who plays the woodsman in over the garden wall
Christopher Lloyd
title: Over the Garden Wall text: Over the Garden Wall Over the Garden Wall is an American animated television miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network. The series centers on two half-brothers who travel across a strange forest in order to find their way home, encountering odd and wonderful things on their journey. The show is based on McHale's animated short film "Tome of the Unknown", which was produced as part of Cartoon Network Studios' shorts development program. The show features Elijah Wood and Collin Dean as the protagonists Wirt and Greg, and Melanie Lynskey as a bluebird named Beatrice. "Over the Garden Wall" was title: Over the Garden Wall text: while the program's animation was outsourced to South Korea. The series' environment evokes 19th- and 20th-century Americana, while its digital backgrounds are designed to resemble grisaille paintings. Upon its debut, the series received critical acclaim from television critics, with praise focusing on its mood and characters. In 2015, the series won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. Outside of the series, a one-shot comic book adaptation penned by McHale has been produced, with four further issues commissioned. This was eventually expanded into an ongoing series. The series follows two half-brothers, Wirt and Greg (voiced by Elijah Wood and Collin title: Over the Garden Wall text: Dean respectively), who become lost in a strange forest called the Unknown. In order to find their way home, the two must travel across the seemingly supernatural forest with the occasional help of the wandering, mysterious and elderly Woodsman (Christopher Lloyd) and Beatrice (Melanie Lynskey), an irritable bluebird who travels with the boys in order to find a woman called Adelaide, who can supposedly undo the curse on Beatrice and her family and show the half-brothers the way home. Wirt, the older brother, is a worry-prone teenager who would rather keep to himself than have to make a decision. His title: Christopher Lloyd text: Uncle Fester in "The Addams Family" (1991) and its sequel "Addams Family Values" (1993). Lloyd earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance in "Road to Avonlea", and won an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in "Twenty Bucks" (1993). He has done extensive voice work, including Merlock in "" (1990), Grigori Rasputin in "Anastasia" (1997), The Woodsman in Cartoon Network miniseries "Over the Garden Wall" (2014), and the Hacker in PBS Kids series "Cyberchase" (2002–present), which earned him two further Emmy nominations. He has also been nominated for two Saturn Awards and a BIFA Award. Lloyd was born title: Over the Garden Wall text: or a dog ... Nobody can tell which"). The ten episodes marked the first miniseries on the Cartoon Network. The show features Wood and Dean (reprising their roles from the short), along with Lynskey as the main voice cast. McHale and his crew tried to maintain a balance between frightening imagery and "episodes that are just light and funny". For the music, McHale drew inspiration from "classic American, opera singing". Nick Cross served as art director and Nate Cash as supervising director; both worked with McHale alongside storyboard artists located in New York and Chicago. This distance proved difficult for