Thurl Ravenscroft

Thurl Ravenscroft

Born: February 6, 1914
Died: May 22, 2005
in Norfolk, Nebraska, USA
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Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (February 6, 1914 – May 22, 2005) was an American voice actor and bass singer known as the booming voice behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades. He was also the uncredited vocalist for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the classic Christmas television special Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! His voice acting career began in 1940 and lasted until his death in 2005 at age 91.

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Extinct Attractions Club Presents: The Haunted Mansion Story
Title: Extinct Attractions Club Presents: The Haunted Mansion Story
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Through painstaking research, the torrid saga of the dearly beloved attraction is now revealed. Witness rare unearthed footage, superlative imagery and vicious interrogation of the guilty parties.
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The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
Title: The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
Character: Kirby (voice)
Released: May 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on the book by Thomas M. Disch and intended as the third film in the series, this sequel was finished and released prior to 'The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue'. Whilst trying to protect their new "Little Master" the anthropomorphic appliances set off on an epic adventure and make many new friends along the way.
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The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
Title: The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
Character: Kirby (voice)
Released: November 1, 1997
Type: Movie
When Toaster and the gang spark friendships with the playful animals at the veterinary hospital, they soon discover their new pals are about to be sent to a testing laboratory.
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Superior Duck
Title: Superior Duck
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Daffy is supposedly a super hero and tries to show off his "super powers."
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition
Title: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 1994
Type: Movie
Phil Hartman hosts this retrospective look back at the legacy and making of the classic 1966 holiday special 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'
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Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
Title: Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
Character: The Black Hole (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Elmer Fudd have all been captured, and badly animated pod-people versions have taken their places. Is Bugs next?
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The Brave Little Toaster
Title: The Brave Little Toaster
Character: Kirby (voice)
Released: July 9, 1987
Type: Movie
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
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EPCOT Center: A Souvenir Program
Title: EPCOT Center: A Souvenir Program
Character: Announcer at Fantasyland castle opening
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Welcome to this very special place, EPCOT Center, Walt Disney’s dream is now a reality. Epcot Center has two major themed areas, Future World, A showplace for new ideas, and new technologies. World Showcase presents a colorful array of architectural styles and landmarks, a true community of nations. In this Souvenir VHS Cassette, we get a look at EPCOT Center as it appeared in 1983.
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The Hobbit
Title: The Hobbit
Character: Goblin (voice)
Released: November 27, 1977
Type: Movie
Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one night. One by one, a whole group of dwarves drop in, and before he knows it, Bilbo has joined their quest to reclaim their kingdom, taken from them by the evil dragon Smaug. The only problem is that Gandalf has told the dwarves that Bilbo is an expert burglar, but he isn't...
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Title: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Character: Bass Vocals / Black Pot (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Whether we’re young or forever young at heart, the Hundred Acre Wood calls to that place in each of us that still believes in magic. Join pals Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger and Christopher Robin as they enjoy their days together and sing their way through adventures.
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Snoopy, Come Home
Title: Snoopy, Come Home
Character: "No Dogs Allowed" (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1972
Type: Movie
When Snoopy receives a letter from his original owner Lila, he goes to visit her in the hospital while Charlie Brown and the gang are on the lookout for him. Suddenly, Snoopy feels that he must go live with Lila, but must say goodbye to all his friends. In his adventure to the hospital, he encounters numerous "No Dogs Allowed" signs, an annoying little girl who desires to keep him, and more!
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The Lorax
Title: The Lorax
Character: Singer
Released: February 14, 1972
Type: Movie
The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax about the environmental destruction caused by his greed.
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The Cat in the Hat
Title: The Cat in the Hat
Character: Thing 1 (voice)
Released: July 4, 1971
Type: Movie
In a marvelously animated version of one of the most beloved of all Dr. Seuss tales, two youngsters find themselves at home with nothing to do on a rainy afternoon. But when the magical, mischievous Cat in the Hat arrives on the scene, they're all cat-apulted into a day of rousing, romping, outlandish antics they - and you - will never forget!
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The Aristocats
Title: The Aristocats
Character: Russian Cat (voice)
Released: December 24, 1970
Type: Movie
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
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Horton Hears a Who!
Title: Horton Hears a Who!
Character: Wickersham Brother (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1970
Type: Movie
In this story, Horton discovers there is a microscopic community of intelligent beings called the Who's living on a plant that only he can hear. Recognising the dangers they face, he resolves to keep them safe. However, the other animals around him think Horton has gone crazy thinking that there are such beings.
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The Night Before Christmas
Title: The Night Before Christmas
Character: Soloist (voice)
Released: December 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's music and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir.
