Information about The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1996 Film)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Directed by	Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise
Produced by	Don Hahn
Written by	Victor Hugo (novel)
Starring	Tom Hulce Demi Moore Tony Jay Kevin Kline Paul Kandel Jason Alexander Charles Kimbrough Mary Wickes
Music by	Alan Menken
Editing by	Ellen Keneshea
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	June 21, 1996
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$100,000,000
Gross revenue	$325,500,000
Followed by	The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002)
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (also known as The Bells of Notre Dame in some countries) is a 1996 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released to theaters on June 21, 1996 by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirty-fourth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is loosely based on Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. While the basic structure remains, the film differs greatly from its source material. The plot centers on the Gypsy dancer, Esmeralda; Claude Frollo, a powerful and ruthless judge who lusts after her; Quasimodo, the protagonist, Notre Dame's kind-hearted but deformed bellringer, who adores her; and Phoebus, the chivalrous if irreverent military captain, who holds affections for her.

Despite the changes from the original literary source material in order to ensure a G rating, the film does manage to address some rather mature themes; i.e. sexual obsession, infanticide, religious hypocrisy, prejudice, and social injustice. It is also the first Disney movie to use the word "damn", although it is used only in the religious sense. In the DVD audio commentary, the filmmakers note that the gargoyles might exist only in Quasimodo's imagination and thus may well be split-off pieces of his own identity.

The film was directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale and produced by Don Hahn, the directing/producing team behind Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King The songs for the musical film were composed by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz and featured the voices of Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline, Paul Kandel, Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough, David Ogden Stiers, and the late Mary Wickes (in her final film role) and Tony Jay. A direct-to-video sequel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, was released in 2002.

Plot

The movie opens in 1482 Paris with Clopin, a gypsy puppeteer, telling a group of children the story about the bellringer of Notre Dame ("The Bells of Notre Dame"): One night long ago, four Gypsies tried to enter Notre Dame but were stopped by Judge Claude Frollo, the Minister of Justice. One gypsy woman, carrying a bundle, attempted to flee, and Frollo pursued, thinking the bundle was stolen goods. Frollo grabbed the baby and in the fight the woman was knocked down on the steps of the Cathedral and died. Frollo then finds that the bundle is a deformed baby, and attempts to drown it in a well, believing it to be an unholy demon. He is stopped by the Archdeacon, who tells him to care for the child to save his own soul from going to Hell for killing an innocent woman. He reluctantly agrees, and names the baby Quasimodo, "...which means 'half-formed.'"

Later, when Quasimodo is grown, he is the bellringer of Notre Dame. Frollo insists that Quasimodo never leave the bell tower because all the people in the city are cruel and horrible and will mistreat him due to his ugliness. Frollo then lies about Quasimodo's mother, telling him that his mother abandoned him on the church steps and that he kindly took Quasimodo in. Quasimodo's gargoyle friends(Hugo,Victor and Laverne) convince him that this one day, Topsy-Turvy Day, is the one day he can experience the world outside, given that everyone is in costumes.

Meanwhile, Frollo and the new captain of the guard, Phoebus, arrive to oversee the festival as Quasimodo tries to keep himself from being seen. The main attraction of the festivities is Esmerelda, who captures the hearts of all three men (Quasimodo, Phoebus, and Frollo). When the time comes to crown the ugliest member of the crowd as the King of Fools, Quasimodo is dragged onto the stage by Esmerelda, who thinks his face is a "great mask!". Right afterward, the crowd turns on Quasimodo, tying him down and pelting him with tomatoes,eggs,cabages and other kinds of food. Phoebus tries to help but is ordered back by Frollo who lets the torment continue, determined to teach Quasimodo a lesson. Esmerelda helps Quasimodo down and Frollo orders her arrested for helping the hunchback. Esmerelda uses stagecraft to disappear, and Frollo is convinced of witchcraft. She follows a humiliated Quasimodo while in disguise.

