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Who's your favorite voice?

Posted: April 13, 2007 • 3:18 pm
by Fred Buer
Who do you guys like to listen to? Games, films or animated movies, doesn't matter. Any voices you particularly like to listen to? Anybody who can fascinate you by talking?

List your favorite voices in this thread!

My personal choices would have to be:

Male: Clint Eastwood
Michael Wincott
Humphrey Bogart
Hugo Weaving
Al Pacino
Morgan Freeman
Jean Reno
Chris Penn
Steve Buscemi
Ian McKellen

And to a degree, also Johnny Depp and Quentin Tarantino.

Female: Sigourney Weaver
Judi Dench
Lauren Bacall

Can't really recall anymore female voices that stand out, at the moment.

What about you guys?

-Fred

Posted: April 13, 2007 • 4:09 pm
by freepizza
Morgan Freeman
Christopher Walken
James Earl Jones

Posted: April 13, 2007 • 7:40 pm
by Jen
Good choices both of you.

Gotta add Sean Connery to that mix.
Patrick Stewart also.

Posted: April 13, 2007 • 8:10 pm
by Cubase
Alan Rickman

-Cub. =o)

Posted: April 13, 2007 • 9:21 pm
by Jerry Dan
Good ones, Jen and Cub.

Here are a few of mine:

Liam Neeson
Edward James Olmos
John Rhys-Davies
Rob Morrow (Joel Fleischman on Northern Exposure)

Posted: April 13, 2007 • 9:26 pm
by marinedalek
Tom Baker - often described as "A voice like God"

Posted: April 13, 2007 • 10:30 pm
by mr_cyberpunk
For someone evil. I'd go Christian Bale.
And I love Chris Tucker's stuff too. "and you know this.. MAAAAN!"
also Arnold Vosloo who played Immotep in The Mummy series - he's got an excelent voice - except it was wasted on that pathetic Boiling Point game.
Adam Sandler would be excellent for a game :D I love his Angry voice and his Retarded Angry Voice :D

Oh and every single character from Kingdom Of Heaven.

For Females, I'd say Rachel Leigh Cook is a great voice actor (evidence, Tifa from FF7AC)

And for music - Harry Gregson Williams and Vangelis :D

Posted: April 13, 2007 • 10:46 pm
by Wintermute
Don't forget Hugo Weaving. His voice made the character in "V for Vendetta" believable.

Posted: April 13, 2007 • 11:16 pm
by Vracar
For a male voice, here's a few favorites:

Christopher Walken
Robert DeNiro
Robin Williams
Samuel L. Jackson
Laurence Fishbourne
Morgan Freeman

For female voices:

Brittany Murphy (listen to Faster Kill Pussycat for her vocals)
Judi Dench
Jennifer Hale (her voice shows up in a ton of video games)
Michelle Rodriguez

Posted: April 14, 2007 • 4:00 am
by Mr. Thomas Malloy
I'm surprised I didn't see Sam Elliott in there. I swear he's like the first person that came to mind when I thought about it. Deep, wise voice.

Chris Jones. Seriously. I think he talked to me more than anyone else when I was thirteen.

Yoda? Something about it I love. Some find it annoying. I love the way his sentences are structured.

James Gandolfini - I love his italian mob voice.

Vracar- I wholly agree on your female pick of Jennifer Hale. I think she did great with Bastila in Knights of the Old Republic.

Posted: April 14, 2007 • 5:59 am
by Vracar
Completely forgot about Sam Elliot. The best narrator the Dude could find!

Posted: April 14, 2007 • 6:58 am
by Fred Buer
Sam Elliot, Patrick Stewart and Edward James Olmos are three I can honestly say I forgot when I wrote my list. The first and last have gravel in their voices, and Patrick Stewart is just fascinating to listen to.

Also, Jennifer Hale, great voice. Loved her work in KOTOR and Freelancer.

And since I've had more time to think - C'mon...

Mickey Rourke!

-Fred

Posted: April 14, 2007 • 7:56 am
by Wintermute
Mr. Thomas Malloy wrote:Yoda? Something about it I love. Some find it annoying.
So, you like the voice of "Miss Piggy"? :lol:
Both character were voiced by Muppets performer Frank Oz (Yoda's grammar was also his idea). ;-)

Posted: April 14, 2007 • 9:37 am
by Jerry Dan
Uh... :oops: ...I forgot an obvious one.

Jim Henson. Anything and everything he voiced is spectacular.

Posted: April 14, 2007 • 12:13 pm
by Andy
Russel Crowe has a cool voice.