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Title: Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
Released: September 9, 1967
Type: TV
Birdman and the Galaxy Trio is an animated science fiction television series created by Alex Toth and produced by Hanna-Barbera. It debuted on NBC on September 9, 1967, and ran on Saturday mornings until September 6, 1969. The program consists of two segments: Birdman, depicting the adventures of a winged superhero powered by the sun, and The Galaxy Trio, centering around the exploits of three extraterrestrial superheroes. NBC ran two new segments of Birdman each Saturday, separated by a segment of The Galaxy Trio. The character of Birdman was revived three decades later in the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim TV series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, and several characters from Birdman and the Galaxy Trio appeared in this revival.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Character: Voice (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1966
Type: Movie
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
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Mary Poppins
Title: Mary Poppins
Character: Hog / Andrew's Whimper (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
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The Sword in the Stone
Title: The Sword in the Stone
Character: Black Bart (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1963
Type: Movie
Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.
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Babes in Toyland
Title: Babes in Toyland
Character: Trees (singing voice)
Released: December 14, 1961
Type: Movie
All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses! The "March Of The Wooden Soldiers" helps put Barnaby in his place, and ensures a "happily ever after" for Tom and Mary!
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Donald and the Wheel
Title: Donald and the Wheel
Character: Senior Spirit of Progress
Released: June 21, 1961
Type: Movie
A father tells his son the invention of the wheel was most important; to prove it, the two hipsters visit the inventor caveman Donald Duck. There follows a survey of the progress of transportation, a digression into the basics of gear ratios, a series of live-action dancers to various styles of music inside a giant jukebox, an illustration of the use of wheels in power generation and space satellites, etc. Ultimately, Donald decides he doesn't want the responsibility, but certainly someone else would take on the task.
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Title: One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Character: Captain (voice)
Released: January 25, 1961
Type: Movie
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cruella De Vil wants to buy them all. Roger declines her offer, so Cruella hires the criminal Badun brothers to steal them -- so she can have a fur coat.
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Jack Benny Christmas Show
Title: Jack Benny Christmas Show
Character: Enrico Scortachini (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1960
Type: Movie
It's the week before Christmas and Jack drops by Edgar Bergen's house to go over the upcoming show's script with his guest star. When Edgar is detained rehearsing his radio show, his wife Frances entertains Jack. Jack is amazed when Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd walk into the room and are introduced. Jack always assumed they were merely ventriloquist's dummies. Edgar finally returns and is ready to present his ideas for a sketch to Jack, but insists on Jack sitting on his knee to hear them.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: Shem / Ham / Japeth, Noah's sons
Released: November 10, 1959
Type: Movie
The Biblical story of Noah's ark full of animals gets the Disney treatment in this animated short.
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Paul Bunyan
Title: Paul Bunyan
Character: Paul Bunyan / Chorus (voice) (as The Mellomen)
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A retelling of the classic Canadian / American tall tale of the enormous lumberjack and his loyal companion, an equally huge blue ox.
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The Story of Anyburg U.S.A.
Title: The Story of Anyburg U.S.A.
Character: Cyrus P. Sliderule
Released: July 19, 1957
Type: Movie
The city of Anyburg decides its traffic situation has gotten out of hand, so it puts the automobile on trial. The trial (conducted in rhyme) starts with a car that was in a hit-and-run accident, followed by a sports car whose sins are peeling rubber and general hot-rodding, followed by a heap, on trial for lack of safety. Next, a number of safety equipment designers testify that, despite their best efforts, the accident rate keeps rising. Through all this, the defense lawyer declines to ask questions. A highway designer bemoans the problems on his beautiful roads. At last, defense. He shows a number of scenarios, pointing out that the real problem isn't the car but the driver. Everyone left the courtroom, declaring the car not guilty, and drove politely again, for a little while.
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Design for Dreaming
Title: Design for Dreaming
Released: March 31, 1956
Type: Movie
Over-the-top 1950s “Populuxe” advertisement for General Motors. A woman falls asleep and dreams of a glorious future of perfect products, including a variety of shiny futuristic dream cars and Frigidaire’s fully automated “Kitchen of the Future.” The film debuted at the 1956 General Motors "Motorama" event in New York City.
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Lady and the Tramp
Title: Lady and the Tramp
Character: Al the Gator (voice)
Released: June 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady's home make her decide to travel with him for a while.
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Pigs Is Pigs
Title: Pigs Is Pigs
Character: Singer
Released: May 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Flannery, a railway agent does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer, McMorehouse, who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs which he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them pigs (freight 48 cents), a decision he begins to regret when the animals begin to reproduce.
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Rose Marie
Title: Rose Marie
Character: Indian medicine man
Released: March 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The feeling is mutual. But, when she leaves to learn proper etiquette, Rose Marie meets a trapper named James Duval, who also falls for her. Further complications arise when Native American Chief Black Eagle -- a rival of Duval's -- is murdered.
