Paul Frees
Birthday: Born in 1920-06-22 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Deathday: 1986-11-02
Solomon Hersh Frees, better known as Paul Frees, was an American actor, voice actor, impressionist and screenwriter known for his work on MGM, Walter Lantz, and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons during the Golden Age of Animation and for providing the voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Along with his contemporary Mel Blanc, he became known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Knight Rider
Character: K.A.R.R.
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series ...
The Flintstones
Character: Mr. Granite / TV Announcer (voice)
The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles....
Frankenstein, Jr. and The Impossibles
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Boy genius Buzz Conroy’s powerful robot, Frankenstein Jr. cranks into action along with a group of crime fighting superheroes disguised as a beatnik rock group, The Impossibles, making hot-rockin’ musical justice!...
Calvin and the Colonel
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Calvin and the Colonel is an animated cartoon television series in 1961 about Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel. The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Sue, who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in the real estate business, but always tried get-rich-quick schemes with Calvin's unwitting help. The series was an animated remake of Amos 'n' Andy [or, more o...
Dragnet
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Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects....
The Wonderful World of Disney
Character: Narrator (voice)
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, m...
General Electric Theater
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General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations....
The Secret Squirrel Show
Character: Double Q (voice)
The half-hour The Secret Squirrel Show included three individual cartoon segments: "Secret Squirrel", "Squiddly Diddly" and "Winsome Witch"....
George of the Jungle
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George of the Jungle is an American animated series produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who created The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The character George was inspired by the legend of Tarzan. It ran for 17 episodes on Saturday mornings from September 9 to December 30, 1967, on the American TV network ABC. The half-hour program was distributed for many years by Worldvision Enterprises, currently part of CBS Television Distribution. Each Full Episode was a compilation of 3 mini episodes from 3 dif...
Arabian Knights
Character: Bakaar (voice)
Arabian Knights is an animated segment of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series is based on Arabian Nights, a classic work of Middle Eastern literature....
The Jackson 5ive
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The Jackson 5ive was a Saturday morning cartoon series produced by Rankin/Bass and Motown Productions on ABC from September 11, 1971 until 14 October 1972; a fictionalized portrayal of the careers of Motown recording group The Jackson 5. The series was rebroadcast in syndication through Worldvision Enterprises during the 1984–1985 Saturday morning season, during a period when Michael Jackson was riding a major wave of popularity as a solo artist. The series was animated mainly in London at the s...
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Bailiff
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season....
Super Chicken
Character: Fred
Super Chicken is a segment that ran on the animated television series George of the Jungle. It was produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who earlier had created the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons. It debuted September 9, 1967 on ABC....
Mr. Terrific
Character: Narrator
Mister Terrific is an American TV sitcom that aired on CBS Television from January 9, to May 8, 1967. It starred Stephen Strimpell in the title role, and lasted 17 episodes. The show was similar to NBC's Captain Nice, which followed Mister Terrific on Monday nights during its run. Riding the tide of the camp superhero craze of the 1960s, the show's premise involved gas station attendant Stanley Beamish, a mild-mannered scrawny youth who secretly worked to fight crime for a government organizati...
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
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The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assista...
The Beatles
Character: John Lennon / George Harrison (voice) (uncredited)
The Beatles is an American animated television series featuring the fanciful and musical misadventures of the popular English rock band of the same name. It ran from 1965 to 1969 on ABC in the US. The series debuted on September 25, 1965 and ended on September 7, 1969. A total of 39 episodes were produced. The series was shown on Saturday mornings at 10:30 AM EST until the 1967 third season when it was moved to 12:00 PM EST. For the fourth season, which consisted of reruns, the series was shown ...
The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo
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The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo is an animated television series, produced by United Productions of America, which aired for one season. The television series was based on the original cartoon of the same name, with Jim Backus reprising the voice over of the role he did on TV: while doing this show, he continued with the prime time show Gilligan's Island. Unlike the theatrical cartoons, which focused on the extremely nearsighted Quincy Magoo's bumbling, the show featured the Magoo character ...
The Wonderful World of Disney
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The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American children's television series that originally aired on NBC from September 15, 1968 through February 23, 1969. Produced by Hanna-Barbera and based on the classic Mark Twain characters, the program starred its three live-action heroes, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, and Tom Sawyer, navigating weekly adventures within an animated world as they attempted to outrun a vengeful "Injun Joe". After the show's original run, the series continued to air in re...
Hoppity Hooper
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Hoppity Hooper is a American animated television series produced by Jay Ward, and sponsored by General Mills, originally broadcast on ABC on September 12, 1962 and premiered in full on January 1. The series was produced in Hollywood by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, with animation done in Mexico City by Gamma Productions....
City Detective
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Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant....
Dangerous Assignment
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A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star Brian Donlevy originated the role on radio in the '40s....
The Mr. Magoo Show
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The Mister Magoo Show is an American animated television series which was produced from November 7, 1960 to February 2, 1962. A single episode included five five-minute shorts and could either be aired together with bumpers as a single half-hour show, or it could be split up with one short aired each weekday, along with other cartoons. It was produced by United Productions of America....
The Osmonds
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The pop group starred in an animated series that had them touring the world as musical goodwill ambassadors. Each episode featured at least one song....
Studio 57
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Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956....
The Dudley Do-Right Show
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The Millionaire
Character: Martin B. Martin / John Beresford Tipton
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception....
The Millionaire
Character: John Beresford Tipton
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception....
Fantastic Four
Character: The Thing (voice)
The first animated series based on Marvel's comic book series Fantastic Four....
The Bullwinkle Show
Character: Boris Badenov (voice)
A variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right, Peabody's Improbable History, and Fractured Fairy Tales, among others....
Run, Joe, Run
Character: Narrator
Run, Joe, Run was a Saturday morning television program that aired on NBC from 1974 to 1976. It centered around Joe, a German Shepherd in the military's K-9 Corp., and his master, Sergeant Will Corey. One day, during training, Joe was falsely accused of attacking his master, a crime for which the dog would be put to sleep as punishment. However, he escaped before being killed and a $200 bounty was put on his head. Sgt. Corey believed Joe was innocent and also pursued him, hoping to find Joe bef...
DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
Character: Kairo
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Mary's Father (voice) (uncredited)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries....
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Swanson (voice) (uncredited)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries....
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Train Station Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries....
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries....
The Gumby Show
Character: (voice)
Innovative "Claymation" adventures of Gumby and his horse Pokey....
The Hillbilly Bears
Character: Claude Hopper (voice)
The Hillbilly Bears, played on a social stereotype of the "hillbilly", with a gun-toting, mumbling father Paw Rugg (voiced by Henry Corden) who was always "feudin'" (the "feudin'" was usually a lethargic operation, in which the protagonists fired the same bullet back and forth from the comfort of their rocking chairs) with their neighbors, the Hoppers. The series aired as a segment on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show from October 2, 1965 to September 7, 1967....
The Beary Family
Character: Charlie / Junior Beary
The Beary Family (also known as The Beary's Family Album) is an American animated series and funny animal theatrical cartoon series made by Walter Lantz Studios. Twenty eight shorts were made from 1962 to 1972, when the studio closed....
Tom Slick
Character: Baron Otto Matic
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George of the Jungle
Character: Alistair
George of the Jungle is an American animated series produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who created The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The character George was inspired by the legend of Tarzan. It ran for 17 episodes on Saturday mornings from September 9 to December 30, 1967, on the American TV network ABC. The half-hour program was distributed for many years by Worldvision Enterprises, currently part of CBS Television Distribution. Each Full Episode was a compilation of 3 mini episodes from 3 dif...
The Impossibles
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The Impossibles was a series of animated cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1966 and aired on American television by CBS. The series of shorts appeared as part of Frankenstein, Jr. and The Impossibles....
The Flintstones
Character: Mr. Rockenschpeel / Mr. Bedrock / TV Announcer (voice)
The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles....
The Flintstones
Character: Rock Slag / Green Goose / Triple X (voice)
The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles....
Top Cat
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Top Cat, known as T.C. to his alley cat friends, is a mischievous prankster who lives in a trash can in the alley ways of New York City. He and his alley-cat cohorts think of get rich schemes and assorted pranks which are mostly involving and aimed at Officer Dibble, their nemesis and friend. T.C. manages to get out of his tight situations with hilarity and charm and even helps Dibble on occasion who is underscored by his overbearing sergeant......
The Secret Squirrel Show
Character: Double-Q
The half-hour The Secret Squirrel Show included three individual cartoon segments: "Secret Squirrel", "Squiddly Diddly" and "Winsome Witch"....
Krazy Kat
Character: Ignatz Mouse / Offissa Pupp (voice)
A hilarious throwback collection of kooky escapades from this rare 1960s cartoon about lovable cats, mischievous mice and big mouthed pups....
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The Return of the King
Character: Orc / Uruk-Hai / Capt. Shagrat / Lt. Snaga / Lord Elrond (voice)
Two Hobbits struggle to destroy the Ring in Mount Doom while their friends desperately fight evil Lord Sauron's forces in a final battle....
The Hobbit
Character: Bombur/Troll #1 (voice)
Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one night. One by one, a whole group of dwarves drop in, and before he knows it, Bilbo has joined their quest to reclaim their kingdom, taken from them by the evil dragon Smaug. The only problem is that Gandalf has told the dwarves that Bilbo is an expert burglar, but he isn't......
The Last Unicorn
Character: Mabruk (voice)
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard....
The Ghost of Flight 401
Character: Narrator / Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer....
Patton
Character: voice (uncredited)
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination....
Rudolph's Shiny New Year
Character: Santa Claus / Aeon / General Ticker / Seventeen Seventy Six
Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve....
Woody Woodpecker and Friends
Character: Various Voices
A compilation of ten classic Walter Lantz cartoons: Knock Knock (1940), The Bandmaster (1947), Ski for Two (1944), Hot Noon or 12 O'Clock for Surf (1953), The Legend of Rockabye Point (1955), Wet Blanket Policy (1948), To Catch a Woodpecker (1957), Musical Moments from Chopin (1946), Bats in the Belfry (1960), and Crazy Mixed Up Pup (1955). Also includes the interesting documentary short on Walter Lantz's career "Walter, Woody and the World of Animation". Note: This is NOT the 2007 and 2008 DVD...
Space Master X-7
Character: Dr. Charles T. Pommer
A fungus dubbed "Space Rust" from Outer Space threatens to destroy the Earth....
Everybody Loves It
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A janitor finds a four-leaf clover and dreams of his good luck turning him into a television star. Somehow, this translates to "naked women all over the place."...
The Point
Character: Oblio's Father / Pointed Man's Right Head / King / Leaf Man / Villagers (voice)
Years ago, there was a place called The Land of Point, because everything in The Land of Point had one: the barns, the houses, the cars, everything, even the people. Everyone in The Land of Point had a point at the top of its head. Everyone, that is, except Oblio, who was born round-headed. Since he had no point, Oblio, along with his trusty dog, Arrow, was banished to the Pointless Forest. Join them to see what wonders await these two intrepid travelers as they make their way on their amazing, ...
Gay Purr-ee
Character: Meowrice (voice)
Mewsette is a starry-eyed cat who grows weary of life on a French farm and heads for the excitement of 1890s Paris. Her tomcat suitor, Jaune-Tom, and his furry cohort, Robespierre, chase after Mewsette, but she's already fallen under the spell of a feline modeling-school racket run by Madame Rubens-Chatte and her slimy assistant, Meowrice....
The Puppetoon Movie
Character: Arnie the Dinosaur / Pillsbury Doughboy (voice)
Animated characters introduce a compilation of George Pal replacement animation Puppetoon short films from the 1930s and 1940s....
Jack Frost
Character: Kubla Kraus / Father Winter (voices)
Pardon-me Pete, the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see him. His request is granted, but only on the condition that by the Spring he has a house, a bag of gold, a horse and a wife. But Jack finds that life as a human is more complicated than he thought....
Frosty's Winter Wonderland
Character: Jack Frost
Years have passed since Frosty left for the North Pole, but his promise is kept when he hears news of the first snowfall of the season, and decides to return....
