Celebrity Voices

Grant Shaud is most famous for his role as Miles Silverberg in Murphy Brown. He played the nebbish Executive producer for the fictional news magazine show FYI, modelled after 60 Minutes (probably). I don’t think he has done much since but now he is doing the voice for the Expedia.com commercials. I [...]

It’s Special Agent David Duchovny of course. I was a big X-Files fan back in the day and still watch the re-runs from time to time when I can find them on. He’s done other things, but who cares. His movies, like Playing God and Evolution, are not that great. I [...]

Will Lyman has been a steady working actor since before I was born but I’ve never heard of him and though I’ve seen a couple of the things that he’s been in, I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup. He does a lot of voice work in movies and TV as well as [...]

This one is kind of special for me. I started this blog in September of 2008. By October 1, I had five entries and had gotten about 6 visitors. That’s when I added this entry as a draft. But I could not find the video anywhere. Now, I have a [...]

It’s the dude! Jeff Bridges is the star of The Big Lobowski. I love that movie, I think it’s hilarious. My wife doesn’t like it, but that’s just, like, her opinion man. I had to get that in there somehow. In addition to being el Duderino, one of Jeff Bridges [...]

Like I have to tell you, Morgan Freeman was the voice from the Olympics Visa commercials. Morgan Freeman has done more voice over work than most people have done on camera work. Sometimes he does both at the same time, as in Shawshank Redemption. He has done a ton of movies, more [...]

I see those Geico, Gecko commercials all the time. It’s hard to believe that this ad campaign has been going on for ten years now. I don’t know who does the voice now but way, way back in the day the very first Gecko was Kelsey Grammer. Kelsey Grammer played Dr. Frasier [...]

The voice of the water bottle in the PUR water Filter commercials is none other than Zach Braff. Zach rose to prominence as Dr. John Dorian in Scrubs. I really liked that show, at least I liked the first 3 or 4 seasons. After that it just got really bad. It [...]

Allison Janney is pretty awesome. She is most recognizable as CJ Cregg on the West Wing who started out as the White House Press Secretary, modelled after Clinton Press Secretary Dee Dee Meyers, and went on to become the White House Chief of Staff (I think that stretched the bounds of credibility but whatever, [...]

I can’t stand this guy’s voice. Which makes it unfortunate that he is so ubiquitous. I also can’t stand the AFLAC commercials. Until today though I never realized that they were the same voice. I guess it was a case of willful ignorance that I failed to notice. I usually [...]