Hal Smith

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS

This week's voice tribute goes to the late Hal Smith. (1916-1994)
You might remember him in his role as Otis the Town Drunk from the old Andy Griffith show. Hal also did a lot of voicework in his career. Probably his most famous voices were Goliath from Davey and Goliath, Owl from the Winnie the Pooh series, and the kind hearted Mr. Whittaker from the Adventures on Odyssey series.

ADVENTURES IN ODYSSEY(RADIO AND VIDEO SERIES):John Avery Whittaker(first voice)
THE ADVENTURES OF THE AMERICAN RABBIT: Mentor
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: Bandersnatch, Train conductor, Horse
AN AMERICAN TAIL: Moe
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Philippe
CASPER'S FIRST CHRISTMAS: Santa Claus
DAVEY AND GOLIATH: Goliath, Mr. Hansen, additional voices
DRAGON'S LAIR 2(VIDEO GAME): Mordoc, Cheshire Cat, Card Soldiers, Time Machine, Mordoc's brother, Dirk's mother inlaw
DUCKTALES: Gyro Gearloose, Flintheart Glomgold
DUMBO'S CIRCUS: Fair Dinkum, Rinkum Dinkum
FLUPPY DOGS: Dink, Haimish, attendant
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DR. DOLITTLE: Tommy Stubbins
HERE COME THE LITTLES: Uncle Augustus
HEY THERE, IT'S YOGI BEAR: Cornpone
THE IMPOSSIBLES: Coilman
THE LITTLES(TV SERIES): Dr. Hunter
LOONEY TUNES: Elmer Fudd(in certain episodes)
MICKEY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL: Goofy
(ANIMATED)THE LITTLE PRINCE: Swifty, additional voices
NO MAN'S VALLEY: George
PONTOFFEL POCK, WHERE ARE YOU?: McGillicuddy
THE ROMAN HOLIDAYS: Mr. Tycoonis
SANTA AND THE 3 BEARS: Mr. Ranger
THE SMALL ONE: Auctioneer
THE TOWN THAT SANTA FORGOT: Santa Claus
VILLA ALEGRE: Background voices
WELCOME TO POOH CORNER: Winnie the Pooh, Owl
WINNIE THE POOH: Owl(first voice)
YIPPIE, YAPPIE, YAHOOEY: Yappie, The King
YOGI'S FIRST CHRISTMAS: Santa Claus

Yes, Hal had a great voice acting career and he will be missed. -_-;;

Yes he sure did, Xerus. I also remember recognizing his voice popping up in quite a few "Flintstones" episodes. I recently just watched the "Andy Griffith Show" where Barney threw a tomato at Otis. At the end, Otis throws a tomato at Barney. I loved Otis' laugh when he did this! I also recall Howard McNear (Floyd the barber) and Howard Morris (Ernest T Bass) doing voices on "The Flintstones", both of whom also had fantastic voices!

Ziffel said:

Yes he sure did, Xerus. I also remember recognizing his voice popping up in quite a few "Flintstones" episodes. I recently just watched the "Andy Griffith Show" where Barney threw a tomato at Otis. At the end, Otis throws a tomato at Barney. I loved Otis' laugh when he did this! I also recall Howard McNear (Floyd the barber) and Howard Morris (Ernest T Bass) doing voices on "The Flintstones", both of whom also had fantastic voices!

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Yes, some of those Andy Griffith characters went off to do voices for cartoon characters later. And I can usually recognize a Hal Smith or a Howard Morris voice when I hear it.

After rewatching Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?, I'm pretty sure Hal was also the voice of McGillicuddy's supervisor, the "Good Fairy in Chief".

I think that probably was Hal along with one of McGillicuddy's assistants.

I also like to add another of Hal's voice credits to the list. I just found this out.

THE FUNNY COMPANY: Dr. Todd Goodheart, Belly Laguna, Dr. Von Upp

Hal, while uncredited (actually, no one was) was part of the WORST CARTOON SERIES known to mankind...

Talk about wasted talent!