 BIOGRAPHY
A family man
Quotes
The others
Important dates
Photos
ACTOR
Filmography
The year of...
Max and Riggs
Hamlet
Smith and Rocky
The Patriot
What Women Want
We were soldiers
Signs
Soon we´ll
PRODUCER
Icon Productions
DIRECTOR
The debut
The Passion
Apocalypto
AWARDS
Oscars and...
MEGAFANS
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"I wouldn´t try to make a living of it."
In 1995, Gibson performed the voice role of colonist John Smith in the animated Disney film Pocahontas.
Pocahontas is a musical-romance. The film is based on the legendary encounter between Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian chef Powhatan, and Captain John Smith, a soldier sailor sent to the New World as part of a British expeditionary force to build a settlement called Jamestown and bring back gold to fill the empire´s coffers.
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- Producer.- James Pentecost
- Directors.- Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg
- Screenwriters.- Carl Binder, Susannah Grant and Philip LaZebenik
- Editor.- H. Lee Patterson
- Composer.- Alan Menken
- Lyrics.- Stephen Schwartz
- Art Director.- Michael Giaimo
- Cast.- Mel Gibson, Irene Bedard, David Ogden Stiers, John Kassir, Linda Hunt, Russell Means, Christian Bale
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"All of my life I have searched for a land like this one." John Smith.
"CHIKEN RUN"
In 2000, Gibson voiced his second feature-length animated role, Chicken Run
Gibson gives his voice to Rocky, a cocky yank rooster.
While the chickens on evil Mrs. Tweedy´s farm dream of a better life, a clever hem named Ginger is hatching plans to fly the coop. Every escape attend goes fowl until Rocky crash-hand into the coop. Ginger asks Rocky to teach them to fly but Rocky has got a secret. He can´t fly. Nevertheless, with teamwork and hard determination, the fearless flock plots one last daring attempt for freedom.
Cinemagicians Nick Park, Peter Lord and their cohorts at Britain Aardman Studios continue to animate the old-fashioned way, filming one small movement of a 3-D clay figure at a time. Their work has already scored several Academy Awards in the Best Animated Short Film category.
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