# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-e-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:48:46.977Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-e-wright"
name: "Samuel E. Wright"
slug: "samuel-e-wright"
description: "Samuel Ernest Wright was an American actor. He was best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid, for which he provided the lead vocals to \"Under the Sea\", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. He played Dizzy Gillespie in Bird, the biographical film about Charlie Parker. Wright also played the part of Mufasa in the original cast of The Lion King on Broadway and voiced Kron the Iguanodon in the 2000 CGI/live-action film Dinosaur."
tagline: "American actor (1946–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_E._Wright_%22Enos%22_(1981_CBS_press_photo).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1946-11-20"
deathDate: "2021-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump