Gallavants is a 1984

1984 in film

-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

 animated

Animation

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 musical

Musical film

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, produced by Marvel Productions

Marvel Productions

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, and released on home video.

Plot

Gallavants are ants living in a their own fairy-tale land, Ganteville. The little ones have to go to school in preparation of their adult life as working ants. However, one pupil thinks he doesn't need to take lessons in order to find his destination in life. He has to learn the hard way...

Voice cast

• Robert Lydiard - Shando
• Vic Perrin
  Vic Perrin
  Vic Perrin was an American actor and voice artist. He is best remembered as the "Control Voice" in the original version of the TV series The Outer Limits ....
  
   - Teetor
• Peter Cullen
  Peter Cullen
  Peter Claver Cullen is a Canadian voice actor, known as the voice of Eeyore in the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise, Optimus Prime and Ironhide in the original Transformers series, and the narrator in both of the original American Voltron series...
  
   - Antonim
• Joyce Gittlin - Eegee
• Frank Welker
  Frank Welker
  Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker is an American actor who specializes in voice acting and has contributed character voices and other vocal effects to American television and motion pictures.-Acting career:...
  
   - Antik/Traw
• Fred Travalena
  Fred Travalena
  Frederick Albert "Fred" Travalena III was an American entertainer, specializing in comedy and impersonations.-Early life:...
  
   - Fice/Gokin
• Barry Gordon
  Barry Gordon
  Barry Gordon is an American film, television and voice actor and political talk show host and producer. He was the longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, having served from 1988 to 1995.-Biography:...
  
   - Edil/Bok/Gauk
• Diane Pershing
  Diane Pershing
  Diane Pershing, born and raised in Queens, New York, is a romance novelist, television writer and voice actor.She wrote episodes for the television series The Love Boat and What's Happening Now!!...
  
   - Neese
• Jane Hamilton - Queen Mallikam
• B.J. Ward - Galli
• Wendy Hoffman - Babags/Foll
• Fred McGrath - Kubo
• Charlie Callas
  Charlie Callas
  Charlie Callas was an American comedian and actor most commonly known for his work with Mel Brooks, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin and his many stand-up appearances on television talk shows in the 1970s...
  
   - Azor
• Ken Sansom
  Ken Sansom
  Kenneth Sansom is an American actor and voice actor who first began acting in the early seventies. His first role was in an episode of Mayberry R.F.D., a continuation of the The Andy Griffith Show. He is best known for his role as Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. He also voiced...
  
  - Thunk/Narrator