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Character: Mayor Burgermeister Meisterburger / Grimsley (voice)
A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a baby named Kris who is raised by a family of elf toymakers named Kringle. When Kris grows up, he wants to deliver toys to the children of Sombertown. But its Mayor is too mean to let that happen. And to make things worse, the Winter Warlock lives between the Kringles and Sombertown....
Riot in Cell Block 11
Character: Guard Monroe
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly....
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
Character: Winterbolt / Jack Frost / Policeman (voice)
Winterbolt is trying to make the North Pole his evil wonderland, and it is up to Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and others to stop him....
Frosty the Snowman
Character: Santa Claus / Traffic Cop / Additional Voices (voice)
A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colder climate, Frosty and Karen, a young girl who he befriends, stow away on a freight train headed for the north pole. Little do they know that the magician is following them, and he wants his hat back!...
Blue Cat Blues
Character: Voices
Jerry narrates in voiceover: Tom has fallen hard for the cat next door, and competes with rich cat Butch for her affections. But Butch outspends Tom to a ludicrous level at every turn. Tom goes downhill after that, until we see him contemplating suicide....
His Mouse Friday
Character: Jerry / Cannibals (voice) (uncredited)
Jerry is far from Tom's servant here. Tom, shipwrecked, washes up on a tropical island. His first attempts at food - a coconut and a turtle - are much too hard. But he spots Jerry just before Jerry sees him, and soon has him in the frying pan. Jerry escapes to a cannibal village; when he sees Tom's frightened reaction, he has his plan. Using soot from a pot, he blackens himself, then threatens Tom and starts cooking him. But Jerry's plan - and tail, and un-blackened bottom - is exposed when his ...
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Character: Narrator / Multiple Voices (voice)
A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world. The Atlanteans, or rather the slaves of Atlantis, are forced to mine a crystalline material which absorbs the suns rays. These crystals can then be used for warmth. The misuse of science has created weapons out of the crystals that ca...
The Man Called Flintstone
Character: Rock Slag / Green Goose / Triple X (voice)
In this feature-length film based on the "Flintstones" TV show, secret agent Rock Slag is injured during a chase in Bedrock. Slag's chief decides to replace the injured Slag with Fred Flintstone, who just happens to look like him. The trip takes Fred to Paris and Rome, which is good for Wilma, Barney, and Betty, but can Fred foil the mysterious Green Goose's evil plan for a destructive missile without letting his wife and friends in on his secret?...
Blondie's Hero
Character: Radio Narrator (uncredited)
Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of problems which lead to numerous conflicts....
The First Easter Rabbit
Character: Zero / Santa (voice)
A beloved toy stuffed rabbit is rescued by a fairy to be the first Easter Rabbit....
The Night Walker
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire....
Jump Into Hell
Character: TV News Broadcaster (voice)
Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand against the Communist forces. Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina....
Dimension 5
Character: Big Buddha (voice) (uncredited)
An American intelligence agent, aided by a Chinese-American female agent, uses a time-travel belt to thwart Chinese operatives who are attempting to import to Los Angeles the materials to make an atomic bomb....
Smitten Kitten
Character: Jerry's Devil Conscience (voice) (uncredited)
Tom's in love again, and Jerry's devil conscience reminds him of times this has happened in the past (which, of course, we see, in the form of clips from earlier shorts), and how that's been nothing but trouble for Jerry....
Jerry's Cousin
Character: Cousin Muscles (voice)
When Tom's harassment gets out of hand, Jerry writes to his Cousin Muscles, a tough inner city mouse, and asks for his help....
Jerry and the Lion
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Jerry agrees to help an escaped circus lion, whose first need is food. But first they'll have to evade Tom, who heard the news bulletin and is armed with a shotgun....
The Little Drummer Boy
Character: Aaron's Father / Magi / Ali (voice)
After being kidnapped and escaping, young drummer boy Aaron searches for his camel and finds him in the Nativity of the Baby Jesus. Aaron gives Baby Jesus the only gift he has, a song on his drum....
Suddenly
Character: Benny Conklin
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush....
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
Character: Stage Director / Charity Man / Fezziwig / Eyepatch Man / Tall Tophat Man (voice)
In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo's starring performance in a stage production of the classic - doesn't have a ghost of a chance unless he learns the true meaning of Christmas from the three spirits who haunt him one Christmas Eve....
Donald in Mathmagic Land
Character: The True Spirit of Adventure / Narrator
Disney used animation here to explain through this wonderful adventure of Donald how mathematics can be useful in our real life. Through this journey Donald shows us how mathematics are not just numbers and charts, but magical living things....
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Character: Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura (voice) (uncredited)
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War....
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Character: Dirty Dawson (voice)
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. In a Disney animation classic, Dalmatian Pongo is tired of his bachelor-dog life. He spies lovely Perdita and maneuvers his master, Roger, into meeting Perdita's owner, Anita. The owners fall in love and marry, keeping Pongo and Perdita together too. After Perdita gives birth to a litter of 15 puppies, Anita's old school friend Cru...
Life with Tom
Character: (voice) (uncredited)
Mail call. Nothing for Tom, but at Jerry's box, Tom finds a package; inside is a book, "Life with Tom" by Jerry Mouse. As Tom flips to chapters and hears, first a radio audience, then a group of alley cats, then Spike and Tyke, all laughing over the book, we see the clips from earlier shows that everyone is laughing at. Tom gets more and more irate about being the butt of everyone's jokes, and confronts Jerry, clobbering him with the book, when Jerry shows Tom the rest of his mail. The royalty c...
Crazy with the Heat
Character: Oasis Soda Fountain Proprietor
Donald and Goofy are driving across the desert, apparently the Sahara. The car breaks down (out of gas), and they start walking. Before long, they are out of water, and are seeing mirages of soda fountains and icebergs. Fortunately, they find a camel....
Cruise Cat
Character: Ship's Captain (voice) (uncredited)
Tom is the official cat on the cruise ship S.S. Aloha, but he'll be kicked off if the captain finds even one mouse. That one, of course, is Jerry, who sneaks on board just before sailing....
