BOB TZUDIKER & NONI WHITE (Screenplay by) met as actors in 1985 and began writing together three years later. The husband-and-wife writing team contributed to the 1994 Disney animated blockbuster "The Lion King" and received credits as screenwriters on the studio's 1996 animated feature, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and 1999's "Tarzan." They had previously collaborated on the screenplay for Disney's 1992 live-action musical "Newsies." Noni White, a native of Los Angeles, spent a year in Europe, where she started acting and working for a dubbing director. When she returned home, she continued acting for stage, film, and television and appeared on "Taxi" and "Little House on the Prairie" and in the film "The Woman in Red." She met Bob Tzudiker when they were cast as husband and wife in a play. Bob Tzudiker, a native of Boston, spent part of his childhood in Germany and France. While attending St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, he began performing in summer stock and upon graduation moved to New York City where he did stage acting. In 1976 he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, with the intention of writing, but began producing plays instead. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1980 and resumed his acting career. He subsequently met White and their writing partnership was launched. The duo's other credits include the 1997 Fox animated feature "Anastasia."