Samson: A VeggieTales Movie (A Lesson In: Facing Hardships)
The film opens with Counselor Nezzer driving Bob, Larry and the entire gang around on the camp bus at Camp Rainbow Top and Laura's super excited about her super big dance off recital at the talent show in the monacacy hall, but when they get there, and they're preparing for the talent show, Laura becomes a bit nervous and is terrified of screwing up, so a storyteller named Gladys Green Onion (guest voiced by Jessica DiCicco, voice acting star of 'The Loud House' and 2018's 'Muppet Babies') tells them the story about Samson, a young man who lost his powerful strength right after a haircut.
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Phil Vischer is an American animator, writer, voice actor and director who is known for co-creating VeggieTales alongside his friend Mike Nawrocki. He is the founder of Big Idea, an animation company that also made 321 Penguins and LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures. He voiced dozens of characters such as Bob the Tomato, Jimmy Gourd, Pa Grape, Mr. Nezzer, Mr. Lunt and Phillipe Pea. He would later found Jellyfish, a company that teaches children about the Bible. He later returned to Big Idea to work on The VeggieTales Show.Bob/Israelite Number 1, Jimmy/Israelite Number 3, Archie/Israelite Number 7, Pa Grape/Israelite Number 5, Assistant Counselor Lunt/Israelite Number 9, Phillipe/Philistine Number 2, Percy, Cedric, Counselor Nezzer/Israelite Number 10, Phil Winklestein A.K.A. Frankencelery/Israelite Number 11, Grandpa George and Tom Grape/Israelite Number 12 (voices)- Actor
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Michael Nawrocki is an American animator, director, writer and voice actor. He co-created VeggieTales alongside Phil Vischer and voiced dozens of characters including Larry the Cucumber, Jerry Gourd, Scallion #2 and Jean-Claude Pea. Nawrocki also voiced Larry in video games, commercials and LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures. He would later create Dead Sea Squirrels, a book series and cartoon.Larry/Israelite Number 2, Jerry/Israelite Number 4, Jean Claude/Philistine Number 1, Norman/Samson, Oscar/Israelite Number 8 and Kurt/Philistine Number 5 (voices)- Actress
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Lisa Vischer is an American voice actress and singer known for her work in VeggieTales and LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures. She suggested to her husband Phil that the characters of VeggieTales are vegetables so kids could eat healthy instead of having candy as the characters Phil came up with. She voiced Junior Asparagus in VeggieTales as well as several video games and live shows based on VeggieTales.Junior and Mabel (voices)- Keri Pagetta is known for VeggieTales: The League of Incredible Vegetables (2012), Born Again (2014) and VeggieTales: Princess and the Popstar (2011).Lola, Junior and Libby's Mom (voices)
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Dan Anderson was born on 25 January 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002), VeggieTales: Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed (1999) and VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas (2002). He has been married to Nancy Conn Anderson since 8 March 1980. They have three children.Mike, Junior and Libby's Dad (voice)- Director
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Tim Hodge stumbled upon his dad's 8mm camera in the 7th grade and spent all summer making animated films with clay, sticks and anything else he could find. His live action films usually starred his younger sisters. After attending ORU in Tulsa, he got his first job in animation at the now defunct Willming-Reams Animation studio in San Antonio, Texas, where he drew animated television commercials for seven years. It was also during this time that he continued his art education at the San Antonio Art Institute. Eventually, Tim applied to Disney Feature Animation located at the DIsney/MGM Studios theme park in Florida. It was in the year 2000 that he took his family and moved north to Illinois to join the studios of Big Idea Productions and started working in computer animation. Hodge's directorial debut at Big Idea, "Lyle the Kindly Viking" won the Best Direct To Video Animated Release at the 2001 World Animation Celebration. He was also nominated for Best Vocal Perfomance in 2003 for his role as Khalil in "Jonah: A Veggietales Movie". He currently lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his family where he continues to write and direct for Big Idea.Khalil, Lutfi, Charlie and Blind Lemon Lincoln (voices)- Actor
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Jim Poole is an actor, director, voiceover artist, filmmaker and ensemble member of Steep Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. His best known performance is lending his voice to Scooter the Carrot in Big Idea's Christian computer generated imagery direct-to-video/direct-to-DVD series VeggieTales (1993). He formerly served as the artistic director of a large church in Chicago. A native of Chicago, Jim graduated from Wheaton College and has worked with a number of theatrical, improvisational and sketch comedy groups, directing and producing creative content. His brother, Garry Poole, is an award-winning author and evangelism coach at the Institute at Cherry Hills Community Church in Colorado.Officer Scooter (voice)- Producer
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Megan Murphy is known for Hope Floats (1998), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000) and Lovecraft Country (2020).Libby (voice)- Actress
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Stephanie is best known for voicing the role of Jean Gunnhildr in Genshin Impact, is a voice in the AAA title God of War, Polly Pocket in Polly & Friends, Locket World Adventures, Theme Park Adventures, and others. Other notable roles are Madame Blueberry and Callie Flower in the The VeggieTales Show series, Natasha Zima and Glitch in Rainbow High, and many others. In addition to her voiceover skills, Stephanie is also seasoned in many other aspects of performing including acting, dance, and vocal performance: mix/belt, musical theater classical (legit), classical, and pop. Stephanie earned her BFA in Music Dance Theatre at Brigham Young University.Callie Flower and Tour Guide Blueberry (voices)- Maggie Roberts is known for VeggieTales: The Penniless Princess (2012), The Music Teacher and VeggieTales: The Little Drummer Boy! (2012).Annie (voice)
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Kira Buckland was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She found her passion for performing while in middle school and originally wanted to be a rock singer, but at age sixteen she began participating heavily in online voice acting communities and lending her voice to independent projects. At the time, she became recognized as the familiar female voice that people would hear in a lot of Flash animations and games. She also became one of the pioneers of the early Internet voice acting scene by founding the online community known as the "Voice Acting Club".
