William Snelgrove Finn (born November 1, 1958) is an American

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voice actor Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talen ...

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, and director.

Career

His work in animation includes characters from

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, Warner Bros., DreamWorks, and Don Bluth films such as '' The Secret of NIMH'', '' Oliver & Company'', '' The Little Mermaid'', ''

The Rescuers Down Under ''The Rescuers Down Under'' is a 1990 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 29th Disney animated feature film and the second movie to be produced during the Disne ...

'', and ''

Pocahontas Pocahontas (, ; born Amonute, known as Matoaka, 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman, belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of ...

''. Finn animated such characters as

Cogsworth Various characters have been featured in Disney's ''Beauty and the Beast'' franchise. This list includes those from the 1991 animated film, its direct-to-video follow-up, a short story collection, the stage musical adaptation, and the 201 ...

in ''

Beauty and the Beast ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine ...

'',

Iago Iago () is a fictional character in Shakespeare's ''Othello'' (c. 1601–1604). Iago is the play's main antagonist, and Othello's standard-bearer. He is the husband of Emilia, who is in turn the attendant of Othello's wife Desdemona. Iago ha ...

in ''

Aladdin Aladdin ( ; ar, علاء الدين, ', , ATU 561, ‘Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with ''The Book of One Thousand and One Nights'' (''The Arabian Nights''), despite not being part o ...

'', and Laverne in ''

The Hunchback of Notre Dame ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (french: Notre-Dame de Paris, translation=''Our Lady of Paris'', originally titled ''Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482'') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. It focuses on the unfortunate story ...

''. Finn wrote and directed '' Home on the Range'' and voiced the character of Hollywood Fish in '' Chicken Little''. In 2006, Finn directed the computer animated short '' Hammy's Boomerang Adventure'', a spin-off of '' Over the Hedge''.Beauty and the Beast's Lumiere and Cogsworth Have a Fascinating Real-Life Backstory, Vanity Fair
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Filmography

Awards

* In 2005, Finn received a nomination with John Sanford for Directing in an Animated Feature Production

Annie Award The Annie Awards are accolades which the Los Angeles branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood, has presented each year since 1972 to recognize excellence in animation shown in cinema and television. Originally de ...

for '' Home on the Range''. * In 2013, Finn received a nomination with Daniel St. Pierre for Best Feature Cristal Award at the

Annecy International Animated Film Festival The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (french: Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy, officially abbreviated in English as the Annecy Festival, or simply Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of J ...

for '' Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return''

References

External links

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at IMDb {{DEFAULTSORT:Finn, Will Living people Animators from New York (state) American male voice actors Place of birth missing (living people) American storyboard artists American animated film directors Walt Disney Animation Studios people DreamWorks Animation people 1958 births