The descriptions of Carmilla and the character of Lucy in Dracula are similar, and have become archetypes for the appearance of the waif-like victims and seducers in vampire stories as being tall, slender, languid, and with large eyes, full lips and soft voices.

The play was not officially endorsed by the Magliozzis, but they participated in the production, lending their voices to a central puppet character named " The Wizard of Cahs ".

Shawn Ashmore portrayed Iceman in the X-Men films, and voices the character in The Super Hero Squad Show.

Grammer supplied the voices for " Stinky Pete the Prospector " in 1999 Disney / Pixar film Toy Story 2, Vladimir in the Fox animated movie Anastasia, Rothbart in Barbie of Swan Lake, Zozi the Bear in the subsequently produced prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat.

In Japan, films had not only live music but also the benshi, a live narrator who provided commentary and character voices.

Nichelle Nichols also performed other character voices in addition to Uhura in several episodes, including " The Time Trap " and " The Lorelei Signal ".

The character Philo, a religious sceptic, voices Hume's criticisms of the argument.

Banks uses multiple voices and points of view, jumping freely in both time and character.

After the release of The Patriot, several British voices criticized the movie for its depiction of the movie's villain Tavington and defended the historical character of Banastre Tarleton.

K Rock's most successful lineup was in the mid-1990s featuring " Dave & Roxie on the Big Mattress " ( Dave Gorr, Roxanne Bennett and Brendan Roberts ' character voices ), Steve Woods ( also Program Director ), Todd Austin, Frank Fursey & Wazza ( Warren Penny ).

Krabappel is the only character Wallace voices on a regular basis.

Cast member Nancy Cartwright voices the character, which first appeared in the fifth episode of the first season, " Bart the General " ( 1990 ).

He was also a prolific voiceover artist, and provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the animated TV version of The Harlem Globetrotters, Jazz the Autobot in The Transformers, the title character in Hong Kong Phooey, and Scat Cat in the 1970 film The Aristocats.

The pub also provided the setting for the BBC's poorly reviewed animated Janner comedy series Bosom Pals, which was based on some of the characters in Cook's paintings and featured the voices of Dawn French as the lead character Stella, Alison Steadman as her best friend Joan, and Timothy Spall as the Dolphin's real-life landlord Billy Holmes.

The films were nearly identical, in many cases appearing to match frame-by-frame in certain details, albeit with Porky's appearance updated ( by redoing most of the animation of the character ), the voices having evolved ( with less use of speeding-up ), and all of the backgrounds being different.

Von Sydow voices the character of Esbern in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which was released on November 11, 2011.

Although he is mentioned only briefly in Homer's Iliad, in which Hera takes Stentor's character to encourage the Greeks to fight, his name has been living in the term " stentorian " voice, meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous: Homer said his " voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men ".

The voice acting in Shenmue was especially ground-breaking as it was one of the first large scale games to include real voices for every single non-playable character in the game world and not just resorting to text transcriptions, as was common in video games at the time.

A particular point of contention is the practice of bringing in veteran voice actors ( who are generally capable of greatly altering their voices and inflections in order to create personalities for characters ) to read for a part, and then use the recording of the professional voice actor as a guide for the movie star, even though the actual character creation work is being done by the unpaid voice actor.

Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto ( the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning ), Tatsuhisa Suzuki ( the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII ), Troy Baker ( English Snow Villers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes ), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor ( Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series ), Nolan North ( Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series ), Liam O ' Brien ( the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders ), and Jonell Elliott ( the voices of Lara Croft from 1999-2003 ).

It may well be one of the most recognizable character voices in history.

He narrated the American version of the Animal Planet series Meerkat Manor, and voices the title character in the animated Disney Channel series Special Agent Oso.

" Her TV roles include characters on The Simpsons, where she voices Agnes Skinner, Brandine Spuckler and Lindsey Naegle, and Futurama, in which her main role is the character Mom.

She also occasionally voices the character of Katrina ( Shanks ) Meltsner on the Focus on the Family radio drama Adventures in Odyssey.

Each call was made in character, usually with over the top voices influenced by the duo's family members.

