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Thurl Ravenscroft is a Actor American born on 6 february 1914 at Norfolk (USA)

Thurl Ravenscroft

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Birth name Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft
Nationality USA
Birth 6 february 1914 at Norfolk (USA)
Death 22 may 2005 (at 91 years) at Fullerton (USA)

Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (/ˈθɜrl ˈreɪvənzkrɒft/; February 6, 1914 – May 22, 2005) was an American voice actor and basso profundo known as the booming voice behind Tony the Tiger's "They're grrreat!" in Kellogg's Frosted Flakes television commercials for more than five decades. Ravenscroft was also known, albeit uncredited, as the vocalist for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the classic Christmas television special, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.

Ravenscroft did some voice-over work and singing for Disney in both the films and the attractions at Disneyland (which were later featured at Walt Disney World). The most well known of these attractions are The Haunted Mansion, Country Bear Jamboree, The Mark Twain Riverboat, Pirates of the Caribbean, Disneyland Railroad, and Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room. His voice acting career began in 1940 and lasted until his death in 2005 at age 91.

Biography

Pourvu d'une voix de basse, il est surtout connu pour avoir prêté sa voix à Tony le Tigre dans les publicités Kellogg's ainsi qu'à de nombreux dessins animés des studios Disney. Ravenscroft a aussi donné sa voix à Bourriquet sur des disques de Walt Disney Records où il est beaucoup plus drôle que dans le film. Il faisait partie du quatuor vocal The Mellomen.

Son buste est utilisé dans la scène du cimetière de l'attraction Haunted Mansion (Phantom Manor en France), souvent prise par erreur pour celui de Walt Disney. Le buste est en réalité une tête blanche sur lequel est projeté un film du visage de Ravenscroft chantant.

Il a été nommé Disney Legends en 1995.

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Walt Disney
(19 films)
John Lounsbery
John Lounsbery
(13 films)
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Les Clark
(12 films)
Franklin Thomas
Franklin Thomas
(11 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Thurl Ravenscroft (36 films)

