amongst all that he was the voice of Hook in the original Disney Peter Pan, and the voice of Snidley Whiplash in the Dudley Do-right cartoons.
That I knew. I was asking about other Dr. Seuss; I may have misread your original statement about narration.
The man had an interesting voice and he knew how to use it.
Yes. One of the qualities that struck me most about his performance as Dr. T was the extraordinary versatility of his voice—I don't mean a knack for accents or mimicry, I mean that I couldn't remember the last time I'd heard someone quick-change so many tones, timbres, inflections in a few phrases; and it was comedy, so he could really pull all the stops out. (A particular flair for the outraged skid into falsetto was on display.) Some of the things he did to unsuspecting sentences have to be believed. I like that.
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That I knew. I was asking about other Dr. Seuss; I may have misread your original statement about narration.
The man had an interesting voice and he knew how to use it.
Yes. One of the qualities that struck me most about his performance as Dr. T was the extraordinary versatility of his voice—I don't mean a knack for accents or mimicry, I mean that I couldn't remember the last time I'd heard someone quick-change so many tones, timbres, inflections in a few phrases; and it was comedy, so he could really pull all the stops out. (A particular flair for the outraged skid into falsetto was on display.) Some of the things he did to unsuspecting sentences have to be believed. I like that.