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Alex Greenwald

Alexander Greenwald (Los Angeles, California, USA)  is an American musician, actor, and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of the California rock band Phantom Planet.

In 1994, Greenwald formed Phantom Planet in his teens with four friends – guitarist Darren Robinson, bassist Sam Farrar, guitarist Jacques Brautbar, and drummer Jason Schwartzman. The band is best known for producing the song "California", which was used as the theme song of the teen drama The O.C., which lasted four seasons. Phantom Planet announced their hiatus on November 25, 2008.

In 2006, he collaborated with DJ Mark Ronson, to cover the Radiohead song, "Just". The cover appears on the compilation album Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads, as well as the Mark Ronson album, Version. He appeared with Ronson at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival where he climbed up on to the lighting rig of the John Peel stage during the performance of "Just", and also sang "California". In 2010, he collaborated once again with Ronson on the album "Record Collection", on which Greenwald shares writing credits on six out of the eleven tracks. He became part of Ronson's band, The Business Intl. for this record. He was also a member of Los Angeles band blackblack, until 2007. At live shows, he was known for 1980s styled dance moves, which were inspired from watching David Byrne of the Talking Heads.

Greenwald is a vegan and has appeared in at least two ads for PETA. He told PETA his reasons for going vegan: "In college I stopped eating red meat on a bet with my girlfriend at the time. She bet she could stop smoking, and I bet that I could stop eating red meat. She started smoking again, so I won, which I'm always proud of.…I had been a vegetarian as a child for whatever reason. I guess kids sometimes follow their instincts…My friend dared me to go vegan as I was reading this book Fast Food Nation, which opened my eyes to a lot of cruelties.…Ever since then, I've been vegan and enjoyed it daily."

Greenwald co-produced and appeared on ex – Panic! at the Disco members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker's new band, The Young Veins debut record, Take A Vacation!.

He played bass and produced several tracks on The Like's second studio album Release Me.

He is currently part of the group Phasess(previously named JJAMZ), and signed to Warner Bros. Records.

Greenwald is in a relationship with actress and singer Brie Larson. On January 10, 2016 at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, she thanked him during her acceptance speech for Best Actress in a Drama. She did the same on February 28, 2016 at the 88th Academy Awards, where she won the Oscar for Best Actress. In May 2016 it was confirmed that the pair are engaged.
Alejandro Illescas

***Alejandro Illescas Calderón*** (January 3, 1960, Mexico - January 17, 2008, Mexico) was a Mexican voice actor who was heard in the Latin American dubs of many movies, TV series, and cartoons, often in small roles as policemen, reporters, or announcers. He is best known for voicing Genma Saotome in Ranma ½, Krillin in Dragon Ball Gt, Ebisu in Naruto.
ALF Tales

***ALF Tales*** is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series that aired on NBC from September 10, 1988 to December 9, 1989. The show is a spin-off of ALF: The Animated Series which featured characters from that series playing various characters from fairy tales. The fairy tale was usually altered for comedic effect in a manner akin to Jay Ward's "Fractured Fairy Tales".

Each story typically spoofs a film genre, such as the "Cinderella" episode done as an Elvis Presley film. Some episodes featured a "fourth wall" effect where ALF is backstage preparing for the episode, and Rob Cowan would appear drawn as a TV executive (who introduced himself as "Roger Cowan, network executive") to try to brief ALF on how to improve this episode. For instance Cowan once told ALF who was readying for a medieval themed episode that "less than 2% of our audience lives in the Dark Ages".
Adrián Wowczuk

***Adrián Marcelo Wowczuk*** (February 2, 1970, Argentina) is a voice actor from Argentina known for voicing Iron Man in Iron Man: Extremis, Marvel Video Comics, Avengers Assemble, Spidey and His Amazing Friends, Avengers: Mech Strike and more, Joel Miller in Last of Us and Grizzlie in Care-Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot.
Ana Lúcia Menezes

***Ana Lúcia Menezes*** (January 22, 1975, Recife, PE, Brazil - April 20, 2021, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a voice actress from Brazil, known for voicing Gwen Tennyson in Ben 10, Poof and Trixie Tang in The Fairly OddParents, and Jasmine "Jazz" Fenton in Danny Phantom.

She died on April 20, 2021 from a stroke at the age of 46 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is survived by her daughter Bia Menezes, who is also a voice actress.
Andrew Keegan

***Andrew Keegan*** (January 29, 1979, Los Angeles California, USA) is an American actor best known for his roles in television shows including Party of Five and 7th Heaven and in films such as 10 Things I Hate about You, The Broken Hearts Club (2000) and O (2001).

He was first recognized for his performance of teen rebel Zack Dell in the cult-classic film Camp Nowhere (1994). Keegan was cast in a minor role in the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day. He also played a love interest for Stephanie Tanner in the hit series Full House for an episode. He had guest parts on numerous television shows before being cast on the TV drama Party of Five (1994). That same year, he landed another recurring role on 7th Heaven (1996), the WB's longest-running series, on which he played a single teenaged father in love with Jessica Biel's character Mary. Keegan was then cast in two modern-day Shakespearean film adaptations: as the antagonist of Heath Ledger in the 1999 comedy 10 Things I Hate About You (adapted from The Taming of the Shrew) and as Mekhi Phifer's best friend in 2001's O, adapted from Othello.