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Actor

Return to Never Land, 1h13
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Pirate films, Les fées, Films about disabilities, Political films, Children's films
Actors Blayne Weaver, Corey Burton, Jeff Bennett, Tim Curry, Kath Soucie, Dan Castellaneta
Rating58% 2.9318152.9318152.9318152.9318152.931815
During the London Blitz of World War II, Peter Pan's former playmate, Wendy Darling, has grown up and married, and has two children of her own: a 12-year-old daughter, Jane, and a 5-year-old son, Danny. However, her husband Edward is serving in the army overseas, and Jane is resentful of her mother's stories about Peter Pan, dismissing them as childish. The rift is increased between the two when Wendy announces her plan to evacuate the two to the countryside for their own protection against the Blitz.
The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, 1h16
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Musical theatre, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Thurl Ravenscroft, Roger Kabler, Timothy Stack, Stephen Tobolowsky, Eric Lloyd, Chris Young
Roles Kirby
Rating57% 2.8501852.8501852.8501852.8501852.850185
Rob and Chris have a son named Robbie. At first the appliances all think that they will pay more attention to him but later get used to him ("I See A New You"). Later, the Hearing Aid, who was left in a drawer in their new house from the previous owner gets out of the drawer and passes everyone who is asleep. Toaster then sees him and follows him up to the attic. Toaster gets very suspicious about him when he was talking to someone in space.
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, 1h15
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Timothy Stack, Thurl Ravenscroft, Roger Kabler, Eric Lloyd, Brian Doyle-Murray, Chris Young
Roles Kirby
Rating63% 3.187323.187323.187323.187323.18732
Rob McGoarthy, the owner of the appliances and whom they refer to as "the master", is working in a veterinary clinic where he tends to injured animals. One night, while working on a thesis, his computer accidentally crashes caused by a terrible computer virus from an old TLW-728 supercomputer named Wittgenstein. The appliances, along with the rat Ratso who found Wittgenstein, then seek to help Rob by finding Wittgenstein to reverse the effects of his computer virus, hence recovering the master's thesis. Meanwhile, in a dual plot of the film, Mack, Rob's lab assistant, plots to sell the injured animals Rob had been tending, to a place called "Tartaras Laboratories", the same place that Sebastian, an old monkey Rob is tending to, was sent to when he was just a baby. When the appliances find Wittgenstein, they discover him abandoned, all alone and run-down and broken in the basement due to be infected by a computer virus. The miserable supercomputer reveals that he is living on one rare tube, named the "WFC 11-12-55". The appliances learn that unless they find a replacement quickly, Wittgenstein's tube will blow and lead to his apparent death.
The Brave Little Toaster, 1h31
Directed by Jerry Rees
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Timothy E. Day, Jon Lovitz, Timothy Stack, Thurl Ravenscroft, Phil Hartman, Joe Ranft
Roles the Kirby, a very low-pitched, individualistic upright Kirby 2R vacuum cleaner who dons a cynical, cantankerous attitude towards the other appliances.
Rating71% 3.597493.597493.597493.597493.59749
Toaster is a feminine-voiced leader of a group of appliances consisting of an antique radio, a gooseneck lamp, Lampy; an electric blanket, Blanky; and a vacuum cleaner, Kirby, who belong to their master, Rob. They wait every day at Rob's cottage for his return with an increasing sense of abandonment, causing Blanky to hallucinate about finally seeing Rob return. One day, the appliances are devastated to learn that a real estate broker is selling the house. Not wanting to accept the fact that the Master would abandon them, Toaster decides that the group should head out and find Rob. The appliances connect a car battery to an office chair pulled by Kirby and set out into the world, following Radio's signal broadcasts from the city, where Rob lives.
The Small One, 25minutes
Directed by Don Bluth, Richard Rich
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Christmas films, Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Sean Marshall, William Woodson, Olan Soule, Hal Smith, Joe Higgins, Gordon Jump
Roles les Acquéreurs
Rating74% 3.733223.733223.733223.733223.73322
Outside of the city of Nazareth, a young boy and his father own four donkeys. Three of these donkeys are young and strong. The fourth donkey, Small One, is old and weak, but the boy loves him anyway. Everyday, the boy and the donkey play together before they go to work, helping the boy's father to collect wood.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, 1h14
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Richard Rich, John Lounsbery, Edward Hansen
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about pigs, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un ours, Mise en scène d'un tigre, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Sterling Holloway, Sebastian Cabot, John Fiedler, Junius Matthews, Paul Winchell, Barbara Luddy
Roles Chanteur soliste
Rating74% 3.749563.749563.749563.749563.74956
The film's content is derived from three previously released animated featurettes Disney produced based upon the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974). Extra material used to link the three featurettes together was added to allow the stories to merge into each other.
The Aristocats, 1h18
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Edward Hansen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about cats, Films about dogs, Jazz films, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Scatman Crothers, Hermione Gingold, Robie Lester, Gary Dubin
Roles Billy Boss - a Russian cat in Scat Cat's gang. Plays the double bass.
Rating71% 3.5539353.5539353.5539353.5539353.553935
In Paris in 1910, mother cat Duchess and her three kittens, Marie, Berlioz, and Toulouse, live with retired opera diva Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, and her English butler, Edgar. While preparing her will with lawyer Georges Hautecourt, Madame declares her fortune to be left to her cats until their deaths, and thereafter to Edgar. Edgar hears this through a speaking tube, and plots to eliminate the cats. Therefore, he sedates the cats by sleeping pills in their food, and enters the countryside to abandon them. There, he is ambushed by two hounds, named Napoleon and Lafayette, and the cats are stranded in the countryside, while Madame Adelaide, Roquefort the mouse, and Frou-Frou the horse discover their absence. In the morning, Duchess meets an alley cat named Thomas O'Malley, who offers to guide her and the kittens to Paris. The group briefly hitchhike in a milk cart before being chased off by the driver. Later, while crossing a railroad trestle, the cats narrowly avoid an oncoming train, but Marie falls into a river and is saved by O'Malley; himself rescued by two English geese, Amelia and Abigail Gabble, who accompany the cats to Paris. Edgar returns to the country to retrieve his possessions from Napoleon and Lafayette, as the only evidence that could incriminate him.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1h50
Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Western
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films, Gangster films
