Who voiced the Huntsman in Snow White?

Stuart Buchanan voiced the Huntsman in Disney’s *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*.

The Huntsman is the Queen’s reluctant servant. She orders him to take Snow White into the forest, kill her, and return with her heart as proof. Buchanan’s voice performance belongs to this brief but crucial role, because the Huntsman’s refusal to murder Snow White sets the central escape story in motion.

The character is easy to mix up with the film’s better-known dwarf voices. Scotty Mattraw voiced Bashful, Otis Harlan voiced Happy, and Billy Gilbert voiced Sneezy. Stuart Buchanan therefore does not belong to the group of seven dwarfs; he plays an adult character serving the Queen.

Buchanan’s credit is part of the original 1937 voice cast, which also included Adriana Caselotti as Snow White, Lucille La Verne as the Queen and Harry Stockwell as the Prince. The Huntsman’s act of mercy is one of the film’s earliest departures from the Queen’s plan.