Decapitated Knight & Masked Executioner
Nearby the opera singers are the singing ghosts of a German accented decapitated knight (Ernie Newton) and a hulking but high-voiced masked executioner (Bill Days). Next to them is a hairy, gravelly-voiced dwarf prisoner (Candy Candido, also a hitchhiking ghost), holding a file to use on the ball and chain shackled to his ankle.
The knight and executioner make a brief appearance in the 2003 film, in the graveyard scene. The knight also appears in the video game, but has a British accent, and was beheaded by guillotine rather than the executioner's axe. In the activity book Build Your Own Haunted Mansion (released in conjunction with the 2003 film), the knight is named Galahad. In the comics, the knight's name is Fred. The executioner is featured on the first page of the Collin Campbell illustrated album booklet for The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion—a menacing figure standing in the entryway of the Mansion.
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Famous quotes containing the word knight:
“Nae living man I’ll love again,
Since that my lovely knight is slain.
Wi ae lock of his yellow hair
I’ll chain my heart for evermair.”
—Unknown. The Lament of the Border Widow (l. 25–28)