Question: Who directed a 1973 American Western film that  adapted from a 1969 novel by Milton R. Bass, that starred an actor known as the voice of The Beast in the Disney animated film "Beauty and the Beast" ?

Context articles: Beauty and the Beast (1991 soundtrack)
Belle's Magical World
Rawhide (1951 film)
Jory (film)
Robby Benson
Something There
Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)
Human Again (song)
Linda Woolverton

Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the official soundtrack album to the 1991 Disney animated feature film, "Beauty and the Beast".
 Originally released on October 29, 1991, by Walt Disney Records, the album's first half – tracks 2 to 9 – generally contains the film's musical numbers, all of which were written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, while its latter half – tracks 10 to 14 – features its musical score, composed solely by Menken.
 While the majority of the album's content remains within the musical theatre genre, its songs have also been influenced by French, classical, pop and Broadway music.
 Credited to Various Artists, "Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" features performances by the film's main cast – Paige O'Hara, Richard White, Jesse Corti, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury and Robby Benson – in order of appearance.
 Additionally, the album features recording artists Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson, who perform a pop rendition of the film's title and theme song, "Beauty and the Beast", which simultaneously serves as the soundtrack's only single.
Belle's Magical World (also known as Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World) is a 1998 direct-to-video animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, and released by Walt Disney Home Video) on February 17, 1998.
 The film is a followup to the 1991 Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film "Beauty and the Beast", features the voices of David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, Robby Benson as The Beast, Gregory Grudt, who replaced Bradley Michael Pearce as Chip Potts, Paige O'Hara as Belle, Anne Rogers, who replaced Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts, Jerry Orbach as Lumiere.
 The film features two songs performed by Belle, "Listen With Our Hearts" and "A Little Thought."
 This storyline is set within the timeline of the original "Beauty and the Beast" (after Christmas but before the fight against Gaston).
Rawhide is a 1951 Western film made by Twentieth Century-Fox.
 It was directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Samuel G. Engel from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols.
 The music score was by Sol Kaplan and the song "A Rollin' Stone" by Lionel Newman.
 The cinematography was by Milton R. Krasner.
Jory is a 1973 American Western film directed by Jorge Fons and starring Robby Benson in the title role.
 It was adapted from the 1969 novel of the same name by Milton R. Bass.
Robin David Segal (born January 21, 1956), better known by the stage name Robby Benson, is an American actor, director, singer and educator.
 He is known as the voice of The Beast in the Disney animated film "Beauty and the Beast" and its numerous sequels and spin-offs, and for directing several episodes of the popular sitcom "Friends".
"Something There" is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for Walt Disney Pictures 30th animated feature film "Beauty and the Beast" (1991).
 Sung by the majority of the film's main cast, the song was recorded by American actors Paige O'Hara as Belle and Robby Benson as the Beast via voice over, featuring actors Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury and David Ogden Stiers as Lumiere, Mrs. Potts and Cogsworth, respectively.
 The only song performed by the Beast, "Something There" is heard midway through "Beauty and the Beast "during a scene in which Belle and the Beast finally begin to acknowledge their own feelings for each other.
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
 The 30th Disney animated feature film and the third released during the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the French fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (who was also credited in the English version as well as in the French version), and ideas from the 1946 French film of the same name directed by Jean Cocteau.
 "Beauty and the Beast" focuses on the relationship between the Beast (voice of Robby Benson), a prince who is magically transformed into a monster and his servants into household objects as punishment for his arrogance, and Belle (voice of Paige O'Hara), a young woman whom he imprisons in his castle.
 To become a prince again, Beast must learn to love Belle and earn her love in return to avoid remaining a monster forever.
 The film also features the voices of Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, and Angela Lansbury.
"Beauty and the Beast" is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for the Disney animated feature film "Beauty and the Beast" (1991).
 The film's theme song, the Broadway-inspired ballad was first recorded by British-American actress Angela Lansbury in her role as the voice of the character Mrs. Potts, and essentially describes the relationship between its two main characters Belle and the Beast, specifically how the couple has learned to accept their differences and in turn change each other for the better.
 Additionally, the song's lyrics imply that the feeling of love is as timeless and ageless as a "tale as old as time".
 Lansbury's rendition is heard during the famous ballroom sequence between Belle and the Beast, while a shorted chorale version plays in the closing scenes of the film, and the song's motif features frequently in other pieces of Menken's film score.
 "Beauty and the Beast" was subsequently recorded as a pop duet by Canadian singer Celine Dion and American singer Peabo Bryson, and released as the only single from the film's soundtrack on November 25, 1991.
"Human Again" is a song originally written for, deleted from, and later restored to the 1991 Disney animated musical "Beauty and the Beast".
 With music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman, "Human Again" was replaced during production of the original 1991 version of the film by "Something There", but retained and revised by Menken and new lyricist Tim Rice for the 1994 stage musical adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast".
 A newly produced sequence featuring "Human Again" was added to the "Beauty and the Beast" animated film for its 2002 IMAX Special Edition and subsequent DVD, VHS, and Blu-Ray home releases.
Linda Woolverton is an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, whose most prominent works include the screenplays and books of several acclaimed Disney films and stage musicals.
 She became the first woman to write an animated feature for Disney by writing the screenplay of "Beauty and the Beast", the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards.
 She also wrote the screenplay of "The Lion King", and adapted her own "Beauty and the Beast" screenplay into the book of the Broadway adaptation of the film, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.