Bill Thompson's natural voice (or the closest to it) was heard as King Hubert in Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty." He also voiced Spike, complete with Irish accent, in some of the Droopy cartoons. Arthur Q. Bryan's normal voice could also be heard as Ricky Ricardo's boss Mr. Chambers on "I Love Lucy" in an episode where Ricky is taken ill and Lucy stages a vaudeville show at the Tropicana. Game show announcer Johnny Olsen used to imitate Frank Nelson when he hosted an early TV game show.
Arthur Q.Bryan (1899-1959) Radio actor "Fibber McGee & Molly" George O'Hanlon (1912-1989) "Joe Doakes" film series. Died after making Jetsons movie Bill Thompson (1913-1971) "King of the Wimps" voice of "Droopy Dog" Frank Nelson (1911-1986)-Charter member of AFTRA served as president 1954-1957 Hans Conried (1917-1982) "Uncle Tonoose" on "Make Room For Daddy" w/Danny Thomas Julie Bennett (b.1943) Still active as a voice actress (according to IMDB)
While Hans Conried narrated the MGM Tom & Jerry cartoon "Johann Mouse," his only job at Hanna-Barbera Productions was as the voice of Dr. Dred on Drak Pack (1980), after his career already reached its peak.
I always enjoyed Edward Everett Horton's narration of Fractured Fairy Tales as a kid, and in later years I enjoyed his character portrayals in movies even more. Such talented performers all!
I didn't include Edward Everett Horton here because that was really his only cartoon work that I know of, though as a kid that was all I knew him from. I never knew him as a movie actor until much later on. Same with Charlie Ruggles, who did the Aesop & Son cartoons with Daws Butler as "Son".
Bill Thompson also voiced a number of Disney characters as well including the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, Mr. Smee in Peter Pan, numerous voices in Lady and the Tramp (most notably Jock), King Hubert in Sleeping Beauty and Uncle Waldo in The Aristocats
Fun Fact: Hans Conried was also a live action reference for NOT only as both Captain Hook and Mr Darling in Peter Pan (he did voice them), but also for King Stefan in Sleeping Beauty and originally did some voice work for him until Taylor Holmes took over as Stefan in the final version, though Conried may be heard very briefly as the majordomo Lord Duke in the beginning with only two lines. Also Bill Thompson (Droopy and Mr Smee) did the voice of King Hubert in the same movie.
Julie Bennett is also the voice of Joan in Tom and Jerry Cartoons since Pet Peeve to Tot Watchers alongside George (voiced by Daws Butler, voice of Spike the Bulldog and Yogi Bear).
Thanks for these. I never knew what Bill Thompson looked like. You have to admit, though, he had a very distinctive voice. I loved that episode of "I Love Lucy." Especially when Hans Conried's persnickety character started belting out "Babalu."
Believe it or not he also happens to be the model reference for King Stefan in Sleeping Beauty for animators to bring King Stefan to screen, and possibly recorded some additional voice tracks and he possibly voiced the herald (aka Lord Duke) in the same film, but that voice mystery was still never ever solved or confirmed, due to Conried being replaced by Taylor Holmes for the voice role for Stefan.
Many other actors did Looney Toons voices like June Foray and Bea Benedaret, but Mel's contract specified that only he would get screen credit... with very, very few exceptions.
I wonder if there's any video of Bill Thompson doing the other characters that he did on the FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY radio program!? Wallace Wimple was the character that had the Droopy voice...Thompson also did the voices of the Old Timer and several others on that radio program.
Wow that's awesome and wonderful talent they had back then. It's great to hear and see those talented people back then unlike today, absolutely nothing and no talent.
If you notice on the Bill Thompson clip, the guy with the mustache is a young Gale Gordon, who made a career playing on Lucy's shows for over 40 years. As early as the mid 30's he & Lucy were on Jack Haley's Wonder Bread show on radio (Lucy in a sort of a Mary Livingstone part and Gordon as the announcer), and I think he was on every TV show she ever made. Not on every episode of every show, but as a recurring character on every show.
