<Tr> <Th> Gender </Th> <Td> Male </Td> </Tr> <P> King Louie (Hindi: राजा लुई; Urdu: بادشاہ لوئی ‎) is a fictional character introduced in Walt Disney's 1967 animated musical film, The Jungle Book . Unlike the majority of the adapted characters in the film, Louie was not in Rudyard Kipling's original works . </P> <P> He was voiced by Louis Prima in the original film and by Christopher Walken in the 2016 live - action / CGI The Jungle Book film . </P> <P> Jim Cummings and others voiced him in other incarnations . Initially, the producers considered Louis Armstrong for the role, but to avoid the likely controversy that would result from casting a black person to voice an ape, they instead chose Prima . </P>

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