--- Steven Acevedo <sa64@...> wrote:
Re: June Bugs question

> Over the weekend Cartoon Network ran their latest June Bugs
> marathon
> which a friend and I watched.
>
> However he's rather piqued by who did the voice for Yosemite Sam in
> FROM HARE TO ETERNITY. I'll pass along the answer to him.

Frank Gorshin, according to his official site:

http://www.frankgorshin.com/


--- brinatello@... wrote:
Re: Help!

> Hey, does anyone know where I can get a fan mail address for voice
> actor, Brian Tochi? I can ask my friend, Wally, since he's a
> friend
> of his but I was wondering if anyone on here might know. It's
> almost
> virtually impossible finding one! And he must have one somewhere!

Well, you could try sending it to him through his agency:

Brian Tochi
c/o Abrams Rubaloff & Lawrence
8075 W. 3rd Street #303
Los Angeles, CA 90048
USA

Or if you'll give me a few days to get a reply from the guy, I'll
write to ask for a contact address through a company that has had
Brian in for a Collectibles Show guest appearance on several
occasions.


--- brian orlin wrote:
Re: Some Questions?

> Hi all...I haven't posted in a long time but I have a few questions
which
> hopefully, someone out there will know the answer to:-
>
> Firstly, in "Lady and the Tramp2" (what a terrible sequel, don't
you think?)

It was kinda sappy and cheesy, but I didn't pay to rent it, so there
was no loss on my part. It had an enjoyable moment or two for me, but
otherwise I only liked it for the voice talents.

> who voiced the dogcather and what was the character's name? The
voice sounded
> so familiar, almost like that guy from The Andy Griffith Show.

It was Jeff Bennett doing his hilarious impression of Barney Fife,
Don Knott's character on "The Andy Griffith Show". That was one
impression I couldn't nail for the longest until I heard Jeff using
the voice for a character (a crayfish, or "crawdad" if you're a
Southerner) in an animated short on Cartoon Network's "What a Cartoon
Show". It's become one of my favorite impressions to do ever since.
(Thanks, Jeff!)

The character Jeff voices in the movie is never named - it reads
"Dogcatcher" in the credits. (Though the character refers to himself
once as "The Deputy Dogcatcher", which was probably a Jeff adlib.)

You can tell the animators modeled him after Don Knotts as well,
which makes me wish that they'd gotten Don to voice the character too
(even as much as I love Jeff's impression). Call me a purist, I don't
care. But observing how Disney has handled voice casting in the past,
they undoubtedly originally offered Don the part (he's done a good
bit of animation VO in the past) and he wanted more than scale for
the gig so went the cheap route and got Jeff to imitate him.


> Speaking of
> "Lady and the Tramp 2", imdb.com said Mary Kay Bergman (in what
must have
> been one of her last roles before she died) was to voice one of the
Siamese
> Cats (Si or Am). I was SO - at last mrs Bergman was doing a Disney
villains.
> But alas the cats didn't speak at all. Can anyone explain this
anomaly to me?

According to Mary Kay's official site (last I checked it anyway - it
appears to be down at the moment) she voiced "Si, Morgan, all cat
sounds". I seem to recall Mary Kay's husband saying that it was one
of the last things she recorded as well. If there was any dialog
recorded for the siamese cats, it didn't make the final cut -
probably because Mary Kay wasn't there to complete whatever dialog
that might have been needed. But I am confident that she does all the
cat sounds for the movie because they don't sound entirely like cats
recorded live, and they don't sound like Frank Welker either.

I'll poke around and see if I can find out if the cats were
originally intended to have speaking lines. Unless someone has the
movie on DVD and it's mentioned in the director's commentary?


> Secondly, In "Darkwing Duck", who does the voice of Morgana's
father Moloculo
> MacCawber? The info I've seen online says it's Charlie Adler BUT it
doesn't
> sound at all like him, and he's not listed in the credits. I think
it's Jack
> Angel (who also does Liquidator) cos' he was in the credits of both
episodes.

I remember this ep, but it's been too long.

However, you being the guru of Disney villain audio clips, I'm sure
you have a sound clip I could hear? I've been listening to both Adler
and Angel enough over the years that I think I could probably tell
the difference. Or... you could drop Jack Angel an e-mail and see if
he remembers. There's one listed on his official site:

http://voicemale.net/


> Thirdly, in "Chip and Dale's Rescue Rnagers", there was an episode
(can't
> remember the name) where the gang helped a mother Booby bird (yes
the name is
> correct, bit odd for Disney?) to find her egg. The villain was
called Mr
> Dundee and he was an egg collector (who did his voice?). To help
job
> memories, he had a servant called Nog (voiced by Jim Cummings) and
two flying
> birds of some sort called Cruiser and Bruiser (I think they were
voiced by
> Peter Cullen and Corey Burton but need help there as well?).

I vaguely remember this ep. But if you've got clips, I'll listen to
'em and tell you what I think. I've been following both Peter Cullen
and Corey Burton's work as far back as '84 on Transformers.

> Finally, this is more an FYI than a question - Disney is releasing
a sequel
> (oh god not another bad sequel) to Cinderella called Cinderella II:
Dream's
> Come True. No info is available as yet on their website or on
imdb.com, but
> it's due out in 2002 and will be a D2V release.

That frightens me even more than Jennifer Love Hewitt's saying of the
animated Hunchback sequel that "it's the most romantic story you'll
ever see".

Oy... if Walt were alive today, this news would kill him.





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