Voicework, s/he played that?
10-01-07, 11:15 AM
#1
DVD Talk Legend
Thread Starter
Voicework, s/he played that?
Did you know that:
Brian Blessed, who played Prince Vultan in the campy 1980's "Flash Gordon"
was also the voice of:
Boss Nass, in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace"?
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Did you know that:
Darius McCrary possibly best known as Eddie Winslow in "Family Matters"
was the voice of the autobot Jazz in the live action movie Transformers?
Brian Blessed, who played Prince Vultan in the campy 1980's "Flash Gordon"
was also the voice of:
Boss Nass, in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace"?
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Did you know that:
Darius McCrary possibly best known as Eddie Winslow in "Family Matters"
was the voice of the autobot Jazz in the live action movie Transformers?
10-01-07, 01:29 PM
#6
DVD Talk Hero
Originally Posted by lotsofdvds
Darth Vader was voiced by a black dude.
10-01-07, 04:01 PM
#8
DVD Talk Legend
I was surprised to find out that Lori Alan did the voices of...
(Diane Simmons/Family Guy)
(The Boss/Metal Gear Solid 3)
(Diane Simmons/Family Guy)
(The Boss/Metal Gear Solid 3)
10-02-07, 01:34 AM
#10
DVD Talk Legend
Ratatouille has several of these. I found it interesting that they didn't actually hire French actors but had non-French actors doing accents, which must have been intentional. Ian Holm I can understand because he's played Napoleon a few times, but I don't remember Janeane Garofalo doing a French accent before and I probably would have never guessed that was her.
10-02-07, 05:11 AM
#11
DVD Talk Godfather
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Gateway Cities/Harbor Region
Posts: 63,282
Received 1,802 Likes
on
1,125 Posts
Working in radio I'm always keeping up with Voiceover work in animation, commercials, video games, and other media. You'd be shocked at what actors are doing what these days. There was a time when actors thought Voiceover work was beneath them but that changed many years back so now the small voiceover actor is having to compete with major stars for voicework.
Video game voicework is hot and I've seen many well known actors doing characters and even small parts.
Video game voicework is hot and I've seen many well known actors doing characters and even small parts.
Last edited by Giantrobo; 10-02-07 at 10:37 PM.
10-02-07, 02:09 PM
#13
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Bill Fagerbakke from TV's Coach is apparently the voice of Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants.
http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2420
http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2420
10-02-07, 02:15 PM
#14
Moderator
Liev Schreiber does a whole lot of voice over work for PBS doc's - his voice work/narration doesn't seem as deep as compared to when he's in film / stage ('Talk Radio' was great!) and when I met him in person last fall.
10-02-07, 10:05 PM
#18
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 556
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by Giantrobo
Video game voicework is hot and I've seen mnay well known actors doing characters and even small parts.
10-02-07, 10:10 PM
#19
DVD Talk Legend
Originally Posted by MartinBlank
Bill Fagerbakke from TV's Coach is apparently the voice of Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants.
http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2420
http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2420
10-02-07, 10:36 PM
#21
DVD Talk Godfather
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Gateway Cities/Harbor Region
Posts: 63,282
Received 1,802 Likes
on
1,125 Posts
Originally Posted by BobSchlapowitz
Brad Garrett
He also does the voice of Lobo in the Justice League cartoons.
10-02-07, 10:47 PM
#22
DVD Talk Legend
I heard somewhere that Yoda was voiced by Grover from Sesame Street.
But seriously...
I think it's interesting to see actors who are just now coming into their own in real life did earlier work in voice. I just found out recently that Hayden Pannniittererinettrernterinererniter from Heroes was Princess Dot in A Bug's Life.
Looking at some old VHS tapes on my shelf reminded me that before he was the big name that he is now, Jim Carrey was the voice of the exterminator robot in the Itsy Bitsy Spider short cartoon that preceeded Bebe's Kids in 1992.
On a side note, I still find it cool, and a little bittersweet, to hear Phil Hartman's voice coming from my Blasto video game. Not something I play too often, but there ya go.
But seriously...
I think it's interesting to see actors who are just now coming into their own in real life did earlier work in voice. I just found out recently that Hayden Pannniittererinettrernterinererniter from Heroes was Princess Dot in A Bug's Life.
Looking at some old VHS tapes on my shelf reminded me that before he was the big name that he is now, Jim Carrey was the voice of the exterminator robot in the Itsy Bitsy Spider short cartoon that preceeded Bebe's Kids in 1992.
On a side note, I still find it cool, and a little bittersweet, to hear Phil Hartman's voice coming from my Blasto video game. Not something I play too often, but there ya go.
Last edited by The_Infidel; 10-02-07 at 10:59 PM.
10-02-07, 11:48 PM
#23
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Originally Posted by MartinBlank
Does this guy do any voicework?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74lcsJnpmNM
Starting at 1:10.
10-03-07, 08:01 PM
#24
DVD Talk Hero
Originally Posted by The_Infidel
On a side note, I still find it cool, and a little bittersweet, to hear Phil Hartman's voice coming from my Blasto video game. Not something I play too often, but there ya go.
10-03-07, 08:19 PM
#25
DVD Talk Platinum Edition
Originally Posted by droidguy1119
I still don't know why Hugo Weaving was Megatron in Transformers. They put so much crap on his voice you couldn't even tell it was him. So why bother? Why not just hire Welker?