The Executioner is a character from the Haunted Mansion, appearing in the graveyard in most versions of the attraction.
On the Ride[]
The Executioner is only seen in the graveyard, standing on the right-hand side of the track, next to the Prisoner and the Beheaded Knight. He sings in a high pitched voice, while the Prisoner sings in a low pitched voice. In the WDW Haunted Mansion, his voice was re-dubbed during the 2007 Re-Haunting, and he now sings some of the lyrics differently, for instance "They begin to terrorize" instead of "They pretend to terrorize". His voice is provided by Billy Days.
Other appearances[]
The Ghost Gallery[]
In the cast-member created Ghost Gallery storyline, the executioner was said to be a man named Rocco Jones. In this rendition of the mansion's story, Rocco was one of four children named Carmen, Antonio and Giovanni Jones (the knight) who were all raised travelling on tour as a family of professional Opera Singers until the death of their parents.
The siblings wound up being hired to perform regularily in the Haunted Mansion for the Gracey Family and during one performance of an original opera called Don Juan in the Underworld, the pyschotic Gus Gracey (the prisoner) activated a trap door beneath Rocco's feet as he prepared to mime executing his brother Giovanni while playing an executioner. Rocco was murdered offstage by the Prisoner and had inadvertedly also murdered his brother as he decapitated him with his axe while falling beside his brother who was laying on a prop chopping-block. Gus had also murdered the other siblings by igniting a gas-tank which caused the stage to be engulfed with flames.
House of Mouse[]
The Executioner makes a cameo in the episode House Ghosts. He appears the graveyard scaring Pete and having tea with the Hitchhiking Ghosts.
SLG Comics[]
The executioner is depicted as a Frenchman in "Night of the Caretaker's Dog", where he chastises Topper McGurk for not carrying himself with dignity. He is surprised to learn his longtime neighbor the Beheaded Knight can speak French, though the Knight explains he never mentioned it as he still holds a grudge from his beheading.
In "Big Game", Lord Albert Dunswallop decides to try and capture the Executioner as the ghost trophy for his wall, but his plan of "temporarily" becoming a ghost by drinking poison ends up backfiring on him and the hunter is brought into the Mansion's fold.
2003 Film[]
The executioner appears briefly in the 2003 film decapitating another prisoner and waving at the Evers family along with the knight
Disney Crossy Road[]
In Disney Crossy Road he is a playable character for the Haunted Mansion stages as-well as an NPC enemy when playing as the Beheaded Knight.
2023 film[]
The beheaded knight and executioner are amongst the ghosts who Alistair Crump sends to attack the mortals, only for them to side with Father Kent.
A deleted scene during the reverse seance sequence shows them having speaking parts, with Ben briefly encountering them as they wander the halls looking for a portal, with the executioner annoying the knight by telling him not to lose his head. This version of the executioner speaks with a British accent.
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