@@Nick-ty9us Yeah. The first Mr. Wilson was Joseph Kearns, who was a regular on Jack Benny's show, radio & TV. He was the guard on the famous "Jack Benny's vault" gags.
@@RRaquello mr. Wilson when Gil Gordon took over looks like Otis from McGee and Molly and they’re completely different characters even have the same shape nose
Yeah, he's not easy to find. I believe this was his only movie appearance. He did a bunch of voices on the Fibber McGee & Molly program on the radio, and I think he didn't get into movies because his appearance was so far from the characters he played. For example, Droopy Dog was based on his Wallace Wimple character, who was supposed to be a meek little man, but you can see here that he was quite tall and much younger than you'd expect him to be. His other famous character was :"the Old Timer", and, again, he was way younger than you'd have pictured him just from hearing him on the radio.
That's impossible. Nelson died in 1986 WAY before the Simpsons became a real TV show in 1988. Which means you're probably talking about the Frank Nelson look-a-like character voiced by Dan Castellaneta.
That was interesting, the man who did Elmer Fudd, Arthur Bryan talks exactly like him. I know he passed away around 1960, then Mel Blanc did his voice, you can tell the difference in Elmer's voice in the 60s cartoons. Well, the voices in the Flintstones also worked in other Hanna Barbera cartoons. Daws Butler, who voiced Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and others did Barney Rubble's voice for a while when Mel Blanc was injured and in the hospital in 1961. Hans was around for years, he played Wrongway Feldman in Gilligan's Island
You can hear Bryan's regular speaking voice on the old Fibber McGee & Molly shows. He was a regular on that show for years. It's not far off the Elmer Fudd voice. Elmer Fudd was his regular voice dumbed down. He was also a regular on the Great Gildersleeve and the Lux Radio Theater and actually played non-comedy parts on Lux. It's funny to listen to a dramatic show like Lux and then all of a sudden you hear Elmer Fudd.
I've only seen a little of Fibber McGee and Miolly, I know the great Gildesleeve, I heard it on the radio not too long ago, there is this station in Toronto that plays older radio shows and I've heard a fair bit over the years. The great Hal Peary was the voice. It's like Alan Reed who did Fred Flinstone, he talks basically like Fred in different movies and tv shows, he was in The Postman always Rings Twice
Glenn Marshall the mel blanc bio say´s.at mels hospital-time warner brothers was trying to let other voice actors do mels job.the say´d "we can´t do it",lets wait until mel is feeling better. they sayd
Glenn Marshall The Fred Flintstone voice is basically Alan Reed's regular voice. When he was doing Fred Flintsone he wasn't even "doing a voice". He also did a ton of radio stuff. Most TV cartoon people did, which makes sense. From what I've read, Alan Reed worked under two different names in radio: Teddy Bergman (his real name) under which he did comedy shows and Alan Reed (his fake or assumed name) under which he did dramatic shows. Eventually he dropped the Teddy Bergman and became just Alan Reed and (from what I've heard) did comedy almost exclusively. You can't miss him when you hear him on an old radio show because his voice is unmistakeable-it's Fred Flintstone, unless he's doing dialect. Amongst his radio roles, the most famous was the poet Falstaff Openshaw on the Fred Allen show. For this he used the same dialect he used later on the Flintstones episode when he got hit on the head with a bottle of car polish and became "Frederick". He was also a regular on "The Life of Riley" playing Riley's boss Mr. Stephenson, in which part he sounded exactly like Fred Flintstone. On TV, when they tried to make "Duffy's Tavern" into a TV show, he did the part of Finnegan in which he used his "dumb" voice, a voice he also used on the Flintstones frequently, as characters other than Fred Flintstone.
Hal Peary was the first Gildersleeve. Willard Waterman took over the role. Alan Reed was very good at dialects. He played the Italian immigrant Luigi in Life with Luigi, and in the movie viva zapata with Marlon Brando, Reed played Pancho Villa.
That's Phyllis Coates, whose most famous for playing Lois Lane in the first season (the one good season) of the 50's TV version of the "Adventures of Superman". She's one of my favorites too. After she left Superman it was not nearly as good.
