Disney Classic Voice Actors | Behind the Scenes | Side By Side Comparison | Compilation (1928-1977)
In Honor of the 99th anniversary of the Walt Disney Studios, I have made a mega compilation of all the voice actors behind the characters up until their 54th anniversary. Or at least the ones I could find footage of.
Chapters:
00:00 - Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse & Billy Bletcher as Pete
01:53 - Florence Gill as Clara Cluck & Clarence "Ducky" Nash as Donald Duck
03:17 - Pinto Colvig as The Big Bad Wolf
03:25 - Jimmy MacDonald as Sound Effects
04:25 - Milt Kahl as Ferdinand the Bull
04:36 - Adriana Caselotti as Snow White
06:20 - Harry Stockwell as Prince Florian
07:02 - Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket
07:46 - Frances Gifford as Casey Jr.
07:54 - Nicky Stewart as Brer Bear
08:03 - Ilene Woods as Cinderella
09:11 - Eleanor Audley as Lady Tremaine
09:31 - Kathryn Beaumont as Alice
10:12 - Sterling Holloway as The Cheshire Cat
12:20 - Ed Wynn as The Mad Hatter & "Professor" Jerry Colonna as The March Hare
13:31 - Kathryn Beaumont as Alice (Very Good Advice)
15:10 - Hans Conried as Captain Hook
15:55 - Barbara Luddy as Lady, Bill Thompson as Jock, & Bill Baucom as Trusty
16:33 - Peggy Lee as The Siamese Cats
17:21 - The Mellomen as The Dog Chorus
18:56 - Peggy Lee as Peg
20:30 - Eleanor Audley as Maleficent
20:51 - Louis Prima as King Louie
21:16 - Paul Winchell as Tigger
21:29 - Outro
It is kinda mindblowing to see Walt Disney voice-acting.
Yeah he was so good
Well he’s like the man of many talents
@@ericapparito5402 his biggest talent: anti-semitism
Well Mickey WAS his greatest creation.
@@alvinwagner6085 exactly
It's interesting to see how the animated characters resemble the voice actors.
The voice actor for a Captain Hook IS Captain Hook fo’ real!
Disney used to base the characters or at least take heavy inspiration from their original VA's back in the day, they would even have the VA's do certain stuff to give real life references for the animators back in the day, as you can see with Kathryn Beaumont doing the movements for Alice. Back then, you could say the Disney characters were real, because essentially they were!
Yes Terry-Thomas who played Sir Hiss in Robin Hood looks just like the actor with gap in front teeth!
@@Lily_of_the_Forest they always find the perfect actor for the characters
Disney has always based the character on the voice actor. They still do it today when they make a new movie.
My God, Cinderella's voice is ridiculously beautiful. I'll never get over it
I feel the same ❤
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I can’t see Cinderellas voice without thinking about ppl dodging a stick lolololol if ya know ya know
Bro I was frankly melting when she started singing. Instantly propped my head on my hand just day dreamed a little.
@@Jo-un6es Dude, even her speaking voice is so lovely and satisfying to hear.
How the composer kept a straight face while directing four talented men howling like dogs is impressive.
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Probably they didn't did it in one take
I know. 😂I think I would’ve cracked up laughing.😂
They have music sheet for those howling?
I’m surprised Peggy Lee kept it straight singing cause I’m not sure I’d not crack up of 4 men trying to howl like dogs 😂😂
The stuff they used to make the sounds is crazy plus that hen and Donald part was crazy
She actually dressed like a chicken.
Miss Clara Cluck. A virtuoso performer. And I can't believe they actually recorded that scene on an orchestral stage!
I still don't know how Clarence Nash did it! 2:36
@@celtichound9889 Alice’s actor dressed as Alice too
Watching that now!!
An era long gone but not forgotten. RIP to Disney's golden age.
Sad , no Disney any more ! CGI kill everything !
SnowWhite, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi
I’ve just injured myself pulling myself out from under this massive rock of NOT KNOWING WALT DISNEY WAS MICKEY
Yeah I think I saw it in a DVD special feature
Yes. The original voice, that is 😄
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Feels like a Mandela Effect.
