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Nov 19, 2007 - 9:29 PM
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Jon A. Bell
(Member)
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Years ago, some geeky friends of mine were talking about science fiction conventions, and one of them recounted how he had the pleasure of meeting Gary Owens (the announcer on “Laugh-In,” and forever immortalized as the voice of Space Ghost) at an S/F con.
Then the thought occurred to us: if you could hold a fantasy “Voice Con,” with attendees being your favorite celebrity “voices” of all time, who would you want to have attend? I’ve got the following list; feel free to add your own:
1. Orson Welles
2. Ronald Colman
3. Sir Cedric Hardwicke
4. Paul Frees
5. Rod Serling
6. Mel Blanc
7. Gary Owens
8. Jonathan Harris
9. Vincent Price
10. Richard Basehart
11. Vic Perrin
12. Ted Cassidy
13. William Conrad
14. Robert Culp
15. Ed Bishop
16. Shane Rimmer
17. Richard Burton
18. June Foray
19. Roscoe Lee Browne
20. Mike Road, Don Messick and John Stephenson (Hannah-Barbera cartoons and “Jonny Quest” in particular)
21. Kathleen Turner
22. James Earl Jones
23. Patrick Stewart
24. Tony Todd
25. Roscoe Lee Browne
26. Harvey Fierstein
27. The entire cast of “The Simpsons”
28. Patrick Warburton
29. Avery Brooks
In addition, various unnamed (at least, to me) announcers – the Quinn Martin announcers (“The Invaders… In Color!” and the opening "Invaders" narration), the scary as hell “ABC Movie of the Week” announcer(s) from the 1970s, various movie trailer VO people… who else would you nominate?
-- Jon
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There's at least one glaring omission from the above list:
Alexander Scourby.
You might also add James Mason.
Repent.
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Sally Kellerman
Gene Barry
James Mason
Suzanne Pleshette
Pat Neal
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THE INVADERS announcers were Hank Simms (...In Color) and the main narration was William Woodson (visible in a bit role as a tv newscaster in BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS)
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yeah...Ernie Anderson....The LOVE Boat! ( former Ghoulardi/horror movie host in Cleveland OH ...including Parma)
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How about William Marshall (BLACULA)...from the STAR TREK "Ultimate Computer" ep.? Nice deep voice....
Bill Kennedy..."and now-another exciting episode in THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN!!"
Peter Coyote
and who's the deep voiced guy who does all the movie trailers (and Geico commercial)?
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Don LaFontaine is the GEICO guy. He claims to be the "In a world..." trailer announcer, but that is more appropriate to Hal Douglas (a very nice guy).
Ernie Anderson could be quite the handful, although he delighted in lighting a cigarette in front of the microphone (he used a Zippo), so we could hear the tobacco crisp half-way across the nation when we started going digital. he was also P.T. Anderson's father.
Then there's Danny Dark.
Lorenzo Music was a delight.
The women? My favorites are Sally Kellerman and Kathy Levin.
You can see a lot of the best announcers in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw
My friend, Bob Israel, was the live sound guy recording these guys.
And Hal Douglas can be seen and heard in this ad for "Comedian," (which I thought was better than the movie, actually)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVDzuT0fXro
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Timothy Dalton VO for the nature program "The Wolves".
Laurence Olivier for Polaroid cameras.
William Shatner for being the biggest VO shill of all time.
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Robert Reed did some voice-over work in the 90s. I thought he had one of the most pacifying voices I'd ever heard. He could lull me to sleep in seconds.
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Douglas Raines (HAL 9000)
Peter Coyote
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