In 1938, Tony Jay's parents treated him to a matinee of Walt Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, on London's West End. Like any other 5-year-old confronted by the cackling wicked witch, he had nightmares for years afterward.

Almost six decades later, the veteran English actor has recovered sufficiently to play a Дисней villain with enough suave menace to send that witch packing on her broomstick. By giving voice to Frollo, the tormented magistrate of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, сойка, джей does еще than add a portrait to the rogues' gallery that stretches from Snow White's...