# Another installment of: Who Is/Was That Person? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 23, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341 "2014-03-23T05:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/181 "2014-04-17T15:37:57Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > Nope … it’s not because of anything he created. Or, I should say, invented instead of created. I’ll give another hint … you may not know him, but you’ll probably know his voice. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/182 "2014-04-17T16:28:37Z")
Hmmm- not Tony the Tiger, that is Thurl Ravenscroft,. Oops that would have bee a good question. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/183 "2014-04-18T07:26:41Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > Hmmm- not Tony the Tiger, that is Thurl Ravenscroft,. Oops that would have bee a good question. Thurl Ravenscroft? So _that’s_ who did Tony the Tiger’s voice first. (When I was a kid, I called his son (in the animated commercials) “Arthur Godfrey.” :o) 1. Louisa Moritz, who appeared on a deodorant commercial in the late 60s, was a poor man’s Loni Anderson–kind of a real-life bimbo. 2. Frank Edwards was a science-fiction writer; had a big thing for flying saucers. 3. Peggy O’Neil was a cabinet member’s wife who caused a scandal that broke up the cabinet during Andrew Jackson’s first Presidential term. Here are more: 4. Harland Svare 5. Stewart L. Udall 6. Matthew Brady 7. Hetty Green 8. Frances Perkins 9. Holly Palance 10. Bob Clarke 11. Jaime Jarrin 12. Aimee Semple McPherson 13. Luis Miguel Domingúin 14. Generoso Pope ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/184 "2014-04-18T09:22:26Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > Hmmm- not Tony the Tiger, that is Thurl Ravenscroft,. Oops that would have bee a good question. Close! Bill Roberts was the singing voice of Michigan J. Frog in the Warner Brothers cartoon “One Froggy Evening.” ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/185 "2014-04-18T12:36:24Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. Matthew Brady > 2. Hetty Green > 3. Frances Perkins > 4. Holly Palance > 5. Aimee Semple McPherson > 6. Luis Miguel Domingúin > 7. Generoso Pope 1. Civil War photographer 2. Miserly millionaire, nicknamed “the Witch of Wall Street” 3. First female cabinet member, FDR’s Sec. of Labor 4. Actress, Jack Palance’s daughter 5. Evangelist, famously ‘disappeared’ for what turned out to be a tryst 6. Matador; had an affair with Ava Gardner 7. Publisher of the National Enquirer ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/186 "2014-04-18T15:46:03Z")
1. Stewart L. Udall, important political guy in Utah, Arizona or thereabouts. Brother of Mo, same. 2. Bob Clarke, the star center for the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1970’s? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/187 "2014-04-19T06:18:21Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > Close! > > Bill Roberts was the singing voice of Michigan J. Frog in the Warner Brothers cartoon “One Froggy Evening.” I wouldn’t have known: That cartoon is at the bottom of the list so far as I am concerned; I would just as soon have never seen it (long story). 1. Harland Svare was a coach for the Rams when Roman Gabriel was the quarterback. 2. Steward L. Udall was JFK’s Secretary of the Interior. 3. Bob Clarke was a long-time artist for _Mad._ 4. Jaime Jarrin is a broadcaster for the Dodgers who does the play-by-play in Spanish. Here we go again: 1. Israel Baline 2. Emil Sitka 3. Jimmy Breslin 4. Munro Leaf 5. Horatio Seymour 6. Ivan Osiier 7. Lillie Langtry 8. Frieda Klussman 9. Clare Boothe Luce 10. Madeleine Albright ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/188 "2014-04-19T07:12:03Z")
1. Irving Berlin 2. Explorer of Alaska? 3. Unsuccessful NYC pol in 1969; Pulitzer Prize winner in 1986; living on Earth in 2014 4. Nineteenth Century American? 5. Judge Roy Bean’s favorite actress; namesake of a West 49th Street restaurant 6. Proud possessor of naturally curly hair? 7. Playwright; journalistic spouse 8. Recentish State Sec ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/189 "2014-04-19T17:24:16Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > 1. Evangelist, famously ‘disappeared’ for what turned out to be a tryst Favorite “odd-couple” match-up: Comedian Milton Berle, who was famously well-endowed, claimed he also had a brief fling with her. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/190 "2014-04-19T17:39:34Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Favorite “odd-couple” match-up: Comedian Milton Berle, who was famously well-endowed, claimed he also had a brief fling with her. Another Odd-couple match: William Bennett, Reagan’s drug czar, dated Janis Joplin ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/191 "2014-04-19T17:46:45Z")