The Missing Mouse
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
A moment after a bottle of white shoe polish pours on Jerry, Tom hears on the radio that a white mouse, having swallowed an explosive, has escaped from an experimental laboratory and that slightest jar of the mouse could cause it to explode and blow up the entire city. It is then that Tom notices now-white Jerry and concludes it's the escapee....
Social Lion
Character: Various Voices
The lion is trapped by the safari and brought to New York, where he's accidentally set free, but nobody is intimidated by him....
Noah's Ark
Character: Noah / God
The Biblical story of Noah's ark full of animals gets the Disney treatment in this animated short....
Down Beat Bear
Character: 1st Radio Announcer
A dancing bear escapes from the zoo and finds his way to Tom and Jerry's house. He dances with Tom, making it impossible for Tom to call the authorities; Jerry takes every opportunity to play music and keep Tom and the bear dancing...
Goliath II
Character: The Mouse
Goliath II is a 6-inch-tall elephant (son of the huge Goliath). He's a big disappointment to his father, but mom is proud of Goliath II anyway. Goliath II is constantly getting into trouble because he's so small. In particular, the tiger Raja looks for every opportunity to try a bite-size taste of elephant. After one incident where he ran away and his mother scolded him, he runs away. After he's rescued, the rest of the elephants are terrified of a mouse, but Goliath II stands his ground....
The Wind in the Willows
Character: Wayfarer (voice)
The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall....
The Star
Character: Richard Stanley
Actress Margaret Elliot is well past her prime but refuses to retire from the acting business. Despite entreaties from both her daughter, Gretchen, and one-time professional colleague Jim Johannsen, Margaret remains convinced that she can regain her former glory. As she sets her sights on a coveted Hollywood role, Johannsen tries doggedly to get his unrequited love to see the folly of her ways....
Sleepy-Time Squirrel
Character: Barney Bear / Jimmy Squirrel (voice) (uncredited)
Barney Bear is forced to give hibernation lodgings in his home to his neighbor Jimmy Squirrel, who makes it impossible to get any sleep....
Utopia
Character: Antoine (voice) (uncredited)
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together....
Sleepy-Time Tom
Character: Light-Brown Cat (voice) (uncredited)
Tom has been out late carousing with his chums. When he gets home, Mammy won't take any excuses, and insists he stay awake; Jerry, overhearing, thus tries a number of schemes to get Tom to sleep....
Casey at the Bat
Character: Narrator
A baseball team from the fictional town of "Mudville" (the home team) is losing by two runs in its last inning. Both the team and its fans, a crowd of 5,000, believe that they can win if Casey, Mudville's star player, gets to bat....
A Symposium on Popular Songs
Character: Ludwig Von Drake
Professor Ludwig von Drake plays a variety of popular music, all of which he wrote. First, ragtime: the Rutabaga Rag, with vegetables dancing in stop-motion. Next, the Charleston, with cut-out animation of a singer and dancers. Dixieland and more cut-out animation; the crooner/love ballad; 50's doo-wop; and finally, rockabilly....
The Bear That Wasn't
Character: Narrator / Bear / Additional Voices (voice)
A bear settles down for his long winter nap, and while he sleeps the progress of man continues. He wakes up to find himself in the middle of an industrial complex where nobody believes he's a bear....
Should Husbands Marry?
Character: Radio announcer
Hugh's loudmouth pal crashes a dinner party Hugh is throwing for his boss....
Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey
Character: Narrator (voice)
Beginning with a history of two thousand years of Jewish life in Morocco, the movie incorporates extensive archival footage, as well as interviews with: artists, scholars, journalists, merchants, workers, and artisans in Morocco, Israel, France, and Canada....
Attack of the Jungle Women
Character: Narrator
This is a film comprised primarily from footage shot by the exploring team of Mr. and Mrs. William Phillips, nee Bill and Eve Phillips, a minor league version of the better-known Martin and Osa Johnson. It, between tons of shots of bare-breasted Choco and Cuna Indian women, has a flimsy plot about a party of engineers "seeking" a continental highway route from South America through Central America to the United States....
The Adventures of Sam Space
Character: Voice
Two boys, Chuck and Sam find a time capsule in a cave and take it to Professor Seateck. The professor finds that the capsule contains a message that had been sent to the planet Meeca whose inhabitants helped Earth in its defense against attacks by the Space Islands in 1960. Sam, Chuck, and the Professor travel to Meeca with the Meecan robot Robo. They are attacked by the Space Islands en route but arrive safely to meet with the friendly Meecans....
The Scarlet Coat
Character: Narrator (voice)
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor....
The Magic Pear Tree
Character: Jean Navarro
The famous lover Jean Navarro arrives at the castle of a marquis. This is a vulgar bon vivant who has been married to the young Chantelle for a short time. At lunch the Marquis falls asleep and Chantelle goes into the garden with Jean, shows him the roses, the stables and the summer house and shortly afterwards confesses her love to him. Jean asks her to do three things as proof of her affection: the tail feathers of her husband's favorite bird, the marquis's whiskers and one of his teeth....
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Character: Colossus (voice) (uncredited)
The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance....
The Hunting Instinct
Character: Ludwig Von Drake (voice)
Theatrical expanded cut of the US TV program. Ludwig Von Drake narrates various cartoons about hunting....
Night of the Eagle
Character: Prologue Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life....
Here Comes Peter Cottontail
Character: Colonel Wellington's assistant / Santa Claus / Rooster (voice)
Peter Cottontail wants to be the #1 chief Easter Bunny, and everyone in April Valley agrees...except for Evil Irontail. Peter must deliver more eggs than this archrival to earn the top spot...and save Easter for children everywhere!...
The Stingiest Man in Town
Character: Ghost of Christmas Past / Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)
This cartoon version of A Christmas Carol hails from the production house of Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass--the team that brought you just about every other Christmas special you saw as a kid (including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer). Reinvented as a 49-minute musical ghost story, it stars the voice of Walter Matthau as the bedeviled Scrooge and Tom Bosley as the Jiminy Cricket-type narrator, B. Humbug, Esq....
