Fred Berman and Ben Jeffrey joined the cast June 15, stepping into the respective roles of the wisecracking meerkat Timon and the carefree warthog Pumbaa. Armed with digital cameras, the actors set ...

As you may have heard by now, the new Lion King movie is not all that different from the original. The CGI animation is truly impressive (they look like real lions!), but the story is the same (real ...

After nearly three decades away, a sociable little critter is returning to the party at the San Antonio Zoo. The meerkat, which departed just a couple of years after Timon lit up the screen in ...

Eichner plays Timon in the live action film, "The Lion King." When Billy Eichner was a struggling actor in 2002 bartending at the Broadway production of "The Lion King," he never thought he'd be ...

The Lion King‘s “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” nearly sounded a whole lot different, according to Nathan Lane. The actor, who voiced the meerkat Timon alongside Ernie Sabella‘s warthog Pumbaa, ...

Nathan Lane laughs when asked what he recalls about creating the role of Timon, the mischievous meerkat, in the 1994 animated film “The Lion King.” Timon, along with his happy-go-lucky warthog pal ...