After moving to southern California in 2011, Kira continued her acting training and practice, and ended up landing roles in projects such as anime and video games. She worked a variety of other jobs in the meantime (her favorite of those being a neonatal caregiver at a kitten nursery), and finally was able to make voiceover her full-time career in the summer of 2018. As someone who is passionate about gaming, Kira is thrilled to be one of the voices heard in many video games played around the world. Her most known role is as the lead character "2B" in the game "NieR:Automata", a role which she was able to reprise in the fighting game "Soulcalibur VI" along with the character "Talim".
When not acting, Kira loves listening to classic rock music (particularly David Bowie), watching makeup tutorials, playing fighting games, going on Pokewalks, cosplay/conventions, and taking care of her multiple cats. Her favorite anime/manga series is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (she even has a tattoo of the Joestar birthmark) and as an espresso addict, she spends a lot of time at her local coffee shop.Laura and Reporter Petunia (voices)- Additional Crew
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Bridget Miller is known for VeggieTales (1993), VeggieTales: Very Veggie Silly Stories (2022) and VeggieTales: The Grapes of Wrath (1994).Lenny and Rosey Grape (voices)- Actor
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Ken Cavanagh is known for VeggieTales (1993), VeggieTales Classics! (1994) and VeggieTales: The Toy That Saved Christmas (1996). He is married to Karen Cavanagh. They have one child.Buzz-Saw Louie (voice)- Actress
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Charlotte Volkman Jackson is known for VeggieTales: Twas the Night Before Easter (2011), VeggieTales: Esther, the Girl Who Became Queen (2000) and VeggieTales: A Snoodle's Tale (2004). She is married to Randageo Jackson.Ms. Achmetha (voice)- Actress
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Born in Los Angeles, and raised in New York City, Jessica DiCicco grew up on the Upper West side of Manhattan. She has been around show business virtually her whole life. Even her birth was announced in both Variety and Us Magazine, since her father, Bobby Di Cicco, was a popular actor in the late 1970s and early '80s with many films to his credit including The Big Red One (1980) and 1941 (1979).
Despite her early exposure to show business, Jessica's acting career actually began unintentionally. During what she thought was a typical day in her second grade class, actress Marlo Thomas selected her from thousands of New York school children to appear on the ABC special Free to Be... a Family (1988). She worked on the show for one year and was heavily featured in the final broadcast. Soon after, Jessica landed her first role in the film The Godfather Part III (1990) followed by the cult classic Household Saints (1993), and booked multiple national commercial spots including Cheerios, Burger King, and a groundbreaking Nike campaign directed by Spike Lee. She also lent her voice to many television and radio projects and appeared in numerous productions for theater, feature film and television, including the lead in a Nickelodeon pilot, Bus No. 9 (1998), which earned her a nomination for a Young Artists Award.
Jessica's ambition and drive also manifested itself in her academics and passion for photography. She was an excellent student, always making her education top priority. Also an outstanding photographer, Jessica was the youngest photographer to ever shoot the cover of New York Magazine, in addition to shooting the entire eight-page cover story. This issue became one of the largest selling issues in New York Magazine's history.Gladys Green Onion (voice)- Music Department
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Jeff Morrow is an accomplished singer, vocal producer, voice-over artist, arranger, voice coach and contractor. He is the vocal producer and vocal coach for the NBC television series Ordinary Joe, he was previously the vocal producer for the Fox TV hit show Empire (seasons 2 - 6), and has toured with Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder. Jeff has also worked with many other artists including India Arie, Mario, Tisha Campbell - Martin, Cassie, Janelle Monae, Michael Bolton, David Banner, Celine Dion, Valerie Simpson, Carol King, Ramsey Lewis, Jay Z, and Ruben Studdard.
Jeff's motion picture and television credits include Dances With Wolves, Hoodlums, My Best Friend's Wedding, Unconditional Love, Just Visiting and Jordan Peele's soon to be released Lovecraft Country, as well as playing himself on the season 2 finale of Empire. Jeff's jingle and voice-over work have been featured in over 6,500 television and radio commercials, including: Friday's, Ford, Toyota, Kraft Lunchables, McDonald's, AT&T, ComEd, Jewel, Kellogg's and Nintendo. His character voices include "Dig'em" & "Tony the Tiger" for Kellogg's, "The Jolly Green Giant" and "Palmy" on VeggieTales.