Or Lord Rogers in The Swan Princess. You know, Prince Derek’s valet. But if Conried had not been replaced by Taylor Holmes for King Stefan in Sleeping Beauty, he would have been a Disney Legend.
Marvin isn't Mr. Wilson. I don't know who he is as I never saw him on anything else but a few of the Joe McDoakes shorts. But, coincidentally, Mr. Wilson is in this video. At around 6:20, he's in the clip with Fibber McGee (Jim Jordan) and Bill Thompson. He's the guy with the mustache, Gale Gordon, who, of course, played in hundreds (maybe thousands) of TV & Radio shows, most famously with Lucille Ball on just about every one of her TV shows, and also on her radio shows, going back to the 1930's. (They were both featured on Jack Haley's Wonder Bread variety show in the mid 30's).
@@BruceWayne-qj6sv I think I get what you mean. There were TWO MR. Wilsons on the TV show. First was Joseph Kearns, another stalwart radio actor. He died during the duration of the Dennis the Menace show. That guy Marvin does look like him. Kearns was replaced, as Mr. Wilson, by Gale Gordon, who is in this film clip.
Others did voices for Warner Bros, but for years, Mel Blanc was the only person to get a derit. People like Bea Benaderet and even Larry Storch did some voices.
Bea Benaderet did a lot of voices on radio and cartoons.She was also betty rubble in the flintstones. Larry Storch did cartoon voices but that was much later years than blanc and benadaret
Bill Thompson's natural voice (or the closest to it) was heard as King Hubert in Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty." He also voiced Spike, complete with Irish accent, in some of the Droopy cartoons. Arthur Q. Bryan's normal voice could also be heard as Ricky Ricardo's boss Mr. Chambers on "I Love Lucy" in an episode where Ricky is taken ill and Lucy stages a vaudeville show at the Tropicana. Game show announcer Johnny Olsen used to imitate Frank Nelson when he hosted an early TV game show.
Bill Thompson's always Wallace Wimple from Fibber McGee and Molly.
Arthur Q.Bryan (1899-1959) Radio actor "Fibber McGee & Molly"
George O'Hanlon (1912-1989) "Joe Doakes" film series. Died after making Jetsons movie
Bill Thompson (1913-1971) "King of the Wimps" voice of "Droopy Dog"
Frank Nelson (1911-1986)-Charter member of AFTRA served as president 1954-1957
Hans Conried (1917-1982) "Uncle Tonoose" on "Make Room For Daddy" w/Danny Thomas
Julie Bennett (b.1943) Still active as a voice actress (according to IMDB)
While Hans Conried narrated the MGM Tom & Jerry cartoon "Johann Mouse," his only job at Hanna-Barbera Productions was as the voice of Dr. Dred on Drak Pack (1980), after his career already reached its peak.
This is really great. Although I was a cartoon junkie as a kid, I had no idea that so many talented people were behind the voices. Thanks a lot !
I always enjoyed Edward Everett Horton's narration of Fractured Fairy Tales as a kid, and in later years I enjoyed his character portrayals in movies even more. Such talented performers all!
I didn't include Edward Everett Horton here because that was really his only cartoon work that I know of, though as a kid that was all I knew him from. I never knew him as a movie actor until much later on. Same with Charlie Ruggles, who did the Aesop & Son cartoons with Daws Butler as "Son".
Hans Conried was very much in demand on radio. He was a master of many accents.
Hans was captain hook in 1953s peter pan by walt disney
Bill Thompson also voiced a number of Disney characters as well including the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, Mr. Smee in Peter Pan, numerous voices in Lady and the Tramp (most notably Jock), King Hubert in Sleeping Beauty and Uncle Waldo in The Aristocats
And Park Ranger Jones in the Humphrey Bear cartoons.
Not to mention he voiced Tom’s cousin George in an episode of Tom and Jerry
Hey, thanks for that comment! I knew I had heard his voice for other cartoon characters, but couldn't remember which ones.
He was also the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland.