I think I knew, but forgot. I feel injured too! Lol!
Omg Julie Andrew’s preforming with Snow was pure bliss
Right?!?! So lovely!!
I didn't even know that intell I saw this for my self it's Amazing how Julia Andrews did that pure gold
It's hilariously ironic that the guy playing the big train conductor is smaller than Walt Disney/Mickey Mouse 😄
Big Pete!! Yes I was surprised at how much smaller the voice actor was compared to “Mickey” IRL too! LOL Always expected a voice like that to come out a booming tall, blustery person! Just goes to show that you never know who could voice a character! Expectations wonderfully smashed!
It never ceases to amaze me how accurately they captured Alice's actress' mannerisms. Lady Tremaine too! I never knew they filmed the tea scene for reference. Seeing even just the stills shows how perfect she was for that role.
If I recall correctly, most of the tea scene was actually improvised. It's so cool to see
Up until 1960 every scene was filmed out by principal cast members for references. This ended when the “Xerox era” began due to the financial failure of Sleeping Beauty and major budget cuts were made to the animation department. Instead, the animators shot reference films of themselves using hand held 16mm or 8mm film as needed. When The Little Mermaid was made, they brought back reference footage with Jodie Benson doing a lot of scene recreations.
It's not just for reference! They actually traced over the live action version frame by frame for a lot of movies! It was a very common practice back then called rotoscoping. A very fascinating and underappreciated lost art!
@@_veronica_r The only film that used rotoscoping was Snow White. Disney hated rotoscoping and refused to allow his animators to do it. The films were not for rotoscoping use. Marc Davis explained it as cheating. He, Frank, Ollie, and Mitt have all discussed the issue of Rotoscoping and most had a distinct distain for the technique often citing the Max Fleischer cartoons’ heavy use of it.
@@_veronica_r Also, one only has to watch the B rolls from the animation department to see that they weren’t rotoscoping. The Animator leads would pump out the rough sketches of their characters for every scene. They would hand these off to the tasked animation who would then trace these onto the cells. Once reviewed and approved, they would be “inked” with indelible ink and sent off to be colored.
The girl playing Alice is adorable 🥰
She's also the same young lady who played Wendy in Peter Pan
She even provided the voice of Wendy for the Peter Pan ride
I like the parts when she’s down on all fours.
I’ve known that Walt Disney voiced Mickey for a long time, but it’s still mesmerizing to actually see him doing it, hearing the voice coming from his mouth,
The Alice in Wonderland cast is the best, so much talent and it looks like they had a blast recording for the movie. So much respect for them 🥰
YES formidable !!😘
Especially since they are all dearly departed
@@sakinahashim1877 Well that's not entirely true. Kathryn Beaumont, the voice of Alice, is still alive.
Especially Ed Wynn. He really got into his role as the Mad Hatter.
@@Thomas_H._Smith whoa, she is?!
Even during old age, Adrianna Casseloti still sounded like Snow White
The charm of those original hand drawn Disney movies can never be replicated on a computer. And it somehow adds to the fascination when you see the faces behind the characters.
I wholeheartedly agree.
And aren't we blessed we can watch these pictures pretty much anytime we want? And new art styles emerged and will emerge to rival these, I am sure of that.
And that was why I wanted to be a Disney animator!!! I love the hand drawn Disney movies
Ilene Wood's voice was very warm, gentle, and it's just so angelic. She has always been my favourite Disney voice.
Mine too! She had a voice like velvet~
I like how the sound effects guy is considered a voice actor
Well he did do voice acting stuff too.
@@Thomas_H._Smith oh ok
Two of them went on to be the voices for Mickey Mouse
Bear growls, roar noises, Jack & Gus, Dopey, Evinrude for example.
Well they did a little of both, and it is a good way to credit another incredible piece of work to make everything come together.