The Mouse on the Mayflower
Character: (voice)
The famous ship called Mayflower is trapped amidst a huge storm. The entire story is narrated by a church-mouse called Willum, from his viewpoint. The tale begins with the pilgrim preachers deciding to move to America and getting aboard the Mayflower. However, because of the huge storm, the ship gets on the verge of sinking. Then, Willum, the pilgrim mouse, comes up with an idea to save the ship. When the pilgrims land safely, they write the Mayflower Compact and start constructing their new chu...
Disneyland: Mars and Beyond
Character: Narrator
Directed by renouned animator Ward Kimball, ' Mars and Beyond' is a lighthearted exploration of the history and future of Space Travel as understood back in 1957! Theories from scientists and philosophers are discussed. Focusing on Mars. Ideas from science-fiction authors H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs are brought to life with colorful animation. Pulp science fiction comics of the time are parodied. Life on other planets is considered, profiling each of the planets in the solar system from...
Eyes in Outer Space
Character: Narrator (voice)
Rare Walt Disney Space series from 1959, speculating about the use of satellites, including controlling the weather of the Earth!...
The Sword of Ali Baba
Character: Narrator (voice)
Supposedly up to 70 percent of this feature was taken from the 1944 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Frank Puglia as Prince Cassim remains from the 21-year-old footage....
A Public Affair
Character: Narrator (voice)
Expository internal affairs drama which brings to light the often unprincipled tactics used in negative "smear" campaigning, and its effects within the political arena....
T.V. of Tomorrow
Character: Narrator (voice)
A variety of fanciful innovations in "future" T.V. sets, including a model with a built-in stove, and a number of highly interactive models. And of course, even with dozens of channels, there's nothing on...or more accurately, there's nothing but the same Western....
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Character: Alien (voice) (uncredited)
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction....
Rodan! The Flying Monster!
Character: Police Chief Nishimura / Suda / Dr. Tanaka / Air Force Officer / Air Force Pilot Kitahara (voice) (uncredited)
US dubbed and edited version of the Japanese film Rodan. A mining engineer investigates the death of his fellow co-workers and discovers prehistoric dragonfly nymphs emerging from the mines. As he heads deeper into the mines, he makes a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature....
Wild and Woolfy
Character: Joe Wolf / Bar Patrons (voice) (uncredited)
Droopy chases the wolf, a dangerous outlaw, after he kidnaps Lou, a sexy female singer, from the saloon....
Casey Bats Again
Character: Narrator (voice)
Casey is upset about having struck out his last chance at bat but his wife suggests they have a son to follow in their dad's footsteps. Eventually, a child is born but, to Casey's dismay, it's a girl, not a boy. His wife suggests they try again several more times but each time, it's still another girl. Casey is depressed but his pals tell him that in spite of everything, they still make a powerful baseball team. Casey likes the idea and accepts. However, the day of the big game, he is nervous th...
Force of Evil
Character: Elevator operator
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time....
3-D Rarities
Character: (archive footage)
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controvers...
A Hollywood Detour
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
This cartoon, featuring a running-gag throughout of a John Barrymore caricature being mobbed by fan for an autograph, is a burlesqued tour of Hollywood. The narrator conducts a tourist tour all around the town of Hollywood Boulvevard, Malibu Beach, Santa Anita Race Track, the Brown Derby, and Grauman's Chinese theatre....
Homesteader Droopy
Character: narrator
Droopy and family head west to start a new homestead, but have to defend it against Dishonest Dan the cattle man....
The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal
Character: Self / Narrator (voice)
Among the legends of Hollywood, George Pal takes his place as a true visionary, an innovator and a showman who profoundly shaped the art of motion pictures. A peer of Walt Disney, Pal pioneered stop motion animation and went on to virtually invent the modern science fiction and fantasy film genres. Pal's extraordinary genius molded a dazzling array of films, which earned an incredible total of eight Academy Awards and left a cinematic legacy that served as formative inspiration for the movies of...
Everybody Loves It
Character: Narrator
A janitor finds a four-leaf clover and dreams of his good luck turning him into a television star. Somehow, this translates to "naked women all over the place."...
The War Lord
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women....
Larry Harmon's Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown
Character: Narrator
There's plenty of fun and surprises to jog your noggin' as “BOZO" and his silly sidekicks take you from one terrifical adventure to the next. Bibbity dippity bibbity bop... once you start laughing you're never going to stop! 30 MINUTES, COLOR FULLY ANIMATED FUN A SUPERIOR QUALITY VIDEO. Fully Animated cartoons plus special live ”BOZO” appearances....
Grand Prix
Character: Izo Yamura (voice) (uncredited)
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles....
The Time Machine
Character: Talking Rings (voice) (uncredited)
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species....
The Flight of Dragons
Character: Solarius / Antiquity (voice)
The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so Carolinus, the green wizard decides to shield it for all time. Ommadon, the evil red wizard, stands in his way. Carolinus then calls for a quest that is to be led by a man named Peter Dickinson, who is the first man of both the realms of science and magic. It is Peter's job to defeat Ommadon....
Fantastic Animation Festival
Character: Opening Narration
A collection of fourteen award winning animated short films including "Moonshadow," "The Last Cartoon Man," "Closed Mondays," and "Cosmic Cartoon"....
Mary Poppins
Character: Barnyard Horse (voice) (uncredited)
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness....
Some Like It Hot
Character: Funeral Director / Waiter / Josephine (voice) (uncredited)
Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor....
The Secret Weapon
Character: Voices
This short begins with King-Size in conference with his financial minister when a coded message arrives warning of an planned invasion by cats from the Planet Feline (pronounced Fa Lean). A call for Space Mouse is dispatched, He appears in the conference room instantly. The king orders him to go to Feline, disguised as a cat, and destroy their rocket ship. Space Mouse chooses a Siamese cat disguise.. Before he leaves, though, King-Size hands him a pill telling him to swallow it if he gets into i...
It's Tough to Be a Bird
Character: Life Erikson
Part cartoon and part documentary, this film offers a humorous look at birds and the ways people perceive them....
