Results: I Hear Voices, Famous Voices
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Even if you watched The Simpsons only once in your life, you've heard his voice. Hank Azaria, an actor who has been "seen" in many shows including Huff and Friends and movies such as The Birdcage, is more famous for what you hear rather than see. He has been voicing The Simpsons since it began in 1989, and is the voice of pretty well the entire supporting cast -- 70 voices in total, including Moe, Wiggum Apu, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson, Cletus Spuckler, Professor Frink, Dr. Nick Riviera, Lou, Snake Jailbird, Kirk Van Houten, the Sea Captain, Superintendent Chalmers, Disco Stu, Duffman, the Wiseguy and many others. Besides The Simpsons, as if this didn't keep him busy enough, and his live roles, he has also voiced many other characters. If you know who Azaria is, which voice overs are you familiar with?
Familiar with his work on The Simpsons
33%
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717 votes
Venom/Eddie Brock in Spider-Man: The Animated Series
3%
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66 votes
Bartok the bat in Anastasia
4%
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95 votes
Eric in the American dub of the series Stressed Eric
2%
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42 votes
Harold Zoid in the 2001 Futurama episode "That's Lobstertainment!"
4%
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96 votes
Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg in Chicago 10
2%
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47 votes
The Mighty Sven in Happy Feet Two
5%
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103 votes
Shelfish Sheldon in Mack & Moxy
2%
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41 votes
Texan border agent Bud Buckwald, in Bordertown,
2%
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35 votes
Gargamel in The Smurfs, The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol, The Smurfs 2
8%
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181 votes
Not familiar with any of these, although I know who he is
13%
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290 votes
Do not know who he is
46%
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991 votes
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You might not recognize some of these stars, but you've heard their voices a thousand times. Here are just a few of the most prolific. Which ones are you familiar with?
James Earl Jones -- Yes, that voice... he has "one of the best-known voices in show business" and has voiced his most well-known role, that of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies, plus voice overs as Mufasa in the 1994 Disney film The Lion King, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, the host on the video monitor at SeaWorld Orlando, in Florida, the Emperor of the Night in Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night and Ommadon in Flight of Dragons, the CNN tagline, "This is CNN", as well as "This is CNN International", and the opening for CNN's morning show New Day. Jones was also a longtime spokesman for Bell Atlantic and later Verizon. He also narrated all 27 books of the New Testament in the audiobook James Earl Jones Reads the Bible.
30%
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656 votes
Don Pardo -- When he passed away in 2014, he left a huge void in TV. He had been the well known announcer behind some of the biggest shows, including every Saturday Night Live episode for 39 years, until May of the year he died, plus The Price Is Right, Jackpot, Jeopardy!, Three on a Match, Winning Streak and NBC Nightly News.
8%
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164 votes
Susan Bennett -- If you have an iPhone, you've heard her voice. She's the voice of Siri, and she got the job when she happened to be there when the scheduled voice-over artist was absent. She was also the voice of First National Bank of Atlanta's "Tillie the All-Time Teller", Delta Air Lines terminals worldwide, as well as voicing e-learning software and GPS navigation software, and telephone systems, was used in numerous local and national television advertisements for Ford, Coca-Cola, Fisher-Price, McDonald's, The Home Depot, Goodyear, Visa, Macy's, Hot Pockets, Club Med, and Cartoon Network, among others.
3%
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58 votes
Sam Elliott -- Not only did he appear in many movies and TV shows, his rugged voice was used in many commercials -- Dodge, IBM, Kinney Drugs, Union Pacific, the American Beef Council, Coors beer, Ram Trucks. Starting in 2008, he voiced Smokey Bear, and shares the mascot's birth date (August 9, 1944). For animated films, Elliott lent his voice to Ben the Cow in Barnyard, Buster (a.k.a. Chupadogra) in Marmaduke, and Butch in The Good Dinosaur.
26%
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556 votes
Knew all of these
9%
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191 votes
None
25%
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546 votes
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If you ride the Metro Vancouver's transit service, one famous voice you won't be hearing doing announcements is Morgan Freeman. Originally they had hired Freeman to do promotional transit voice-overs about its new tap-to-pay system. Freeman was dropped after #MeToo allegations of inappropriate behaviour, and has been replaced with Vancouver-native comic and actor Seth Rogan. He will be doing his best to lighten up the mood on the Vancouver transit starting in a few weeks. Do you think this is a good choice?
Yes
33%
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721 votes
No
17%
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360 votes
Not familiar enough with him
50%
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1090 votes
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