Keegan then took a role in Greg Berlanti's The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000), which won best picture that year at the GLAAD Awards. In 2009, Keegan made his theatrical stage debut in the award winning play "He Asked For It", playing Rigby, a character tackling the emotional issues of being HIV-positive in modern-day society. In 2010, Keegan played Strayger, a drug-smuggling pilot in the 2010 action film Kill Speed. Keegan took on a role as a sadistic and sociopathic vampire named Blake in the film Living Among Us (2015), which is scheduled for release in early 2015.
AAA, La Película: Sin Límite en el Tiempo

AAA (also known as AAA - The Movie or simply "Triple A") is a 2010 animated action-dramedy film produced by Ánima Estudios and distributed by Videociné. It is a fictionalization of the lucha libre wrestling team organization, Lucha Libre AAA World Wide, and was released in theaters on January 22, 2010.

In the world of strife, hatred between rough and technicians has always existed, but this hatred has never left the confines of the ring. Overnight, La Parka snatches the championship Black Abyss, the king's resentment resurface the ram and threatens to end the AAA, supported by Chessman and Cyber begin their revenge. With the incredible emergence of a "mysterious" subject, an old enemy of the AAA, dramatically increase the problems, as there was a traitor in the AAA. An abandoned psychiatric, cyborgs murderers, giant dragonflies, legendary warriors and time travel.

The Parka with the help of Octagon, Gronda, Kenzo Suzuki, Mascarita Sagrada, Faby Apache and many more, say the most spectacular ever seen fight is about to begin, but accidentally travel back in time.
Anders Baasmo Christiansen

***Anders Baasmo*** (January 29, 1976, Hamar, Norway) is a Norwegian actor originally from Hamar.

Baasmo graduated from the Norwegian Acting Academy in 2000. He started his professional career at the Trøndelag Teater in Trondheim, Norway. He later joined the Det Norske Teatret in Oslo.

Baasmo earned his breakthrough in 2003 when he received the Amanda award for his performance in the Norwegian picture Buddy. He won the TV award Gullruten in 2007 for his portrait of Henrik Ibsen in the TV-series An Immortal Man (En udødelig mann) on NRK.

Baasmo starred in the Swedish 2008 film Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End. That same year he won Norway's most prestigious actor's award, the Heddaprisen, for his interpretation of Hamlet. He then became the first actor to collect an Amanda, a Gullruten and a Hedda award.

He received the Shooting Stars Award, the annual acting award for up-and-coming actors by European Film Promotion, at the Berlin International Film Festival 2010.

Baasmo voiced Hans in the Norwegian dub of the Disney animated film Frozen and played Herman Watzinger in the 2012 adaptation of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki. He also starred in the hit sitcom Dag between 2010 and 2015.
A Johnny Bravo Christmas

***A Johnny Bravo Christmas*** is the second Christmas episode of the Cartoon Network original series Johnny Bravo, written and co-directed by the show's creator, Van Partible. Produced as a half-hour special between the show's third and fourth seasons, it was originally broadcast on December 7, 2001.

On Christmas Eve Johnny realizes he forgot to mail his and Momma's wish lists to Santa. In order to ensure that he gets all the "free stuff" he has been looking forward to Johnny decides to head to the North pole himself and has the holiday adventure of a life time and learns the true meaning of Christmas.
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kids

***Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids*** is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 8, 1973, to December 1, 1973. The series title is a play on the name of the unrelated 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The character's music group is called the Sun Dance Kids.

Similar to both Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Josie and the Pussycats on CBS, the show depicts the adventures of a teen pop group of the series title. The band consists of heartthrob Butch Cassidy (lead vocals, lead guitar and lead singing), blonde beauty Merilee (tambourine), sensible Stephanie (usually referred to by her nickname Steffy) (bass guitar), and curly-topped Wally (drums). With Wally's dog, Elvis, the kids lead double lives as popular rock stars and a secret crime fighting team working for the government. The teens are advised by a supercomputer named Mr. Socrates who is allergic to dogs. When the group meets with Mr. Socrates in his lair for their latest assignment, Elvis is always told to stay outside.

In each episode, however, Elvis somehow ends up inside the lair, either by his own ingenuity or by Wally's forgetfulness; either way, Elvis' mere presence causes Mr. Socrates to sneeze and go haywire. Mr. Socrates then sends the group out of the lair and off to their assignment. Butch, designated as "Sundance 1", wears a special ring with a hidden communicator in it to keep in contact with Mr. Socrates from afar.
A Flintstone Family Christmas

***A Flintstone Family Christmas*** is a 1993 animated Christmas television special featuring The Flintstones. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired on ABC on December 18, 1993. The special was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 1994 for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming Less Than One Hour). This is the only appearance of Stoney and the final appearance of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm in their adult forms as well as their children, Chip and Roxy. Hanna-Barbera continued doing the series but with the original timeline.

