The Lion King (1994) Cast & Characters — QuantCinema

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CAST · THE LION KING

Faces & feelings

Per-character screen time, dialogue and emotion breakdown — derived from face recognition + expression classifier across every frame.

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Faces detected

221

across full runtime

Named matches

8

actors identified

Close-up shots

10.9%

of all framed shots

Smile rate

9.0%

frames with detected joy

Gender split

55%

45%

M / F · screen-time weighted

Dominant emotion

Sad 32%

film-wide aggregate

Most expressive

Matthew Broderick

100% non-neutral

Lead screen share

27%

8 tracked characters

Overall emotion distribution

7 emotions · all characters · screen-time weighted

Happy

9.0%

20 frames

Surprise

7.7%

17 frames

Neutral

20.8%

46 frames

Fear

17.6%

39 frames

Sad

31.7%

70 frames

Angry

11.3%

25 frames

Disgust

1.8%

4 frames

Screen time by actor

8 named · 27m tracked of 88.4m

01

Matthew Broderick

as Simba · 217 scenes

7.2min · 27% of cast

02

Jeremy Irons

as Scar · 183 scenes

5.7min · 21% of cast

03

James Earl Jones

as Mufasa · 116 scenes

3.3min · 12% of cast

04

Moira Kelly

as Nala · 147 scenes

2.8min · 10% of cast

05

Ernie Sabella

as Pumbaa · 86 scenes

2.7min · 10% of cast

06

Nathan Lane

as Timon · 142 scenes

2.3min · 9% of cast

07

Rowan Atkinson

as Zazu · 105 scenes

2.3min · 8% of cast

08

Whoopi Goldberg

as Shenzi · 31 scenes

0.8min · 3% of cast

Dialogue by character

words spoken · WPM · share of total dialogue

NOTE — speaker matching uses face-detection overlap; actors not recognized by the AI appear as unidentified.

Actor / Character	Words spoken	WPM	% of dialogue
Matthew Broderick as Simba	1,154	160.1	19.8%
Unidentified speakers	1,103	—	18.9%
Jeremy Irons as Scar	928	163	15.9%
James Earl Jones as Mufasa	659	200.6	11.3%
Moira Kelly as Nala	534	194.2	9.1%
Nathan Lane as Timon	501	213.9	8.6%
Ernie Sabella as Pumbaa	481	178.9	8.2%
Rowan Atkinson as Zazu	370	162.5	6.3%
Whoopi Goldberg as Shenzi	108	136.9	1.8%

Cast profiles

arc · volatility · emotion breakdown per actor

MB

Matthew Broderick

AS SIMBA

Screen time

7m 13s

Scenes

217

First seen

40:49

Last seen

48:01

Volatility

0 Low

JI

Jeremy Irons

AS SCAR

Screen time

5m 41s

Scenes

183

First seen

4:56

Last seen

10:38

Volatility

0 Low

JE

James Earl Jones

AS MUFASA

Screen time

3m 17s

Scenes

116

First seen

5:12

Last seen

8:29

Volatility

0 Low

MK

Moira Kelly

AS NALA

Screen time

2m 45s

Scenes

147

First seen

8:32

Last seen

11:17

Volatility

0 Low

ES

Ernie Sabella

AS PUMBAA

Screen time

2m 41s

Scenes

86

First seen

19:26

Last seen

22:08

Volatility

0 Low

NL

Nathan Lane

AS TIMON

Screen time

2m 20s

Scenes

142

First seen

50:14

Last seen

52:34

Volatility

0 Low

RA

Rowan Atkinson

AS ZAZU

Screen time

2m 17s

Scenes

105

First seen

5:56

Last seen

8:13

Volatility

0 Low

WG

Whoopi Goldberg

AS SHENZI

Screen time

0m 47s

Scenes

31

First seen

11:03

Last seen

11:50

Volatility

0 Low

Speaker diarization

talk-time · turns · pacing per speaker

Talk-time share · 26 clusterssums to 100.0% of all dialogue

Broderick 18.3%

Irons 14.4%

Jones 8.3%

First-word entry · per speakerdot = first line · trail = on-screen window · 20 ensemble

