# Actors/performers with distinctive voices **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2021, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606 "2021-02-10T12:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/101 "2021-02-16T23:22:49Z")
From the _Carry On…_ films: Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ocOJWBUTLMc/hqdefault.jpg "Kenneth Williams Interviews Barbara Windsor") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocOJWBUTLMc) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/102 "2021-02-17T18:20:08Z")
Arianna Huffington. I used to listen to her on _Left, Right & Center_ (a political discussion program on public radio) during the 90s. When I first heard her voice coming out of that bear on “The Cleveland Show” I just about pissed myself. (Even though she had that gig, she might not count as an actor, though) ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/103 "2021-02-19T08:36:07Z")
Did anyone mention Rowan Atkinson yet? I mean, his silent work as Mr. Bean is hilarious, but his speaking roles as the priest in Four Weddings and a Funeral and the boutique guy in Love, Actually are to die for. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/104 "2021-02-22T23:01:20Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > How about Peter “Your tyranny ends here, Megatron!” Cullen? I love the story he tells about how his brother was the inspiration for the voice of Optimus Prime. Speaking of which: William Daniels is _exactly_ what a car’s artificial intelligence would sound like if it were talking down to a male model sporting tight jeans and a big perm. (I grant that he also sounds like that at other times, but it remains _true_.) ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/105 "2021-02-23T07:52:45Z")
Paul Bettany as Vision/Jarvis and also John Nash’s friend in A Beautiful Mind. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/106 "2021-02-23T22:19:22Z")
Christopher Lee. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/107 "2021-02-25T02:31:32Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > British actor James Mason. As a kid, I was quite impressed with his voice in _Journey To The Center Of The Earth._ And took to imitating him (Since I was only six, I can guarantee no one had any idea what I was doing, so… I stopped). As an adult, I started reading the first Harry Potter book to my kids. I needed a good Dumbledore, so I imagined what an elderly James Mason would sound like. ---
**Author:** ![HughGoply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hughgoply/32/7834_2.png) [@HughGoply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HughGoply)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/108 "2021-02-25T03:28:06Z")
William Daniels, despite being raised in Brooklyn, uses a Brahmin-esque accent, most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![john\_b\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@john\_b\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_b_2)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/109 "2021-02-27T09:31:53Z")
Andy Devine. Nobody really like him,–except for maybe Slim Pickens, but Andy was a gentler sort. Slim had a similarly distinctive way of of speaking, seemed edgier; real world, sorta. Andy was All Hollywood All The Time. ---
**Author:** ![john\_b\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@john\_b\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/john_b_2)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/110 "2021-02-27T09:35:44Z")
The other Brit of Caine’s generation, Sean Connery, had a voice he probably couldn’t have hid if he tried to. John B. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606/111 "2021-02-27T18:02:28Z")
> [@john\_b\_2](#): > > The other Brit of Caine’s generation, Sean Connery, had a voice he probably couldn’t have hid if he tried to. I moustache you a question, but I’m shaving it for later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-performers-with-distinctive-voices/932606.md?page=5)