Question: Which character did Nathan Lane play in the 1994 Disney animated hit? 

<P0-S0> Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" by J. M. Barrie. <P0-S1>  It is the 14th Disney animated feature film and was originally released on February 5, 1953, by RKO Radio Pictures. <P0-S2>  "Peter Pan" is the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney's founding of his own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution, later in 1953 after the film was released. <P0-S3>  "Peter Pan" is also the final Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators. <P0-S4>  It is also the second Disney animated film starring Kathryn Beaumont, Heather Angel, and Bill Thompson after their roles in the animated feature "Alice in Wonderland". <SEP> <P1-S0> Timon and Pumbaa are an animated meerkat and warthog duo introduced in Disney's 1994 animated film "The Lion King". <P1-S1>  Timon was portrayed through his many appearances by Nathan Lane (in all three films and early episodes of the show), Max Casella (the original actor in "The Lion King" Broadway musical), Kevin Schon (in certain episodes of the show), Quinton Flynn (in certain episodes of the show), Bruce Lanoil in the "Wild About Safety" shorts and "Kingdom Hearts II", and while Pumbaa is voiced by Ernie Sabella (in all of his animated speaking appearances), and was portrayed by Tom Alan Robbins in the original cast of the Broadway musical. <P1-S2>  In the upcoming live-action remake, the characters will be portrayed by Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen respectively. <P1-S3>  Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella first came to audition for the roles of the hyenas, but when the producers saw how well they worked together they decided to cast them as Timon and Pumbaa. <P1-S4>  Lyricist Tim Rice however was pulling for Rik Mayall (for Timon) and Adrian Edmondson (for Pumbaa) to play the roles, as he got the idea for the lyrics to "Hakuna Matata" by watching their show "Bottom". <SEP> <P2-S0>  It is the 32nd Disney animated feature film, and the fifth animated film produced during a period known as the Disney Renaissance. <P2-S1>  "The Lion King" was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, produced by Don Hahn, and has a screenplay credited to Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. <P2-S2>  Its original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, and original scores were written by Hans Zimmer. <P2-S3>  The film features an ensemble voice cast that includes Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson, Robert Guillaume, Madge Sinclair, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, and Jim Cummings. <P2-S4> The Lion King is a 1994 American animated epic musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. <P2-S5>  The story takes place in a kingdom of lions in Africa and was influenced by William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". <SEP> <P3-S0> Nathan Lane (born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) is an American actor and writer. <P3-S1>  He is known for his roles as Albert in "The Birdcage", Max Bialystock in the musical "The Producers", Ernie Smuntz in "MouseHunt", Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls", Pseudolus in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", his voice work in "The Lion King" as Timon and "Stuart Little" as Snowbell, and his recurring roles on "Modern Family", "The Good Wife", and "" as F. Lee Bailey. <P3-S2>  In 2006, Lane received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2008, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.