Paul Frees

XERUS'S VOICE ARTIST FOCUS

This week's V/A focus is the legendary Paul Frees. Paul was famous for providing the voice of Boris Badenov in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. And Paul did lots and lots of voicework for Rankin/Bass specials and TV series and did some voicework for Disneyland theme park attractions. Sadly, he passed away in 1986. But I'll always think of Paul as one the legendary voice artists of cartoon past.

ADVENTURES IN INNERSPACE(ATTRACTION): Narrator
ARABIAN KNIGHTS: Bakkar
THE BEARY FAMILY: Charlie Beary, Junior Beary
THE BEATLES: John Lennon, George Harrison
CALVIN AND THE COLONEL: Oliver Wendell Clutch
DICK TRACY: B. B. Eyes, Heap O'Callory, Go Go Gomez(second voice)
DONALD IN MATHMAGIC LAND: The True Spirit of Adventure
DUDLEY DO-RIGHT: Inspector Fenwick
THE FANTASTIC FOUR(1967): The Thing, Additional voices
THE FIRST EASTER RABBIT: Spats, Zero, Santa Claus
THE FLIGHT OF DRAGONS: Antiquity(uncredited)
FROOT LOOPS COMMERCIALS: Toucan Sam(first voice)
FROSTY THE SNOWMAN: Santa Claus, Traffic Cop, Ticket Salesman
FROSTY'S WINTER WONDERLAND: Jack Frost, Traffic Cop
GAY PURR-EE: Meowrice, Bartender Cat, Railway Cat
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE: Ape, Narrator
GREAT MOMENTS WITH MR. LINCOLN(ATTRACTION): Narrator
THE HAUNTED MANSION(ATTRACTION): Ghost Host
HERE COMES PETER COTTONTAIL: Santa Claus, Additional voices
THE HILLBILLY BEARS: Claude Hopper
THE HOBBIT: Bombur, Troll 1
HOPPITY HOOPER: Narrator, Additional voices
THE IMPOSSIBLES: Fluid Man
THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET: Crusty
JACK FROST: Kubla Kraus, Father Winter
THE JACKSON 5: Additional voices
KNIGHT RIDER: K.A.R.R.(first voice)
KRAZY KAT: Ignatz, Officer Bull Pupp
THE LAST UNICORN: Marbruk, The Cat, Lady tree
THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY: Aaron's Father, the Magi
THE MAN CALLED FLINTSTONE: The Green Goose, Tripple X, Bobo, Rock Slag
MARY POPPINS: Barnyard Horse
MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS CAROL: Charity Man, Director, Eyepatch Man, Fence, Fezziwig, Undertaker
NESTOR THE LONG-EARED CHRISTMAS DONKEY: Olaf, Donkey dealer
101 DALMATIONS: Thunderbolt Announcer, Dirty Dawson
THE OSMONDS: Fuji, Additional voices
PILLSBURRY COMMERCIALS: The Pillsbury Doughboy(first voice)
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN(ATTRACTION): "Dead Men Tell No Tales" Echo, Auctioneer, Carlos the Spanish Magistrate, Parrot on Bridge, Pirate Captain in Ship Combat, Pooped Pirate, Prisoner Pirates
THE PUPPETOON MOVIE: Arnie the Dinosaur
QUISP AND QUAKE COMMERCIALS: Narrator
RETURN OF THE KING: Goblin, Elrond
ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE: Boris Badenov, Edgar, Cloyd, Captain Peachfuzz(second voice)
RUDOLPH AND FROSTY'S CHRISTMAS IN JULY: Winterbolt, Jack Frost, Policeman
RUDOLPH'S SHINY NEW YEAR: Eon, 1776, Colonel Ticker
SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN: Burgermeister Meisterburger, Grimsby, Additional voices
SECRET SQUIRREL(1967): Morocco Mole, Chief Double Q
SNUFFY SMITH: Snuffy Smith, Barney Google
SQUIDLY DIDDLY: Squidly Diddly
STAN FREBERG PRESENTS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA(RECORD ALBUM): Narrator, Peter Tishman
THE STINGIEST MAN IN TOWN: Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present
SUPER CHICKEN: Fred, Narrator
SUPER PRESIDENT: James Norcoss, Super President, Narrator
THE SUPER SIX: The Chief, Captain Zammo, Weft, Wong, Wight(second voice)
TOM SLICK: Baron Otto Matic, Announcer
TWICE UPON A TIME: Chief of State, Judges, Bailiff, Narrator
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS: Wayfarer
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY: Ludwig Von Drake

Awesome, Xerus. I had no idea he was Toucan Sam! I had always thought X. Atencio did the "Dead men tell no tales" line though on Pirates?

Good job Xerus... Just a bit down because the voice talents for shows I like are getting reduced to crud. We can talk about it some other time or place.
Look forward to the next focus.

Paul Frees was THE go-to guy for voices, he was everywhere!

Wow Xerus, you haven't done these focuses in a while!!!

So are you SURE Paul didn't do Fearless Leader on Rocky and Bullwinkle? Because some sources say he did.

In the Movie Some Like it Hot, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon disguise themselves as women. Paul Frees dubbed the voice over for Tony Curtis' "Josephine" character. Tony's voice wouldn't go high enough.

And there are sources that say Bill Scott performed Fearless Leader. ::shrugs::

D'Snowth said:

Wow Xerus, you haven't done these focuses in a while!!!

So are you SURE Paul didn't do Fearless Leader on Rocky and Bullwinkle? Because some sources say he did.

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I'm not really sure myself. But I do think Bill Scott did Fearless Leader because it sounds like one of Bill's voices.

Also, I just learned from someone that Paul didn't do the voice of Heap O'Calorie in Dick Tracy. Heap was done by Johnny Coons. Sorry about the mistake.

The Count said:

Good job Xerus... Just a bit down because the voice talents for shows I like are getting reduced to crud. We can talk about it some other time or place.
Look forward to the next focus.

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Thanks, Count.

And I too have noticed that certain cartoons are now using voice actors I've never heard of.

Vic Romano said:

Awesome, Xerus. I had no idea he was Toucan Sam! I had always thought X. Atencio did the "Dead men tell no tales" line though on Pirates?

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I haven't seen the Pirates attraction so I wouldn't really know. I just read it off a Paul Frees site.

And I have noticed that Toucan Sam does have that Paul Frees tone. Maurice LaMarche is now doing Sam these days.

Well... It's not that the actors are ones I've never heard of...

Take Pokemon for instance. The new main series (cause there are three series airing currently) Battle Frontier...
The regular voice cast that had provided the voices since the beginning, even the new actors who voice May and Max... Every one of them got booted out after ten years when the new cast took over for Battle Frontier.
And what I rully don't understand, is why, when CN decides to air episodes of Pokemon Chronicles in English, the voice talent's the same from the previous ten seasons of the various series.

Another example I could point out is The Winks Club. After two seasons, they changed the actress who voices Techna one of the main fairies in the premiere of Season 3. And then, in the second episode, after the premiere had already aired, they go and switch the voice of Stella (another one of the main fairies).
Just stuff I've noticed auditively as I watch the shows I enjoy watching in the field of animation.