Ape Suzette
Character: Cockney Sailor (voice)
Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux's investigation into a stolen cargo of bananas takes them to a run-down waterfront apartment building, where they follow a trail of banana peels to the abode of a diminutive Cockney sailor and his impish ape. Clouseau doesn't see the ape, and when he is repeatedly punched through the floor by the ape, Clouseau thinks the stocky sailor has been the one hitting him. When he sees Deux-Deux easily subdue the sailor, Clouseau believes that Deux-Deux is a musc...
Unsafe and Seine
Character: Commissioner / Pub Waiter / Patrons (voice)
The Inspector and Deux-Deux go on an undercover search for an agent across the world....
The Pique Poquette of Paris
Character: Spider Pierre (voice)
The Inspector goes after Spider Pierre an expert pickpocket....
Cirrhosis of the Louvre
Character: Commissioner (voice)
The Inspector and Sergeant Deux-Deux ineffectually try to stop the Blotch from robbing the Louvre....
Cock-A-Doodle Deux Deux
Character: Commissioner (voice)
Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux investigate the theft of French dowager Madame Pouletbon's diamond, the Plymouth Rock, and discover that the Madame's servants, all of them chickens, stole the jewel and hid it in a bundle of eggs, some of which contain moving images of can can girls....
Bomb Voyage
Character: Commissioner (voice)
Reports of flying saucers over Paris have the Surete scrambling to keep order. The Commissioner is himself abducted by aliens and taken to their planet. Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux follow in a monkey-piloted rocket and find the Commissioner in a specimen jar. They release him and are chased around and around the tiny planet by one of the aliens....
That's No Lady, That's Notre Dame
Character: Commissioner (voice)
Trying to catch a purse snatcher, the Inspector sets up a sting operation by disguising himself as a woman and soon falls afoul of the Commissioner's jealous wife....
Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat
Character: Captain Clamity / Crab Louie (voice)
Clouseau receives a tip that the elusive smuggler, Captain Clamity, who looks like a clam with eyes, arms, and legs, is laying anchor off the French coast. Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux make a number of unsuccessful attempts to board Clamity's ship, with Clouseau going down to the sea bottom every time...
Plastered in Paris
Character: Commissioner (voice)
The Surete Commissioner orders Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux to track a mysterious and elusive Monsieur X. Using a submarine, an army tank, and mountaineering equipment, they chase Monsieur X all the way to Africa, where they encounter him in the Sahara Desert and at Mount Kilimanjaro. After a series of painful mishaps, they concede defeat in the strenuous and perilous chase and return to Surete headquarters, where Monsieur X is revealed to be the Surete's new physical training instr...
Sacré Bleu Cross
Character: Hassan the Assassin (voice)
When they go after Hassan the Assassin, Deux-Deux gives the Inspector an unlucky rabbit's foot....
Le Quiet Squad
Character: Commissioner / Doctor (voice)
A crime wave in Paris results in the hot-tempered Surete Commissioner becoming so stressed-out that he requires bed rest at home. Inspector Clouseau is assigned to see that the Commissioner is not disturbed. But it's Bastille Day, and between the day's ceremonies and a pesky cat- and Clouseau's violent and failed attempts to silence the feline- the Commissioner receives little peace!...
The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation
Character: Weft / Wight / Wong (voice)
The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation is the first short in the Inspector series. The Inspector tries to protect a valuable diamond from a three headed jewel thief....
Le Escape Goat
Character: Commissioner (voice)
Suspended for incompetence, the Inspector tries to protect the Commissioner from a vengeful criminal, but keeps getting implicated instead....
Pink Panzer
Character: Neighbor / Devil (voice)
The next-door neighbor neglects to return the Pink Panther's lawn mower, resulting in a feud that escalates into all-out war....
Sink Pink
Character: Hunter / Native Bearer (voice)
An eccentric man has built an ark and has filled it with specimens of all animals except one - a pink panther. To complete his zoological collection, the man sets out, rifle in hand, to hunt the Pink Panther, who leads the man on a futile chase through a jungle....
Pinkfinger
Character: Narrator (voice)
An English voice talks to the Pink Panther, who is reading a book about secret agents, and suggests to the panther that he become an agent. Intrigued at this idea, the Pink Panther dons a trench coat, hat, and pipe and walks nonchalantly on city streets, looking for enemy spies. He comes upon a gang of foreign agents scheming to detonate a series of black-ball bombs, and when they realize he is following them, they shoot him with guns, lure him into a crocodile trap, and, under cover of darkness...
Uncle Tom's Cabana
Character: Uncle Tom (voice) (uncredited)
Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin. (Uncle Tom's Cabaña is a 1947 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery. The short is a parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and is Avery's second parody of the novel, the first being Uncle Tom's Bungalow in 1937 while at Warner Bros. Cartoons)...
The Hick Chick
Character: Bull (voice) (uncredited)
In this triangle drama a country chicken chooses between a country rooster and a city rooster....
The Farm of Tomorrow
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A series of gags showing how much more productive farms would be if farmers started crossbreeding their animals to create weird (but very useful) hybrids. This cartoon is one of Avery's future technology cartoons including The House of Tomorrow, The Car of Tomorrow and T.V. of Tomorrow....
Cellbound
Character: The Prisoner / George the Warden / The Little Wife (voice) (uncredited)
Spike has just finished the 20 year process of digging a tunnel from his prison cell but he picks the wrong place to hide....
Beginning of the End
Character: Helicopter Pilot (voice)
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?...
The Absent-Minded Professor
Character: PA Man / Air Force Dispatcher (voice) (uncredited)
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps of amazing heights and enables a modified Model-T to fly. Unfortunately, no one is interested in the material except for Alonzo Hawk, a corrupt businessman who wants to steal the material for himself....
Fowled Up Falcon
Character: (voice)
The history of falconry is turned upside-down when Woody is the prey of a falcon bent on destroying him. Falcons make great hunters....
Ballyhooey
Character: (voice)
Woody Woodpecker tries to watch his favorite TV quiz show - which is constantly interrupted by commercials....
Bats in the Belfry
Character: (voice)
Woody Woodpecker bothers a wealthy man who has been diagnosed as alergic to noise....
Clash and Carry
Character: Wally Walrus (voice)
Chilly Willy, perennially either cold or hungry (or both) is determined to use any strategy to get more than an average catch of fish at the market run by Wally Walrus....