She is caught in the Cathedral and Phoebus saves her by saying she claimed Sanctuary and the law cannot touch her. The archdeacon commands Frollo to leave in respect for the church. Frollo reluctantly leaves, warning Esmerelda that if she leaves, she will be arrested. Quasimodo shows her the bell tower and becomes even more infatuated by her kindness and helps her escape.

Meanwhile, Frollo is disturbed by his own lust for Esmeralda and fears eternal damnation as a consequence ("Hellfire"). Frollo leads a search for gypsies, burning down houses and buildings. Finally Phoebus refuses and Frollo orders him attacked. Frollo is distracted by Esmerelda causing his horse to throw him off and Phoebus falls into a river and is rescued by Esmerelda. After reassurance by the gargoyles of romance, Esmerelda brings an injured Phoebus to the bell tower and Quasimodo, heartbroken, watches them kiss.

Later that night, Phoebus and Quasimodo try to find the gypsy court of miracles to warn the gypsies that Frollo will storm their haven with 'a Thousand men". They use a map necklace given to Quasimodo by Esmerelda, but they are captured by Clopin and his men, mistaking them as spies and sentenced to die by hanging. They are saved by Esmerelda, but Frollo and many soldiers arrive and arrest the crowd, having followed Quasimodo.

The next day Frollo is preparing to burn Esmeralda in front of the cathedral. Quasimodo is chained up in the bell tower, but breaks free, swings down, and saves Esmerelda by claiming sanctuary at the top of the cathedral. Phoebus and Clopin incite a revolt against Frollo and the guards. Quasimodo also pours molten lead from above to scare the guards away, but Frollo manages to break into the cathedral, where he finds Quasimodo weeping over the unconscious Esmeralda, where he almost manages to kill Quasimodo.

Quasimodo escapes with Esmeralda and Frollo pursues. He nearly manages to attack them with a sword, reciting a line that sounds biblical but is not actually from the Bible. Frollo, however, falls into the molten lead and fire below. Quasimodo then "gives his blessing" to Esmeralda and Phoebus's relationship. They return to the crowd and the crowd accepts Quasimodo, despite his appearance.

Production

The Hunchback of Notre Dame was the second Disney film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise after the hugely successful Beauty and the Beast in 1991. The duo had read Victor Hugo's novel and were eager to make an adaptation, but made several changes in order to make the storyline more suitable for children. This included making the film's heroes, Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and Phoebus, kinder than in the novel (Phoebus, in particular, was a villain in the novel), adding three anthropomorphized stone gargoyles in the form of sidekicks, and keeping Quasimodo and Esmeralda alive at the end.

The film's animators visited the actual cathedral at Notre Dame in Paris where the story is set for a few weeks. They made and took hundreds of sketches and photos in order to stay fully faithful to the architecture and detail. Some in-jokes were incorporated into this; for example, the murals inside the cathedral are decorated with the names of the animators. Another example can be found when Phoebus and Quasimodo enter the grave leading to the Court of Miracles; the tombstone is inscribed with the names of the members of the Layout Department, and a caricature of Marec Fritzinger, Head of Layout Department, can be found on the coffin.

Several of the film's voice actors had been sighted from past projects Trousdale and Wise attended. For example, Tony Jay, the voice of Judge Claude Frollo, was selected based on his short role as Monsieur D'Arque in Beauty and the Beast. Also, Paul Kandel, the voice of Clopin, was chosen after the directors saw him playing the role of Uncle Ernie in the opera production of Tommy. Demi Moore was chosen for the role of Esmeralda based on her unusual voice, as the directors wanted a non-traditional voice for the film's leading lady.

