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(72,300 posts)SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,456 posts)And my Dad used to see Edward Everett Horton when he was a kid. His uncle had a camp on a lake near here (NE NY) and Mr. Horton was a neighbor. My Dad said he recognized his voice immediately...
kentauros
(29,414 posts)It's always fun when you (or family) know people like that
I liked both his voice work, like for Fractured Fairytales, but also his character acting, like the clip I posted above. It seems he always played a rather flustered character. I was reminded of that when watching Here Comes Mr. Jordan last night.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)He certainly had a distinctive voice, like another of his fellow Jay Ward voice actors, Hans Conried:
csziggy
(34,136 posts)One my favorite roles for him was in "The Twonky" based on a story by Louis Padget aka Henry Kuttner& C.L. Moore. Great fun!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Thanks for posting it, too. The title sounds familiar, so maybe I've seen it or some of it.
I'm going to assume you've seen The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, then
"Is it atomic?!"
Graybeard
(6,996 posts)And don't forget, "Horton Hears A Who!"
Very versatile actor.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)We were watching something funny and learning something at the same time.
Remember Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman and the Wayback Machine.
Saturday catoons were great back in the 60's.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)right in the middle of the page is The Wayback Machine. Plug in a dead link and usually they'll have it in their archive!
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Remember getting up early on Saturday, fixing a bowl of ceral and watching cartoons.
Also shows like Fury, and Roy Rodgers.
There were some come great old shows.
I like these cartoons because they didn't talk down to children.
I wonder if kids today would like these cartoons.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)no matter what era they're from. I watched old (and very early) Popeye cartoons as a kid and loved them as much as the "modern" ones of the time (60s and 70s.) And yes, I watched all of the Jay Ward productions that were aired
As far as singing cowboys go, have you ever heard of Riders in the Sky? They do the singing cowboy stuff as well as some funny radio theater sketches
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)though I guess that's just because I never had cause to ponder on it.
But I'll love that guy forever for Fractured Fairy Tales. Some of my favorite childhood memories.
Still Blue in PDX
(1,999 posts)It always threw me for a loop me to hear his voice come out of a real person when movies like The Gay Divorcee turned up on the teevee. I didn't quite get the whole concept of actors doing voiceover work or playing different characters.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)They don't work in movies or TV. However, with so many animated movies and shows these days, too, you see far more "normal" actors doing voice work. I think it was more separated in the earlier part of the last century.
People with distinctive voices are often asked to do voice-over work, such as Horton. I'd love to know what his reaction was when first asked
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,838 posts)Graybeard
(6,996 posts)Edward Everett Horton was memorable in some of my favorite Classic Films. The fossil collector in Lost Horizon and the director of 'Happy Dale Rest Home' in Arsenic and Old Lace
In his later TV work besides Rocky & Bullwinkle he was a regular on F Troop as American Indian 'Roaring Chicken'.
And something that surprised me; he wasn't British. He was born and raised in Brooklyn!
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kentauros
(29,414 posts)That he was from Brooklyn, I'd never have guessed!
I don't remember him in F Troop, but do in Arsenic and Old Lace. I'm going to have to find the full movie of "The Gay Divorcee". It looks like a forgotten classic comedy