In the chronology of the Flintstones' fictional universe, this special covers a time period later than any of the other specials; progressing from the original series in real time, the special and its two predecessors are consistent with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm being adults (about 30 years old). Subsequent films and specials would continue to be produced through 2006, usually covering a time closer to the original show's time frame.

Fred and Wilma try to teach a wayward boy about values.
Animaniacs

***Animaniacs*** is an American animated comedy musical television series produced by Amblin Television label in collaboration with Warner Bros. Animation. It is the second animated series created by Tom Ruegger, developed during the animation renaissance of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Animaniacs first aired on Fox Kids from 1993 to 1995 and new episodes later appeared on The WB from 1995 to 1998 as part of its Kids' WB afternoon programming block. The series had a total of 99 episodes and one film, titled Wakko's Wish.

Animaniacs is a variety show, with short skits featuring a large cast of characters. While the show had no set format, the majority of episodes were composed of three short mini-episodes, each starring a different set of characters, and bridging segments. Hallmarks of the series included its music, character catchphrases, and humor directed at an adult audience.

The Warner siblings and the other characters lived in Burbank, California. However, characters from the series had episodes in various places and periods of time. The Animaniacs characters interacted with famous persons and creators of the past and present as well as mythological characters and characters from modern television. Andrea Romano, the casting and recording director of Animaniacs, said that the Warner siblings functioned to "tie the show together," by appearing in and introducing other characters' segments. Each Animaniacs episode usually consisted of two or three cartoon shorts. Animaniacs segments ranged in time, from bridging segments less than a minute long to episodes spanning the entire show length; writer Peter Hastings said that the varying episode lengths gave the show a "sketch comedy" atmosphere.

Animaniacs had a large cast of characters, separated into individual segments, with each pair or set of characters acting in its own plot. The Warners, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, were three cartoon stars from the 1930s that were locked away in the Warner Bros. water tower until the 1990s, when they escaped. After their escape, they often interacted with Warner Bros. studio workers, including Ralph, the security guard; Dr. Otto Scratchansniff, the studio psychiatrist, and his assistant Hello Nurse. Pinky and the Brain are two genetically altered laboratory mice who continuously plot and attempt to take over the world. Slappy Squirrel is an octogenarian cartoon star who can easily outwit antagonists and uses her wiles to educate her nephew, Skippy Squirrel, about cartoon techniques. Additional principal characters included Rita and Runt, Buttons and Mindy, Chicken Boo, Flavio and Marita (The Hip Hippos), Katie Ka-Boom, a trio of pigeons known as The Goodfeathers, and Minerva Mink.
Andre Stojka

***Andre Stojka*** (May 21, 1944, USA) is an American voice actor. He is best known for his role as Owl in the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise beginning with Winnie the Pooh Playtime: Detective Tigger, inheriting the role from Hal Smith.

He was also the voice of the horse Starlite in all of the animated Rainbow Brite productions. Other roles include the druid from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and the King in the Cinderella sequels. He also voiced the "Grim Creaper" in Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School.

Starting in September 2009, Stojka took over the role of John Avery Whitaker on the Christian radio series Adventures in Odyssey. This role was previously voiced by Hal Smith (both men voiced Owl from Winnie The Pooh) and Paul Herlinger.
Alondra Hidalgo

***Alondra Patricia Hidalgo Quintero*** (February 17, 1989, Mexico City, DF, Mexico) is a Mexican actress and voice actress with 231 voiceovers in Spanish.

Alondra Hidalgo began operation in voice dubbing very young at age and although its activity in the specialty was not constant until about 1993 when she decided to professionally enter the voice-over. It is known for having bent Hinata Hyuga in the anime series Naruto, Miu Furinji in the anime series Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, by lending her voice to Sam Puckett on iCarly and Sam and Cat and the young lion growls Kiara in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. In 2014 she won the role of Adela in the Mexican thriller film Desierto directed by Jonas Cuaron.
Alice in Wonderland

***Alice in Wonderland*** is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll. The 13th of Disney's animated features, the film premiered in New York City and London on July 26, 1951. The film features the voices of Kathryn Beaumont as Alice, Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, Verna Felton as the Queen of Hearts, and Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter.

Walt Disney first attempted unsuccessfully to adapt Alice into an animated feature film during the 1930s. However, he finally revived the idea in the 1940s. The film was originally intended to be a live-action/animated film; however, Disney decided to make it an all-animated feature in 1946. The theme song of the same name has since become a jazz standard. While the film was critically panned on its initial release, the movie proved to be ahead of its time and has since been regarded as one of Disney's greatest animated classics, notably one of the biggest cult classics in the animation medium, as well as one of the best film adaptations of Alice.

A live-action re-imagining produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat, and Mia Wasikowska as Alice was released in 2010.
A Muppet Family Christmas

***A Muppet Family Christmas*** is a Christmas television special starring Jim Henson's Muppets. Shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the special was first broadcast on December 16, 1987, on ABC.

