This morning I woke up about 6 AM, and watched one of my favorites on TCM, Meet John Joe (1940) starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.

And caught the latter half of Santa Claus is Coming To Town on another channel from 9 to 9:30. I love Burgermeister Meisterburger, the mayor who outlaws Santa Claus!



I looked him up to see who does the voice for the character, because he sounds familiar, with a very distinctive voice. An actor/voice actor named Paul Frees.

Some of the other films and shows he voices in:
  • Knight Rider (TV Series)
    K.A.R.R.
    - K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R. (1984) ... K.A.R.R. (voice, uncredited)

    Wonder Woman (TV Series)
    Prologue Narrator / Franklin D. Roosevelt
    - The New Original Wonder Woman (1975) ... Prologue Narrator / Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice, uncredited)

    Hawaii Five-O (TV Series)
    McGarrett Imposter / Goro Shibata
    - The Ninety-Second War: Part I (1972) ... McGarrett Imposter (voice, uncredited)
    - Odd Man In (1971) ... Goro Shibata (voice, uncredited

    Jackson 5ive (TV Series)
    Various Characters / Mr. Carruthers
    - The Winner's Circle (1971) ... Various Characters (voice)
    - Bongo, Baby, Bongo (1971) ... Various Characters (voice)
    - Mistaken Identity (1971) ... Various Characters (voice)
    - Drafted (1971) ... Various Characters (voice)
    - Pinestock, U.S.A. (1971) ... Mr. Carruthers (voice)

    The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
    Singer of 'The Darktown Strutters' Ball' (voice, uncredited)

    Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
    Ending Voiceover (voice, uncredited)

    Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
    Colossus (voice, uncredited)

    Patton (1970)
    Voice (voice, uncredited)

    Frosty the Snowman (TV Short, 1969)
    Santa Claus / Traffic Cop / Additional Voices (voice)

    The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (TV Series)
    Evil Vangore / Sazoom
    - Banana Splits Show # 3/A Trap for Turhan/A Letter of Peril/Danger Island 5/Danger Island 6 (1969) ... Evil Vangore / Sazoom (voice)
    - Banana Splits Show # 8/Isle of Treachery/The Pirate Adventure/Danger Island 15/Danger Island 16 (1968) ... Evil Vangore / Sazoom (voice)
    - Banana Splits Show # 5/The Wizard Ramnizar/The Plot of the Puppetmaster/Danger Island 9/Danger Island 10 (1968) ... Evil Vangore / Sazoom (voice)
    - Banana Splits Show # 4/The Great Gold Robbery/The Ring/Danger Island 7/Danger Island 8 (1968) ... Evil Vangore / Sazoom (voice)
    - Banana Splits Show # 2/The Ransom/The Jewel of India/Danger Island 3/Danger Island 4 (1968) ... Evil Vangore / Sazoom (voice)

    The Pink Panther Show (TV Series)
    Man talking to Pink Panther / Texan Hunter / Pink Panther
    - Pinkfinger (1969) ... Man talking to Pink Panther (voice)
    - Sink Pink (1969) ... Texan Hunter / Pink Panther (voice)

    The Little Drummer Boy (TV Short, 1968)
    Aaron's Father, the Magi (voice)

    In Cold Blood (1967)
    Radio Announcer / Officer Asking for Rap Sheet (voice, uncredited)

    The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show (TV Series)
    Morocco Mole / Chief Double Q / Squiddly Diddly (1967-1968) (voice)

    Mr. Terrific (TV Series)
    Narrator
    - The Sultan Has Five Wives (1967) ... Narrator (uncredited)
    - Stanley Joins the Circus (1967) ... Narrator (uncredited)
    - Try This on for Spies (1967) ... Narrator (uncredited)
    - Stanley the Track Star (1967) ... Narrator (uncredited)
    - Stanley Goes to the Dentist (1967) ... Narrator (uncredited)

    Get Smart (TV Series)
    Greenstreet Character / Lorre Character
    - Casablanca (1966) ... Greenstreet Character / Lorre Character (voice, uncredited)

    I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series)
    Narrator
    - Guess What Happened on the Way to the Moon? (1965) ... Narrator (voice, uncredited)
    - My Hero? (1965) ... Narrator (voice, uncredited)

    1965 The Secret Squirrel Show (TV Series)
    Squiddly Diddly / Morocco Mole / Double Q / ...
    - Sub Swiper/Way Out Squiddly/Prince of a Pup (1965) ... Squiddly Diddly / Morocco Mole / Double Q / ... (voice)

    Mary Poppins (1964)
    Barnyard Horse (voice, uncredited)

    The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
    Crusty (voice)

    Krazy Kat (TV Series)
    Ignatz Mouse / Officer Pupp / Charcoal Grey / ...
    - Adman on the Loose (1963) ... Ignatz Mouse / Charcoal Grey / Mr. Loco / ... (voice, uncredited)
    - Krazy and the Krooked Kaper (1963) ... Ignatz Mouse / Officer Pupp / Krooked Kat / ... (voice, uncredited)
    - The Desert Island (1963) ... Ignatz Mouse / Officer Pupp (voice, uncredited)
    - Series-ous Business (1963) ... Ignatz Mouse / Officer Pupp (voice, uncredited)
    - Bungle in the Jungle (1963) ... Ignatz Mouse / Officer Pupp (voice, uncredited)

    Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (TV Movie, 1962)
    Stage Director / Charity Man / Fezziwig / ... (voice)

    The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
    Narrator (voice, uncredited)

    Top Cat (TV Series)
    Various voices / Iron Man Muldoon / Tony
    - Dibble's Double (1962) ... Various voices (voice)
    - Dibble Breaks the Record (1962) ... Iron Man Muldoon (voice)
    - The Con Men (1962) ... Tony (voice)
    - All That Jazz (1961) ... Various voices (voice)
    - The Maharajah of Pookajee (1961) ... (voice)

    The Flintstones (TV Series)
    TV Announcer / Mr. Rockenschpeel / Mr. Bedrock / ...
    - The Happy Household (1962) ... Mr. Rockenschpeel / Mr. Bedrock / TV Announcer (voice)
    - The Babysitters (1960) ... Mr. Granite / TV Announcer (voice)

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
    Resistance Driver (voice, uncredited)

    The Dudley Do-Right Show (TV Series)
    Inspector Nathaniel Fenwick / Narrator #1
    - The Disloyal Canadians/Finding Gold/Stokey the Bear (1961) ... Inspector Nathaniel Fenwick / Narrator #1 (voice)

    101 Dalmatians (1961)
    Dirty Dawson (voice, uncredited)

    1959-1961 Rocky and His Friends (TV Series)
    Boris Badenov / Inspector Fenwick / Captain Peachfuzz / ...
    - When Moose Meets Moose, or Two's a Crowd/The Midnight Chew-Chew, or This Gum for Hire (1961) ... Boris Badenov / Captain Peachfuzz / Cloyd / ... (voice)
    - Hop Skip and Junk, or Bullwinkle's Big Tow/Bucks for Boris, or The Green Paper Caper (1961) ... Boris Badenov / Captain Peachfuzz / Cloyd / ... (voice)
    - Many a Thousand Gone, or The Haul of Fame/Down to Earth, or Me and My Shatter (1961) ... Boris Badenov / Captain Peachfuzz / Cloyd / ... (voice)
    - Underwater Eyeball or The Deep Blue See/Underwater Moose or The Aqua-lunk (1961) ... Boris Badenov / Captain Peachfuzz / Cloyd / ... (voice)
    - Boris Makes His Move or The Mice Man Cometh/Big Cheese Boris or I'd Rather Be Rat (1961) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Window Pains or The Moosetrap/Doorway to Danger or Doom in the Room (1961) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Knock on Wood or Bullwinkle Takes the Rap/A Knock for the Rock or The Lamp Is Low (1961) ... Inspector Fenwick (voice)
    - Metal-Eating Mice/Bullwinkle Bites Back! or Nothing But the Tooth (1961) ... Peter Cooper (voice)
    - Battle of the Giants or It Takes Two to Tangle/Bye Bye Boris or Farewell My Ugly (1961) ... Boris Badenov / Captain Peachfuzz / Cloyd / ... (voice)
    - The Squirrel Next Door or High Neighbor/The Spell Binders or Hex Marks the Spot (1961) ... Boris Badenov / Captain Peachfuzz / Cloyd / ... (voice)
    - Verse and Worse or Crime Without Rhyme/Truck Drivers in the Sky or Follow the Fleet (1960) ... Boris Badenov / Captain Peachfuzz / Cloyd / ... (voice)
    - The Big Blast or A Many Splintered Thing/The Steal Hour or A Snitch in Time (1960) ... Boris Badenov / Captain Peachfuzz / Cloyd / ... (voice)
    - The Cliff Hanger or Taken for Granite/Supersonic Boom or The Old Mount's A-Moverin (1960) ... Boris Badenov / Capt. Peachfuzz (voice)
    - Jet Jockey Rocky or The One Point Landing/Plots and Plans or Too Many Crooks (1960) ... Boris Badenov / Capt. Peachfuzz (voice)
    - Bullwinkle's Rise or This Goon for Hire/Boris Bites Back or A Rebel without a Pause (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Rocky and the Rock or Braver and Boulder/Mountain Mover or Boris Sneaks a Peak (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - The Missing Mountain or Peek-A-Boo Peak/Go Down Moses or The Fall Guy (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - The Train on the Plain or The Overland Express/Danger in the Desert or Max Attacks (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Sourdough Squirrel or Hardrock Rocky/A Creep at the Switch or Sudden Pacific (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - You've Got a Secret or Out of Sight - Out of Mine/Boris and the Blade or Sheik, Rattle and Roll (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - The Boy Bounders or Plane Punchy/A Peek at the Peak or Your Climb is My Climb (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Burning Sands or The Big Hot Foot/Death in the Desert or A Place in the Sun (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Crash Drive or Oedipus Wrecks/Fender Benders or The Asphalt Bungle (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - The Road to Ruin or Mine Over Matter/Two Flying Ghosts or High Spirits (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Upsidaisium/Big Bomb at Frostbite Falls or The Exploding Metropolis (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Water on the Brain or the Deep Six and 7/8/Bullwinkle Goes to Press or All the Moose That's Fit to Print (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - The Ground Floor or That's Me All Over!/Fools Afloat or All the Drips at Sea (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Down to Earth or the Bullwinkle Bounce/Fall Story or Adrift in the Lift (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Give 'Em the Works or Rocky Around the Clock/Crime on My Hands or Hickory Dickory Drop (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Calaboose Moose or The Crime of Your Life/When a Felon Needs a Friend or Pantomime Quisling (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Box Top Robbery/A Fault in the Vault or Banks a Million (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Bullwinkle Makes a Hit or I Get a Bang Out of You/Three on an Island or Tell It to the Maroons (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - The Inspector-Detector or A Kick in the Plants/Canoes Who? or Look Before You Leak (1960) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - The Bars and Stripes Forever/Hello Out There! or There's No Place Like Space (1959) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Rocky's Dilemma or A Squirrel in a Stew/The Submarine Squirrel or 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea (1959) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - The Scrooched Moose/Monitored Moose or The Carbon Copy-Cats (1959) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Bullseye Bullwinkle or Destination Moose/Squeeze Play or Invitation to the Trance (1959) ... Boris Badenov (voice)
    - Jet Fuel Formula/Bullwinkle's Ride or Goodbye, Dollink (1959) ... Boris Badenov (voice)


