# Celebrity voices in unlikely places **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345 "2018-08-09T14:52:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/21 "2018-08-10T05:58:58Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I was surprised to hear Richard Kiley doing the narration on the Jurassic Park tour. Apparently they spared no expense. That’s the way it was in the book. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/22 "2018-08-10T12:32:32Z")
My wake up call at New York New York in Vegas was Rita Rudner when she appeared there. Rude awakening ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/23 "2018-08-10T12:43:55Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I was very surprised to hear Stephen Merchant as the main voice of Wheatley in Portal 2. I wouldn’t have the faintest idea what Stephen Merchant sounds like (well, except for Wheatley), but J.K. Simmons was awesome as Cave Johnson. > [@Telemark](#): > > Leonard Nimoy narrates part of orientation video for the Mugar Omnimax Theater at the Boston Museum of Science - [https://youtu.be/MHK2-BVfUzs?t=1m2s](https://youtu.be/MHK2-BVfUzs?t=1m2s) I heard from a tour guide once that Nimoy grew up just a few blocks from there. I was getting into a cab in New York City several years ago, and as it started to drive I heard “This is Eartha Kitt. Cats have nine lives, but you only have one. Please fasten your safety belt. Mrrroooooooww.” I heard other voices with similar announcements in other cabs (I think one was a hockey player), but none of them could hold a candle to Eartha. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/24 "2018-08-10T13:41:09Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I wouldn’t have the faintest idea what Stephen Merchant sounds like If you watch TBBT, he is the tall English guy Amy went out with after the breakup with Sheldon. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/25 "2018-08-10T15:23:58Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I was surprised to hear Richard Kiley doing the narration on the Jurassic Park tour. Apparently they spared no expense. This was the FIRST THING that I thought of when I saw the thread title… ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/26 "2018-08-10T16:47:21Z")
So my kids are watching a cartoon. They are two year olds. All of the sudden I hear a voice. I recognize it. It is Ozzy, The prince of Darkness, the Madman, the Godfather of Heavy Metal. The man who bit a head off a bat. And he is [Sid Fishy on Bubble Guppies](http://loudwire.com/ozzy-osbourne-sid-fishy-bubble-guppies/). At least my kids are off to a good start musically. Slee ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/27 "2018-08-10T16:58:24Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > I was looking at the credits for Jonny Quest and it features Tim Mathiesson and Johnny Carson. Coincidentally I just finished listening to _Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast_ with guest Tim Matheson, and he’s been in a HUGE number of things, even though most everyone remembers him from Animal House. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/28 "2018-08-10T17:06:40Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Lynda Carter is in the game, too, as Magnolia. And wrote her own material, no less. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/29 "2018-08-10T17:13:22Z")
While playing the MMO _Star Wars: the Old Republic_, I was listening to the dialogue of [Aric Jorgan](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/6/6c/Aric_Jorgan_1.png/revision/latest?cb=20180113074915), a Republic trooper, and thinking to myself: “Why do I know that voice?” It’s [Timothy Omundson](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648486/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t20), better known as Carlton Lassiter on _Psych_. While most of the major voices in the game are done by actors known for voiceover work (such as Jennifer Hale, Steve Blum, Kath Soucie, and Tara Strong), I was surprised to see how many well-known film and TV actors are also in the game, including Lacy Chabert, Rachel Leigh Cook, Olivia Hussey, Armin Shimerman, Clive Revill, Jamie Bamber, and Robert Pine (Sgt. Getraer on _CHiPs_, and the father of Chris Pine). ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/30 "2018-08-10T17:20:36Z")
It’s not an unlikely place in and of itself-- just another acting voice-acting gig-- but I still find it rather surprising that the narrator of the children’s TV show Thomas the Tank Engine was voiced at different times by Ringo Starr and George Carlin (as well as Alec Baldwin and Pierce Brosnan) ---
**Author:** ![Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reindeer_flotilla/32/3024_2.png) [@Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reindeer_Flotilla)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/31 "2018-08-10T18:59:55Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > sorry! I must have hallucinated something or was skimminng a page w/out glasses yesterday. I see it now. I had synesthesia of the paragraph. No problem! 🙂 It would have real cool though, especially if it was uncredited. More so since you could make an argument it was the first celebrity guest voice for a Saturday morning cartoon, predating the Scooby Doo-type guest appearances in its later seasons. (Runs off to research who actually was the first…) I know around that era prime time cartoons has celebrity guest voices, like Ann Margaret on _The Flintstones_ for example. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/32 "2018-08-10T19:23:16Z")
> [@Reindeer\_Flotilla](#): > > No problem! 🙂 It would have real cool though, especially if it was uncredited. More so since you could make an argument it was the first celebrity guest voice for a Saturday morning cartoon, predating the Scooby Doo-type guest appearances in its later seasons. (Runs off to research who actually was the first…) > > I know around that era prime time cartoons has celebrity guest voices, like Ann Margaret on _The Flintstones_ for example. Plus Tony Curtis and Elizabeth Montgomery. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/33 "2018-08-10T19:23:43Z")
> [@sleestak](#): > > All of the sudden I hear a voice. I recognize it. It is Ozzy, The prince of Darkness, the Madman, the Godfather of Heavy Metal. The man who bit a head off a bat. > > And he is [Sid Fishy on Bubble Guppies](http://loudwire.com/ozzy-osbourne-sid-fishy-bubble-guppies/). Does he actually talk? Or just mumble like he is famous for doing? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Panther\_Modern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@Panther\_Modern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panther_Modern)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/34 "2018-08-10T19:50:24Z")
Seth Rogan’s voice is in Toronto’s subway messaging system. ---
**Author:** ![Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reindeer_flotilla/32/3024_2.png) [@Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reindeer_Flotilla)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/35 "2018-08-10T21:46:20Z")
> [@](#): > > I know around that era prime time cartoons has celebrity guest voices, like Ann Margaret on The Flintstones for example. > [@terentii](#): > > Plus Tony Curtis and Elizabeth Montgomery. Ahh, good old Stoney Curtis! Plus Tuesday Wednesday - or was it Wednesday Tuesday? Elizabeth Montgomery went by the character name ‘Samantha Stephens’ (likewise Dick York used his _Bewitched_ character name as well) and along with the Tuesday Weld reference I believe were one of the few if only character names on _The Flintstones_ without a rock-based pun. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345/36 "2018-08-10T22:18:21Z")
I think Will Arnett voices about 90% of commercials but it’s so hard to tell because he can completely change his voice.0 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-voices-in-unlikely-places/819345.md?page=1)