This is one of the very few Muppet productions to feature Muppets associated with all four of the major Muppet franchises as a crossover: The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock and Muppet Babies (who are seen as actual puppets here instead of animated counterparts). This special also features an onscreen guest cameo by Jim Henson; he can be seen in the kitchen doing dishes with Sprocket towards the end of the special. In addition the United Kingdom broadcast marked the first appearance of Doc on British television, as the UK version of Fraggle Rock featured new "Outer Space" segments, in which Sprocket's owner was a lighthouse keeper.

Kermit and his friends spend Christmas staging a surprise visit to Fozzie Bear's mother's farm.
Benjamin Salisbury

***Benjamin David Salisbury*** (October 19, 1980, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is an American actor and dancer best known for playing the role of Brighton Sheffield on the CBS television sitcom The Nanny from 1993 to 1999.

Salisbury was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 19, 1980, to parents David Arthur Salisbury and Mindy Jo (née Schneidewind) Salisbury. In 1998, he graduated from Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minnesota, and enrolled in American University in Washington, D.C., that fall.

An accomplished dancer, Salisbury would often treat The Nanny studio audiences to improvisational routines when the cameras were not rolling.

Salisbury also played Martin Short's son in the 1992 film Captain Ron, and appeared in D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996) as the sports announcer.

Benjamin played the voice of Tin Boy on The Oz Kids 1996.

Salisbury was a contestant on the hit quiz show Jeopardy! where he competed in a very special Teen Celebrity Jeopardy! against Kirsten Dunst and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Salisbury won with $1 but received $15,000 for his charity while Dunst and Levitt each received $10,000 for theirs.

He appeared in the 2004 reunion of the sitcom The Nanny titled The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember with Fran Drescher, Renée Taylor, Rachel Chagall and others from The Nanny cast.

In 2005, he had a minor role as a train expert on the episode "Sabotage" of the series Numb3rs. In August 2006, Salisbury was featured in Domino's Pizza commercials featuring Fudge-ums, Domino's then-new mini-brownies.
Alessandro Cremona

***Alessandro Cremona*** (1969, Busto Arsizio, Italy) is an Italian actor best known in English language cinema for his role of the henchman Marco Sciarra in the James Bond film, Spectre (2015).

He was born in Busto Arsizio in the province of Varese. His family were originally from Piazza Armerina, in the province of Enna, in Sicily.
Allen Jenkins

***Allen Jenkins*** (April 9, 1900, Staten Island, New York, USA – July 20, 1974, Santa Monica, California, USA) was an American character actor and singer who worked on stage, film and television.

Jenkins was born Alfred McGonegal in Staten Island, New York on April 9, 1900. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his first stage appearance, he danced next to James Cagney in a chorus line for an off-Broadway musical called Pitter-Patter, earning five dollars a week. He also appeared in Broadway plays between 1923 and 1962, including The Front Page (1928). His big break came when he replaced Spencer Tracy for three weeks in the Broadway play The Last Mile.

Jenkins was called to Hollywood by Darryl F. Zanuck and signed first to Paramount Pictures and shortly afterward to Warner Bros. His first role in films came in 1931, when he appeared as an ex-convict in the short Straight and Narrow. He had originated the character of Frankie Wells in the Broadway production of Blessed Event and reprised the role in its film adaptation, both in 1932. With the advent of talking pictures, he made a career out of playing comic henchmen, stooges, policemen, taxi drivers and other 'tough guys' in numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s, especially for Warner Bros. Allen Jenkins was labeled the "greatest scene-stealer of the 1930s" by The New York Times. In 1959, Jenkins played the role of elevator operator Harry in the comedy Pillow Talk.

Jenkins later voiced the character of Officer Charlie Dibble on the Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon, Top Cat (1961–62). He was a regular on the television sitcom Hey, Jeannie! (1956–57), starring Jeannie Carson and often portrayed Muggsy on the 1950s-1970s CBS series The Red Skelton Show. He was also a guest star on many other television programs, such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mr. & Mrs. North, I Love Lucy, Playhouse 90, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Zane Grey Theater, and Your Show of Shows. He had a cameo appearance in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Eleven days before his death, he made his final appearance, at the end of Billy Wilder's remake of The Front Page (1974); it was released posthumously.

He went public with his alcoholism and was the first actor to speak in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate about it. He helped start the first Alcoholics Anonymous programs in California prisons for women.

Jenkins, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh were the original members of the so-called "Irish Mafia". He was the seventh member of the Screen Actors Guild. Jenkins died of lung cancer early on July 20, 1974. He was 74 years old.
Ami Foster

***Ami Foster*** (August 5, 1975, USA) is an American former child actress, voice artist and singer. Foster is best remembered for playing Margaux Kramer on the American television program Punky Brewster.