I'm a Voice Actor and Audio Engineer. It's absolutely baffling to me how in some scenes, you can see the orchestra performing for soundtrack as the actors roll on top of it live: nowadays, the music is either added in afterwards, or already there. The timing that is required to perform that perfectly every time is astounding: no wonder classic Disney films always captured our hearts since the beginning!
I think this is why Disney movies used to be so magical as if they were really alive. Surprised
A time and age, gone with the wind.
Alice's actress really fits for live action
You can really see how much Adriana Caselotti loved that role and was still excited to have played Snow White years later. It's such a shame what Disney did to her after the movie came out, she seemed like a genuinely good person.
Tell me what happened?
@@emilyelizabeth8757 Disney effectively blacklisted her in Hollywood. He didn't want her voice to be heard in anything else, b/c it was Snow White's voice and he wanted to keep it that way. No one would hire her after that role. Not only that, but they didn't even credit her in the original film.
@@AdeleiTeillana wow that’s awful! I have heard some awful thinks about the business as far as how they treated women. It’s too bad her voice was amazing.
Walt didn’t credit *anyone* in Snow White. He didn’t want to break the illusion. Whether or not that was fair was another issue. Now we all know who does the animated voices, and it’s cool to us to recognize them. But back then, it was so new that things were different.
@@keg13206 I realize that, but that doesn't excuse him blacklisting her. Effectively killing her career is not OK, no matter what time period it was. The not crediting her part was merely icing on the cake of the shutting her out of movie and radio work.
I'm sure it was a pain some days, but the voice actors look like they are having a blast acting out the various scenes!!
Watching two humans do an operatic duet as two different species of bird - I didn't know I needed this in my life.
I don’t know how the lady doing the Siamese cats voices managed to purr so perfect 😂
peggy lee - wow - she is known for a powerful blues voice really - e.g. 'Fever.'
That was my fav part. Wish i had one talent!!
They actually captured the voice actor's smile 😃 in Mickey. Artists are so detailed 👌 😍 (Edit: wow my comment got over 1k🥰 thank you)
That's Walt Disney himself.
Mickey is made in the image of Disney
Whats him name?
@@MonaLiza-vh6tqThat's Walt Disney himself
@@Thomas_H._Smith That's Walt Disney himself
It’s real sad to know that most of these actors are no longer with us. But boy, they sure did look young back then.
It's incredible to see the legendary Walt Disney voicing Mickey mouse
Since Snow White and Cinderella were the most replayed movies I used to watch with my mom as a little baby, When I found out who did the voice acting for those two films, I literally cried and was stunned by how beautifully well they can sing. 🥺 So emotional for me because they were mainly part of my childhood. Everything about It brings back the amazing nostalgia too. 💖
Those are their born and died dates Adriana caselotti born in 1916 and was 18 years old when they started working on the movie in 1934then the movie came out 3 years later and she died on january 17 1997 age 80 For ilene woods she started voicing cinderella in 1949 age 20 and was born in 1929 one year later the movie was out and she died on july 1 2010 age 81 And the the actress who played aurora born in 1930 and was 29 years old when the movie came out in 1959 and 26 when she started recording and she is now 93 and the only one of the three og disney princesses alive
It's amazing how much they used live models as reference for the animation back in the day. It's like motion capture but long before that existed. Also I didn't know Walt Disney himself voiced Mickey! This also reminded me why I'm always saying "Mustard!" when I mention mustard in conversation. I noticed that I did it but forgot it was from Alice in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite Disney movies).
And now it’s reversed. Now they are trying to do live action but trying to capture the animation. And it’s failing
He also voiced Minnie for a short time as well 😁
There is a technique in animation called rotoscoping where the animator draws over the movements of an actor, which was a sort of ancestor to motion capture if you think about it.
@@lh9591 Unfortunately true. I think there's something very cool about being able to blend realism and animation as well as they do in the movies, but I feel like the technology has become mainstream enough where it's just not fascinating enough to excuse remaking old movies.
I remember reading, Walt Disney didn't like this approach but it saved money. I
The part of the group of men singing and howling in Lady and the Tramp got me laughing so hard as their facial expressions were pure gold.
