Eddie Byrne also did some voice work here, he played General Willard in Star Wars, his last film.
Declan Mulholland, the immortal Jabba the Hutt himself, also appeared in one of Richard Williams' other films, Charge of the Light Brigade. That's probably where Williams met him. You can spot Mulholland in a few scenes there.
Sean Connery delivers exactly one line in the film. The last line. A quite important line, at that. =) It's an unusual cameo, but who could turn down Connery ...
Vincent Price is at his best here ... Donald Pleasance only gets to squawk a bit, playing Price's vulture Phido.
Clive Revill, Empire's Emperor, replaced the late Sir Anthony Quayle as King Nod for the Fred Calvert version. A couple of times in my edit you'll hear Clive Revill deliver a line instead of Quayle ... their performances are similar enough that it doesn't stand out.
Note that the cast list mentions "Princess MeMe" (or MeeMee) and "Prince Bubba," two characters who were deleted from the film. Prince Bubba can be seen briefly in the documentary "Richard Williams and the Thief Who Never Gave Up" ... seems to be a prince who fell under a spell and became a troll.
Princess MeeMee I don't know much about ... She's mentioned quickly at Eddie Bowers' site.
http://www.geocities.com/eddie_bowers/princess.jpg
(Meme and Bubba - drawing)
http://www.geocities.com/eddie_bowers/prince.jpg
(Bubba and witch)
There's a puzzling thing in the workprint ... we see Princess YumYum bathing - it's a pencil test, not finished animation - and next to her, in the background of each shot, is what appears to be a SECOND Princess Yumyum, in another bath.
I think this might be Princess Meemee. A sister, perhaps. The Thief steals TWO backscratchers from Yumyum in this scene, so who knows -- the other backscratcher could have been Meemee's.
Deleted from the war machine finale - Zigzag summons a giant dragon ...
http://www.geocities.com/eddie_bowers/dragon.jpg
"I conjure demons, charm beasts ..."
I've edited together a trailer. A really good one. I'll post that when I can get it uploaded.
I've converted the first half to DVD. I'm working on an AVI or MOV, in some format or another.