Under his production company, NuVoice Productions, Jeff works as a commercial music producer for Toyota and McDonalds. He also coaches his team of writers and producers on the intricacies of music production for television and radio. Recently, he and his team have written for Empire and Toyota Corolla. Additionally, Jeff mentors singers, writers and producers. Several of Jeff's students have appeared on national broadcast episodes of Empire, American Idol, The Voice and The Glee Project.Palmy, the palm tree manager of the Monacacy Hall and Theater (voice)- Director
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Brian K. Roberts is known for The Unauthorized Full House Story (2015), An En Vogue Christmas (2014) and The Drew Carey Show (1995).Gourdon/Philistine Number 6 and Sherman the Skunk (voice)- Actor
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Robert Paulsen is an American voice actor and singer from Detroit, Michigan. He is known for voicing Raphael in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Yakko Warner in Animaniacs, Pinky in Pinky and the Brain, Carl Wheezer in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Hadji in Jonny Quest, Donatello in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Party Juju and Tlaloc in Tak and the Power of Juju, P.J. in Goof Troop and A Goofy Movie and Peck in Barnyard. He is also the host of a voice over talk show called "Talkin' Toons with Rob Paulsen".Ichabeezer and Tyrone the Pumpkin (voices)- Actress
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Tress MacNeille is one of the most talented women in the voice-over industry to date. With her versatile talent has done the voices of Dot Warner from Animaniacs, Babs Bunny from Tiny Toon Adventures to being a featured singer in the Weird "Al" Yankovic song "Ricky", She has also appeared in a small part in the full-length motion picture "Elvira Mistress of the Dark".Penny the Persimmon (voice)- Actor
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Richard Horvitz began acting professionally at the age of 10. As a child, he appeared in numerous stage productions. Among the most notable, the musical "Oliver!", starring Dick Shawn and Stubby Kaye. Also as a child, Richard starred in numerous commercials and made many television guest appearances on such shows as Diff'rent Strokes (1978), Head of the Class (1986), You Can't take it with you, Rags to Riches and many more. As an adult, Richard attended UCLA before leaving to star in the TBS original TV series Safe at Home (1985). In 1987, Richard starred along with Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley in the Carl Reiner-directed film, Summer School (1987), for Paramount Studios. Most recently, Richard co-starred in the Warner Bros. film, The Informant! (2009) as Matt Damon's attorney, "Bob Zaideman". In 2011, Richard can be seen, alongside Steve Carell, in Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011). Other notable films include Race to Space (2001), The Legend of Galgameth (1996) for the Disney Channel and also the film Storm (1999), starring Martin Sheen. Richard also continues to make guest appearances on television, including numerous appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992) and Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003). Fans of animation will recognize many of Richard's iconic characters, including "Zim" on Nickelodeon's Invader ZIM (2001), "Billy" on Cartoon Networks' The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2003) ("The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy"), "Dagget" on Nickelodeon's The Angry Beavers (1997) and many more. Video game titles include, "Psychonauts", "Destroy All Humans", "Kinectimals", "Metal Gear Solid 4" "Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time" and many other games. Savvy viewers will also recognize Richard as the "Green Grapes" in the Fruit of the Loom commercials.Elmer the Eggplant (voice)- Actress
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Julie Nathanson is an actress and writer, known for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020), Bayonetta 3 (2022) and Batman: The Long Halloween (2021). She is married to David Holcomb. They have one child.Nina the Yellow Squash (voice)- Actor
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Tom Kenny grew up in East Syracuse, New York. When Tom was young he was into comic books, drawing funny pictures and collecting records. Tom turned to stand-up comedy in Boston and San Francisco. This led to appearances on every cable show spawned by the stand-up epidemic of the '80s and '90s as well as stints on The Dennis Miller Show (1992), The Pat Sajak Show (1989), Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) and [error]. Tom was a regular on Fox TV's The Edge (1992) and spent a year as the host of NBC's Friday Night (1983). His mainstream television appearances include Brotherly Love (1995) and David Alan Grier's sitcom debacle, The Preston Episodes (1995). Tom supplies the voice for "Heffer" the cow on Nickelodeon's Rocko's Modern Life (1993) and Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), as well as regular performances on The Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory (1996), Justice League (2001), The Powerpuff Girls (1998), and Johnny Bravo (1997). Tom joined the cast of Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995) where he met his future wife Jill Talley. Together they've teamed up on Comedy Central's The Mark Thomas Comedy Product (1996), the stage show "The Show With Two Heads", HBO's Not Necessarily the Election (1996), the The Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" video and Travis "Sing" video.Carter the Pickle (voice)- Composer
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Kurt Heinecke is known for VeggieTales: Very Silly Songs (1997), Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002) and VeggieTales: The Ballad of Little Joe (2003).Music Composer- David Pitts is known for Perfect Criminals (2024).Producer
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Paula Marcus is known for Grease (1978), Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990) and The Stunt Man (1980).Co-Producer