Animal Farm
Louise Gold voiced Mabel The Chicken, on this TV Film
in 1999
Cast
Live Actors
Farmer
Pilkington - Alan Stanford
Mrs Jones - Caroline
Gray
Mrs
Pilkington - Gail Fitzpatrick
Mr Frederick
- Joe Taylor
Dennis - Jimmy
Keogh
Eric - Noel
O’Donovan
Farmers - Gerad
Walsh, and, Jer O’Leary
Pilkington’s
Sons - Sean Fitzsimons, and, Conor Kirwan
Voices
Snowball - Kelsey
Grammer
Squealer - Ian
Holm
Mollie - Julia
Louis-Dreyfus
Jessie - Julia
Ormond
Benjamin /
Farmer Jones - Pete Postlewaite
Boxer - Paul
Schofield
Napoleon - Patrick
Stewart
Old Major - Peter
Ustinov
Moses /
Pitcher - Charles Dale
Mabel - Louise
Gold
Muriel - Jean
Beith
Other Voices
- Paul Mark Elliott, Brian Gulland, Hannah King, Charlotte
Merton-Laight, Tim Merton-Laight, Amanda Symonds, Nicole
Tibbles, and, Tim Whitnall
Production Team
(Please note
this is only a selection, please refer to The IMDB if you want the full crew
credits)
Directed by
- John Stephenson
From The
Novel By - George Orwell
Teleplay - Alan
Janes and Martyn Burke
Producers - Robert
Halmi Sr, Paul Lowin, Morgan O’Sullivan, Greg Smith
Original
Music by - Richard Harvey
Cinematography
by - Mike Brewster
Casting by -
Sound Mixer
- Jim Corcoran
Dialogue
Editor - James Feltham
Sound Editor
- Arthur Graley
Supervising
Sound Editor - Nigel Heath
Dialogue
Recordist - Nicky Moss
CGI by - Cinesite
Animatronics
by - Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
Voice
Casting - Bonita Pietila
Animatronics Designer and Model
Maker - Chris Howes
This is one of those occasions, like (the Ballroom
Dancing in) Labyrinth, only even more puzzling,
when one is left to wondering why one notable British puppeteer is involved the
production but not as a puppeteer. This must be the only TV animatronics
venture (especially one with animatronics by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop)
for which Louise Gold was only a voice-artiste. Practically every other
animatronics production where she has voiced characters, she also puppeteered
them, but not on this occasion.
Notable British puppeteer Louise Gold is of
course absolutely no stranger to productions involving Jim Henson’s Creature
Shop, she worked as a puppeteer on their very first film, The Dark Crystal. She worked on several of
their other films in one guise or another: Labyrinth
(appeared as a Ballroom dancer), Alice In Wonderland (as a
puppeteer) And she puppeteered the title role in their TV series The
Ghost Of Faffner Hall.
Director John Stephenson had worked on The
Creature Shop’s very first film The Dark Crystal;
on which Composer Richard Harvey
played as a soloist.
Animatronics Model Maker and Designer Chris Howes
also worked on The Muppet Christmas Carol, which of course Louise
Gold puppeteered on.
Peter Ustinov may have previously
appeared in Comedy Tonight
Tim Whitnall had previously appeared
in Billy The Kid And
The Green Baize Vampire, and did some voice-work on Spitting Image.
Peter Ustinov
had previously acted in the Henson film The Great Muppet Caper, on which Louise Gold of course puppeteered.
Cinematographer Michael Brewster had previously been a
camera operator on The Muppet
Christmas Carol, whose puppet builders included John Stephenson, and, Chris Howes.
Michael
Brewster had previously worked on Muppet
Treasure Island, for which Jim Henson’s Creature ShopTM
was also involved in building puppets and whose puppet builders included John Stephenson; Cinesite was also involved.
Jim Henson’s Creature ShopTM also provided
the puppets for Alice In Wonderland,
whose voice-artistes included Peter Postlethaite, and, Peter Ustinov, and whose
production team included Robert Halmi Sr
Jim Henson’s Creature ShopTM and John Stephenson had previously worked on a CG puppet for The Animal Show.
Amanda
Symonds, and, Louise
Gold have gone on to appear together on the West End stage in Mary Poppins.
Links about Animal
Farm
IMDB Entry: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0204824/
Absolutely Net page for the TV film: http://www.absolutely.net/movie/1999_Animal_Farm_(1999).html
Amazon.Com’s page for the TV Film: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000365DS/102-4090853-5988155?v=glance&n=130&v=glance&vi=contents
The Four Word Film Review’s page for the TV Film: http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?id=8287
Amazon.co.uk’s page for the TV Film: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/dvd/B00004TIYH/cast-list/026-6087304-4239602
Filmcritic.com’s page for the TV Film: http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/0/4d452d69e9d4740288256801002075b7?OpenDocument
Most Wanted Movies page for the TV Film: http://www.most-wanted-movies.com/movie/Animal-Farm-1999.aspx
