Samuel E. Wright (November 20, 1946 - May 24, 2021) was an American actor, vocal actor, and singer, best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, Dizzy Gillespie in Bird, and the part of Mufasa in the original cast of The Lion King on Broadway.
Academy Award for Best Voice Performance in an Animated Film
What if the Academy gave out Oscars for voicing characters in animated films? Who would get them?
(The year applies to when the film actually came out, not the Oscar night in question.) Don't cast actors if they didn't do a voice in an animated movie that year.
