Disney Character Voices International, Inc. is a business division of The Walt Disney Company originally founded in 1988 in the United States.
Its headquarters are located in Burbank, California and it has 17 offices around the world.
This division also supervises dubbings for Disney theme parks and derived games. An office of the division is present in several countries around the world.
History[]
Background[]
The first dubbing issued for a Disney movie was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was originally distributed in 1938 in various Western languages. Walt Disney expressed to Tatiana Angelini, Swedish voice of Snow White, that she was his personal favorite international voice for the character. The movie premiered at the 6th Venice International Film Festival, winning the Grand Art Trophy special award.
In the 1940s, Jimmy Johnson named Jack Cutting, Disney animator since 1930, responsible for the dubbing of Disney movies foreign languages. In 1948, Disney received a Special Achievement Award at the 5th Golden Globe Awards for succeeding in producing a Hindustani dubbing of Bambi right after the end of the Indian independence movement, for "furthering the (American) influence of the screen". While Bambi was the first movie to be dubbed in Hindustani, it is unknown whether more movies followed, or if the next dubbings produced by Disney India had to wait for Aladdin to be released in 1993 in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. The DCVI affiliate branch itself was founded in 1988, when Michael Eisner decided to set up a dubbing department, directed by Roy Disney.
In July 2024, actor labor union Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which also has numerous video game voice actors as members, would initiate a labor strike against a number of video publishers, including Disney Character Voices, over concerns about lack of A.I. protections concerning not only video game voice actors, but also the use of A.I to replicate an actor's voice, or create a digital replica of their likeness.
Dubs[]
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Anime[]
Series[]
- Tokyo Revengers (2021-present) (Seasons 2-3)
- Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall (2022)
- Summer Time Rendering (2022)
- Heavenly Delusion (2023)
- Synduality: Noir (2023-2024)
- Ishura (2024-present)
- SAND LAND: THE SERIES (2024)
- The Fable (2024)
- Go! Go! Loser Ranger! (2024-present)
- Murai in Love (2024)
- Medalist (2025-present)
- Bullet/Bullet (2025)
- Cat's Eye (2025-2026)
- Twisted-Wonderland the Animation (2025-present)
Anime Shorts[]
- Star Wars Visions (2021-present)
Anime Specials/OVAs[]
Animation[]
Series[]
- Ejen Ali (2016-present)
Live-Action[]
Series[]
Argentinian Series
- Intertwined (2021)
Brazillian Series
- All the Same… or Not (2022)
Chinese Series
- Delicacies Destiny (2022)
French Series
- Parallels (2022)
Italian Series
- The Knights of Castelcorvo (2020)
Japanese Series
- The Files of Young Kindaichi (2022)
Mexican Series
- The Heartthrob: TV Changed, He Didn't (2022-present)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (2023)
South Korean Series
- Big Mouth (2022)
- Rookie Cops (2022-present) (dubbed by Iyuno•SDI Group Los Angeles)
- Shadow Detective (2022)
- RACE (2023)
- Black Out (2024)
- High School Return of a Gangster (2024)
- Light Shop (2024-present)
- Unmasked (2025-present)
Spanish Series
- See You in Another Life (2024)
Miniseries[]
French Miniseries
- Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (2024)
South Korean Miniseries
- Snowdrop (2021-2022)
Reality Shows[]
- Mickey Mouse Squad (2018-2019)
Films[]
Dubbing Studios[]
Main Companies[]
Current[]
Other[]
3Beep Inc. (only "Black Out" and "High School Return of a Gangster)
Deluxe Media (only "Murai in Love" and "See You in Another Life")
Dubbing Brothers (only "Heavenly Delusion")
Roundabout Entertainment (until 2022)
Shepperton Studios (only "Tini: The New Life of Violetta")
VSI Los Angeles (only "The Knights of Castelcorvo" and "SAND LAND: THE SERIES")
Producers[]
- Reuben Lack
Clients[]
External Links[]
- Disney Character Voices International on the Anime News Network's encyclopedia.