Don't forget one of the characters in the Flintstones
Fun Fact: Hans Conried was also a live action reference for NOT only as both Captain Hook and Mr Darling in Peter Pan (he did voice them), but also for King Stefan in Sleeping Beauty and originally did some voice work for him until Taylor Holmes took over as Stefan in the final version, though Conried may be heard very briefly as the majordomo Lord Duke in the beginning with only two lines. Also Bill Thompson (Droopy and Mr Smee) did the voice of King Hubert in the same movie.
0:06 Arthur Q. Bryan
George O'Hanlon and Frank Nelson were actor actors originally, they only did some voice work later on in their lives.
Same for Hans Conried.
Julie Bennett is also the voice of Joan in Tom and Jerry Cartoons since Pet Peeve to Tot Watchers alongside George (voiced by Daws Butler, voice of Spike the Bulldog and Yogi Bear).
Bill Thompson is one of my favorites. His character "Nick Depopulis" on Fibber McGee and Molly was genius!
1:28 George O'Hanlon
This is gold, America's great art form, cartoons, Elmer Fudd hilarious !
Did you know that Arthur Q. Bryan actually had a lisp in his voice that he couldn't control which is what caused him to create that iconic voice?
Thanks for these. I never knew what Bill Thompson looked like. You have to admit, though, he had a very distinctive voice.
I loved that episode of "I Love Lucy." Especially when Hans Conried's persnickety character started belting out "Babalu."
7:50 It’s torn Oakenshield from the hobbit and captain hook from Peter Pan
Bill Thompson was also Mr. Smee in Peter Pan!!!
Great clip(s). Sally Struthers did the voice of Pebbles for the Flintstones and live-acted in All In the Family, but of course you knew that ;-)
Hans Conried also did the voice of Captain Hook from Peter Pan.
Believe it or not he also happens to be the model reference for King Stefan in Sleeping Beauty for animators to bring King Stefan to screen, and possibly recorded some additional voice tracks and he possibly voiced the herald (aka Lord Duke) in the same film, but that voice mystery was still never ever solved or confirmed, due to Conried being replaced by Taylor Holmes for the voice role for Stefan.
4:29 Bill Thompson
Hans Conried was also the host of Fractured Flickers.
this is so good, i'm in the wayback machine..and, loving it.
He was also on the radio show My Favorite Husband which was turned into I Love Lucy. He and Lucille Ball must have really liked working together.
Had to venture back to this video after hearing the sad news about Julie Bennett.
Many other actors did Looney Toons voices like June Foray and Bea Benedaret, but Mel's contract specified that only he would get screen credit... with very, very few exceptions.
8:17 Julie Bennett
Holy smokes!!! A looney tunes character that wasn't voiced by Mel Blanc back in the day??? Wow
Another one you could have added in this: Eleanor Audley, who was Lady Tremaine and Maleficent.
I wonder if there's any video of Bill Thompson doing the other characters that he did on the FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY radio program!? Wallace Wimple was the character that had the Droopy voice...Thompson also did the voices of the Old Timer and several others on that radio program.
the short-lived "fat Elmer Fudd" was actually a caracture of Bryan.
Hans was Danny Thomas’ Uncle Tonoose, and turns up on a Leonard Bernstein Omnibus on Grand Opera.
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Wow that's awesome and wonderful talent they had back then. It's great to hear and see those talented people back then unlike today, absolutely nothing and no talent.
Arthur Q. Bryan was the original voice of Elmer Fudd
that this list included the great mel blanc among others and a clip from dragnet made this fun to watch.
Verna Felton is also a fine voice over actress.
Thank you for this! I just have to say.... Jack Webb was soo incredible at "amazing" his audience.
Holy crap, Bill Thompson was in the Flintstones?!?
Bill Thompson actually did Touche Turtle when at Hanna-Barbera.
If you notice on the Bill Thompson clip, the guy with the mustache is a young Gale Gordon, who made a career playing on Lucy's shows for over 40 years. As early as the mid 30's he & Lucy were on Jack Haley's Wonder Bread show on radio (Lucy in a sort of a Mary Livingstone part and Gordon as the announcer), and I think he was on every TV show she ever made. Not on every episode of every show, but as a recurring character on every show.