Foster, a native of California, won the National Tap Dance Championship after which she was discovered on Star Search as a singer at age five. In 1984, Foster landed her most notable role, in the NBC series Punky Brewster as Margaux Kramer, the spoiled upper class friend of the title character. During the run of Punky Brewster, Foster appeared on Circus of the Stars; she shared an act with actor-musician Corey Yothers, whose sister Tina (of Family Ties fame) was also featured that year in COTS.

Following the end of Punky Brewster in 1988, Foster appeared in various guest roles: on The Wonder Years, Quantum Leap, and Life Goes On. In 1986-87 she was the voice of Holly, the young owner of the Puppy Pound in the Pound Puppies television series. She also voiced Sally Brown in the 1988 animated Peanuts special Snoopy!!! The Musical and Lucy van Pelt in an episode of This Is America, Charlie Brown. In 1989, she had a role in the film Troop Beverly Hills. Foster's last role to date was in a 1995 episode of CBS Schoolbreak Special.
Anna Carlsson

***Anna Carlsson*** (August 24, 1973, Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany) is a German voice actress from Frankfurt am Main. She voices in the German-language dubs of a number of animation and anime productions including Kim Possible. The Little Mermaid, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Cardcaptor Sakura, Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball. In live-action dubbing she voiced in Desperate Housewives, Angel and Samantha Who?. She is the dub voice for Eva Longoria, Piper Perabo, Zooey Deschanel, and Amy Smart on a number of films and shows. She is fluent in the languages of German, English and Swedish.
Bob the Builder

***Bob the Builder*** is a British children's animated television show created by Keith Chapman. In the original series, Bob appears in a stop motion animated programme as a building contractor, specialising in masonry, along with his colleague Wendy, various neighbours and friends, and their gang of anthropomorphised work-vehicles and equipment. The show is broadcast in many countries, but originates from the United Kingdom where Bob is voiced by English actor Neil Morrissey. The show was later created using CGI animation starting with the spin-off series Ready, Steady, Build!.

In each episode, Bob and his group help with renovations, construction, and repairs and with other projects as needed. The show emphasises conflict resolution, co-operation, socialisation and various learning skills. Bob's catchphrase is "Can we fix it?", to which the other characters respond with "Yes we can!" This phrase is also the title of the show's theme song, which was a million-selling number one hit in the UK.

In October 2014, Bob the Builder was revamped by Mattel for a new series to be aired on Channel 5's Milkshake! in 2015. Amongst the changes were a complete overhaul of the cast, with Harry Potter actor Lee Ingleby replacing Neil Morrissey as the voice of Bob, and Joanne Froggatt and Blake Harrison were also confirmed as the voices of Wendy and Scoop, respectively. The setting and appearance of the characters also changed, with Bob and his team moving to the bustling metropolis of Spring City. An American localisation of the new series debuted on PBS Kids in November 2015. The changes have been criticized by fans of the original version.
A Christmas Carol (2009)

***A Christmas Carol*** (known as ***Disney's A Christmas Carol*** on-screen and in promotional materials) is a 2009 American 3D computer animated motion-capture fantasy film written and directed by Robert Zemeckis. It is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens story of the same name and stars Jim Carrey in a multitude of roles, including Ebenezer Scrooge as a young, middle-aged, and old man, and the three ghosts who haunt Scrooge. The film also features supporting roles done by Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn, and Cary Elwes.

The film received mixed reviews from American film critics, who praised its visuals and the performances of Carrey and Oldman but criticized its dark tone. It was a decent financial success, earning $325.3 million on a $175–200 million budget. The 3D film was produced through the process of motion capture, a technique Zemeckis previously used in his films The Polar Express (2004), and Beowulf (2007). A Christmas Carol began filming in February 2008 and was released on November 3, 2009, by Walt Disney Pictures. It received its world premiere in London, coinciding with the switching on of the annual Oxford Street and Regent Street Christmas lights, which in 2009 had a Dickens theme.

The film was released in Disney Digital 3-D and IMAX 3-D. It is also Disney's third film retelling of A Christmas Carol following 1983's Mickey's Christmas Carol and 1992's The Muppet Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Adventure ...From a Book Called Wisely's Tales

***A Christmas Adventure... from a Book Called Wisely's Tales*** tells the Story about Wisley the owl who reads a story to a group of children. Santa is forced to land in the woods. At the same time, a vehicle carrying circus animals crashes. The woodland creatures, the circus animals, and Santa's reindeer all come together and learn the difference between naughty and nice.
Ali Ekber Diribaş

***Ali Ekber Diribaş*** (October 17, 1967, Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish voice actor and dubbing director who dubbed Gonzo beginning with the Turkish dub of The Muppets (Film), continuing with the dubs of Muppets Most Wanted and Muppets Haunted Mansion.

Diribaş has often been heard dubbing action movies and big budget franchises, as the Turkish voice of Harrison Ford in Star Wars and sequels, Josh Duhamel in the Transformers movies, Hugo Weaving in The Matrix franchise, the Sorting Hat and others in the Harry Potter series, Sam Worthington in Clash of the Titans and its sequel, Craig Parker in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Richard Armitage in The Hobbit movies, Jack Davenport in the first three Pirates of the Caribbean entries, Christopher Meloni in Man of Steel, and secondary roles in the Indiana Jones series.