What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon
Character: Trailer Announcer
Z-grade horror flick "The Hideous Sun Demon" re-dubbed and re-edited into a monster-movie spoof about a suntan lotion that works from the inside out (it also has a certain side effect)....
E Flat Elephants
Character: Charlie, Ape
In the pilot for George of the Jungle, two poachers try to capture George's elephant Shep...
Eggs Benedict
Character: Eggs Benedict, Fred, Cop
Super Chicken fights chicken hater Eggs Benedict...
Wild in the Streets
Character: Narrator (voice)
Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes....
A Place in the Sun
Character: Reverend Morrison
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition....
Kids Is Kids
Character: Ludwig Von Drake (voice)
Prof. Ludwig Von Drake shares his knowledge on the subject of child psychology. He is particularly studying Donald Duck (whom Von Drake refers to as "Mr. X" to protect his identity) and offers advice on how to handle Huey, Dewey and Louie....
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Character: Crusty (voice)
Milquetoast Henry Limpet experiences his fondest wish and is transformed into a fish. As a talking fish he assists the US Navy in hunting German submarines during World War II....
The Inspector
Character: The Commissioner
The screen's most comically inept detective wreaks havoc on the boulevards of Paris as he, with the help of his sidekick Deux Deux, wages a single-minded (and narrow-sighted) battle for justice. Initially presented as theatrical attractions, the cartoons gained a much greater audience when they were broadcast as part of the Pink Panther animated television series....
Current Affairs: The Case of Dashiell Hammett
Character: Narrator (voice)
A one-hour public television (PBS) biography of Dashiell Hammett, creator of the "hardboiled" modern detective novel and author of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man."...
The Magic Sword
Character: Sir Ulrich of Germany (voice)
The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard....
The Thing from Another World
Character: Prof. Voorhees
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost....
Hardware Wars
Character: Narrator
A short film parody of the classic science fiction film Star Wars. It premiered in theaters only seven months after Star Wars and consisted of little more than inside jokes and visual puns that heavily depended upon audience familiarity with the original....
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Character: Singer of 'The Darktown Strutters' Ball' (voice)
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies....
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Character: Unidentified Character (voice) (uncredited)
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself....
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Character: Alien (voice)
Test space rockets exploding at liftoff and increased reporting of UFO sightings culminate in a direct attempt by alien survivors of a dead, extra-galactic civilization to invade Earth from impervious flying saucers, using ray-weapons of mass destruction....
Pollyanna
Character: Barker (Voice) (Uncredited)
A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life....
The Manchurian Candidate
Character: Narrator (voice)
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot....
When Worlds Collide
Character: Narrator/U.S. President (voice)
When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet....
The Harder They Fall
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadi...
Where the Boys Are
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On the drive down, they admit their real purpose is to go where the boys are....
Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection
Character: Joe Wolf (Most Common Antagonist)
Frederick "Tex" Avery directed some of the funniest cartoons ever made, but he relied primarily on situations and moving graphics, rather than on the personalities of familiar characters. Droopy, the phlegmatic basset hound, was one of the few characters Avery used regularly: His low-key presence was the perfect counter to the extreme takes, fast cuts, frenetic action, and general mayhem going on around him. Avery is also noted for "self-reflexive gags:" the characters know they're in a cartoon ...
The Milpitas Monster
Character: Narrator (voice)
A town is terrorised by a monster that was created by local environmental pollution....
Wee-Willie Wildcat
Character: Barney Bear / William Wildcat (voice) (uncredited)
Barney, outraged by his neighbor William Wildcat spanking his son, borrows the lad to try applying child psychology. But the boy's grasp of psychology (and explosives) is much better than Barney's....
Taras Bulba
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman....
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians
Character: W.C. Fields / Chico Marx / Zeppo Marx / Announcer (voice)
The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is a 1970 American animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. After the Christmas special Frosty the Snowman (1969), it was Rankin/Bass' second hand-drawn animated work to be outsourced to Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production in Tokyo, Japan. The show aired on ABC on April 7, 1970 before the airing of that year's Oscars. It was a tribute to early vaudeville, and featured animated reworkings of various famous comedians' acts....
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.3
Character: True Spirit of Adventure / Narrator / Creature (archive sound)
Three classic stories from the Disney team. 'Donald in Mathmagicland' is an award-winning short film, featuring everyone's favourite duck. 'Ben and Me' tells the story of how one little mouse helped Benjamin Franklin and changed the course of history. Finally, 'Modern Inventions' finds Donald Duck in a mueum where he gets more than he bargained for. From the Back Cover...
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Character: Doctor Kyohei Yamane, Commander of Osaka's SDF Terasawa, President of Fishery Koehi Yamaji (voices)
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus....
Operation Petticoat
Character: Colonel in Jeep on Cebu (voice) (uncredited)
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses....
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Character: Ludwig Von Drake / Herman (voice) (archive sound)
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a docile dragon the art of being a force to be reckoned with. In 'Mickey and the Beanstalk' (1947), Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck confront the fearsome Willie the Giant to try to retrieve the magical singing harp to Happy Valley....
Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey
Character: Santa Claus / Olaf / Donkey Dealer (voice)
Nestor the donkey is a bit of an oddity--his long ears are enough for six donkeys and stretch all the way to the ground. One night, when Nestor is locked out in the cold, he begins to wander the desert....
Disney's DTV Valentine
Character: Ludwig Von Drake / Announcer (voice)
A Valentine's Day special featuring rock and roll music set to scenes from Disney animation....
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Character: Ending Voiceover (uncredited) (voice)
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface....
Hunt the Man Down
Character: Packard 'Packy' Collins (uncredited)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case....
The Carpetbaggers
Character: Narrator (voice)
When playboy Jonas inherits his father's industrial empire, he expands it by acquiring an aircraft factory and movie studio. His rise to power is ruthless. He marries and then quickly abandons sweet, bubbly Monica, turns his young, attractive stepmother Rina into a self-destructive actress and manages to disappoint even his closest friend, cowboy movie star Nevada. Is Jonas beyond redemption?...
