When you take the “Haunted mansion” ride at Disneyworld, you are guided by a narrator’s voice…I swore I had heard this voice before. Last night, I watched bits and oieces of an old movie on AMC (“The St. Valentine’s day Massacre”) -from around 1963? The narrator’s voice was the same one as at the Disneyland thing. Anybody know the voice actor’s name? Is he still alive?
Cool. Since he has been dead for almost twenty years that means the voice of the haunted mansion really is a ghost. Spot on about The St. Valentine’s day Massacre. Interesting note: he was the voice of Burgermeister Meisterburger.
Paul Frees pops up everywhere, once you start looking (listening) for him. He’s in War of the Worlds, as the reporter recording his thoughts just before the try dropping The Bomb on the Martians.
On a related note, the very deep voice in the singers of the “Grim Grinning Ghosts” theme of the ride, as well as many of the pirates in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, is Thurl Ravenscroft, who is the voice of Tony the Tiger. He also sang “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” in the original cartoon version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
Thurl is all over Disney’s stuff. His voice is so distinctive that once you know who to listen for, you can’t not hear him, both at the parks and in the films.
For many years, Thurl did the live narration for The Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, CA. Two hours a night, every night for two months each summer, and the guy never flubbed a line that I heard. He was a true gentleman and was adored by all the volunteers who worked with him. He is a very funny guy as well.
Check out this fun site if you are interested in him-
Besides he has the greatest name ever. Too bad I had daughters 
You didn’t want to name your daughter Ravenscroft? Chicken.
How about Vladimir? 
… to paraphrase one of Dudley Moore’s best lines…
There’s one thing about the haunted mansion that I thought was genuinely creepy… at the end of the ride (Florida version) there’s a disembodied young woman’s voice calling out, “Hey, Janet?”
The web only seems to offer tangential references to this… anybody know who the voice is there?
In CA, the woman’s “ghost” is telling people as they leave, “Hurry back, hurry back… be sure to bring your death certificate, if you decide to join us…”
I’m pretty sure Disney World’s does the exact same thing.