In Disney’s 1967 film The Jungle Book, the vulture voiced by J. Pat O’Malley is Buzzie. Buzzie is one of the four vultures who encounter Mowgli near the film’s climax.
The vultures are designed and voiced with a comic, Liverpool-inspired style. Their group includes Buzzie, Flaps, Dizzy, and Ziggy, and their appearance provides a lighthearted contrast to Shere Khan’s threatening return.
The vulture sequence was influenced by the Beatles’ enormous popularity during the film’s production. The Beatles were considered for the voices of the vultures, but the casting plan did not happen. The characters’ hairstyle and speech patterns still preserve the pop-cultural flavor of the period.
Buzzie is easy to confuse with the other three vultures because they appear together and have similar designs. The individual names are distinct, however, and Buzzie is the character associated with J. Pat O’Malley’s voice in the finished film.