# Bedtime Stories Read By Actors That Would Creep You Out
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 2, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788 "2005-07-02T02:46:35Z")
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/1 "2005-07-02T02:46:35Z")
So, **MonkeyMule** and I were discussing various actors that if we’d have heard them reading bedtime stories to us as little kids would have caused us to soil our Dr. Dentons. Here’s the list we’ve come up with so far:
Boris Karloff
Bela Legosi
James Earl Jones
Vincent Price
That guy who does all the “In a world. . . .” voiceovers who sounds like he’s been smoking a carton a day since he was like 12.
Louise Fletcher
I’m sure that there must be others we’re not thinking of, so if you’ve got any others or just a particular actor reading a specific children’s book, feel free to add them.
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### Author:  [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/2 "2005-07-02T02:49:42Z")
You totaly left out the guy who got the whole conversation started man! Chritopher Walken. Man that guy could peal paint with a hard stare. Peal it and casue the wall to commit suicide by colasping on a ban full of nuns and school chirdren.
He’s that badass
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/3 "2005-07-02T02:50:55Z")
Jack Palance
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### Author:  [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/4 "2005-07-02T02:57:26Z")
Anthony Hopkins.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/5 "2005-07-02T03:01:21Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Boris Karloff
Oh, [I dunno](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060345/)…
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### Author:  [@jmizzou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmizzou)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/6 "2005-07-02T03:03:26Z")
Jack Nicholson.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/7 "2005-07-02T03:04:36Z")
> [@Tengu](#):
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> Oh, [I dunno](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060345/)…
Hey, it scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it (along with the Bumble in _Rudolf_).
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### Author:  [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/8 "2005-07-02T03:14:20Z")
Apparently the actor’s name is Douglas Rain.
“I’m afraid I can’t read that, Dave.”
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### Author:  [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/9 "2005-07-02T03:29:34Z")
> [@MonkeyMule](#):
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> You totaly left out the guy who got the whole conversation started man! Chritopher Walken. Man that guy could peal paint with a hard stare. Peal it and casue the wall to commit suicide by colasping on a ban full of nuns and school chirdren.
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> He’s that badass
Goodnight, moon. Goodnight, room.
Scooch closer children. Don’t make me tell you again… about the scooching.
/simpsons
I’d say Vincent Price.
Or Alan Rickman.
Or Jeremy Irons.
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### Author:  [@EnderWay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnderWay)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/10 "2005-07-02T03:47:57Z")
Wow … I didn’t know Chuck Jones directed The Grinch! I guess I never really paid attention!
I like Boris Karloffs voice in it though.
I also think James Earl Jones has a great voice … not scarry. Deep and soothing
if he wants it to be!
My friends and I call his (Jones’s) and similar people … The Voice of God … nice deep
and strong.
Patrick Stewart!
Man those guys have great voices
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/11 "2005-07-02T03:59:43Z")
> [@amaranta](#):
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> Or Alan Rickman.
By Grabthar’s hammer, i have this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side…Mr…Potter
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/12 "2005-07-02T05:32:52Z")
Crispin Glover
William S. Burroughs
Jello Biafra
Mason Riese
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/13 "2005-07-02T05:33:57Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> By Grabthar’s hammer, i have this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side…Mr…Potter
dude, I’m lucky I wasn’t trying to drink anything when I read that 😃
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/14 "2005-07-02T05:38:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder Bo](#):
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> William S. Burroughs
Especially, if he’s telling Brion Gysin’s _All Purpose Nuclear Bedtime Story_.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/15 "2005-07-02T06:03:34Z")
Peter Lorre would be a creepy voice to hear in a bedtime story.
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### Author:  [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/16 "2005-07-02T08:44:01Z")
Richard E Grant in full on Withnail mode, expletives included.
I don’t know if it would be scary, but I’ll bet in his version of the Three Little Pigs, the Wolf wins.
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### Author:  [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/17 "2005-07-02T09:31:41Z")
Michael Jackson reading **Hop on Pop**
:eek:
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### Author:  [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/18 "2005-07-02T13:10:22Z")
> [@chatelaine](#):
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> Anthony Hopkins.
There was this show about college students that used to be on Fox called “Undeclared”, I think. Anyway, there was a commercial for the show where one of the kids was listening to an audio-book. “Hey, Anthony Hopkins is reading this.” Later he says, “Anthony Hopkins is yelling at me!”
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/19 "2005-07-02T14:06:35Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> By Grabthar’s hammer, i have this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side…Mr…Potter
I Am the Metatron- Herald of the Almighty and Voice of the One True God!
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bedtime-stories-read-by-actors-that-would-creep-you-out/310788/20 "2005-07-02T14:15:46Z")
Peter Lorre
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