I can understand why people would recognize him from Pulp Fiction, his head was splattered all over the inside of the car.
Julie Kavner has been in numerous movies and could be recognized for either that or her voice work on “The Simpsons.”
Seth MacFarlane probably gets recognized all the time but that’s probably more for being the creator/producer of “Family Guy” than for the voices on it.
Tom Baker has done a lot of voice work.
The cast of Pixar movies are ostly well known visually.
Although most of the stars of Pixar films are well-known, it’s surprising that they’re able to fill some holes in the voice cast with their own employees. Finding Nemo’s director, Andrew Stanton, voiced that film’s Crush the turtle, Bud Luckey played a government agent in The Incredibles, and the late Joe Ranft played minor roles in both Toy Stories, A Bug’s Life, and Cars. It’s not just Pixar that does this: although Ice Age had a big-name cast, director Chris Wedge made the grunts of the Scrat.
I thought of Thurl Ravenscroft immediately- the Mellowmen, damn near every Disney film and park ride for 30+ years, the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, CA.
And oh yeah, that breakfast cereal…
“They’re grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!”
Dude was so smooth, so suave… a gentleman in every way.
Lynne Thigpen from The Warriors and The District and many others.
Makes you wonder how that essentially intact head and face made it into the trunk a few scenes later.
How is no one has mentioned Nicole Sullivan of MAD TV fame whose voice I find in shows all the time. In Kim Possible she is Shego, and in Buzz Lightyear she is the Princess Mira Nova.
And yes, I have a 4yo
It was a handgun, right? Small entrance wound, significantly larger exit wound? The front of the guy’s head might look mostly okay…
The first name that popped into my head upon seeing the thread was Patrick Warburton . Besides playing David Puddy on Seinfeld, he has been all over the place lately.
Among his voice credits:
Buzz Lightyear (on TV)
The Emperor’s New Groove
Kim Possible
Family Guy
and just about every Disney vehicle in the last five years
Man! I forgot to mention him. I liked his work in Big Trouble and in Men In Black and hear his voice in the one’s you mentioned all the time.
Mark Hamill may be best known as Luke Skywalker, but he has done a ton of voice work.
Also the “pre-flight safety lecture video” on the Soaring Over California ride at Disney’s California Adventure.
And Joe Swanson the paraplegic cop on Family Guy, and of course, Brock Samson on The Venture Brothers.
Lauren Tom, visible as Ross’ girlfriend Julie on Friends, is both Minh and Connie on King of the Hill, and was Amy on Futurama, among dozens of other credits.
Any more, animated films try to get well known actors to do the voices for the box office draw. Though I don’t think “Cameron Diaz” is the type of answer you want.
Uh…this seems way too obvious and I hate myself for even saying it (but I must do it), how about James Earl Jones?
I forgot about him. He was on the Simpsons once, right?
I think Regina King is on Boondocks.
I was talking about people who are recogniizable and are very good at voice acting different characters. Mark Hammil is a good example.
Clancy Brown has been a voice actor in animation for a very long time indeed. But most people recognise him as The Kurgan or any of his numerous “SF/Fantasy” roles since then, such as the satanic priest in Carnivale.
Don “Scooby Doo” Messick had face time in the TV show The Duck Factory. When it get out on DVD (I’m surprised it hasn’t yet, since it starred Jim Carrey), you will be able to see him.
As a bonus, in one episode Bill “Bullwinkle” Scott appeared.
Hans Conreid, the voice of Snidely Whiplash and many others, had a long career as an actor and was the lead actor in The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Similarly, Edward Everett Horton, a big supporting actor of the 30s, did the narration in Rocky and Bullwinkle’s “Fractured Fairy Tales.” The same was true of Charles Ruggles of “Aesop and Son.”
Arnold Stang, the voice of Top Cat and a voice actor as recently as “Courage the Cowardly Dog”, gained fame as a pitchman for Chunky candy, and also appeared with Arnold Schwarzeneggar in Hercules in New York.
Top Cat was considered a ripoff of The Phil Silvers Show (much like The Flintstones was a ripoff of The Honeymooners); part of this was that Maurcie Gosfield was in both – voice and as a face actor.
Freeman Gosden and Charles J. Correll created the wildly popular Amos 'n Andy radio show in the 30s, and made several films as them (in blackface). By the 60s, this wasn’t possible, so they did an animated Calvin and the Colonel, which were basically the same characters turned into a bear and a fox.
Bob Saget–Full House, AFV, The Aristocrats, and now voice overs on How I Met Your Mother.
Elizabeth Daily, aka E G Daily, has been Tommy Pickles, Bubbles Utonium, and Babe the talking pig, amongst other things.