Old Prisoner

The Old Prisoner is a minor character in Disney's ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame. ''He is an elderly man who serves as a returning gag in the film, where he is accidentally freed from a prison, cheers in joy, and ends up trapping himself in yet another prison. He is voiced by one of the film's directors Gary Trousdale.

Role in the film
When Esmeralda and her goat Djali try to escape from Frollo's soldiers she knocks a large cage which contains an old prisoner in it to the ground and it rolls away with Esmeralda and Djali riding on top of it and then jumping off of it causing it to land on top of the soldiers and knock them out and sets the old prisoner free. When the Old Prisoner realizes he is free he happily screams I'm free, I'm free! But as he gets out of the cage he hits his left foot on the cage which causes him to trip and land into a stockade which closes and causes him to be imprisoned again to which he says Dang it! A few days later as the citizens of Paris are fighting Frollo's soldiers one of the soldiers accidentally breaks the lock off of the stockade with a beam to which the Old Prisoner becomes free again and once again he happily celebrates his freedom by screaming I'm free, I'm free! He's so busy celebrating his freedom that he doesn't notice where he's walking and falls into a hole with a sign next to it that says Mon Sewer and after this he once again says Dang it! He isn't seen throughout the rest of the film after this.

Trivia

 * The Old Prisoner's design bares a striking resemblance to Jafar's beggar disguise in the film Aladdin, released four years earlier.