Voice Actors

[GirlinContempt]

Watching disney movies over and over (and over and over and over :crazy:) I'm starting to have trouble recognizing certain characters cause I recognize the voices from other films.
Like the old dog in The Fox and the Hound, every time I turn my head away and hear him talk, I expect to look back and see the tax collector from Robin Hood. The porcupine is piglet. Too weird.
No more Disney. Please. PLEASE.

Oh and every time Tod the Fox says something I'm surprised he's not a short, balding weird man yelling at horses (Mickey Rooney was in the Black Stallion, my sisters favorite show when she was young)

[ZombieNixon]

1. That's b/c they're not reall voice actors.

They're big name actors who just happen to be doing voices for Disney. Real voice actors are people like Billy West who can actually communicate various devices of characterization through voice only.

[sakabatou]

2. Or John Billingslea

or Steve Blum, Mellisa Charles, Wendee Lee, Lara Jill Miller, Joshua Seth, Derek Stephen Prince, Lisa Oritz and so many more.

[ZombieNixon]

4. Zigackly.

[sakabatou]

11. However... the US seiyuu pool is relatively small

[REP]

14. There's V/O Beyond Seiyuu!

Personally, I think Blum is over-rated - he sounds *exactly* the same in the everything ... which is okay, but that's not great acting. In some things it works better than others

I think my favorite non-seiyuu American (besides Billy West, who is amazing) is Jon Benjamin, though he too often sounds exactly the same in everything he does (though he can do different voices).

[sakabatou]

17. Oh... Mark Hamill also very good

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Or the grandmammy of them all, June Foray, who

was Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha, as well as countless other characters on other shows.

[trogdor]

15. How about the granddaddy of them all.

Mel Blanc. He did more cartoon characters than you can count.

[GirlinContempt]

5. Yeah I know what a *real* voice actor is

but they're still doing voice acting even if its their only voice :P

[ZombieNixon]

6. Yeah,

but there's a difference between "voice acting" and a "voice actor." :P

[GirlinContempt]

7. Isn't that what I just said?

[ZombieNixon]

8. Uhh...yeah, I guess so.

You see, I was so touched by it that I thought it bore reiterating! :D

[GirlinContempt]

10. Awww

:toast:

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Haha, I used to love Black Stallion when I was little too.

[jpgray]

12. There's something funny goin' on

That's probably my favorite Disney movie. As a kid I never really comprehended on a conscious level that there was a bizarre mix of Southern US and British accents in the film. Peter Ustinov was hilarious as Prince John. :D

[Archae]

13. From imdb.com-

Fox And The Hound voice actors:

Complete credited cast:
Mickey Rooney .... Adult Tod (voice)
Kurt Russell .... Adult Copper (voice)
Pearl Bailey .... Big Mama (voice)
Jack Albertson .... Hunter (Amos Slade) (voice)
Sandy Duncan .... Vixey (voice)
Jeanette Nolan .... Widow Tweed (voice)
Pat Buttram .... Chief (voice)
John Fiedler .... Porcupine (voice)
John McIntire .... Grumpy Badger (voice)
Richard Bakalyan .... Dinky (voice)
Paul Winchell .... Boomer (voice)
Keith Coogan .... Young Tod (voice) (as Keith Mitchell)
Corey Feldman .... Young Copper (voice)

[swag]

16. Thurl Ravenscroft died last year.

91 years isn't a bad run.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712391/