Christina Ricci also starred with Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, and Eric Idle. In that film, Malachi Pearson voiced the animated Casper while Devon Sawa played his human version. The 1995 live-action movie was also the first film to star a computer-generated character. The character is best known for his various animated adaptations, with many different Casper shows coming and going over the years, most recently with the CG-animated Casper’s Scare School from 2009 to 2012. He originally started appearing in cartoons in the 1940s and his own comic books by Harvey Comics in the 1950s. Casper the Friendly Ghost was created by Seymour Reit, Joe Oriolo, and Vincent E.