Dr. Finklestein
| Sally | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
| Created by | Tim Burton |
| Voiced by |
Catherine O'Hara (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Attractions) Kath Soucie (Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts II and The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge) |
| Oogie Boogie | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
| Created by | Tim Burton |
| Voiced by | Ken Page |
| Doctor Finklestein | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
| Created by | Tim Burton |
| Voiced by |
William Hickey (film) Jess Harnell (video games) |
| The Mayor of Halloween Town | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
| Created by | Tim Burton |
| Voiced by |
Glenn Shadix (film, Kingdom Hearts II, Oogie's Revenge) Jeff Bennett (Kingdom Hearts) |
| Lock, Shock, and Barrel | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
| Created by | Tim Burton |
| Voiced by |
Paul Reubens (Lock) Catherine O'Hara (Shock) Danny Elfman (Barrel) |
| Santa Claus | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
| Created by | Tim Burton |
| Voiced by |
Ed Ivory (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Corey Burton (video games) |
| Zero | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
| Created by | Tim Burton |
This article lists characters seen in the film The Nightmare Before Christmas and two video games: The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King and The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge.
The filmmakers constructed 230 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, with Jack Skellington having "around eight hundred heads", allowing the expression of every possible emotion. Sally's mouth movements "were animated through the replacement method. During the animation process,...only Sally's face 'mask' was removed in order to preserve the order of her long red hair. Sally had ten types of faces, each made with a series of eleven expressions (e.g. eyes open and closed, and various facial poses) and synchronised mouth movements."
The film's protagonist, Jack Skellington is a skeleton who holds the title of The Pumpkin King. Under that alias, he is the titular hero of the prequel video game The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King. He is popular among the inhabitants of Halloween Town, due to his charming personality and aim to please. Despite a lack of inhibition, he means well. He is in charge of Halloween. Having not left it within many years (as heard in the song Jack's Lament where he mentions England, Kentucky and France), he felt his inspiration for his own holiday waning. Christmas Town gave him new ideas and inspiration. He also appears in The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge.
He is voiced in all appearances by Chris Sarandon, and his singing voice in the film was provided by Danny Elfman. Since the film was originally released as an adults product, as it was thought to be "too dark and scary for kids", in non-English speaking countries, Disney Character Voices Internationalonly dubbed the film in a few languages in which adults movies, as well as kids movies, are usually dubbed, while in the rest of countries it was only released with subtitles. A few versions dubbed only the spoken lines, leaving the songs in English.
Jack Skellington made cameos in the film James and the Giant Peach as the "pirate captain". Jack Skellington appears in the Robot Chicken episode "Anne Marie's Pride" voiced by Victor Yerrid.
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