# People with deep voices **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677 "2011-05-21T13:42:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tyrannosaurus\_Volcano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Tyrannosaurus\_Volcano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyrannosaurus_Volcano)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/1 "2011-05-21T13:42:31Z")
I’m obsessed with people with deep voices for some odd reason, especially men, so I’d like to garner as many as I possibly can so I can watch videos of them and drool. :smack: No, I don’t really drool to them. I already have a list of some; I will not tell you how many are on there, but there are a lot. 😃 So if you could name some celebrities with deep voices you know of, that would be quite awesome. While you’re at it, do me a favor and don’t comment about how weird this topic is. I know full well. Well, I have these people on my list (and more), so we can rule them out. Ethan Peck Heath Ledger Matthew MacFadyen Seth MacFarlane Adrien Brody Will Arnett Peter Dinklage Kiefer Sutherland (though his voice is a bit too gravelly for my tastes) Patrick Warburton Russell Crowe Mike Rowe Frank Bruno Clancy Brown Michael Clarke Duncan Mel Gibson Kelsey Grammer Geoffrey Rush Gordon Brown Ron Perlman Christopher Hitchens Avery Brooks Jeremy Irons Tom Netherton Willard White Barry White (I just realized he and Willard White have the same last name! Willard White is an operatic bass, so…coincidence?) Sam Elliott Harrison Ford Samuel Ramey Paul Darrow Stephen J. Cannell Michael Gambon Patrick Stewart Tom Brokaw Ian McKellen Brian Mulroney Peter Jennings Dustin Hoffman Ned Beatty Morgan Freeman George Takei Robert Redford David Hartman Tom Baker Peter O’Toole Ted Cassidy Johnny Cash Robert MacNeil James Earl Jones James Coburn Ed Ames Fred Gwynne Leslie Nielsen Dick Van Dyke Richard Burton George Kennedy William Marshall Lee Marvin Charlton Heston Christopher Lee Yul Brynner Ken Nordine Howard Cosell Robert Mitchum Walter Cronkite Gregory Peck Orson Welles Lorne Greene Alec Guinness Thurl Ravenscroft Don Ameche John Wayne George Sanders Paul Robeson Walter Pidgeon Yes, it’s lots and lots of people. :o And just so you all know, this isn’t the only thing I’m obsessed with. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/2 "2011-05-21T13:44:34Z")
Tay Zonday ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/3 "2011-05-21T15:42:39Z")
Sean Connery. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/4 "2011-05-21T15:43:43Z")
Well [me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYNJqhasmmk) of course.😉 ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/5 "2011-05-21T16:20:25Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Well [me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYNJqhasmmk) of course.😉 Wow, I have an SDMB crush :o ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/6 "2011-05-21T16:25:21Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Well [me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYNJqhasmmk) of course.😉 That was entertaining, Sampiro. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/7 "2011-05-21T16:44:45Z")
There’s a generational touchstone to people between about 35-50: the Nostradamus documentary narrated by Orson Welles. It scared the hell out of all of us- it probably terrified way more people than _War of the Worlds_ did- and those I’ve talked to about it all agree it wouldn’t have been a tenth as effective without Orson’s voice. If Orson said it, then by God it must be true. (He was to the 70s and early 80s what Morgan Freeman is today in the “go to dignified-almost-Shakespearean narrator” department, except where Morgan comes across like a favorite uncle Orson came across like the grandfather who you feared and secretly hated when he visited.) ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/8 "2011-05-21T16:53:50Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Well [me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYNJqhasmmk) of course.😉 Turns out, I love you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/9 "2011-05-21T17:30:22Z")
[Leonard Cohen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh9AC0jCGjY). ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/10 "2011-05-21T17:33:01Z")
[Brad Roberts](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAaTr2HYoc) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/11 "2011-05-21T17:41:42Z")
[Gary Owens.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0soAxikCPy8&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/12 "2011-05-21T18:00:28Z")
[Eugene Pallette](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwcXgHQE4Ss#t=05m03s). I win. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/13 "2011-05-21T18:03:31Z")
[Trace Adkins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu962zEaRo) ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/14 "2011-05-21T18:49:43Z")
**Sampiro** , speaking as a woman, if we all needed further evidence of an inherently unfair universe, it’s the fact that you are gay. (Yeah, like \*I \*could have gotten you anyway…:rolleyes:) ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/15 "2011-05-21T20:13:41Z")
Cue the [Rick Roll](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)… ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/16 "2011-05-21T20:44:38Z")
Baso profundo Maxim Mikhailov. (Can’t link YouTube from work, but the coronation scene in Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible is a good example) ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/17 "2011-05-21T20:57:54Z")
I like my deep voices gravelly: [Tom Waits](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knII3S0MZtY) [The incomparable Screamin’ Jay Hawkins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SWXOBBrZlg) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/18 "2011-05-21T21:08:06Z")
Me (you’ll have to take my word for it). ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/19 "2011-05-21T21:08:15Z")
Liam Neeson Leonard Nimoy Albert Finney John Rhys-Davies (Gimli and voice of Treebeard in _LOTR_; Sallah in _Raiders of the Lost Ark_) ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677/20 "2011-05-21T22:34:59Z")
[Lee Hazlewood](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCpCrbCAOBo) [Scott Walker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUS1XDIIhTE) [Andrew Eldritch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obzPPeHgHRQ) from The Sisters Of Mercy. These should fit the OP’s wish for smooth deep voices. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-deep-voices/582677.md?page=2)