Cast and characters

• Quasimodo - The not-so-average hero with a heart of gold. He is the bell ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral. He is physically deformed with a hunched back and is constantly told by his guardian Judge Claude Frollo that he is a monster who will never be accepted. However, the opening song asks listeners to judge "who is the monster, and who is the man".
• Esmeralda - A streetwise gypsy girl who befriends Quasimodo and shows him that his soul is truly beautiful, even if his exterior isn't. She greatly dislikes the horrible ways in which gypsies are treated and throughout the movie attempts to seek justice for her people.
• Judge Claude Frollo - A ruthless and corrupt judge who is Quasimodo's reluctant guardian.
• Captain Phoebus - A man who returns to Paris to be Captain of the Guard under Judge Frollo.
• Clopin - A mischievous gypsy who will defend his people at all costs.
• Hugo, Victor, Laverne - Three gargoyle statues who become Quasimodo's close friends.
• * This was Mary Wickes's (Laverne) last film. She died of cancer before she finished all her lines (Jane Withers provided the remaining dialogue, and provided the voice for Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame II).
• The Archdeacon - A kind man who helps many characters throughout the course of the movie, including Esmeralda. He is the opposite of Frollo; kind, accepting, gentle, and wise.

Crew

Crew Position
Directed by	Gary Trousdale Kirk Wise
Produced by	Don Hahn
Based on the Novel by	Victor Hugo
Original Story by	Tab Murphy
Screenplay by	Tab Murphy Irene Mecchi Bob Tzudiker Noni White Jonathan Roberts
Co-Producer	Roy Conli
Songs by	Alan Menken Stephen Schwartz
Original Score by	Alan Menken
Associate Producer	Phillip Lofaro
Art Director	David Goetz
Film Editor	Ellen Keneshea
Artistic Supervisors	Will Finn (Story supervisor) Ed Ghertner (Layout supervisor) Lisa Keene (Background supervisor) Vera Lanpher-Pacheco (Clean-up supervisor) Chris Jenkins (Effects supervisor) Kiran Bhakta Joshi (Computer Graphics supervisor)
Artistic Coordinator	Randy Fullmer
Supervising Animators	James Baxter (Quasimodo) Tony Fucile (Esmeralda) Kathy Zielinski (Frollo) Russ Edmonds (Phoebus) Michael Surrey (Clopin) David Pruiksma (Hugo/Victor) Will Finn (Laverne) Ron Husband (Djali) David Burgess (Archdeacon)
Production Manager	Patricia Hicks
Additional Screenplay Material by	Will Finn

Reception

The Hunchback of Notre Dame opened on June 21, 1996 to very mixed and conflicting reviews, and opinions on the film vary greatly even today. On one hand, Roger Ebert awarded the film four stars out of four and hailed it as "the best Disney animated feature since Beauty and the Beast - a whirling, uplifting, thrilling story with a heart-touching message that emerges from the comedy and song." Near the end of his review, Ebert compared the film favorably to other entries in the Disney Renaissance era, such as Aladdin, The Lion King and Pocahontas.^[1] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave high praise to the film calling it the best of "Disney's serious animated features in the multiplex era" and praising the characterization of Quasimodo: "They've given their outcast hero a face so supple and responsive that we vibrate to his every glimmer of sadness and joy."

On the other hand, critics such as Marjorie Baumgarten of the Austin Chronicle were less kind, writing that the film "ultimately misses its target, as it's more likely to find acceptance with an older-than-average Disney crowd."^[2] Indeed, the film's violence and thematic elements were a particular criticism of such critics, arguing that the film was far less kid-friendly than past Disney features. Some even compared the opening scene in this film to the opening scene in Tim Burton's Batman Returns (Quasimodo and The Penguin being both physically deformed). Incidentally, Batman Returns received almost exactly the same reviews and critical reception as Notre Dame. Generally, critics and viewers agree with James Berardinelli, who awarded the film three stars out of four. Berardinelli praised the film for its "stunning visuals and family entertainment value" but noted that it was "the least-enjoyable animated feature to come from the studio since its 1989 rebirth."^[3]

Predictably, a large amount of criticism was provided by fans of Victor Hugo’s novel, who were very unhappy with the changes Disney made to the material. Critics such as Arnaud Laster, a leading scholar on Hugo, accused Disney of simplifying, editing and censoring the novel in many aspects, including the personalities of the characters. In his review,^[4] Laster wrote that the animators "don't have enough confidence in their own emotional feeling" and that the film "falls back on clichés."