0:0022:0644:1266:1888:24

runtime

Jeremy Irons

4:56enter

James Earl Jones

5:12enter

Rowan Atkinson

5:56enter

Moira Kelly

8:32enter

Whoopi Goldberg

11:03enter

SPEAKER 05

13:27enter

SPEAKER 11

15:16enter

SPEAKER 10

15:50enter

SPEAKER 09

15:59enter

SPEAKER 07

17:15enter

Ernie Sabella

19:26enter

SPEAKER 24

27:18enter

SPEAKER 06

27:58enter

SPEAKER 22

28:20enter

SPEAKER 21

28:50enter

Matthew Broderick

40:49enter

SPEAKER 16

45:40enter

SPEAKER 12

47:20enter

SPEAKER 23

48:02enter

SPEAKER 19

49:57enter

Nathan Lane

50:14enter

SPEAKER 26

55:16enter

SPEAKER 01

59:16enter

SPEAKER 04

60:37enter

SPEAKER 00

63:43enter

SPEAKER 02

63:49enter

Matthew BroderickSPEAKER 14

Rapid exchange

18.3%

of all dialogue · 1,154 words · 7:13 spoken

WPM160.1

Turns217

Avg turn2.2s

Longest19.2s

enters at 40:49profanity 1

Jeremy IronsSPEAKER 17

Rapid exchange

14.4%

of all dialogue · 928 words · 5:42 spoken

WPM163

Turns183

Avg turn2.0s

Longest14.5s

enters at 4:56profanity 0

James Earl JonesSPEAKER 13

Conversational

8.3%

of all dialogue · 659 words · 3:17 spoken

WPM200.6

Turns116

Avg turn2.1s

Longest14.7s

enters at 5:12profanity 0

Moira KellySPEAKER 08

Conversational

7.0%

of all dialogue · 534 words · 2:45 spoken

WPM194.2

Turns147

Avg turn1.4s

Longest7.6s

enters at 8:32profanity 0

Nathan LaneSPEAKER 03

Conversational

5.9%

of all dialogue · 501 words · 2:21 spoken

WPM213.9

Turns142

Avg turn1.1s

Longest7.0s

enters at 50:14profanity 0

Ernie SabellaSPEAKER 15

Brief

6.8%

of all dialogue · 481 words · 2:41 spoken

WPM178.9

Turns86

Avg turn2.2s

Longest11.3s

enters at 19:26profanity 0

Rowan AtkinsonSPEAKER 20

Conversational

5.8%

of all dialogue · 370 words · 2:17 spoken

WPM162.5

Turns105

Avg turn1.2s

Longest6.2s

enters at 5:56profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 26 · unmatched

Brief

6.0%

of all dialogue · 291 words · 2:22 spoken

WPM122.6

Turns63

Avg turn1.4s

Longest6.2s

enters at 55:16profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 02 · unmatched

Brief

6.7%

of all dialogue · 214 words · 2:39 spoken

WPM80.6

Turns67

Avg turn1.2s

Longest9.9s

enters at 63:49profanity 0

Whoopi GoldbergSPEAKER 18

Brief

2.0%

of all dialogue · 108 words · 0:47 spoken

WPM136.9

Turns31

Avg turn2.1s

Longest22.5s

enters at 11:03profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 05 · unmatched

Brief

1.2%

of all dialogue · 99 words · 0:27 spoken

WPM217.1

Turns22

Avg turn1.5s

Longest4.4s

enters at 13:27profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 06 · unmatched

Brief

1.6%

of all dialogue · 98 words · 0:37 spoken

WPM160.2

Turns32

Avg turn1.4s

Longest7.0s

enters at 27:58profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 07 · unmatched

Rapid exchange

5.6%

of all dialogue · 64 words · 2:12 spoken

WPM29.1

Turns194

Avg turn0.9s

Longest13.1s

enters at 17:15profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 19 · unmatched

Brief

0.8%

of all dialogue · 58 words · 0:19 spoken

WPM183.4

Turns22

Avg turn1.2s

Longest3.3s

enters at 49:57profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 16 · unmatched

Brief

4.7%

of all dialogue · 43 words · 1:52 spoken

WPM23.1

Turns25

Avg turn1.2s

Longest5.7s

enters at 45:40profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 11 · unmatched

Brief

0.8%

of all dialogue · 42 words · 0:18 spoken

WPM140.2

Turns10

Avg turn2.3s

Longest4.5s

enters at 15:16profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 10 · unmatched

Brief

0.4%

of all dialogue · 31 words · 0:08 spoken

WPM222

Turns8

Avg turn2.9s

Longest8.4s

enters at 15:50profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 12 · unmatched

Brief

1.2%

of all dialogue · 29 words · 0:29 spoken

WPM59.5

Turns17

Avg turn1.3s

Longest3.0s

enters at 47:20profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 24 · unmatched

Brief

0.5%

of all dialogue · 25 words · 0:12 spoken

WPM122.1

Turns13

Avg turn1.5s

Longest6.5s

enters at 27:18profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 22 · unmatched

Brief

0.4%

of all dialogue · 23 words · 0:10 spoken

WPM144.8

Turns9

Avg turn1.4s

Longest7.2s

enters at 28:20profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 21 · unmatched

Brief

0.4%

of all dialogue · 23 words · 0:10 spoken

WPM136.9

Turns11

Avg turn1.0s

Longest3.3s

enters at 28:50profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 01 · unmatched

Brief

0.3%

of all dialogue · 20 words · 0:08 spoken

WPM152.3

Turns6

Avg turn2.2s

Longest5.8s

enters at 59:16profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 09 · unmatched

Brief

0.3%

of all dialogue · 19 words · 0:08 spoken

WPM149.8

Turns10

Avg turn1.7s

Longest6.0s

enters at 15:59profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 00 · unmatched

Brief

0.4%

of all dialogue · 16 words · 0:09 spoken

WPM111.5

Turns10

Avg turn1.6s

Longest4.2s

enters at 63:43profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 04 · unmatched

Brief

0.1%

of all dialogue · 5 words · 0:03 spoken

WPM104.9

Turns48

Avg turn2.9s

Longest8.3s

enters at 60:37profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 23 · unmatched

Brief

0.1%

of all dialogue · 3 words · 0:02 spoken

WPM111.1

Turns28

Avg turn1.7s

Longest7.6s

enters at 48:02profanity 0

AGGREGATE — 8 unique characters · 221 faces detected · 8 named matches · 27m screen-time tracked