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All actors have a special gift with the ability to hide behind a character.
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Voice actors are able to go one step further by masking their physical appearance to become
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someone completely different.
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Disney has created countless beloved characters for generations but viewers may not realize
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that many characters were played by the same actor.
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Here are 10 Actors You Didn’t Know Voiced More than one Major Disney Movie Character
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Sterling Holloway Cheshire Cat and Winnie the Pooh
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Cheshire Cat and Winnie the Pooh were voiced by Sterling Holloway.
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The actor was one of the original voice actors hired by Walt Disney.
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His credits expand far beyond the two characters but Cheshire Cat and Winnie the Pooh may be
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his most beloved work in his sixty year career.
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1951’s Alice in Wonderland based on Lewis Carroll's novel, showcased Holloway as the
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devious feline who insists on confusing Alice in the mysterious land.
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Holloway also played the similarly mischievous Kaa from Disney’s The Jungle Book.
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He was then given the role of Winnie Pooh in the 1960s.
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He continued the role in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh until 1977.
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Pooh’s rumbly-tumbly and bumbly persona may seem like a completely different character
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for Holloway but he defined the role as others only impersonate the sound he created.
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Kathryn, Beaumont, Alice and Wendy
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Kathryn Beaumont was only twelve years-old when she was discovered by Walt Disney and
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given the role of Alice in Alice in Wonderland.
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Her youthful voice lent an innocence that could not be easily feigned by an older actress.
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When Walt was casting the role of a similarly positive young girl who ends up in a magical
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land, he looked no further than Beaumont, for the role of Wendy Darling in 1953's Peter
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Pan.
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The two characters don’t just sound similar, they also have a nearly identical face as
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the animators based the characters on the small featured actress.
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Kathryn Beaumont was pleased to be a Disney legend and showed that appreciation by voicing
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the two characters until 2005 for television specials and video games.
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After that she retired and a younger actress stepped into the petite shoes of Alice and
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Wendy.
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Verna Felton Fairy, Godmother and Queen of Hearts
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It may be hard to believe that the person who played Cinderella’s kind and generous
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Godmother also played the villainous Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, but actress
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Verna Felton voiced the greatly contrasting women.
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Felton was an actress born in 1890 so by the time she was playing two of Disney’s most
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recognizable characters, she was already a seasoned actress in radio, film, and television.
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Just like most of the actors who work for Disney, she was given many roles throughout
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her time working for the famous mouse.
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Her ability to play the gentle Fairy Godmother with genuine believability did not exactly
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type-cast her as she was given the role of the nasty Queen of Hearts one year later.
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Providing memorable voices was a family affair as Felton’s husband actor Lee Millar was
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the voice of Pluto.
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Bill Thompson, Smee and White Rabbit
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Smee is Captain Hook’s first mate and practically his personal assistant so it may not come
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as a surprise that the actor who played him also voiced The White Rabbit.
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Just as Smee supports Hook even at his most demanding, The White Rabbit’s first instinct
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is to ensure the Queen of Heart’s comfort at every turn even when she requires outlandish
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things.
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Bill Thompson was a vaudevillian and radio actor when he began working with Disney.
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He started performing in shorts voicing Droopy dog.
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Just like many of the characters who are voiced by the same actor, there is a resemblance
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to White Rabbit and Smee even though one is a neurotic rodent who has issues with being
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tardy.
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They both are short, stout, and eager to please
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Eleanor Audley, Lady Tremaine and Maleficent Two of the most wicked antagonists to Disney
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princesses are Cinderella's evil stepmother, Lady Tremaine, and Aurora’s insanely bitter
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Godmother Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty.
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Their similar devilish demeanor and chilling voices are from actress Eleanor Audley.
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Audley worked in television, film and radio for years before obtaining the roles.
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She initially turned down the role for Maleficent due to her battling tuberculosis at the time,
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but she was made for the role.
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The animators based both characters on the actress as it was common to dress the model
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in the character's attire to get a realistic design.
