-
OT-ish RIP Hal Douglas. :-(
Great voice, really sweet guy. 🙁
————————————————————-
~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.
-
9 Replies
-
Very sad. He was a great guy and a true pleasure to work with.
One of the very best voice artists ever – if not the best.
Simon Ubsdell
http://www.tokyo-uk.com -
Oh gosh.
The wonderful voices we’ve lost: Mel Blanc, Thurl Ravenscroft, Hal Riney, Don LaFontain, Ernie Andersen, and now Hal Douglas.
I know the popular trends are either to hire “massively famous” actors to do VO gigs so the product possibly gets the reflected glory of the association (Michael Douglass for NBC News, Brian Cranston for Apple, Donald Southerland for, well, everything) or to go with the current fashion of casing non-announcerish voices because they’re supposedly more “real” and more “authentic” and more like “regular folk.” (while, of course ALSO demanding those voices also sound precise and professional and perfect in pitch and tonality and interpretation!) “Hi, my name is Bill and I play a normal person on the radio.” Sheesh.
It makes me pine for the days when announcers were that. Announcers. Voices that popped out of the media and commanded attention because they were truly special.
Sic Transit some true talent.
Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.
-
[Simon Ubsdell] “One of the very best voice artists ever – if not the best.”
Yeah, it’s really hard to find a genuine, warm voice like his. And as you said, a pleasure to work with.
————————————————————-
~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~ -
This is a nice piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnvDxSNEiO8
Simon Ubsdell
http://www.tokyo-uk.comSome contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.
-
If you haven’t seen the movie “In A World” yet, I think you would like it. A sweet comedy about Hollywood voice over artists.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
—————————
nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf -
I’m sorry to hear that.
Thanks for posting that clip Charlie. I’ve watched that so many times over the years. Sent it to most of the V/O guys I know. It was always a big hit…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
-
I did Herb, and I enjoyed it very, very much.
The top “big voice” guys are all very talented, but they usually get stuck in a single style. While I’ve been working, the guys coming up split either into the “announcer” voice types or moved along into the “acting driven” character voices. With so much animation providing work, there are a lot of good people working out there in that area as well.
The funny thing is that there’s only one guy I can recall who split his success in both – the late and much missed Thurl Ravenscroft – who was the original voice of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes Tony the Tiger – and was equally smooth doing “big voice” work in scads of narrations and spots.
And of course, for pure magical voice talent, nobody’s ever going to top the unfathomable work of Mel Blanc.
If theres ever a VO talent table in heaven, Mel will be forever holding the gavel as chairman, hands down.
Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.
-
Best Hal Douglas performance ever
Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.
-
That’s great!
Thanks,
Dave
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up