The Jungle Book (1967 Film) - Cast

Cast

  • Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli, The main protagonist, An orphaned boy, commonly referred to as "man-cub" by the other characters.
  • Phil Harris as Baloo, The deuteragonist, A sloth bear who leads a carefree life and believes in letting the good things in life come by themselves.
  • Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera, The tritagonist, A serious black panther (melanistic leopard) who is determined to take Mowgli back to the village and disapproves of Baloo's carefree approach to life.
  • Louis Prima as King Louie, an orang-utan who wants to be a human, and offers to let Mowgli stay in the jungle (by bribing him with bananas) if Mowgli shows him the secret of "Man's Red Flower" (fire).
  • George Sanders as Shere Khan, The main antagonist An intelligent and sophisticated yet merciless Bengal tiger who hates all humans for fear of their guns and fire and wants to kill Mowgli.
  • Sterling Holloway as Kaa, The secondary antagonist, An Indian python who also seeks Mowgli as prey, but comically fails each time he attempts to eat him.
  • J. Pat O'Malley as Colonel Hathi the Indian elephant/Buzzie the Vulture
  • Verna Felton as Winifred, Colonel Hathi's wife. It was Felton's last film role, with her dying one day before the death of Walt Disney, during the film's production.
  • Clint Howard as Junior, Colonel Hathi's son.
  • Chad Stuart as Flaps the Vulture
  • Lord Tim Hudson as Dizzie the Vulture
  • John Abbott as Akela the Indian Wolf
  • Ben Wright as Father Wolf
  • Darleen Carr as Shanti
  • Leo De Lyon as Flunkey the Baboon*
  • Hal Smith as The Slob Elephant*
  • Ralph Wright as The Gloomy Elephant*
  • Digby Wolfe as Ziggy the Vulture*
  • Bill Skiles and Pete Henderson as Monkeys*

Asterisks mark actors listed in the opening credits as "Additional Voices".

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