# Dead Simpsons guest voices

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-simpsons-guest-voices/262015>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 28, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-simpsons-guest-voices/262015 "2004-08-28T23:24:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-simpsons-guest-voices/262015/1 "2004-08-28T23:24:00Z")

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Off the top of my head:

Phil Hartman  
Linda McCartney  
Stephen Jay Gould  
George Harrison  
Doris Grau (Lunch Lady Doris)

Am I missing anyone?

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-simpsons-guest-voices/262015/2 "2004-08-28T23:52:54Z")

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> **[Simpson's guest voices who have passed away](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=259296)**
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> I can name the following: Joey Ramone Linda McCartney George Harrison And of course Phil Hartman and Ron Taylor (Bleeding Gums Murphy) Any more anyone can think of? This week I saw both the George Harrison one and the one with The Ramones.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-simpsons-guest-voices/262015/3 "2004-08-29T02:06:50Z")

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Heh. Not only did I read that thread I contributed to it.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-simpsons-guest-voices/262015/4 "2004-08-29T02:18:26Z")

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Us old-timers will do that. I’m afraid to do searches sometimes, because I’m sure one day I’ll see that I started multiple threads asking the same question.

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**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-simpsons-guest-voices/262015/5 "2004-08-29T16:22:30Z")

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Chris Latta, who apparently was the first voice of Mr. Burns and Moe, is dead.  
Ron Taylor, who voiced Bleeding Gums Murphy.  
Audrey Meadows, who was Grandpa Simpson’s girlfriend Beatrice Simmons.  
Chick Hearn.  
Steve Allen (Audrey Meadows’s brother-in-law, among other achievements).  
Bob Hope.  
Barry White.  
George Fenneman.  
Tito Puente, Latin jazzman.  
Jack Lemmon.  
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our 32nd President (heard in archive footage).  
Joe C., a 3’ 9" dwarf who performed with Kid Rock.  
John Entwistle of the Who.  
Isabel Sanford.

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**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-simpsons-guest-voices/262015/6 "2004-08-29T23:37:39Z")

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> [@Fiver](#):
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> Chris Latta, who apparently was the first voice of Mr. Burns and Moe, is dead.

On the In the Actor’s Studio episode that the Simpsons cast was on, Hank Azaria tells the story of inventing Moe’s voice.

“Can you make that voice there more gravelly, Hank?”

Out comes the voice of Moe.