The Little Man/prisoner/Gus is voiced by Candy Candido, who is also the voice of one of Maleficent’s goons in Sleeping Beauty, the Indian Chief from Peter Pan, and the captain of the guard crocodile from Robin Hood 🐊

Gus’s inspiration goes back even further to a man in Athens from 62-113 AD who was called Pliny the Younger. He was a philosopher who heard chains rattling, and would follow the sound until it stopped and the ghost vanished. Then he marked the spot and when they dug up that spot, they found remains. That’s the origin of the idea of ghosts rattling chains, which Gus is holding in the Haunted Mansion in his second appearance.

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