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The Glenn Miller Story
Title: The Glenn Miller Story
Character: The Mellowmen (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
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Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
Title: Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
Character: The Mellomen
Released: November 10, 1953
Type: Movie
In this short subject (which mostly represents a departure from Disney's traditional approach to animation), a stuffy owl teacher lectures his feathered flock on the origins of Western musical instruments. Starting with cavepeople, whose crude implements could only "toot, whistle, plunk and boom," the owl explains how these beginnings led to the development of the four basic types of Western musical instruments: brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Nebuchadnezzar
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Trick or Treat
Title: Trick or Treat
Character: The Mellomen (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
When the nephews come to Donald's house in their Halloween costumes he dumps water on them and laughs at his trick. A witch sees this and decides to help the kids. By magic she gives Donald a bad time and the kids finally get their treats.
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Rooty Toot Toot
Title: Rooty Toot Toot
Character: Johnny / Honest John the Crook
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of Frankie and Johnny: Frankie walks into a bar, where she catches her boyfriend Johnny with the sensuous Nellie Bly and kills him in a fit of jealousy.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Card Painter (voice)
Released: July 28, 1951
Type: Movie
On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the burrow - and enters the merry, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland! Memorable songs and whimsical escapades highlight Alice's journey, which culminates in a madcap encounter with the Queen of Hearts - and her army of playing cards!
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Cinderella
Title: Cinderella
Character: (voice)
Released: February 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!
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Springtime for Pluto
Title: Springtime for Pluto
Character: Singing Caterpillar
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Seduced by a satyr, Pluto celebrates spring. He goes around enjoying the scents, then imitating various animals. But when he imitates the butterfly (that transformed from a caterpillar before our eyes), he gets in trouble. The butterfly had done a little dance with a water droplet; Pluto picks a beehive as his "ball". The bees, of course, attack, and Pluto escapes by diving into some bushes of poison ivy. Then the "gentle" rains of spring come, along with the hail ("hail, hail the rains"), making a mess of Pluto's house. When the rains end and the satyr returns, Pluto gives him the greeting he deserves.
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Lost Canyon
Title: Lost Canyon
Character: Singing Ranch Hand
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
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We'll Slap the Japs (Right into the Laps of the Nazis)
Title: We'll Slap the Japs (Right into the Laps of the Nazis)
Released: January 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A Soundie with The Four Sportsmen.
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Jingle Belles
Title: Jingle Belles
Released: December 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Gloria Jean sings two songs in the Universal musical short, which also features The Sportsman Quartette, the Milt Herth Trio, the singing trio of Lee, Lyn and Lou, and the Schuplatter Dancers
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Prehistoric Porky
Title: Prehistoric Porky
Character: Lizard Singer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Caveman Porky awakens and plays with his pet Rover, a massive dinosaur. After Rover's playfulness causes a disruption to the prehistoric peace and quiet, Porky's copy of "Expire" magazine arrives in the mail, filled with ads for fashionable new bearskins. Porky decides to go out and get himself a new suit, and sets off with his trusty club.
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Little Blabbermouse
Title: Little Blabbermouse
Character: Chew Tobacco (voice)
Released: July 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads a nighttime tour of a closed drugstore for other mice, that include a very inquisitive little boy.
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Pilgrim Porky
Title: Pilgrim Porky
Character: Singer
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
The Pilgrims, led by captain Porky Pig, set sail from Plymouth for America. We get a series of ocean sailing blackout gags, including a running bit between our narrator and the cook, looking for a fish suitable for dinner, a singing trio interrupted by seasickness, flying fish (in airplanes). Then, The Rains Came. A collision with an iceberg is narrowly averted. Land is sighted. The pilgrims are welcomed by Chief Sitting Bull.
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Isle Of Destiny
Title: Isle Of Destiny
Character: Sportsman Quartet Member
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
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Pinocchio
Title: Pinocchio
Character: Monstro the Whale (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
When loving Geppetto creates a wooden puppet, his wish is granted when it comes to life as a little wooden boy named Pinocchio. With his faithful friend and conscience Jiminy Cricket by his side, Pinocchio, embarks on fantastic adventures that his bravery, loyalty and honesty until triumphs in his triumphs in his quest for his heart's desire: to become a real boy.
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Sioux Me
Title: Sioux Me
Character: Indian Bass Singer (voice)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
When there is a drought on an Indian reservation, everyone is in desperate need of water so that they can quench their thirst, their crops can grow, the animals will provide them food, etc. But rather than having to wait for the rain to come the old-fashioned way, a weather pill pertaining to that is used to bring instant showers.