In its opening weekend, the film opened in second place at the box office, grossing $21 million. The film saw small decline in later weeks and ultimately grossed just over $100 million domestically and over $325 million worldwide. Although the film could not outgross its predecessors, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and Pocahontas it nevertheless outgrossed other Disney Renaissance films, such as The Little Mermaid, and Hercules.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame received one Oscar nomination for Best Original Score by Alan Menken.

Soundtrack

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Songs Included In The Movie

• The Bells Of Notre Dame - Paul Kandel/David Ogden Stiers/Tony Jay/Choir
• Out There - Tony Jay/Tom Hulce
• Topsy Turvy - Paul Kandel/Choir
• God Help The Outcasts - Heidi Mollenhauer/Choir
• Heaven's Light/Hellfire - Tom Hulce/Tony Jay/Choir
• A Guy Like You - Jason Alexander/Charles Kimbrough/Mary Wickes/Mary Stout
• The Court Of Miracles - Paul Kandel/Choir
• The Bells Of Notre Dame (Reprise) - Paul Kandel/Choir
• Someday (End Credits - All-4-One (U.S.A)/Eternal (U.K.)

Soundtrack Songs Not In The Movie

• God Help The Outcasts - Bette Midler

Songs written for the movie but not included

The special edition CAV laserdisc box set released concurrent with the original VHS and standard CLV laserdisc editions included storyboards and demos for several songs as bonus materials. Although some of those songs would make it to the final film, three were deleted:

• Someday (to be sung by Esmerelda - later replaced with God Help The Outcasts. Pop versions were recorded for the end credits by All-4-One for the US market and Eternal for overseas markets.
• In A Place Of Miracles
• As Long As There's A Moon

The storyboards and demos of The Bells of Notre Dame, Out There, and Heaven's Light/Hellfire were also included on the CAV laserdisc set. Only Someday's storyboards and demos have seen release on DVD so far, and only in region 2. Fans hoped for a 2-Disc DVD reissue of the film for its 10th Anniversary in 2006, which would include all of the storyboards and demos among other bonuses ported over from the CAV laserdisc set, but Disney has yet to re-visit the film on DVD.

Soundtrack Songs In The Live Action Production

• Sanctuary - Frollo
• Balancing Act - Clopin/Esmeralda
• Rest and Recreation- Phoebus
• Top of the Wold - Esmeralda/Quasimodo/Gargoyles
• Esmeralda - Frollo/Phoebus/Quasimodo/Esmeralda
• City Under Siege - Clopin
• Out of Love - Phoebus/Quasimodo
• Out of Love (Reprise) - Esmeralda/Phoebus/Quasimodo
• Made of Stone- Quasimodo/Gargoyles
• Someday- Esmeralda/Phoebus

Differences Between the Book and the Film

Characters in the Novel who aren't in the Film

• Gringoire: An impoverished poet and Esmeralda's husband by Gypsy law. In the novel, Esmeralda saves him from being hanged in the Court of Miracles.
• Gudule: A reculsive woman and Esmeralda's birth mother. She is also Quasimodo's temporary adoptive mother before giving him away to Frollo.
• Fleur-de-Lys: In the novel, Phoebus' young fiancee of noble descent and his real love.
• Jehan: Frollo's younger brother, who is always begging Frollo for money. Jehan leads many hazings and causes most of the trouble during the festival. He is eventually killed mistakenly by Quasimodo in the revolt.