In the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, Diribaş dubbed Gary Oldman in Batman Begins, Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight, and Matthew Modine in The Dark Knight Rises. Spider-Man work includes Bill Nunn in the Tobey Maguire movies and Martin Starr in the Tom Holland ones, as well as various actors in Marvel movies including John Slattery as Howard Stark, Benicio del Toro as the Collector, Sterling K. Brown in Black Panther, and Guy Pearce in Iron Man 3. He dubbed Mads Mikkelsen several times (including Casino Royale and Doctor Strange), as well as Will Smith in I Am Legend and Suicide Squad, Steve Carell in Welcome to Marwen, Brendan Fraser in Bedazzled, James D'Arcy in Dunkirk, Chris Rock in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Iago in the live-action Aladdin. TV dubs include Benedict Cumberbatch on Sherlock, Damian Lewis on Homeland, and Dominic Cooper on Agent Carter. In cartoons, he dubbed the title role in Disney's Robin Hood, Emperor Zurg in Toy Story 2, and Woody in later Toy Story projects.
Adalberto Maria Merli

***Adalberto Maria Merli*** (January 14, 1938, Rome, Italy) is an actor and voice actor from Italy.

Born in Rome, Merli is active on film and television and he has appeared in over 27 films since 1965. He had his breakout role in the 1968 RAI television series La freccia nera. After some further television success through the TV series Le terre di Sacramento and E le stelle stanno a guardare Merli made his film debut in the 1971 Miklós Jancsó's drama film La tecnica e il rito, then he became quite active in films of "poliziottesco" or political genre, often in leading roles.

Merli is also active as a voice actor. He is known for having dubbed over the voices of Clint Eastwood, Ed Harris, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, David Carradine, Brian Cox, Malcolm McDowell and Michael Caine in some of their films. In his Italian dubbed animation roles, he voiced James P. Sullivan in Monsters, Inc., Mr. Incredible in The Incredibles, The Spirit of the West in Rango, and Pacha in The Emperor's New Groove.
Adalbert Turner

***Adalbert Turner*** (December 6, 1972, Celje, Slovenia) is a Musician and voice actor from Slovenia, known for Crno-bijeli svijet (2015), Bitange i princeze (2005) and Dora (2002). He's also known for voicing Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid, Baker in Beauty and the Beast, and Wheezie in Toy Story 2.
ALF: The Animated Series

ALF: The Animated Series (also known as ALF on Melmac) is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series that aired on NBC for 26 episodes from September 26, 1987, to January 7, 1989.

ALF: The Animated Series was a prequel and animated spinoff of the prime time series ALF, which had also aired on NBC from 1986 to 1990. Paul Fusco, the creator and puppeteer of ALF in the live-action series, was the only cast member to reprise his role in voice form; none of the human characters from the prime time ALF appeared in the animated series, due to the shows premise revolving around ALF (Gordon Shumway) traveling to various places on his home-world of Melmac. ALF Tales was a spin-off from the series that also ran on NBC on Saturdays from September, 1988 to December, 1989. The two ALF animated series ran concurrently during the 1988–89 season as the ALF & ALF Tales Hour.

This show is a prequel to the live action sitcom ALF, depicting ALF's life back on his home planet of Melmac before it exploded. Since the original character's name of "ALF" was an acronym for "Alien Life Form", it is never used in the animated series except for its title. The main character is Gordon Shumway who is normally referred to as "Gordon". In each episode the puppet ALF from the sitcom appears at the introduction and conclusion of the episode, talking to the television viewers; either setting up the episode as if writing his memoirs "Melmac Memories" and commenting on it afterwards, reading fan mail or describing what his life was like on Melmac. The visual look of the series was created by the lead character designer Fil Barlow.

The format of the series has the standard setup of a situational comedy, or sitcom, as its premise, in the style of The Flintstones or The Jetsons and it predates the non-Tracey Ullman Show episodes of The Simpsons, which has a similar family arrangement of two parents, three children and a dog; The Simpsons Tracey Ullman Show shorts, which debuted in April 1987, featured two parents and three children, but, unlike ALF:The Animated Series, would not feature any sort of pet as part of the family arrangement. Much of the humor arises from the characters taking part in ordinary everyday activities set in an alien and surrealistic environment.

Gordon/ALF from this series is one of the cartoon characters featured in Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.

