View Full Version : celebrity cartoon voice actors turned tv/movie stars


waichingliu81
12-18-2007, 07:30 PM
james avery- from shredder in the teenage mutant hero turtles cartoon in the 80s to uncle philip banks in the 90s hit sitcom, fresh prince of bel air

tv star collector
12-18-2007, 08:41 PM
Jodie Foster was the voice of Pugsley Addams on Hanna-Barbera's THE
ADDAMS FAMILY (1973-1975), long before her movie career began.

Harvey Korman voiced The Great Gazoo on THE FLINTSTONES before becoming a face actor on such programs as THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW.

Ann Jillian began as a child star in movies (she was Bo Peep in Walt Disney's
"Babes in Toyland"), but her first adult role was the voice of Gail in the 1972 Hanna-Barbera cartoon SEALAB 2020.

Before becoming a famous talk-show host, Arsenio Hall was the first actor
to provide the voice of Winston in THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS (1986-1987).
(He was replaced by Buster Jones the second season.)

Joan Van Ark (of KNOTS LANDING) was Spider-Woman.

Jrog
12-27-2007, 02:35 PM
I apologize if I should have made this a seperate post but this seemed like the place to ask. Was there an actress (I want to say Goldie Hawn ... I'm somewhat sure it's not, though) that would later go to "A-list" status who provided either the "singing voice" (if not the actual voice) of Josie or one of the pussycats in that show (could have easily been one of the other supporting characters, as well)? Just curious.

Zoneboy
12-27-2007, 02:57 PM
I apologize if I should have made this a seperate post but this seemed like the place to ask. Was there an actress (I want to say Goldie Hawn ... I'm somewhat sure it's not, though) that would later go to "A-list" status who provided either the "singing voice" (if not the actual voice) of Josie or one of the pussycats in that show (could have easily been one of the other supporting characters, as well)? Just curious.

You might be thinking of Cheryl Ladd.

Jrog
12-28-2007, 12:47 PM
[QUOTE=Zoneboy]You might be thinking of Cheryl Ladd.[/QUOTE

I think that's it. Thanks, Zoneboy.

MrCleveland
12-28-2007, 12:58 PM
Howard Morris-He was on 'Your Show of Shows' starring Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner. His best-known character is Ernest T. Bass from Andy Griffith.

He was the voice of Atom Ant, Jughead, and Wade Duck.

waichingliu81
12-28-2007, 01:49 PM
brad garrett- aka robert barone in everybody loves raymond; big dog (two stupid dogs), lucky the aligator (hard luck duck), greasepitt (biker mice from mars), fatso (caspar 90s version cartoon series), wizard whitebeard (where's wally)

tv star collector
12-28-2007, 07:35 PM
brad garrett- aka robert barone in everybody loves raymond; big dog (two stupid dogs), lucky the aligator (hard luck duck), greasepitt (biker mice from mars), fatso (caspar 90s version cartoon series), wizard whitebeard (where's wally)

Brad Garrett also voiced Hulk Hogan in Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
(1985) and Fred in the 2002 Disney movie "The Country Bears."

Dean Winchester
12-29-2007, 05:02 AM
Hank Azaria was doing various voices on The Simpsons (and still does) yet he didn't become famous live-action until several years later

snl 70s show fan
12-30-2007, 07:42 PM
britnay murphy is the voice of louanne platter on king of the hill

Jack Gomez
08-28-2008, 02:46 AM
Fergie was the voice of Sally Brown in THE CHARLIE BROWN AND SNOOPY SHOW. She also did the voice in IT'S FLASHBEAGLE, CHARLIE BROWN and SNOOPY'S GETTING MARRIED, CHARLIE BROWN.

Torgo
08-28-2008, 07:50 PM
Tim Matheson voiced many characters in the 60's- Jonny Quest, Sinbad Jr, Jace in 'Space Ghost', Samson in 'Samson and Goliath'- before going on to star in films like 'Animal House'.

Schmoopie
08-28-2008, 10:37 PM
Interesting topic!

Andrea

Steve Carras
10-02-2008, 11:43 PM
Hank Azaria was doing various voices on The Simpsons (and still does) yet he didn't become famous live-action until several years later

Not to mention.>Dan Castellata..aka HOMER....from tracey Ullman (GUESS what cartoon THAT had)..and Rhod (the show)'s yoiunger sis Brenda as Marge...

Mike Judge, the voices and creator of Beavis and Butt-head in Spuy kids, which isn't even a Mike Judge produciton.

Classically, Warner Bros. had Sheldon Leonard as a fat lazy cat Dodsowrth ("Kiddin' the kitten", April 5,1952 & "A Peck Of' Trouble", March 28,1953), and also as a Banty rooster (a Foghorn Leghorn short "Sock-a-Dioodle-Doo",1953, ), before becoming a mnajor director, and before being the 1960s-70s voice of Linus the Lionhearted (star of his own 1964-1969 TV show!), as well as previously being a famed raido and movie comic gangster or conman (all cartoons mentioned were directed by Robert McKimson, creator of Taz; he liked to a lot of things like this with surprise choice of voices; if he had her at his dispoal in the forties he'd use today's "bimbo star" Anna Faris ("The House Bunny") alongside the late Mel Blanc or would have used Lacey Chabert (again, if she had been around in the forties; McKImson also had Jim Backus in a few and even bult a whole cartoon around legendayr comedian Jack Benny and pals...Mel Blanc had worked with all these on radio).

The aforementioend Backus as well as the cast of Linus the Lionhearted (the aforementioned Leonard and TV partner Carl Reiner, etc.) ere on major TV and radio shows.

And of course the late Paul Newman, the old Dodge Hudson in the 2006 hit film "Cars: by Pixar (whcih had Bonnie Hunt AND Owen Wilson as the lead).