These voice actors are crazy talented, I sure hope Disney treated them well and gave them fair payment
You think?
ever heard the story of the boy who voiced peter pan? so sad
@@kyleesmith3899 same issue with princesses
@@kyleesmith3899 Oh man
@@kyleesmith3899 Bobby Driscoll? His story was sad and tragic 😥 his whole career went down the tubes because of acne
The Cinderella one is absolutely breathtaking. 🥺🐰
Yesssss! 🤧
Yes, one of my favorites! She signed my CINDERELLA record album cover. A cherished item for me.
The Mellomen harmonizing with howls and growls has got to be one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Thank you for finding that!
One of The Mellomen is Thurl Ravenscroft: the voice of Tony the Tiger and the "You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch".
It was marvelous! What a performance! Idk why but made me emotional, brought me to tears. Guess it brought back my childhood watch Lady and the Tramp. Idk lol
@@chbonnet there also four of the five singing busts in the graveyard of the Haunted Mansion including Ravenscroft
Lady and the Tramp has amazing actors and wonderful songs. Love the howling, and Peggy Lee is a legend
@@chbonnet and Kirby in "The Brave Little Toaster"
Peggy Lee's voice is awesome. The Mellowmen harmonizing by howling is hilarious. I wish disney had kept more footage of the actors voicing the characters.
The Sound Effects, The VOICE ACTING….Truly INCREDIBLE!! What a GOLDEN AGE for Disney. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Sterling Holloway and his voice will always be synonymous with Disney animation.
Absolutely, and it's awesome that Jim Cummings is able to imitate him so perfectly. He's kept Winnie the Pooh alive.
@@lyndseycadoo8133 agreed
I Love Sterling Holloway! His voice still makes me so happy! I always preferred Kaa and the Cheshire Cat though, they were so devious it gave you chills.
His voice gave me lots of love and comfort as a kid!
It's incredible how much more work went into voice acting back then. No wonder 2d animation felt so much more expressive than what we've got today!
The dog pound scene in Lady & The Trap always stabbed my soul 😢😔😭
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That one chicken/Donald opera duo was probably the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. Kudo's for them performing perfect jibberish in lovely tune while the people in the back are just seconds away from ruining it with guffaws. 🤣
The chicken and Donald part, how did they keep a straight face!? 😂😂😂
you're right, that was the funniest, while the second funniest was that with 4 dogs, it made me laugh, I'd fall on the floor laughing and my stomach would hurt if I were in their place, it's so funny 😆
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Gilbert Gottfried once told an eerie story about meeting Adriana Cosoletti(?) at a convention. He said she was very nice and friendly, but she then broke into the Snow White song. At first he said it was beautiful and fun, but then she proceeded to sing the entire song a capella, while clutching Gilbert’s hand. He recalled it as being very disturbing and a little depressing, how “into it” she was after all those years. 😂
Source? I met Gilbert once. He was nice but awkward. His Iago voice is his real voice.
@@lh9591 He talked about the encounter on one of his Amazing Colossal Podcasts.
Well, Disney did fuck her career. They basically copy wrote her voice so she could never perform again. She had a handful of uncredited small roles (The bit in the Tin Woodsman's song that says "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" as an example). She was never credited as Snow White either. That was her entire career. It was basically the only thing she could be from then on.
@@Starsheen Well apparently she felt special like an icon herself. She also was able to perfectly re-recorded her voice when converting the old records to videocasette. Some of the old voice clips were corrupted. She lived rather handsomely.
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 Did she? She was only paid the equivalent of $16k in today's money for her role in Snow White. She later sued Disney for shares of the record profits but lost. She only did limited promotion of the character, not enough work to live on. I've never read anything that she lived lavishly. Her husbands were mostly average men. I've never read anything about her living comfortably based on a Disney paycheck. Doing a few hours of additional voice recording doesn't pay the bills for long.
It feels like a lot of people have forgotten he's a voice actor too and not just the only guy who made Disney
The way they voice acted before is so unbelievably grand
I'm really surprised you found footage of Nicky Stewart voicing Br'er Bear considering how hard they've tried to sweep Song of the South under the rug.