The second Mr. Wilson
@@Nick-ty9us Yeah. The first Mr. Wilson was Joseph Kearns, who was a regular on Jack Benny's show, radio & TV. He was the guard on the famous "Jack Benny's vault" gags.
So when he moved to Dennis the Menace Otis changed his name to Mr. Wilson
When Otis left whistle vista he changed his name to Mr. Wilson
@@RRaquello mr. Wilson when Gil Gordon took over looks like Otis from McGee and Molly and they’re completely different characters even have the same shape nose
I love Frank Nelson! Hes' awesome in the radio show My Favorite Husband!
I remember him on Sanford and Son
Arthur Q. Bryan was also the voice of Elmer Fudd, not Mel Blanc. Look it up on Wiki.
I love "One of them is swell and the other one is lousy."
"Well give us the lousy one first."
So, all that time Mel Blanc was doing an impersonation of Arthur Q. Bryan in order to continue the cartoon life of Elmer Fudd😳
I have a co worker who sounds like Rocky.
frank nelson was on I love lucy a LOT
After all these years to actually see the guy that did the voice of droopy dog and doing droopy dog as a human it’s great
Yeah, he's not easy to find. I believe this was his only movie appearance. He did a bunch of voices on the Fibber McGee & Molly program on the radio, and I think he didn't get into movies because his appearance was so far from the characters he played. For example, Droopy Dog was based on his Wallace Wimple character, who was supposed to be a meek little man, but you can see here that he was quite tall and much younger than you'd expect him to be. His other famous character was :"the Old Timer", and, again, he was way younger than you'd have pictured him just from hearing him on the radio.
Very Nice!
That's impossible. Nelson died in 1986 WAY before the Simpsons became a real TV show in 1988. Which means you're probably talking about the Frank Nelson look-a-like character voiced by Dan Castellaneta.
how was the rarn sound at 1:48 made?
I'm here for Droopy.
That was interesting, the man who did Elmer Fudd, Arthur Bryan talks exactly like him. I know he passed away around 1960, then Mel Blanc did his voice, you can tell the difference in Elmer's voice in the 60s cartoons. Well, the voices in the Flintstones also worked in other Hanna Barbera cartoons. Daws Butler, who voiced Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and others did Barney Rubble's voice for a while when Mel Blanc was injured and in the hospital in 1961. Hans was around for years, he played Wrongway Feldman in Gilligan's Island
You can hear Bryan's regular speaking voice on the old Fibber McGee & Molly shows. He was a regular on that show for years. It's not far off the Elmer Fudd voice. Elmer Fudd was his regular voice dumbed down. He was also a regular on the Great Gildersleeve and the Lux Radio Theater and actually played non-comedy parts on Lux. It's funny to listen to a dramatic show like Lux and then all of a sudden you hear Elmer Fudd.
I've only seen a little of Fibber McGee and Miolly, I know the great Gildesleeve, I heard it on the radio not too long ago, there is this station in Toronto that plays older radio shows and I've heard a fair bit over the years. The great Hal Peary was the voice. It's like Alan Reed who did Fred Flinstone, he talks basically like Fred in different movies and tv shows, he was in The Postman always Rings Twice
Glenn Marshall the mel blanc bio say´s.at mels hospital-time warner brothers was trying to let other voice actors do mels job.the say´d "we can´t do it",lets wait until mel is feeling better. they sayd
Glenn Marshall
The Fred Flintstone voice is basically Alan Reed's regular voice. When he was doing Fred Flintsone he wasn't even "doing a voice". He also did a ton of radio stuff. Most TV cartoon people did, which makes sense. From what I've read, Alan Reed worked under two different names in radio: Teddy Bergman (his real name) under which he did comedy shows and Alan Reed (his fake or assumed name) under which he did dramatic shows. Eventually he dropped the Teddy Bergman and became just Alan Reed and (from what I've heard) did comedy almost exclusively. You can't miss him when you hear him on an old radio show because his voice is unmistakeable-it's Fred Flintstone, unless he's doing dialect.
