Frollo and Esmerelda

In 1938, Tony Jay's parents treated him to a matinee of Walt Disney's first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, on London's West End. Like any other 5-year-old confronted Von the cackling wicked witch, he had nightmares for years afterward.

Almost six decades later, the veteran English actor has recovered sufficiently to play a Disney villain with enough suave menace to send that witch packing on her broomstick. Von giving voice to Frollo, the tormented magistrate of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, eichelhäher, jay does Mehr than add a portrait to the rogues' gallery that stretches from Snow White's...