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The malevolent evil-doers were not the only voice Audley did for Disney, she can be heard
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to this day as Madame Leona, the psychic spirit in The Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland
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and Disney World.
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Bobby Driscoll, Goofy Jr. and Peter Pan Bobby Driscoll was one of the first child
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actors to receive a contract with Disney in the 1940’s.
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He started out in the live action film Song of the South.
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In 1952, the fifteen year-old Driscoll was given the voice role of Goofy Jr. in the classic
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Disney short, Father’s Lion, in which Goofy and his son go on a hunting trip.
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Younger viewers may be more aware of Goofy’s son Max from A Goofy Movie, but it was Father’s
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Lion that introduced the silly dynamic of Goofy and his son.
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Driscoll scored his most memorable role a year later as the maturity stunted boy, Peter
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Pan.
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Bobby was also the model for Peter.
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Unfortunately, Driscoll’s fame came at too early of an age and he was unable to maintain
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success.
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He died from an overdose at the age of thirty-one as he was a truly lost boy.
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Jodi Benson, Ariel and Barbie Ariel is a teenage mermaid who just wants
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to be part of our world which requires feet but apparently not much talking.
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Barbie is a Mattel creation that became part of Andy’s toy crew.
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The two characters share a bubbly disposition and struggle unnaturally on the legs they
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are given.
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They were also both played by Broadway actress Jodi Benson.
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The Tony Award winning actress began her career in the early 1980s.
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She cross paths with someone involved with 1989’s The Little Mermaid so she decided
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to send in a demo of herself.
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After getting the part she has continued to voice Ariel in films, television, video games,
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and specials.
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For the role of Barbie in Toy Story 2, Disney did not have to look far as Benson was the
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ideal sound for the leggy blonde.
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Phil Harris, Thomas O’Malley and Baloo What do the sly and confident Thomas O'Malley
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from The Aristocats, the carefree and lovable Baloo from Jungle Book, and Robin Hood’s
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right-hand bear Little John have in common?
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They were all voiced by comedian, actor and jazz musician Phil Harris.
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A jazz musician playing the three too cool-for-school characters was a perfect fit.
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His voice became known for generations after not only playing the speaking voice but also
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singing songs like “The Bare Necessities” and “Everybody wants to be a Cat”.
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After more than a decade without Disney, Harris recorded Baloo once again for the 1990 series,
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Talespin.
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Unfortunately, the producers decided his aged voice was not a good fit and replaced him
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with a sound-alike.
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Jimmy McDonald, Mickey Mouse, Chip, Dormouse, and Jacque
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While most of the actors who work for Disney stick to their job as a performer, Jimmy McDonald
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was a man of many skills.
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He started out as the head of Disney’s sound department.
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He was responsible for not only creating the sound effects but also composed the music
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for some early Disney shorts.
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He began doing supplemental voice work for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but his big
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break into acting was becoming the new voice of Mickey Mouse in 1947.
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He remained the legendary mouse for thirty years.
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In addition he was Chip of Chip and Dale, Jacque the helpful mouse in Cinderella and
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the sleepy Dormouse from Alice in Wonderland.
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His aptitude for voicing likable critters has cemented his position as one of the most
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versatile Disney employees in history.
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Barbara Luddy, Lady and Roo Barbara Luddy played two dogs and two maternal
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guides.
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Lady is known to be the delicate and composed cocker spaniel who falls in love and has a
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memorable spaghetti dinner with a boisterous mutt in Lady and the Tramp.
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Then there is Roo’s adoring mother Kanga who has a kind voice and sensible disposition.
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Actress Barbara Luddy played the two enduring characters and spent most of her career working
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with Disney.
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Along with Lady, she also voiced Rover from 101 Dalmatians.
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Using the same protective cadence she used for Kanga, she also provided the voice of
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one of Aurora’s Godmother, Merriweather in Sleeping Beauty.
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Luddy started out as a Vaudevillian actor and worked occasionally on television, but
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her Disney work remained her legacy.
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There’s our list.
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