Characters in the Film who aren't in the Novel

• The Archdeacon: A kind, caring man who gives guidance to several characters, especially Esmeralda. In the novel, Frollo is the Archdeacon, so this character didn't exist.
• The three gargoyles They serve as comic relief.

Differences of Characters who appear in the Novel and in the Film

• Frollo: In the book, Frollo shows no interest in finding the Court of Miracles and the only act against gypsies he performed was requesting they stay away from Notre Dame to keep from distracting anyone's churchly duties. In the film, Frollo is a middle-aged man appears cold and hating towards Quasimodo. In the novel, Frollo actually took in the orphaned Quasimodo by his own choice and was a good father. Frollo has no carriage and no such thing is ever mentioned in the book. In fact, most scenes were about him walking, running and once in a slow rowboat. In the novel, Frollo is a priest, in fact the Archdeacon of Notre Dame, while he is a judge in the film and the Archdeacon is a separate character. In the novel, Frollo does in fact make attempts to save Esmeralda, some of which involved sending her away from him. In the movie, he wants her dead or 'his.' Frollo is in fact that main character of the novel. He is described as being 36, bald with 'a broad forehead,' wearing a stole and alb over his cope.
• Phoebus: In the film, Phoebus is a charming, likeable man who seems to hold a genuine love for Esmeralda, and sincerely wants to help the Gypsies. In the novel, Phoebus is truthfully antagonistic and far worse than Frollo. In the book, Phoebus is engaged to be married, and only lusts after Esmeralda (this does not stop him from arranging a meeting for them to have sex, however and he allows Frollo to spy on them during the event). He also is not a friend to the outcasts. In the end of the book, he helps drive them out of Paris, and wants nothing more to do with Esmeralda.
• Quasimodo: In the novel, Quasimodo hates all people, save for Frollo who is a kind man and later Esmeralda. He uses his ugliness to scare people and his brute strength to attack them. He rarely speaks, and is also deaf (from ringing the bells), emotionally stunted, and prone to fits of anger. He has protruding teeth and is blind in one eye due to a wart over it. He kills Frollo and later weeps at the loss of his father. In the movie, Quasimodo is a gentle, but still deformed person who cares for all people. He is perfectly healthy and has perfect hearing, full sight, and perfect fluency of English. He yearns to leave the bell tower and meet people. He fears Frollo, but still trusts him until the end of the movie.
• Esmeralda: Esmeralda's personality has changed quite a bit from the book. In the movie, she is a clever, sexy, talented gypsy with talent of disguise and illusion. She is fun-loving and truly cares for Quasimodo, especially when she helps him, and even kisses him on the cheek after he helps her escape. In the novel, she is not as kind to Quasimodo and cares nothing of his feelings. She is disgusted by people who are ugly and 'old'. She is unskilled at hiding or disguises. In the novel, she was to be hanged. She was saved in a similar fashion by Quasimodo, but later executed by the guards as Phoebus watched. She also never used claimed sanctuary on her own.
• Clopin: In the movie, Clopin is portrayed as a clownish, fun-loving Master of the Revels and a lighthearted leader of the Gypsies. In the novel, Clopin is just the opposite. His humor in the novel is darker, and he isn't a jester, but rather, a father and serious protector of the outcasts, especially Esmeralda. He leads the revolt on his own, but is killed by musket fire. In the movie, he leads the ceremonies, but in the novel, he plays little role, other than distributing a play. In the movie he nearly executes Phoebus and Quasimodo for entering the Court of Miracles (which is just a tavern in the book), but in the novel, it is Gringoire who is saved by Esmeralda from hanging.

In that aspect, the book Phoebus resembles an actual Disney character: Gaston from Beauty and the Beast while Frollo and Quasimodo resembled the Beast.

In the movie, there is a happy ending; everyone except Frollo is alive, well, and happy (as most Disney movies have had). In the novel, only Phoebus, Fleur-de-Lys, and Gringoire are still alive.

Behind The Scenes

• The names of the three gargoyles are Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, after Victor Hugo, author of the original novel, and one of the three Andrews Sisters, LaVerne.
• While voice actors are rarely in the same recording room while filming their lines, Charles Kimbrough and Jason Alexander were together while recording "A Guy Like You." Mary Wickes, however, was not.
• The speech Phoebus yells to rile the crowd near the end of the movie was originally supposed to be said by Clopin, but the directors thought a "rallying the troops" speech would be more appropriate for Phoebus.
• There used to be a long scene that was cut where Frollo approaches Esmeralda in the dungeon. It was very similar to the scene in the book where Frollo and Esmeralda speak in the dungeon and he confesses his love for her, but the Disney team decided to move that action right to the stage where Esmeralda was going to be executed, for expediency and for drama.
• In one case, Menken had to make radical adjustments because of an incident that occurred with Tom Hulce ("Amadeus"), the voice of Quasimodo in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

"There was one notorious session where the director had done something that I didn't know about," Menken remembers. "Just prior to a session where we were recording 'Heaven's Light,' they had had a session where Quasimodo had done all of his screaming. 'Noooo!' 'Sanctuary!' It went on for HOURS, and Tom came in with his vocal chords completely shredded. We were up against it. We had to get a vocal that day. It wasn't a matter of we could wait a couple of weeks. Tom was deeply involved in doing a theater piece in Seattle, so we only had that day. We had a couple of unbelievable studio machinations to get his vocal that day. We divided the notes of the song into notes in various ranges, and I only had him sing those notes so he wouldn't have to change his position, and it came out sounding great."

Cultural References and Uses

• Soundtrack and Movie feature the Goofy holler in which the soldiers fall after Quasimodo pulls the rope they were climbing.
• Phoebus means sun-god in Greek text; not to be confused with Apollo.
• In the song "Out There", Belle from Beauty and the Beast, the Magic Carpet from Aladdin and Pumbaa from The Lion King can all be seen when the camera zooms in on the citizens of Paris.
• During the siege on Notre Dame, there is a scene where LaVerne commands a flock of pigeons to fly into Frollo's soldiers, saying "Fly, my pretties, fly!", just as The Wicked Witch of the West did to her flying monkey minions in The Wizard of Oz. She even makes the same arm motions the Witch did, and the background music is also the same.
• Fragments from many traditional Catholic liturgical pieces appear in the score, notably the Dies Irae (The Bells of Notre Dame, Paris Burning, Sanctuary!), the Confiteor (Hellfire), and the Agnus Dei, or Lamb of God (Humiliation). The Kyrie also appears several times; it is Greek, rather than Latin.
• Phoebus's horse in the movie is named Achilles ( a reference to the Greek mythological character). When being guided to the palace of justice by lieutenants at the beginning of the film he calls out "Achilles, heel!" to the animal, beckoning it to his side.

Miscellanea

• This movie is one of the very few animated Disney movies that features an interracial romance.
• In Japan, the title of this movie was changed to The Bells of Notre Dame because the word "hunchback" is seen as discriminating against the physically disabled, and it is listed on the "taboo words for broadcasting" for Japanese television.
• Greek singer Sakis Rouvas voiced Quasimodo in the Greek version of the film.
• Directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise Cast Tony Jay as Frollo because They liked his voice so much from working with him on Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) in which he played a character named Monsieur D'Arque.

Adaptations

The film was adapted into a darker, more Gothic musical production, re-written and directed by James Lapine and produced by the Disney theatrical branch, in Berlin, Germany. The musical Der Glöckner von Notre Dame (translated in English as The Bellringer of Notre Dame) was very successful and played from 1999 to 2002, before closing. A cast recording was also recorded in German. More recently, Bellringer has been considered for a live action TV film on ABC's The Wonderful World of Disney (although the project has apparently stalled), as well as a possible Broadway production.

