Tanamashu

Tanamashu is the main antagonist of Disney's 1966 live action film Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN. He is the tyrannical father of Wednesday who plans to sacrifice her and her sisters to Kaboona.

He was portrayed by the late Akim Tamiroff.

Role
After Crusoe finds Wednesday, she recounts that due her unwillingness to marry, her chieftain father, Tanamashu wants to sacrifice her and her sisters to Kaboona, an immense effigy on the island with whom he pretends to communicate.

The day Tanamashu arrives to the island, Crusoe uses paraphernalia from the submarine to combat Tanamashu, culminating in the destruction of the Kaboona statue.

After the battle, Crusoe and Tanamashu make peace. But when Crusoe makes it known that he does not wish to marry Wednesday, he is forced to flee to avoid her wrath. Pursued by a mob of irate island women, Crusoe is spotted by a U.S. Navy helicopter and he and Floyd narrowly escape with their lives.