Gordon Shumway is a fairly normal teenager living in suburban East Velcro with his parents Bob and Flo, brother Curtis, young sister Augie and their dog Neep on the planet Melmac. He spends time hanging out with his friends Rick and Skip who call him "Gordo", and he has a girlfriend named Rhonda. Sometimes the quartet would report for mandatory duty with the Melmacian Orbit Guard. The show includes an array of quirky supporting characters, which include the fortune-smeller Madame Pokipsi and the villain Larson Petty with his offsider Eggbert.
Akumajô Dracula Mokushiroku Gaiden: Legend of Cornell

***Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness***, released in Japan as Akumajō Dracula Mokushiroku: Gaiden ~Legend of Cornell~ (悪魔城ドラキュラ黙示録 外伝 〜レジェンド オブ コーネル〜 Akumajō Dorakyura Mokushiroku: Gaiden ~Rejendo obu Kōneru~?, lit. Devil's Castle Dracula Apocalypse: Side Story ~Legend of Cornell~), is a video game that was developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo 64. It was first released in North America on November 30, 1999 and is a prequel and expanded version to the first Castlevania game on the Nintendo 64, but also contains a remake of the original game with improved graphics, added villains (Spider Queen, Medusa), and alternate versions of some levels (Forest of Silence, Tower of Science, Tower of Execution, Clock Tower).
Bernard Cowan

***Bernard Cowan*** (June 11, 1922, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – July 17, 1990, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a Canadian actor, announcer, voice actor, producer and writer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was occasionally credited under his nickname, Bunny Cowan, such as on the production Willy McBean and his Magic Machine. His name was pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable of "Bernard" and last name as "cow in".

Cowan worked as the announcer on many CBC television series such as Front Page Challenge and Wayne and Shuster. He also worked on such animated series as Spider-Man, The Marvel Super Heroes, Rocket Robin Hood, The King Kong Show, and the Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Bernard Cowan was the father of the Canadian disc jockey and voice actor Rob Cowan.
Andrea Martin

***Andrea Louise Martin*** (January 15, 1947, Portland, Maine, USA) is an American-Canadian actress, singer, author and comedian, best known for her work in the television series SCTV. She has appeared in films such as Black Christmas (1974), Wag the Dog (1997), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016), and lent her voice to the animated films Anastasia (1997), The Rugrats Movie (1998) and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001).

Martin has been equally prolific in the world of theater, winning Tony Awards for both My Favorite Year and the 2013 revival of Pippin. Martin also appeared on Broadway in Candide, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, Young Frankenstein, Exit the King and Act One. She has received five nominations for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, more than any other actress in the award's history. She received her first nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 2016 revival of Noises Off.

She currently stars as Carol Wendelson on the NBC sitcom Great News.

Soon after graduating from Emerson College, Martin won a role in a touring company of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. After frequent visits to Toronto, she relocated from New York City to Toronto in 1970 and immediately found steady work in television, film, and theater.

In 1972, Martin played the character of Robin in a Toronto production of Godspell, with a company that included future stars Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Victor Garber, and musical director Paul Shaffer.[10] Two of her early film appearances were in 1973's Cannibal Girls for which she won the Sitges Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and, in 1974, as the bookish sorority sister Phyllis in Black Christmas, a Canadian slasher film.

Martin has played Wanda the Word Fairy in numerous short segments on Sesame Street. She also appeared on Kate & Allie as the executive producer of a low-rated cable channel, which was spun-off into her own CBS series, Roxie. Star Trek fans may recognize her as one of two actresses to play Ishka, Quark's iconoclastic mother on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. For her role, she was made up to appear as an older woman, although in reality, Martin is less than three years older than Armin Shimerman, who played Quark.

She has won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program in 1982 and 1983. She has done considerable voice work in such animated film and television productions such as Anastasia, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Rugrats as Aunt Miriam, The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue as Muriel - Floyd's Wife, The Simpsons (as Apu's mother), Recess as Lunchlady Harriet, the 1999 version of The Woody Woodpecker Show, Earthworm Jim, Kim Possible, The Buzz On Maggie, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Brother Bear 2. She also appeared in the 1993 television adaptation of Gypsy starring Bette Midler.
Amada Anime Shirīzu: Sūpā Mario Burazāzu

Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros. (アマダアニメシリーズ　スーパーマリオブラザーズ Amada Anime Shirīzu: Sūpā Mario Burazāzu?) is a series of three direct-to-video OVAs produced by Studio Junio, licensed by Nintendo, and released on VHS tapes on August 3, 1989 exclusively in Japan. The plot of the episodes involve characters from the Mario franchise in the stories of three fairy tales: Momotarō, Issun-bōshi and Snow White. Its cast includes Miyako Endō (Princess Peach, Kinopio, Morton Koopa Jr., Wendy O. Koopa), Tōru Furuya (Mario), Masaharu Satō (Koopa, Larry Koopa, Iggy Koopa), Naoki Tatsuta (Luigi, Ludwig von Koopa, Roy Koopa, Lemmy Koopa), and Toshiko Sawada (narration).

A review by Kotaku was very critical of the overall quality of the episodes.
Anders Öjebo

***Anders Öjebo*** (March 10, 1966, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden) voiced Kermit and Miss Piggy in Muppets from Space and The Muppet Christmas Carol, where he also voiced Sam the Eagle and was one of the sound engineers. He voiced Cookie Monster and others on Lek med mig i Sesam (Play with Me Sesame). He reprised Miss Piggy in the Swedish dub of Muppets Now.
In the Creature Shop effect movies, he voiced N'Dugo and Kip in George of the Jungle and Alonzo and others in 101 Dalmatians (where he was also musical director).

