HAL is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two film adaptations of the Space Odyssey saga, and speaks in a soft, calm voice and a conversational manner, in contrast to the crewmen, David Bowman and Frank Poole, who speak tersely and with little emotional inflection.

Reiner was struck by Connick's voice and how he sounded like a young Frank Sinatra.

A hallmark of these sketches was the improvisation between Jim Henson, who performed the Chef's head and voice, and Frank Oz, who was his hands.

Cast member Dan Castellaneta currently provides the dog's sounds on the show, although voice artist Frank Welker has also voiced him.

Although cast member Dan Castellaneta occasionally voiced Santa's Little Helper for bit parts, American voice artist Frank Welker most often provided the sounds of the dog and other animals on the show from " Bart's Dog Gets an F ", which aired on March 7, 1991, to " Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily ", which aired on October 1, 1995.

Later releases ( PC, PlayStation, Saturn ) featured significantly altered graphics, CD music and extensive voice acting provided by Rob Paulsen ( Erik ), Jeff Bennett ( Baleog & Fang ), Jim Cummings ( Olaf, Tomator ), and Frank Welker ( Scorch ).

It is a compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography and the other stating words having to do with the images, the story the first voice is relating, or neither.

BBC Radio program compiled and presented by Philip Glassborow, including interviews with Andreas Brown of the Gotham Book Mart, actor Frank Langella ( star of Gorey's Dracula on Broadway ), Alison Lurie, Alex Hand, Jack Braginton Smith, Katherine Kellgren and featuring David Suchet as the voice of Gorey.

Later characters whose voices owe considerable credit to Nash's duck voice have been voiced by actors such as Jimmy Weldon, Frank Welker, Luba Goy and Red Coffee.

Frank Oz ( born Frank Richard Oznowicz ; born May 25, 1944 ) is a film director, actor, voice actor and puppeteer who is known for creating and performing the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show, as well as Cookie Monster, Bert and Grover in Sesame Street.

* Frank Welker, American voice actor

The first short, A Burglar to the Rescue, was filmed in New York City and features the voice of The Shadow on radio, Frank Readick.

* Jocko Johnson – voice and behavior similar to Frank Rizzo ; wanted his wife's house demolished while she was out of town, as punishment for her infidelity.

In a controversial move by director Michael Bay, Weaving was chosen as the Decepticon leader Megatron vocally in the 2007 live-action film Transformers, rather than using the original version of the character's voice created by the voice actor, Frank Welker.

* Frank Langella as the voice of Archer, the leader of the Gorgonites.

While production times and costs were undeniably higher with animated programming, the cost of talent was far less ( voice actors Daws Butler, Don Messick, Mel Blanc and in later years Frank Welker and Rob Paulsen became known for their ability to hold several roles at once, sometimes even on the same show ) and networks could rerun children's animated programming more frequently than most live-action series, negating the financial disadvantages.

The Shadow knows ...." According to historian Frank Brady, Welles's " voice as the ' invisible ' Shadow was perfect.

* 1946: It's a Wonderful Life, by Frank Capra ( voice of l ' autista di taxi )

Wallace had completed several songs and seventy-five percent of the film had been storyboarded, when, two weeks before voice recording was to begin with Bernadette Peters as Betty, the head of MGM, Alan Ladd, Jr., was replaced by Frank Mancuso, and the project was abandoned.

The Avery Wolf was voiced by Frank Graham in Red Hot Riding Hood and throughout most of the 1940s, with famed voice actor Daws Butler providing the howling.

Grover was originally performed by Frank Oz, who provided the character's voice regularly from his earliest appearances until 2001.

Since Music's death, Frank Welker has often replaced him as the voice of Garfield the Cat in recent productions of the Garfield franchise.

Meanwhile, Frank Welker also provided the voice of Ray Stantz on The Real Ghostbusters, and Music lost his role as Peter Venkman and was replaced by Dave Coulier when Murray complained to the studio that his character sounded too much like Garfield.

He was about to make a gas check on his flight when Todman's voice broke in: `` Sweeneys!!

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

in reading, on platforms, even in the large auditorium of the Y.M.H.A., Poetry Center nights, his voice was intimate, thoughtful, and a trifle shy.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.

The twist lay in using Bing Crosby's voice on the sound track while leading man Eddie Bracken mouthed the words.

He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

he rose to put his greatcoat on and addressed Alex in a muted voice.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

Even with words coming too fast, they came on the music of the voice.

I think everybody is agreed that we need to hear some voice on the national level that would make some sense and in which we would have some confidence in following.

A voice on the loudspeaker system announced that if the rain let up the performance would resume in ten minutes.

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

He imagined Sam's voice: `` George, what the hell goes on ''??

Mostly, it was fear, but this woman's voice didn't tremble and her hands were still on the coverlet.

Even her voice had taken on a more cultivated tone.

The Reader in A Modest Proposal " focuses on two aspects of A Modest Proposal: the voice of Swift and the voice of the Proposer.

Literary critics Barthes and Foucault suggest that readers should not rely on or look for the notion of one overarching voice when interpreting a written work, because of the complications inherent with a writer's title of " author.

Investigation of the afterlife also includes the study of ( among others ) cases of haunting, apparitions of the deceased ( including, in some cases, information conveyed by those same apparitions ), instrumental trans-communication ( recording of electronic voice phenomena on tape ), and mediumship.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".