Voices of "Hercules" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Tate Donovan

Tate Donovan plays the voice of adult Hercules in the movie. A couple of the other choices were main characters from other animated movies. Matthew Broderick voiced Simba in the movie, "The Lion King". Phil Harris voiced O'Mally in "The Aristocats" and Tony Goldwyn voiced Tarzan in "Tarzan".

Answer: Bobcat Goldthwait and Matt Frewer

Some of the other choices given provided voices to other Disney sidekicks. Ernie and Nathan provided the voices for Timon and Pumbaa in "The Lion King". O'Mally and Warlock provided voices for Horace and Jasper in "101 Dalmatians" and David and Kevin provided the voices for Pleakley and Jumba in "Lilo and Stitch".

Answer: Danny DeVito

The other choices listed were some of the people that helped in the creation of the TV series, "Taxi". Danny DeVito also played in films such as, "Matilda" and "Drowning Mona".

Answer: Susan Egan

Susan Egan was famous for her performance as Belle in the broadway version of "Beauty and the Beast". Paige O' Hara played Belle in the animated version of "Beauty and the Beast", Jodi Benson played Ariel in Disney's "The Little Mermaid" and Kristen Chenoworth is another famous broadway actress.

Originally, Susan Egan was not allowed to even audition for the role because all the directors saw her as Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" and Meg was more of the "Barbara Stanwyk" type character. But, eventually, Susan Egan got the audition and it obviously all worked out.

Answer: James Woods

Vincent Price was famous for his work on many villainous characters. He also provided the voice for Ratigan, the villain from the, "Great Mouse Detective". Jeremy Irons provided the voice for Scar, the villain in, "The Lion King". Rip Torn voices, Zeus, Hades's brother and Hercules' father.

When James Woods went to audition for the role of Hades he tried acting as comical as he was in the movie because he was in that kind of mood that particular day. This audition changed the whole personality of the character because Hades was originally supposed to be a dark, sinister character....but James Woods changed all that! Actually, Jack Nicholson was supposed to play Hades but he was later refused of the role.

Answer: true

Hal Holbrook was indeed working on another animated feature during his work on, "Hercules". The animated feature he was working on was "Cats Don't Dance". In that particular movie Hal Holbrook voiced the rather grumpy goat, Cranston. "Cats Don't Dance" came out in theaters in spring of 1997 and "Hercules" came out during the summer of 1997.

Answer: French Stewert

Hercules's high school pal, Icarus was voiced by "Third Rock From the Sun's" French Stewert. Robert Castanzo voiced Philoctetes, Robert Stack voiced the narrator and Tom Arnold voiced Cupid.

Answer: Barbara Barrie

Rip Torn voiced Zeus, the King of the Gods. Paul Schaffer voiced his merry messenger, Hermes. Wayne Knight was cast as an additional voice for Bacchus, the God of Wine. Barbara Barrie actually voiced Herc's adoptive mother, Acleme.

Answer: Vanessa Williams

Directors of "Hercules" John Musker and Ron Clements deceided to have the muses tell the story of "Hercules" using gospel music because, "It's so big and loud and full of hopes and dreams."

Answer: True

When young Hercules is pulling the cart holding Amphytreon and Penelope into the marketplace he almost knocks two construction workers over where they yell, "Watch where you're going, Sunday driver!" Those two construction workers were voiced by Ron Clements and John Musker, the directors of the film.