Actors With Instantly Recognizable Speaking Voices

darklinensuit · #1 07-02-2004, 08:22 AM

Which actors have such distinctive voices, accents, and other speech patterns that you can recognize them right away? I bet we can come up with a long list.

- Marlo Thomas
- Ricardo Montalban
- Will...iam...Shat...ner
- Herve Villechaise
- Jaclyn Smith
- Roseanne
- Fran Drescher
- Charo
- Loni Anderson
- Bette Davis
- Humphrey Bogart
- Linda Hunt
- Marlon Brando
- Nell Carter
- Isabel Sanford
- John Travolta
- Redd Fox
- Lawanda Page (Aunt Esther

)
- Imogene Coca
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Carol Burnett
- Goldie Hawn
- Florence Henderson
- Shelley Long
- Billy Crystal
- Danny Devito
- Dustin Hoffman
- Rosie O'Donnell
- Ruth Gordon
- Bill Cosby
- Demi Moore
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Ray Romano
- Doris Roberts
- George Burns
- Lucille Ball
- Desi Arnaz
- Julie Andrews
- Katharine Hepburn (Remember Martin Short doing "Relatives Of The Rich And Famous"?

)
- Marlene Dietrich
- Dianne Wiest
- Charlotte Rae

Remember, actors only.

(And obviously they don't have to be good.)

- Jake

Violet · #2 07-02-2004, 08:27 AM

James Earl Jones
Ray Charles (RIP)

That's all I can think of at the moment. Your list was pretty exhaustive!

Carol

darklinensuit · #3 07-02-2004, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Violet

James Earl Jones

That's all I can think of at the moment. Your list was pretty exhaustive!

Carol

Good one! Luke, I am your father...

I could add so many more! And so many of them are from thirty years ago!

I'll add:

- Valerie Harper
- Georgia Engel
- Ted Knight
- Bonnie Franklin
- The guy who played Bosley on Charlie's Angels
- Liz Taylor
- Joan Collins
- Christopher Walken
- Rosie Perez
- George Costanza's mother

- Jake

Patti · #4 07-02-2004, 08:32 AM

My first thought was James Earl Jones, but Violet beat me to that one.

How about Barbra Streisand? She has a pretty recognizable voice IMO.

Patti

darklinensuit · #5 07-02-2004, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Patti

My first thought was James Earl Jones, but Violet beat me to that one.

How about Barbra Streisand? She has a pretty recognizable voice IMO.

Patti

Definitely.
And I'll put down Bette Midler before Dissention gets a chance to. (And I do mean "put down."

)

And how could I forget Marilyn Monroe!!!

- Jake

darklinensuit · #6 07-02-2004, 08:38 AM

- Adam West
- Fred Gwynne
- Dolly Parton (Yeah, I know she's a singer)
- Jane Fonda
- Morgan Fairchild
- Joan Cusack
- Cher (Singer, but with an Oscar)
- Sylvester Stallone
- Ahhnuld Schwartzenegger (Like I said, they don't have to be good.)

- Jake

dissention · #7 07-03-2004, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Definitely.
And I'll put down Bette Midler before Dissention gets a chance to. (And I do mean "put down."

)

And how could I forget Marilyn Monroe!!!

- Jake

Asshole.

Let's not forget Melanie Griffith. Instantly recognizable and sexy as hell.

darklinensuit · #8 07-02-2004, 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Violet

Ray Charles (RIP)

Carol

Wait, was he an actor? What was he in other than Pepsi commercials?
(I was going to include Diana Ross & Elvis, but I couldn't bring myself to because they really are mainly singers.)

- Jake

Violet · #9 07-02-2004, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Wait, was he an actor? What was he in other than Pepsi commercials?
(I was going to include Diana Ross & Elvis, but I couldn't bring myself to because they really are mainly singers.)

- Jake

Well, he was on the Nanny! As the old lady's fiance. I am really having an alzheimer's type day. Can't remember any names!

Carol

Patti · #10 07-02-2004, 08:39 AM

Bea Arthur
Henry Winkler as the Fonz, does that count?

Patti

darklinensuit · #11 07-02-2004, 08:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patti

Bea Arthur
Henry Winkler as the Fonz, does that count?

Patti

Yeah they count, and I meant to include Bea earlier!

Also:

- Betty White
- Robin Williams
- Penny Marshall
- Tom Bosley
- The actress who voices Lisa Simpson (& really sounds like that!)

- Jake