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Samuel Ernest Wright was an American actor. He was best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, for which he provided the lead vocals to "Under the Sea", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He played Dizzy Gillespie in Bird, the biographical film about Charlie Parker. Wright also played the part of Mufasa in the original cast of The Lion King on Broadway and voiced Kron the Iguanodon in the 2000 CGI film Dinosaur.
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Filmography13 titles
The Little Mermaid
1989as Sebastian (voice)
1989as Sebastian (voice)
Law & Order
1990as Defense Attorney Dubois
1990as Defense Attorney Dubois
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
1988as Self - Narrator (voice)
1988as Self - Narrator (voice)
Queen
1993as Alfred
1993as Alfred
The Little Mermaid
1992as Sebastian (voice)
1992as Sebastian (voice)
The Cosby Show
1984as Dr. Dan Morgan
1984as Dr. Dan Morgan
Bird
1988as Dizzy Gillespie
1988as Dizzy Gillespie
The Little Mermaid Live!
2019as Sebastian (archive footage) (voice)
2019as Sebastian (archive footage) (voice)
The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
2008as Sebastian (voice)
2008as Sebastian (voice)
Simon & Simon
1981
1981
Dinosaur
2000as Kron (voice)
2000as Kron (voice)
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
2000as Sebastian (voice)
2000as Sebastian (voice)
Separate but Equal
1991as Artis Patterson
1991as Artis Patterson