Disney Comic Hits #11

This was released by Marvel Comics in August 1996. It featured two new short stories of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

Toy Maker

The story is centered around a Paris Toy Contest. While Quasimodo is hesitant, he enters his toy (A model of Notre Dame Cathedral) in the contest at the insistence of Laverne. Before he can enter his toy, he bumps into a spoiled boy named Antoine who steals his toy and the credit for making it. Due, however, to Quasimodo saving his life and persuasion from his father he give the toy back. The story ends with Quasimodo getting first place for his toy entry.

Monkey Shine

Due to wanting a friend (aside from Victor, Hugo and Laverne) Quasimodo takes in a monkey who is found messing with the bells. He is about to adopt him, but discovers from a tag around the monkey that he has a name (Cicero) and owner. Shortly after, Quasimodo looks around to find Cicero's owner, who happens to be an Organ grinder. The story ends with Cicero and his owner playing a song for Quasimodo.

Credits

Voice cast

Actor	Role
Tom Hulce	Quasimodo
Demi Moore	Esmeralda
Tony Jay	Judge Claude Frollo
Kevin Kline	Captain Phoebus
Paul Kandel	Clopin
Jason Alexander	Hugo
Charles Kimbrough	Victor
Mary Wickes,Jane Withers	Laverne
David Ogden Stiers	The Archdeacon
Mary Kay Bergman	Quasimodo's mother
Jim Cummings	Additional voices

Singing voices

Actor	Role
Heidi Mollenhauer	Esmeralda

References

External links

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the Big Cartoon DataBase

•  • [ e] Disney theatrical animated features
Official canon	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Fantasia (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Saludos Amigos (1942) • The Three Caballeros (1944) • Make Mine Music (1946) • Fun and Fancy Free (1947) • Melody Time (1948) • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) • The Sword in the Stone (1963) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) • The Rescuers (1977) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Black Cauldron (1985) • The Great Mouse Detective (1986) • Oliver & Company (1988) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) • Mulan (1998) • Tarzan (1999) • Fantasia 2000 (1999) • The Emperor's New Groove (2000) •  (2001) • Lilo & Stitch (2002) • Treasure Planet (2002) • Brother Bear (2003) • Home on the Range (2004) • Chicken Little (2005) • Meet the Robinsons (2007) • Bolt (2008) • Rapunzel (2009) • The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Live-action films with animation	The Reluctant Dragon (1941) • Victory Through Air Power (1943) • Song of the South (1946) • So Dear to My Heart (1949) • Mary Poppins (1964) • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) • Pete's Dragon (1977) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • Enchanted (2007)
DisneyToon features	(1990) • A Goofy Movie (1995) • Doug's 1st Movie (1999) • The Tigger Movie (2000) •  (2001) • Return to Never Land (2002) • The Jungle Book 2 (2003) • Piglet's Big Movie (2003) • Teacher's Pet (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Other	The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • James and the Giant Peach (1996) • Dinosaur (2000) • A Christmas Carol (2009)
See also	Pixar • Walt Disney Animation Studios

•  • [ e] Stephen Schwartz
Music and Lyrics	Godspell • Pippin • The Magic Show • The Baker's Wife • Working • Personals • The Trip • Children of Eden • Wicked • Thiruvasagam • Captain Louie
Lyrics	Mass • Rags
Recordings	Reluctant Pilgrim • Uncharted Territory
Films	Pocahontas (lyrics) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (lyrics) • The Prince of Egypt • Enchanted (lyrics)
Television	Geppetto

Preceded by Pocahontas	Walt Disney Pictures 1996	Succeeded by Hercules

•  • [ e] The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Characters
Quasimodo • Esmeralda • Esmeralda (Disney) • Claude Frollo • Claude Frollo (Disney adaptation) • Captain Phoebus • Clopin Trouillefou
Adaptations
1923 • 1939 • 1956 • 1982 • 1996 • The Hunchback of Notre Dame II • Notre Dame de Paris (musical) • Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)