Mark Twain

Mark Twain
Background information
Born	Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, 1835 Florida, Missouri, United States
Died	April 21, 1910 (aged 74) Redding, Connecticut, United States
Cause of death	Heart attack
Nationality	American
Occupation	Author, writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer
Family information
Spouse	Olivia Langdon (1870-1904; her death)
Children	Langdon Susy Clara Jean

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American author writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, best known for his books, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Adaptations

The Tom Sawyer books:

• Tom Sawyer Island at the Disney theme parks
• The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
• Tom and Huck (1995)
• Characters also featured in Once Upon a Time.
• The Video Game The Chase on Tom Sawyer's Island (1988)
• The Italian Mickey Mouse comic Le avventure di Top Sawyer (1990)

The Prince and the Pauper:

• The Prince and the Pauper (1962 telefilm on Walt Disney's The Wonderful World of Color)
• The Prince and the Pauper (1990 Mickey Mouse short)
• Kingdom of the Sun, the film that eventually became The Emperor's New Groove, was to be an Incan-flavored adaptation of the story before its significant overhaul.
• A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper (2007 Disney Channel Original Movie)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:

• Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)

Other:

• The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories is adapted in the Italian Donald Duck comic Paperino e la banconota da un milione di sterline from 2018.

In Disney media

In the TV Special, "Walt Disney: One Man's Dream", a Young Walt Disney meets Mark Twain played by Charles Aidman.

Mark Twain appears as a character in the 1991 telefilm, Mark Twain and Me, played by Jason Robards.

In the backstory of the 2015 film, Tomorrowland, Mark Twain is an early member of Plus Ultra, reflecting his friendship with inventor Nikola Tesla.

Disney Parks

Tom Sawyer Island

Clemens' characters are featured in Tom Sawyer Island at the Disney Parks. While Clemens himself does not appear, the "Fort Langhorn" and "Fort Sam Clemens" were both locations in the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland respectively, both named for the author.

Mark Twain Riverboat

In the Disney theme parks, Mark Twain serves as the namesake of the Mark Twain Riverboat attraction with dialogue of him playing. In Walt Disney World's counterpart to the attraction The Liberty Belle Riverboat, Sam serves as a narrator. The ride is set during Clemens' time as a steamboat sailor (in real-life he served aboard steamboats from 1857 to 1861) and him going by the name of Sam Clemens while serving one Captain Horace Bixby.

The Liberty Belle features a fictionalized version of Clemens, with him being familiar with fictional characters and locations, like Beacon Joe, Big Thunder Mountain, and the Haunted Mansion. He even mentions having been childhood friends with Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer and them having played together on Tom Sawyer Island.

The American Adventure

Co-hosting the Audio-Animatronics show alongside Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain serves as a representative of the 19th century and a somewhat cynical counterpart to Franklin's optimism. Outside the main narrator role, Twain appears within the 1876 Centennial Exposition sequence interacting with Andrew Carnegie, Susan B. Anthony, and Alexander Graham Bell.