Actors Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Henry Jones, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy
Roles (singing voice)
Rating79% 3.9981053.9981053.9981053.9981053.998105
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford). The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall (Wyoming) to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Butch's long absences, have selected Harvey Logan (Ted Cassidy) as their new leader. Harvey challenges Butch to a knife fight over the gang's leadership. Butch defeats him using trickery, but embraces Harvey's idea to rob the Union Pacific Overland Flyer train on both its eastward and westward runs, agreeing that the second robbery would be unexpected and likely reap even more money than the first.
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, 25minutes
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Sterling Holloway, Sebastian Cabot, John Fiedler, Paul Winchell, Hal Smith, Jimmy Bennett
Roles Singers (uncredited)
Rating78% 3.942243.942243.942243.942243.94224
The story begins when Winnie the Pooh is on his way to his thoughtful spot. Today is a very windy day. But as Pooh sits thinking, Gopher pops out of the ground and advises Pooh to leave the spot because of it being "Winds-day". Pooh, having misunderstood his warning, goes across the Hundred Acre Wood to wish everyone a happy Winds-day. Pooh first goes to his friend Piglet who lives in a beech tree. Piglet originally came out to rake leaves but the wind proves too strong for him to handle. Piglet is nearly blown away but Pooh quickly hangs on to him by his scarf, like a kite on a string. As Pooh struggles to keep a hold of the scarf he passes by Kanga and Roo, wishing them both a happy Winds-day; Eeyore, whose stick house Pooh breaks as he passes; and finally Rabbit, who Pooh inadvertently helps harvest the carrots in his vegetable garden as he slides by.
The Graduate, 1h45
Directed by Mike Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Musical films, Films about virginity
Actors Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Wilson
Roles the man with the guests at Benjamin's backyard
Rating79% 3.9980353.9980353.9980353.9980353.998035
Benjamin Braddock, aged twenty, has earned his bachelor's degree and has returned home to a party celebrating his graduation at his parents' house in Pasadena, California. Benjamin, visibly uncomfortable as his parents deliver accolades and neighborhood friends ask him about his future plans, evades those who try to congratulate him. Mrs. Robinson, the neglected wife of his father's law partner, insists that he drive her home. Benjamin is coerced inside to have a drink and Mrs. Robinson attempts to seduce him. She invites him up to her daughter's bedroom to see her portrait and then reenters the room naked, making it clear that she is available to him. Benjamin initially rebuffs her, but after a few days, he clumsily organizes a tryst at the Taft hotel.
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, 23minutes
Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Mise en scène d'un ours, Musical films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Sterling Holloway, Junius Matthews, Bruce Reitherman, Sebastian Cabot, Hal Smith, Howard Morris
Roles Chanteur soliste
Rating79% 3.9932453.9932453.9932453.9932453.993245
The story opens with Pooh Bear going through his morning exercise, during which he accidentally rips the stitching on his bottom. After repairing his torn rump, Pooh goes to his pantry for some breakfast, but finds he is fresh out of honey. He hears a bee fly by and decides to climb the honey tree, but while climbing the branch he is standing on breaks and he falls, landing in a gorse bush. Needing help, Pooh heads to Christopher Robin's house. Pooh gets Christopher Robin's magical blue balloon to try to get the honey from the honey tree. He rolls himself in a muddy puddle to disguise himself as a little black raincloud, and then uses the balloon to float up next to the hive. Once he reaches the bee hive he takes a giant handful of honey with bees still in it. He eats the honey then spits out the bees, one of which is the queen bee who falls into the mud below. The queen bee proceeds to sting Pooh's bottom which jams his rear into the hive. A now scared Pooh admits to Christopher Robin these are the wrong sorts of bees and the angry bees end up pushing him out the hive and chasing Pooh and Christopher Robin. The two barely manage to escape the angry swarm by diving into the mud puddle.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, 26minutes
Directed by Chuck Jones
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Christmas films
Actors Boris Karloff, June Foray, Chuck Jones, Thurl Ravenscroft, Dal McKennon, Hal Smith
Roles la voix du chanteur
Rating82% 4.143134.143134.143134.143134.14313
The Grinch (voiced by Boris Karloff) is the film's main character. He lives in a cave atop Mt. Crumpit, located above the village of Whoville. The Grinch is a surly character with a heart "two sizes too small" who has especially hated Christmas for 53 years. On Christmas Eve, he finally becomes fed up with seeing the decorations and hearing all the music and caroling in the village and wishes he could stop Christmas Day from coming to Whoville. When he sees his dog, Max, with snow all over his face in the shape of a beard, he decides to disguise himself as Santa Claus and steal Christmas.
The Man from Button Willow, 1h21
Origin USA
Genres Animation, Western
Actors Dale Robertson, Edgar Buchanan, Howard Keel, Barbara Jean Wong, Herschel Bernardi, Pinto Colvig
Roles Reverend, Saloon Man#2
Rating54% 2.724642.724642.724642.724642.72464
En 1869, Justin Eagle vit dans son ranch appelé «The Eagle’s Nest», près de la ville de Button Willow, en Californie. En plus d'être éleveur, Justin est un agent secret du gouvernement américain. Il agit pour contrecarrer les voyous qui commencent à pulluler dans l'Ouest. Il est envoyé à San Francisco pour retrouver le sénateur Freeman, qui a disparu alors qu'il combattait Montgomery Blaine et ses hommes de main. Ceux-ci forcent les colons à leur vendre leurs terres à bas prix, en sachant que ces terres sont de grande valeur, car elles doivent être traversées par des chemins de fer...
Mary Poppins, 2h19
Directed by Robert Stevenson, Joseph L. McEveety, Tom Leetch, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about birds, Musical films, Films about penguins, Children's films
Actors Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber
Roles Pig (le cochon) / Andrew's Wimper
Rating77% 3.8975553.8975553.8975553.8975553.897555
In Edwardian London, 1910, Cockney one-man band Bert is entertaining a crowd when he senses a change in the wind. Afterwards, he directly addresses the audience and gives them a tour of Cherry Tree Lane, stopping outside the home of the Banks'. George Banks returns home from his job at the bank to learn from his wife Winifred that their hired nanny, Katie Nanna, has left their service after his children, Jane and Michael, ran away again. They are returned shortly after by the local constable, who reveals that the children were dragged away by their kite. The children ask their father to help build a better kite, but he dismisses them. Taking it upon himself to hire a nanny, George advertises for a stern, no-nonsense nanny. Jane and Michael present their own advertisement for a kinder, sweeter nanny, but George rips up the letter and throws the scraps in the fireplace, which magically float up and out into the air.