Öjebo mainly does dubbing work, but can be seen on stage from time to time. Besides acting, he also works as a sound engineer and dubbing director. His voice credits include Disney's The Lion King, Return of Jafar, 101 Dalmatians: The Series (as Pongo), and more.

He played Brian in the Swedish adaptation of Avenue Q that premiered in Maximteatern, Stockholm in February 2007.
Alfonso Arau

***Alfonso Arau Incháustegui*** (January 11, 1932, Mexico City, DF, Mexico) is a Mexican actor and director.

Arau was born in Mexico City, the son of a doctor. He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate (adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name. Among a plethora of roles in his career, Arau has played "Captain Herrera", a lieutenant of Federal general "Mapache", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit "El Guapo" in Three Amigos (USA, 1986), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, shady businessman Manuel in the comedy Used Cars (USA, 1980), and the smuggler "Juan" in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film El rincón de las vírgenes ("The Virgins' Corner"), where he played the assistant of a fake mystical doctor traveling from town to town, who reminisce about their travels, when a group of women decide to propose the doctor for sainthood. The movie was set in 1920s rural Mexico.

Arau has made many appearances as a character actor in American and TV series and plays. In the 1972 episode of Gunsmoke titled "Hidalgo", Arau portrayed the bandit "Mando" who shoots and wounds marshal Matt Dillon.

In 1973, Arau acted in and directed Calzónzin Inspector ("Cazonci" or "Caltzontzin" was the term used in the Purépecha culture, to name their emperors[citation needed]), a movie based on a character from the Mexican comic Los Supermachos of Rius, a cartoonist, who co-wrote the screenplay. The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town. It is a humorous political critique, aimed squarely at the then ruling party Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and its paramilitary caciques, at a time when freedom of speech in politics was highly restricted. There are at least two versions of the movie, with one having some scenes deleted by State censors, the most notable of which depicts the killing of a renegade farmer by a police officer, who shoots the farmer in the back.

In December 2004, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Alfonso Arau for his work in cinema.

In 2010 he directed the Italian-language film, The Trick in the Sheet.

In January 2011, he starred in Chad, Matt & Rob's "The Treasure Hunt: An Interactive Adventure."

Arau also became a supporter of SENS Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization that conducts rejuvenation research.
Alec Willows

***Alec Willows*** is a Canadian voice actor. Some of his most notable roles include Oolong on the first English dub of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Bao on Black Lagoon, Mushin on InuYasha, Commander Feldspar on War Planets: Shadow Raiders, Falkenar on Conan: The Adventurer, and as the Mayor of Townsville on the English dub of Powerpuff Girls Z. He has the most awesome evil cackle ever.
Betty Toons

Betty Toons is a Colombian animated television series was produced by RCN Televisión in 2002, based on Fernando Gaitán's soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea, retrofitting all the characters to make them children living in a primary school. After the great success of the transmission of this telenovela in 1999 until 2001, the idea of the production of the animated series by RCN Televisión came about. The series lasted a year on the air.

The voice direction was done by Hernán Zajec and Maribel Echeverría. The musical direction was by Juancho Pulido and the logistics were in charge with Paula Arenas.

In the United States, Betty Toons aired on Telefutura from 2004–2008 in Spanish.

The cartoon version recreates the era of the protagonists in childhood, when everyone attends the same school, including Beatriz Pinzón or Betty, Armando Mendoza, "La Peliteñida", Marcela Valencia, the teacher Gutierrez, who sometimes uses English words when he is talking.

This is the first time that a Colombian animated series is aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in Latin America, on November 7, 2004 and ended on December 17, 2006.

In Mexico the series was shown by Canal de las Estrellas in 2004 and 2005.

The series was redisplayed on February 17, 2018 and January 6, 2019 again by RCN, was also shown Tacho Pistacho channel.

One day a girl dressed as Betty goes to school who gets made fun of for her looks, The series is very similar to the original telenovela but they go to school and Armando does not work at EcoModa yet. Hugo Lombardi is not a character in this version due to his personality being not suitable for children. Most characters from Yo Soy Betty la fea are in Betty Toons but there are also new characters, like the teacher Professor Gutierrez. The series ends with Betty being an exchange student and moves to France, in the airplane she meets a new boy.
Barbara De Bortoli

***Barbara De Bortoli*** (January 30, 1971, Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress and voice actress. In the Italian-Language dub of Friends, she voiced Monica Geller. She is the older sister of voice actress Federica De Bortoli.

De Bortoli is best known for having provided the Italian voice of Shirley Temple in several redubs of her films when she was a child. She also dubbed over the voices of characters such as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, Andie McPhee in Dawson's Creek, Nala in The Lion King 1 1/2 and The Lion Guard, Nikki Fernandez in Lost and she also dubbed actresses like Katherine Heigl and Naomi Watts.

Sometime after the death of Vittorio De Angelis, who voiced Joey Tribbiani in the Italian version of the show. She and Simone Mori (who voiced Ross) appeared on a radio show to talk about and remember what it was like working with De Angelis.