Yeah that sure was fun to track down.
Yeah no kidding! I love Song Of the South!
I know. Loved Song of the South… it annoys the shit out of me how they jumped on the “racist” bandwagon, when in fact it should be celebrated by the fact it was the FIRST ever live action/animated musical; Disney dissed the whole segregation shit and had both black and white actors - and the main character is black at a time when racial tensions, especially in the South, were at a high… Song of the South should be loved and celebrated, not hated and forgotten…
Thank God I still have it on VHS
@@clvisugo I had a copy recorded off tv a long time ago, but that's long gone. I think I still have some of the books in a box up in the attic though, like Br'er Rabbit and the Briar Patch.
I adore the creativeness in how old cartoons made their sound affects. It always makes me smile watching them 😊
I didn't know Julie Andrews was a part of this 💗
I don't think she was. This might be an excerpt from her old TV show.
She's not! Julie was 3 when the movie came out. I think it may have been from Julie's show or something else.
I LOVE the Cinderella 's evil stepmothers voice 9:25 It's so distinct and intimidating. And malefecint 20:33
The voice actress for Casey Junior (the train) absolutely nailed it lol
Damn, i love those actors who voiced the strays in "Lady and the Tramp" such a huge talent they got! Looks like they were having a great time voicing them!!
Cinderella 's actress was so charming and beatuful
Beautiful*
I’ve seen the clip a hundred times and it’s been commented on a hundred times but damn the facial expressions the young girl playing Alice gas are marvelous. I wish we could see a rough cut of the whole movie of just the live parts they filmed. That would be incredible.
She was amazing.
Kathryn Beaumont also played Wendy in Peter Pan. Maybe there is some footage of that one here
I’d actually watch that whole black and white footage of Alice and Wonderland being performed on set as a sort of docu-chamber drama. Really amazing!
Mickey mouse was truly Walt Disney's child. He even has his father's voice 🥲
The part of lady and the tramp is incredible really !!!💗
I think that this was absolutely WONDERFUL!!! The actor who did the voice of the Chesire Cat, also did the voice of Winnie-the-Pooh, another Disney character that I grew up watching, I loved all of those characters, such great talent!
He was also Kaa in "The Jungle Book".
@@gunterangel Jungle Book, yeah I know :)
The actress who played Maleficent and lady Tremaine was amazing it was so sweet yet creepy
This is so amazing to see the actors and actresses and other people who worked on these beautiful classics. Disney will always be in all our hearts 🥰
What a spectacular art form. Such talent. Such passion. Sweet dreams to those who have passed.
Wow, the actor for Captain Hook looks as if he jumped right out of the Peter Pan movie!
The way these classics were made are absolutely mind blowing! I wish they would bring that “live acting” style back to animation. It’s hard to draw feelings behind a recording booth
they dont do it all the time but there have been stories of Mark Hamill as the joker, and video recordings of his performance being used as inspiration for the animation, since he is a very physical performer even if he is just doing voices.
I grinned like the Cheshire Cat all the way through this! Absolutely loved it 🥰 thank you 🙏
What’s sad about Cinderellas voice actress she developed Alzheimers when she got older and forgot she played Cinderella but she still enjoyed listening to the songs.
Awwwwww 🥺
A fun, yet devastating fact
As a 40+ year fan of classic Disney shorts and movies, this is amazing. Thank you for posting this.
Disney and his artists did a wonderful job on all their pictures but YOU did a spectacular job on the syncing of the original b&w film with the color animation! I realize alot of it was made that way from the start...but WOW! some fantastic presentation here! Thanks very much!
To this day, I still melt when I hear Cinderella singing. She has such a beautiful voice.
Me too ❤️
When Disney was more focused in children and family and not only in money and being a monopoly of entertainment
Exactly
What Disney KoolAde are you pushing? Disney was a business man who realized the profitability of family entertainment. And he was ruthless.
