmenero | Philippe Catoire | Veikko Honkanen | Ivar Nørve | |||||||||||||||||
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Tantor's Mother | Patti Deutsch | Magda Giner | Mônica Rossi | Perrette Pradier | Franca Lumachi | Maija-Liisa Peuhu | María Luisa Rubio | |||||||||||||||
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Captain | Phil Proctor | Jesse Conde | Marcelo Coutinho | Ivar Combrinck | Jarmo Koski | Javier Franquelo | ||||||||||||||||
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Thug Jonathan | Joe Whyte | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Larry | Paul Eiding | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Snipes | Bob Bergen | Ilkka Moisio | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Jones | Corey Burton | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Max | Phil Proctor | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Kevin | Frank Simms | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Sylvester | Jack Angel | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Hamilton | Charlie Adler | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Peter | Eddie Korbich | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Cornelius | Ian Redford | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug David | Rodger Bumpass | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Samuel | Michael Gough | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Florentino | Patrick Pinney | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Thug Dennis | Jim Cummings |