(OT)It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

[Duncanzits]

Just saw It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on TCM and noticed loads of Top Cat voices. Do you know of any other VAs that acted in classic movies?

 

[Patrick McCart]

Just saw It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World on TCM and noticed loads of Top Cat voices. Do you know of any other VAs that acted in classic movies?

Arnold Stang provided the voice of Top Cat and he's in the film.

 

[Steve V.]

Another "TC" Alum

Arnold Stang provided the voice of Top Cat and he's in the film.

Marvin Kaplan is also in MAD WORLD (he's "Irwin" to Stang's "Ray"), and he is another "Top Cat" voice star. I think he did "Chu-Chu," but I'm not sure. MAD WORLD remains in my Top Ten list of great flicks. Steve V.

 

[guy incognito]

Other VA guys with Mad World cameos: Jim Backus, Stan Freberg, Sterling Holloway.

Bea Benaderet was in Hitchcock's Notorious and the musical On the Town.

Mel Blanc appears onscreen in Billy Wilder's oft-maligned Kiss Me, Stupid.

Harvey Korman, of course, was in a number of Mel Brooks comedies.

 

[Brent]

Other VA guys with Mad World cameos: Jim Backus, Stan Freberg, Sterling Holloway.

Allen Jenkins, another TOP CAT/MAD WORLD crossover.

 

[B Mode]

How about Phil Silvers? I hear his voice character quite a bit in Cartoons, but did he ever do any actual work for animation?

It's a Mad(x4) World is my favorite as well, right up there with the Great Race!

 

[Corrado]

This is sort of related to the movie but I thought that The Simpsons did a great job parodying this movie in "Homer The Viglante"

I liked the bit with Bart and Phil Silvers.

 

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How about Phil Silvers? I hear his voice character quite a bit in Cartoons, but did he ever do any actual work for animation?

I don't think so. Ditto Jimmy Durante.

 

[Duncanzits]

Were the fans of the movie, fans of Top Cat? This sounds like the most Top Cat VAs ever on screen.

And as far as modern VAs, there is always Hank Azeria & Harry Shearer.

 

[Jaguar]

Were the fans of the movie, fans of Top Cat?

*raises hand*

 

[guy incognito]

Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) - Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah

Cliff Edwards (Jiminy Cricket) - Gone with the Wind, His Girl Friday

Hans Conried (Captain Hook, Snidely Whiplash) - Mrs. Parkington, On the Town, Bus Stop

George O'Hanlon (George Jetson) - the "Joe McDoakes" shorts

Edward Everett Horton ("Fractured Fairy Tales" narrator) - countless classic films in supporting roles, including The Front Page, Trouble in Paradise, Top Hat, Lost Horizon, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Arsenic and Old Lace...and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

 

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Mae Questel - Funny Girl, New York Stories, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Paul Frees - Force of Evil, The Thing (From Another World), A Place in the Sun, War of the Worlds

 

[BobChief]

Hans Conried (Captain Hook, Snidely Whiplash) - Mrs. Parkington, On the Town, Bus Stop

And The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (always creeped out my older brother)

 

[Ohio Duane]

BVoices from It's A Mad (4) World

Marvin Kaplin, the other guy with Stang at the filling station in Mad Mad World, was the voice of "Benny the Ball" in the Top Cat cartoon show.

 

[B Mode]

That's been covered, look up top!

 

[Bobby B]

Alan Reed - Breakfast at Tiffany's

 

[Bobby B]

I don't think so. Ditto Jimmy Durante.

Durante narrated the Rankin-Bass Frosty the Snowman.


I didn't know until recently that "Rochester" had a cartoon voice credit, the 1970's Harlem Globetrotters series.

 

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J. Pat O'Malley, in addition to his VA work for Disney (Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Alice in Wonderland, One Hundred and One Dalmations, The Jungle Book) also appeared in such non-animated films as Lassie Come Home, Witness for the Prosecution, The Long Hot Summer, Hello Dolly, and The Gumball Rally (which was more of a cult favorite than an acknowleged classic, but a great movie nonetheless). He was also a regular on the TV series "Spin and Marty" and "My Favorite Martian".

Richard Haydn (Disney's Alice in Wonderland, WB's Super Rabbit, MGM's Who Killed Who?) appeared in And Then There Were None, the 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty, The Sound of Music, and Young Frankenstein.