Not to mention wokeness
@@carolperczak9938 I mean no? Not exactly. He didn’t live long enough to the Ruthless. It was different time back then and it shows in the entertainment
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 I grew up with Disney shoved down my throat. Again what Disney KoolAde are you pushing? Disney was despised by many.
Its crazy how good the animation looks
The dog howling song is the best🤣
The Mellomen had way too much fun with that one. EDIT: spelling
Its really facinating that the sound/voice talents has enjoyed a lot of respect and admiration in the advent of animation. We all salute you on what you have done and your contribution to the entertainment industry.
Amazing compilation
Man, Ilene Woods sure was beautiful
Kathryn Beaumont as Alice is just amazing, she was gorgeous and still is even now.
This is incredible! I love seeing old videos of voice actors. Billy Bletcher’s blubbering performance had me in tears 🤣✋
With how Disney used VA's for real life references as well for animation, the older movies had so much life put into them due to it. Eleanor Audley was basically the real life Lady Tremaine/Maleficent, Kathryn Beaumont as the real life Alice, etc. This is essentially lost when they went 3D animation sadly.
Katherine Beaumont also voiced Wendy from Peter Pan! 🥹
Rango was filmed this way, althought is a cgi movie.
That was magical! :) It was incredible to see actual footage of the filming, the sound effects, and the very sets themselves.
Wow so incredible to see walt Disney doing mickeys voice 😍 absolutely amazing 👏 In those days they didn't have the technology like they do now, incredible the effort they put in to make these noises ! Amazing
Brought tears to my eyes because of the absolute purity and clarity of honest emotions. Especially with what Disney has become and the world we find ourselves in. Brought back some beautiful memories. It was a real treat to see the voice actors in action. Thank you! Made my day!
This was delightful. As a longtime fan of classic Disney animation (a guy in his mid fifties) I thank you for your efforts. From the 1920s through the 1960s Walt Disney seemed to always have the best talent in his orbit, be it Peggy Lee or The Sherman Brothers or great veteran character actors or super sound effects creators.
Whatever you may think of Disney, for a art lover it's pure joy of film making 👍
i feel incredibly dumb for not realizing that Walt Disney was the first voice for Mickey
I love how they have the characters resemble the actors. Ed Wynn was brilliant. The Mellomen were hilarious!
No matter how hard I try, Walt Disney never looks like he's actually sounding like Mickey Mouse.
Extremely talented people. It's a good thing we have these movies preserved for posterity
It's these people that gave us all the best childhood of our life. I thank them all!
I'm an oldie in grandmother years, and these movies were all so much loved when I was growing up. What a delight to see this! It choked me up a little bit. Thanks for this video!
Cliff Edwards singing is so soothing and sweet. It really fits Jiminy I love it
It's amazing how much work was put into these movies. No wonder they are all masterpieces. Hard work definitely pays off. 👏
Honestly this is magical to me and blows my mind. Also the artist drawing too, the way they come up with the characters is so cool.
Fun fact: Walt Disney has a fear of mice….
at 18:32 always makes me tear up no matter if it's behind the scenes or not
Agree. I work with a rescue and we pull from the animal control all the time. The dog are always so sad.
@@cuber759 Lady and the Tramp
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Beautiful memories. Growing up in the 70's I remember the fairy tales and everything. So much genuine sweetness and a moral in there somewhere. Thanks for the upload.
This was amazing! It also made me sentimental for cartoons like this. They were beautiful works of art, they were clean, were good stories, and uplifitng. They don't make them like this anymore.
These people really do look like they are enjoying there roles
Their
Fascinating to watch men and women voice the characters, but also drawing characters from live performances.
2:44 is adorable, hilarious, iconic ❤️😂🙌
The legends never dies they lived forever in our hearts
Walt Disney was so talented and so is these many legends ❤
The ultimate compilation I didn’t know I needed
love the way the voices have expression . and good ol days of creating. Simply beautiful
This was a sweet trip down memory lane
What’s amazing is the voice actors look a lot like the characters they are playing! Walt looked a lot like Mickey and so on:)