Heir Bear
Character: Barney Bear / Gopher / Tax Collector (voice) (uncredited)
Barney inherited a map to treasure buried in his backyard, but his digging doesn't square with the plans of the gopher sleeping on the treasure....
Cricket on the Hearth
Character: Messenger / Uriah / Captain / Toy Elephant (voice)
A delightful, animated musical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale. A Cricket on the Hearth, tells the story of a poor toymaker and his daughter whom a helpful Cricket named Crocket befriends on Christmas morning. When tragedy strikes the family, it's Crocket who comes to the rescue and restores peace and happiness....
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it....
The World's Greatest Sinner
Character: Narrator
A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own political party, "The Eternal Man" party. He begins to be referred to as "God". Then he starts having doubts about the eternalness of man....
The 27th Day
Character: Radio Newscaster Ward Mason
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of lif...
Once a Thief
Character: Voice of Luke (Uncredited)
Ex-convict Eddie and his wife, Kristine, attempt to build a new life for themselves and their daughter Kathy in San Francisco, but police officer Mike Vido is determined to send Eddie back to prison....
Tormented
Character: Frank Hubbard (uncredited voice)
A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head....
Barney's Hungry Cousin
Character: Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Barney Bear heads to a national park for a vacation while another bear, native to the park, notices Barney's picnic lunch and makes various attempts to steal the food....
The War of the Worlds
Character: Second Radio Reporter / Opening Announcer
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb....
Tale of a Wolf
Character: Barnyard Dog (voice)
Loopy tries to give wolf-kind a good reputation, but his efforts get him into multiple beat ups from a watch dog....
Assignment: Paris
Character: Radio Budapest Announcer (uncredited)
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador....
Cobs and Robbers
Character: Barney Bear / Joe Scarecrow / Crows (voice) (uncredited)
In this Barney Bear animated short, Barney is plagued by crows....
Busybody Bear
Character: Barney Bear / Buck Beaver (voice) (uncredited)
Barney gets involved in Good Neighbor Week by helping out the local beaver - help the beaver could do without....
Freewayphobia
Character: Narrator (voice)
Goofy demonstrates the three types of freeway drivers not to be: the timid driver, the aggressive driver and the inattentive driver....
Goofy's Freeway Troubles
Character: Narrator (voice)
After a brief review of the problems described in Freewayphobia #1 (1965), we see a new range of problems. These include: abrupt breakdowns due to poor maintenance; unsecured loads; running out of gas. We learn how to handle breakdowns properly. We also learn about situations that can affect the driver, like fatigue, alcohol, turnpike trance, and the weather....
The Day After Trinity
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
This essential, Academy Award–nominated documentary offers an urgent warning from history about the dangers of nuclear warfare via the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist and all-around Renaissance man who led the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb that America unleashed on Japan in the final days of World War II. Through extensive interviews and archival footage, THE DAY AFTER TRINITY traces Oppenheimer’s evolution, from architect of one of the most consequential e...
Magical Maestro
Character: Additional Voices
After he is rejected by the Great Poochini as an opening act, Mysto the Magician gets his revenge by conducting his next operatic performance....
Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid
Character: Iguana (voice)
A guardian angel agrees to help Willie Mays win the National League Pennant if Mays agrees to take care of Veronica, a lonely, mischievous orphan girl. Veronica makes Mays' life difficult, but when relatives show up to claim her after hearing that she's inherited money, Mays' heart softens....
Mickey and the Beanstalk
Character: Ludwig Von Drake (voice) (uncredited)
A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley's most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant's magnificent castle up in the blue sky?...
Rendezvous in Space
Character: Mr. Space / Astronaut (voice)
This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the Martin-Marietta Corporation for exhibition in the Hall of Science at the 1964 New York World's Fair....
Half-Pint Palomino
Character: Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Barney Bear sets out to capture the world's smallest horse....
Fly With Von Drake
Character: Ludwig Von Drake (voice)
Ludwig Von Drake covers the history of aviation through live action and animated clips....
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood....
Pacifically Peeking
Character: Moby Duck
Moby Duck leads a study of life on several South Pacific islands, including Pitcairn, Fiji, and Hawaii....
Twice Upon a Time
Character: Narrator / Chef of State / Judges / Bailiff (voice)
In the world of the Murkworks where nightmares are made, the evil Synonamess Botch hatches a scheme to make non-stop nightmares. Only Ralph and Mumford, misfits from the cheery land of Frivoli where good dreams are made, can stop him....
His Kind of Woman
Character: Corley (uncredited)
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA....
Breakheart Pass
Character: Levi Calhoun (voice) (uncredited)
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder....
Famous Ghost Stories
Character: Frank Hubbard (uncredited voice) (segment 'Tormented')
A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion International. Vincent Price hosts as a poltergeist introducing the ghost story to follow. It's really an edited version of Gordon's 1960 film Tormented, starring Richard Carlson as a jazz musician haunted by the spirit of an old flame he let fall from a lighthouse....
The Impossible Possum
Character: Barney Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Barney Bear sets out to trap a possum for his dinner - which proves difficult....
A Salute to Alaska
Character: Narrator
Celebrating Alaska’s 100th birthday, Walt Disney looks at Alaska’s past....
Francis in the Haunted House
Character: Francis (voice)
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!...
The Shooting of Dan McGoo
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Dangerous Dan McGoo (Droopy) faces the wolf, a dangerous outlaw who is trying to steal his girl Lou, during the Alaska gold rush. Loosely based on "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" by Robert W. Service....
Carnival Time
Character: Ludwig Von Drake / Announcer (voice)
Ludwig Von Drake takes a look at some major carnivals in New Orleans (hosted by Donald Duck) and Rio de Janeiro (hosted by Jose Carioca)....
Von Drake in Spain
Character: Ludwig Von Drake (voice)
Ludwig Von Drake looks at the dances and customs of Spain....
Man Is His Own Worst Enemy
Character: Ludwig Von Drake / Radio voices (voice)
Ludwig Von Drake explains on why people is the biggest challenge facing people these days, because they cause most problems, without which there would be no problems. He uses a variety of Disney cartoons to prove his point....