1. Drew Curtis - The guy behind [Fark.com](http://Fark.com) ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/192 "2014-04-20T22:48:17Z")
245: Children’s book author; his most famous probably being “Ferdinand, the Bull.” ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/193 "2014-04-21T06:16:42Z")
1. Emil Sitka: supporting player in 3 Stooges shorts 2. Writer & artist; _Grammar Can Be Fun;_ wrote “Were You a Tel-Tapper-Phoner Last Month?” in a _MAD_ article in the comic-book years 3. Ran against Grant for President in 1868 4. Competed in Olympics for Denmark, as fencer–1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960! 5. Headed organization to Save the Cable Cars in San Francisco in 1947 Yet another ten: 251. Lou Groza 252. John Sparkman 253. Margaret Dumont 254. June Cochran 255. Doug Storer 256. Beatrix Potter 257. Stevie Nicks 258. Nicéphore Nièpce 259. Hawley Harvey Crippen 260. Grigor Efimovich Novikh ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/194 "2014-04-21T08:17:19Z")
1. “The toe” of the Cleveland Browns. Kicked the winning field goal in the 1950 NFL championship game. 2. Marx Brothers costar, A Night at the Opera. 3. Peter Rabbit’s mother. 4. And she can sing, too. 5. Ameri-Brit. Killed his wife and got away with it for a while. Name-dropped in an Agatha Christie novel. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/195 "2014-04-21T15:16:51Z")
1. Wasn’t that Rasputin’s birth name? ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/196 "2014-04-22T02:57:00Z")
1. John Sparkman Senator from Mississippi, Vice Presidential running mate with Adlai Stevenson in 1956 2. Nicéphore Nièpce took first photograph?? ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/197 "2014-04-22T03:01:30Z")
1. Nino Rota 2. Jay Ungar 3. Michael Swango 4. Barry Dennen 5. Donna Dixon 6. Don Dixon 7. David Dellinger 8. Felix Adler 9. Jonathan Frid 10. Candace Bushnell ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/198 "2014-04-22T03:10:35Z")
1. Had something to do with Rocky and Bullwinkle? If not, I think I’m close. 2. Actress. Blonde. Or at least, a blonde. 3. Spiritual leader of the Chicago Seven. Abbie Hoffman expressed regret at not having hung out with him more (he also liked Jane Fonda, despite her [as he saw it] bad taste in men). 4. There have been a lot of famous Adlers. I’ll guess this was the Ethical Culture guy. 5. Author of Four Blondes, One Fifth Avenue, and Sex in the City ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/199 "2014-04-22T03:35:46Z")
1. Leon Gambetta 2. Fredric Wertham 3. Muriel Spark 4. George Jean Nathan 5. Otto Skorzeny To clean up, Ely Parker was a Union officer of Seneca extraction, present at Appomattox, about whom Robert E. Lee supposedly said something like “good to see one real American here”, to which Parker supposedly replied “we are all Americans”. Monk Eastman, of New York City, had the misfortune of coming along just a little before the Golden Age of the American Gangster, but probably wielded more power than most of the more storied names of the 20’s and 30’s. Dorothy Richardson pioneered the “stream of consciousness” technique in her 1915 novel “Pointed Roofs”. She was also the subject of one of my favorite double-dactyls, John Hollander’s Higgledy piggledy/Dorothy Richardson/Wrote a huge book with her/Delicate muse/Where (though I hate to seem/Uncomplimentary),/Nothing much happens and/Nobody screws. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341/200 "2014-04-22T03:59:02Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > 1. Nino Rota > 2. Michael Swango > 3. Don Dixon > 4. David Dellinger > 5. Jonathan Frid 1. Film composer, best known for “The Godfather” 2. Doc who murdered several patients 3. Produced records by REM and the Smithereens 4. One of the Chicago Seven 5. One of the stars of “Dark Shadows” [QUOTE=AppallingGael] 1. Fredric Wertham 2. Muriel Spark 3. Otto Skorzeny [/QUOTE] 1. Psychiatrist, wrote “Seduction of the Innocent,” blaming comic books for juvenile delinquency 2. Author of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” 3. SS Colonel, led the raid to snatch former Duce Benito Mussolini from imprisonment [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-installment-of-who-is-was-that-person/684341.md?page=11)