Louie the Hot Dog Man

Louie the Hot Dog Man
Background information
Feature films	Oliver & Company
Voice	Frank Welker
Inspiration	Mr. Bumble from Oliver Twist
Character information
Other names	Old Louie
Occupation	Hot Dog Seller
Home	New York City
Likes	Making money, selling hot dogs
Dislikes	Animals trying to get his sausages, not making money

Louie the Hot Dog Man (referred to by Dodger as Old Louie) is a minor character in Disney's 1988 animated feature film, Oliver & Company.

Personality

Louie is careless, mean, grumpy, dumb, unfriendly, disgusting, rude, and loud-mouthed. He constantly shoos off animals who would come near his hot dog cart. 

Appearances

Oliver & Company

In the movie, Louie is seen pushing his hot dog cart in New York City; trying to sell his hot dogs to hungry people. He smokes a cigar as he is waiting for a potential customer. A cat named Oliver smells Louie's sausages and goes up to the cart; hoping to get something to eat but Louie shoos him away instead. Oliver tries to go back and begs Louie to give him a hot dog by hanging onto his leg but this time, Louie kicks Oliver away into a pile of trash where a dog named Dodger has been watching the whole thing. Dodger offers to help Oliver get the hot dogs by pretending to scare the cat, thus causing Oliver to run and jump onto Louie frighteningly, as a distraction, while Dodger steals the sausages. As Oliver jumps off of Louie, he accidentally squirts mustard in Louie's face to which Louie throws the mustard back at him but misses. Louie doesn't appear throughout the rest of the film after this.

Gallery

Louie's cart

Louie pushing his cart

"Hey, it's a beautiful day, eh? Come on, folks. Step right up."

"Get outta here. Shoo!"

"Get outta here. Go on, kitty."

Louie shooing Oliver away

Louie trying to get Oliver off of his foot

"Hey! Get off me!"

"Hey! Get outta here."

"Go on!"

"Shoo!"

Louie's hot dogs

Louie not yet noticing Dodger chasing Oliver

"Hey!"

"Dog."

Oliver jumping on Louie

Louie losing his change in the process

Oliver distracting Louie

Oliver as "Louie"

Oliver still distracting Louie

"I'LL GET YOU!"

Oliver accidentally squirting mustard on Louie

Louie's defeat while getting mustard in his face

Louie throwing the mustard back at Oliver but misses

Trivia

• Unlike the other people in the film, Louie is the only human character seen in the movie with only four fingers instead of five.
• Louie and Sykes share a few common things: they're both antagonists, they have the same enemies (Oliver and Dodger), they smoke cigars, and they have big strong muscles.
• While Louie is antagonistic towards Oliver the kitten, Dodger the dog refers Louie to Oliver as "a well-known enemy of the four-legged world", implying that Louie hates dogs too.
• Louie is perhaps the closest counterpart the film has to Mr. Bumble, the parish official who is incensed when the title character asks for more gruel in Oliver Twist, the Victorian novel that inspired the film.

v - e - d

Media Oliver & Company • (Soundtrack/Video) Disney Parks Fireworks: Wondrous Journeys Characters Oliver • Dodger • Fagin • Tito • Rita • Francis • Einstein • Georgette • Jenny Foxworth • Winston • Bill Sykes • Roscoe and DeSoto • Louie the Hot Dog Man • Alley Dogs • Penny (deleted) • Rufus (deleted) Locations New York City • Fagin's Barge • Foxworth Residence • Sykes' Warehouse Songs Once Upon a Time in New York City • Why Should I Worry • Streets of Gold • Perfect Isn't Easy • Good Company • Buscando Guayaba See Also Fagin's Scooter • Sykes' Cadillac • Foxworths' Limousine