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Kenneth Mars (April 4, 1935 – February 12, 2011) was an American actor. He appeared in two Mel Brooks films: as the deranged Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in The Producers (1967) and Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp in Young Frankenstein (1974). He also appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up Doc? (1972), and Woody Allen's Radio Days (1987), and Shadows and Fog (1991). Mars appeared in two seasons of Malcolm in the Middle as Otto Mannkusser, Francis's well-meaning but dimwitted boss and a German immigrant who owns a dude ranch. He voiced King Triton, Ariel's father, in the 1989 Disney animated film The Little Mermaid and its sequel, as well as its companion television series, and the Kingdom Hearts series. He also did several other animated voice-over film roles such as Littlefoot's grandfather in the Land Before Time series (up to 2008) and that of Professor Screweyes in We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993), and King Colbert (Prince Cornelius's father) in Thumbelina (1994). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenneth Mars, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Kenneth Mars
King Triton
for King Triton in The Little Mermaid (1989)
Suggested by ltathena
In my own version Disney's beguiling animated romp clocking in at 135 minutes, rebellious 21-year-old mermaid Ariel is fascinated with life on land and hopes to study it for her thesis project at the Royal University in 1831. On one of her visits to the surface, which are slowly being allowed by her protective father, King Triton, she falls for a human prince named Eric. Determined to be with her new love, Ariel makes a dangerous deal with the sea witch Ursula to become human for one whole days. But when plans go awry for the star-crossed lovers, the king must make the ultimate sacrifice for his daughter - and Ariel and Eric will have to work together to foil the sea witch's plans.
