Actors with great speaking voices

[TheDr]

Well my once drinking buddy Sir Patrick Stewart without a doubt enters the list...
As I am working my way through the live version of Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds of course the late, great Richard Burton.
There are many others.. Charles Dance, Sir Sean Connery, Alec Guinness to name but a few.
But to add a curveball... Jeff Goldblum. He could read the shipping forecast and I would listen.

 

[unassuming]

Sir Ian McKellen

Ever notice that Ian Mckellen and Patrick Stewart sound the same?

 

[Insidious Von]

I bought Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds on Richard Burton's opening monologue alone.

And imho the gold standard for Guglielmo Spadagite's Danish play.

 

[Insidious Von]

William Shakespeare started his career translating Francesco Petrarca's poems into English. He became so popular that his name was anglicized to Petrarch.

Julius Caesar is a bridge play original by Shakespeare. He turned to Petrarch after his plays on Henry VI bombed and ended with his Hollow Crown series (Henry IV, V and Richard II).

 

[lomotil]

This

 

[unassuming]

Walter Pidgeon promoting "Forbidden Planet"

 

[Robert Mugabe]

You can get some of the best ones all in one go with this guy

 

[D-Fens]

Takaya Kuroda.

Not many have heard of him because he's a Japanese actor who does primarily voice acting in video games but he's got the deepest most velvety sounding voice I've ever heard.

 

[Indiana]

How can we not mention the Shat also.

https://youtu.be/lul-Y8vSr0I

 

[kkelso]

Walter Pidgeon promoting "Forbidden Planet"

Groundbreaking movie, and a good watch to boot.

KK

 

[Insidious Von]

How can we not mention the Shat also.

We must speak of The Great Shat with reverence.

 

[shack]

Leonard Nimoy had a better voice.

 

[Boss Nass]

The Late David Warner. Similar voicenter to Alan Rickman.

 

[Don Draper]

"Sir" Sean Connery.

It's only "Sir" if you buy into that shiite.

He's Sean, Connery, as much as that.

 

[tml]

David Ogden Stiers was terrific on the New York documentaries from Ken Burns.

And that was with his real voice. The voice he used in MASH was fake.

I'll add 2 to my list:
Boris Karloff(narrated How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
Jon Lovitz(a sly, wise guy voice. Fantastic work on the Simpsons)

 

[Insidious Von]

And that was with his real voice. The voice he used in MASH was fake.

David Ogden Stiers used the voice of a Boston Brahmin in MASH. The producers wanted someone who was the polar opposite to Hawkeye's rural New Englander.

I have to mention Billy Campbell, his voice in Cardinal is fake. In real life he doesn't sound like he's been drinking whiskey and smoking cigarettes his entire life.

 

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Denzel Washington especially in the recent equalizer 2. Amazing.

 

[oil&gas]

Anthony Quinn
Herbert Lom

 

[dawk jimmy]

Dennis Haysbert currently doing All State commercials in the U.S. Was in the tv series 24 and several movies

 

[bullitt]

peter coyote. ET, narrator on vietnam doc.