Disney Character Voices International Inc. is a corporate division of The Walt Disney Company with primary responsibility for the provision of translation and dubbing services for all Disney productions including those by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney Music Group and Disney-ABC International Television. The company has also occasionally dubbed television shows not produced by Disney subsidiaries.
List of languages by DCVI[]
Disney's productions officially appear in the following global languages:
- Abaza
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Austria German
- Azerbaijani
- Belarusian
- Bengali
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Bulgarian
- Cantonese Chinese
- Castilian Spanish
- Catalan
- Crimean Tatar
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- Flemish Belgium Dutch
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Hawaiian
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indian
- Indonesian
- Ingush
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kabardian
- Karachay-Balkar
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Latin American Spanish
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Mandarin Chinese
- Māori
- Marathi
- Mizo
- Norwegian
- Parisian French
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Putonghua
- Quebec Canadian French
- Quebec Canadian Itailan
- Romanian
- Russian
- Sámi
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Swedish
- Tagolog
- Taiwanese Mandarin
- Tamil
- Tahitian
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Zulu
List of banned actors[]
- Mexican voice actor Carlos Segundo (who voiced Sheriff Woody in Toy Story and Goofy) stopped working for Disney in 2010 for economical reasons.
- Brazilian voice actor Peterson Adriano was banned from Disney in 2006 after getting into a dispute with the Delart studio. Adriano's ban from Delart prompted his sister Fernanda Crispim, and her two children Pedro and Vitória, to stop working at Delart, though they still work normally for Disney.
- Brazilian voice actor Garcia Júnior stepped down from his position as DCVI's Latin American casting director in 2011.
- French voice actress Lucie Dolène was banned from Disney in 1997 after filing a lawsuit over her voice in The Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast.
- Egyptian voice actor Wael Mansour (Arabic voice of Donald Duck) was banned from Disney in 2014 because of an anti-Semitic tweet published on his account on Twitter.
External links[]
- Disney Character Voices International on Wikipedia
- Disney Character Voices International (The U.S. branch only, which has done very little work)