Amongst his radio roles, the most famous was the poet Falstaff Openshaw on the Fred Allen show. For this he used the same dialect he used later on the Flintstones episode when he got hit on the head with a bottle of car polish and became "Frederick". He was also a regular on "The Life of Riley" playing Riley's boss Mr. Stephenson, in which part he sounded exactly like Fred Flintstone. On TV, when they tried to make "Duffy's Tavern" into a TV show, he did the part of Finnegan in which he used his "dumb" voice, a voice he also used on the Flintstones frequently, as characters other than Fred Flintstone.
Hal Peary was the first Gildersleeve. Willard Waterman took over the role.
Alan Reed was very good at dialects. He played the Italian immigrant Luigi in Life with Luigi, and in the movie viva zapata with Marlon Brando, Reed played Pancho Villa.
Ohhh, so Frank Nelson was real? I wondering who that one character from The Simpsons was a parody of.
I can't locate Part 1. Did some unpleasent copyrite holder force you to remove it?
04:31 is that pebbles and bam bam?
No.
That's Phyllis Coates, whose most famous for playing Lois Lane in the first season (the one good season) of the 50's TV version of the "Adventures of Superman". She's one of my favorites too. After she left Superman it was not nearly as good.
Bill Thompson is my favorite
Where's part 1??
I wonder what it'd be like if Hans Conried lived long enough to voice Dr. Eggman. Not that I don't like Mike Pollock, but still.
Or Lord Rogers in The Swan Princess. You know, Prince Derek’s valet. But if Conried had not been replaced by Taylor Holmes for King Stefan in Sleeping Beauty, he would have been a Disney Legend.
Marvin in the first clip almost looked like. Mr. Wilson from Dennis the Menace. Could it be or am I mistaken?
Marvin isn't Mr. Wilson. I don't know who he is as I never saw him on anything else but a few of the Joe McDoakes shorts. But, coincidentally, Mr. Wilson is in this video. At around 6:20, he's in the clip with Fibber McGee (Jim Jordan) and Bill Thompson. He's the guy with the mustache, Gale Gordon, who, of course, played in hundreds (maybe thousands) of TV & Radio shows, most famously with Lucille Ball on just about every one of her TV shows, and also on her radio shows, going back to the 1930's. (They were both featured on Jack Haley's Wonder Bread variety show in the mid 30's).
@@RRaquello Ok. Thanks. I just thought he looked a little like a younger Mr. Wilson. Info appreciated.
@@BruceWayne-qj6sv
I think I get what you mean. There were TWO MR. Wilsons on the TV show. First was Joseph Kearns, another stalwart radio actor. He died during the duration of the Dennis the Menace show. That guy Marvin does look like him. Kearns was replaced, as Mr. Wilson, by Gale Gordon, who is in this film clip.
Others did voices for Warner Bros, but for years, Mel Blanc was the only person to get a derit. People like Bea Benaderet and even Larry Storch did some voices.
Bea Benaderet did a lot of voices on radio and cartoons.She was also betty rubble in the flintstones.
Larry Storch did cartoon voices but that was much later years than blanc and benadaret
Bill Thompson....MR.SMEE
Voice acting probably didn't pay all that well, if Bennett had to go around fleecing old guys.
Dumb humor
i prefer the engine crew from where in time is carmen sandiego cause its back on netflix this year since the end of 1998 gosh
Isn't Bill Thompson also the voice of Mr Smee & the White Rabbit?
Yep.
Yes
FRANK NELSOOOOOONNNN!!!!
5:30
Would you like to buy ...
Frank and Jack supposedly dated
mel took over the voice after arthur died
And he did a darn good job doing it
Why yyYYYeeeeeSSSSS! Lol.
these are wonderful
Frank Nelson is in the Simpsons (Plays the Creepy Guy who Says Yessss,.. or Noooooo!)
Uh, no,no,no, that is not Frank Nelson.
It's Dan Castellaneta taking him off.
Boaring!!!!!!!!!
Do you mean 'boring'. If that's what you mean you may want to learn how to spell correctly