His voice acting credits include Marlin the clownfish in Finding Nemo, and recurring guest voices for the animated television series The Simpsons, including Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie.

In 1992 a 30-minute, fully animated video, twelfth in Hanna-Barbera's The Greatest Adventure series, titled Queen Esther features the voices of Helen Slater as Queen Esther, Dean Jones as King Ahasuerus, Werner Klemperer as Haman, and Ron Rifkin as Mordecai.

In addition, Leary has provided voices for characters in animated films, such as a fire-breathing dragon named Flame in the series The Agents, a prehistoric saber-toothed cat named Diego in the Ice Age film series, and the pugnacious ladybug Francis in A Bug's Life.

After barricading all of the doors, Ash descends into the cellar to find some extra shotgun shells, and while down there he experiences a series of strange events such as mysterious voices and blood seeping from numerous crevices and openings in the walls.

In addition to the new episodes, the classic 1950s and 1960s shorts were re-run as part of the series, but with newly recorded soundtracks, with the voices re-recorded and the original music replaced by Jerry Gerber's score from the 1988 series.

Fux applied the term " species counterpoint ", which entails a series of steps whereby students work out progressively more elaborate combinations of voices while adhering to certain strict rules.

Although none of the major opera houses "... use traditional, Broadway-style sound reinforcement, in which most if not all singers are equipped with radio microphones mixed to a series of unsightly loudspeakers scattered throughout the theatre ", many use a sound reinforcement system for acoustic enhancement, and for subtle boosting of offstage voices, child singers, onstage dialogue, and sound effects ( e. g., church bells in Tosca or thunder effects in Wagnerian operas ).

The series featured most of the original cast performing the voices for their characters, except for Pavel Chekov ( Walter Koenig ), who was omitted because the show's budget could not afford the complete cast.

Doohan and Barrett, besides providing the voices of their Original Series characters and newcomers Arex and M ' Ress, performed virtually all of the " guest star " characters in the series, except for a few notable exceptions such as Sarek, Cyrano Jones and Harcourt Fenton Mudd, who were performed by their original actors from The Original Series.

It was originally Jaeger's suggestion that the FM synthesis concept be extended to allow four simultaneous channels or voices of synthesis to be triggered with one key depression to allow the final synthesized sound to have much more harmonic series activity.

First aired in 1979 on ITV, the series saw Pertwee as a scarecrow, as well as utilising several comedic voices.

He would also be fondly remembered for providing all the voices for the claymation animated series The Trap Door in the late 1980s.

* Robert Easton ( actor ), American actor who provided voices for Stingray, a TV series

Noted for his long-running role as Homer Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, he voices many other characters on The Simpsons, including Abraham " Grampa " Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby and Hans Moleman.

The use of budget-cutting animation measures in animation dates at least to the 1920s ; a handful of the Bosko cartoons in the early years of the Looney Tunes series used several visible tricks ( such as mirror images and repeated scenes ) to give the shorts the comparable appearance of the Disney shorts of the same era, even though they were produced on a budget of just over half of their Disney counterparts ( Disney himself was known to recycle animation in his early years as well ); meanwhile, Max Fleischer took the obvious shortcut of recording the entire soundtrack in one session after the animation was completed in his 1930's cartoons ; he also made frequent use of " mumbling " to avoid the need to synchronize animating mouths to voices.

By this point, the network was split into three programming blocks: Playhouse Disney, comprising shows aimed at preschoolers ; Vault Disney, featuring classic Disney material such as Zorro, The Mickey Mouse Club, the Walt Disney anthology television series, older television specials and features such as The Love Bug ; and the most distinct one, running from afternoon to late evening for teenagers, called Zoog Disney ( which was introduced in August 1998, shortly after the Toon Disney cable channel was launched ), that used anthropomorphic robot-like characters with human voices called " Zoogs " as its hosts.

When Roddenberry produced Star Trek: The Animated Series in the early 1970s, Doohan's ability to perform different voices was used by having him perform most " guest star " male roles in the series, including Robert April, which the show cited as the Enterprise's first captain.

Wario was first designed by Hiroji Kiyotake, and is voiced by Charles Martinet, who also voices many other characters in the series