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#1 Feb 12 2010 at 5:17 PM Rating: Good
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No, not the ones in my head that tell me to kill women.

Voices in Movies and on TV. Some are mesmerising.

Watching The Shawshank Redemption for the gazillionth time, it occurs to me that Morgan Freeman's voice-overs add so much. Without them, it would still be a good movie, but with the soothing, matter-of-fact tone of voice, this is possibly one of the key factors (subconsciously perhaps) why it's so often voted best movie evarr.

Others are predictable - James Earl Jones as Darth Wossname, Robert Shaw as the Shark catcher in Jaws.

Purely from a voice perspective, which actors stand out to you?
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#2 Feb 12 2010 at 5:20 PM Rating: Good
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Vincent Price in Scooby-Doo?
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#3 Feb 12 2010 at 5:26 PM Rating: Good
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Casey Kasem is pretty memorable. Zoinks.
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#4 Feb 12 2010 at 5:31 PM Rating: Excellent
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Michael C. Hall as Dexter.
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#5 Feb 12 2010 at 5:33 PM Rating: Good
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I've always found David Duchovny to have a hypnotizing voice...rather velvety and crumbly.
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#6 Feb 12 2010 at 6:05 PM Rating: Decent
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Not an actor really, but John Facenda, who did the voice-overs for NFL films in the days of my youth, had such a powerful and distinctive voice that he was known as The Voice of God.


#7 Feb 12 2010 at 6:31 PM Rating: Good
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I'm pretty sure I thought the narrator of the Dukes of Hazzard was god when I was a youngin'
#8 Feb 12 2010 at 6:39 PM Rating: Decent
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I've been re-watching Babylon 5 recently and always find myself awed by how amazing Andreas Katsulas' (RIP) voice was. G'Kar could quite possibly have been a very lame character with a less charismatic actor behind the makeup.

Also, Michael York. I remember once, many years ago, the Mark and Brian radio program had Michael York on the show, and to prove that he could read absolutely ANYTHING and make it sound cultured and refined, they had him do a recitation of the lyrics of "Baby Got Back." Best part was the very end when he says, "My apologies to Sir Mix-A-Lot."

Between the two of them, the B5 episode "A Late Delivery From Avalon" was a real treat on the ears.

Yes, my anglophile is showing again.

Edited, Feb 12th 2010 4:40pm by Ambrya
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#10 Feb 12 2010 at 6:39 PM Rating: Good
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Debalic wrote:
I've always found David Duchovny to have a hypnotizing voice...rather velvety and crumbly.


mmmmmmmmm....
#11 Feb 12 2010 at 6:54 PM Rating: Good
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Sam Elliot. Loves me The Stranger.
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#12 Feb 12 2010 at 6:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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Avery Brooks' voice was the only reason I watched Deep Space Nine.

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#13 Feb 12 2010 at 6:55 PM Rating: Good
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Bobcat Goldthwait
Gilbert Gottfried

#14 Feb 12 2010 at 6:57 PM Rating: Good
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Avery Brooks' voice was the only reason I watched Deep Space Nine.


Agreed. Even as he stammered and sputtered trying to be dramatic I couldn't help but be entranced.
#15 Feb 12 2010 at 6:59 PM Rating: Excellent
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Patrick Stewart
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#16 Feb 12 2010 at 7:24 PM Rating: Decent
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Anything narrated by James Earl Jones.
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#17 Feb 12 2010 at 7:31 PM Rating: Good
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bsphil wrote:
Anything narrated by James Earl Jones.
or Stephen Fry
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#18 Feb 12 2010 at 7:36 PM Rating: Decent
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Lord Nobby wrote:
bsphil wrote:
Anything narrated by James Earl Jones.
or Stephen Fry
Touché.
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#19 Feb 12 2010 at 7:52 PM Rating: Good
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Smiley: thumbsup for The Shawshank Redemption.
I will now need to watch that movie again to check this.
#20 Feb 12 2010 at 8:41 PM Rating: Good
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trickybeck wrote:

Gilbert Gottfried



Godfrieds' voice for Patrick Swayze in the Clerks cartoon was ******* awesome.
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Friar Bijou wrote:
trickybeck wrote:
Gilbert Gottfried
Godfrieds' voice for Patrick Swayze in the Clerks cartoon was @#%^ing awesome.
I'm 33% of the people laughing at the memory.
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#22 Feb 12 2010 at 9:04 PM Rating: Good
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lolgaxe wrote:
Friar Bijou wrote:
trickybeck wrote:
Gilbert Gottfried
Godfrieds' voice for Patrick Swayze in the Clerks cartoon was @#%^ing awesome.
I'm 33% of the people laughing at the memory.


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#23 Feb 12 2010 at 9:47 PM Rating: Good
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Sigourney Weaver and David Attenborough's voice-overs were perfect for Planet Earth. Every movie preview should feature Don LaFontaine's booming, grave voice.
#24 Feb 12 2010 at 10:01 PM Rating: Excellent
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Oh! Diana Riggs hosting Masterpiece Theater.

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#25 Feb 12 2010 at 10:23 PM Rating: Decent
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The Glorious Atomicflea wrote:
Sigourney Weaver and David Attenborough's voice-overs were perfect for Planet Earth. Every movie preview should feature Don LaFontaine's booming, grave voice.

Grave, indeed.
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#26 Feb 13 2010 at 8:38 AM Rating: Good
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Debalic wrote:
The Glorious Atomicflea wrote:
Sigourney Weaver and David Attenborough's voice-overs were perfect for Planet Earth. Every movie preview should feature Don LaFontaine's booming, grave voice.

Grave, indeed.
I see what you did there.


Not only grave but deep.
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