The Jungle Book (1967 film) productions such as "Dumbo". Anderson also decided to make Shere Khan resemble his voice actor, George Sanders. Backgrounds were hand-painted — with exception of the waterfall, mostly consisting of footage of the Angel Falls - and sometimes scenery was used in both foreground and bottom to create a notion of depth. Following one of Reitherman's trademarks of reusing animation of his previous films, the wolf cubs are based on dogs from "101 Dalmatians". Animator Milt Kahl based Bagheera and Shere Khan's movements on live-action felines, which he saw in two Disney productions, "A Tiger Walks" and the "Jungle Cat" episode
Shere Khan Shere Khan Shere Khan (; ) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book" and its adaptations. According to The Kipling Society, the word "Shere" (or ""shir"") translates as "tiger" and "Khan" is a title of distinction, used together "to show that he is chief among tigers." Other sources indicate "Shere" may mean "tiger" or "lion" in Persian, Urdu, and Punjabi, and that "Khan" translates as "king", or "leader", in a number of languages influenced by the Mongols, including Pashto and Urdu. Shere Khan was depicted by Kipling as being born with a crippled