    The Dick Tracy Show (TV Series)
    Go Go Gomez / Heap O'Calorie / B.B. Eyes / ...
    - The Medicine Show Case (1961) ... Go Go Gomez / Flattop / B.B. Eyes (voice, uncredited)
    - The Gold Grabbers (1961) ... Go Go Gomez (voice, uncredited)
    - The Fixed Stare Case (1961) ... Go Go Gomez (voice, uncredited)
    - The Castle Caper (1961) ... Go Go Gomez (voice, uncredited)
    - The Camera Caper (1961) ... Go Go Gomez (voice, uncredited)
    - The Big Punch (1961) ... Go Go Gomez (voice, uncredited)
    - Gang Town (1961) ... Go Go Gomez / B.B. Eyes / Flattop (voice, uncredited)
    - The Elevator Lift (1961) ... Flattop / B.B. Eyes (voice, uncredited)
    - Stamp Scamp (1961) ... B.B. Eyes (voice, uncredited)
    - Lighthouse Creepers (1961) ... Go Go Gomez (voice, uncredited)
    - Horse Race Chase (1961) ... Go Go Gomez (voice, uncredited)
    - Gym Jam (1961) ... Flattop (voice, uncredited)
    - Wheeling and Stealing (1961) ... Heap O'Calorie (voice, uncredited)
    - Tick Tock Shock (1961) ... Heap O'Calorie (voice, uncredited)
    - Penny Ante Caper (1961) ... Heap O'Calorie (voice, uncredited)
    - Tanks a Heap (1961) ... Heap O'Calorie (voice, uncredited)
    - Rogue's Gallery (1961) ... Heap O'Calorie (voice, uncredited)
    - Gruesome Twosome (1961) ... Heap O'Calorie (voice, uncredited)
    - Cheater Gunsmoke (1961) ... Heap O'Calorie (voice, uncredited)
    - Surprised Package (1961) ... Heap O'Calorie / Tony (voice, uncredited)
    - A Case for Alarm (1961) ... Go Go Gomez / Flattop / B.B. Eyes (voice, uncredited)
    - Tacos Tangle (1961) ... Go Go Gomez / B.B. Eyes / Presidente (voice, uncredited)
    - Scrambled Yeggs (1961) ... Heap O'Calorie (voice, uncredited)
    - Hotel Havoc (1961) ... Go Go Gomez (voice, uncredited

    Where the Boys Are (1960)
    Narrator (voice, uncredited)

    My Three Sons (TV Series)
    Announcer
    - Countdown (1960) ... Announcer (voice, uncredited)

    Spartacus (1960)
    Caius (voice, uncredited)

    The Time Machine (1960)
    Talking Rings (voice, uncredited)

    The Untouchables (TV Series)
    Radio Voice / Public Address Voice / Franklin D. Roosevelt
    - The Unhired Assassin: Part 2 (1960) ... Radio Voice / Public Address Voice / Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice, unconfirmed)

    Mister Magoo (TV Series)
    Police Officer / Col. Bottomley / Director / ...
    - Who's Zoo Magoo? (1960) ... Fred the Shoemaker / Butler / Police Officer (voice, uncredited)
    - Skipper Magoo (1960) ... Col. Bottomley (voice, uncredited)
    - Private Eye Magoo (1960) ... Radio Announcer / Masked Bandit / Police Officer (voice, uncredited)
    - Muscles Magoo (1960) ... Marvin Muscles / Carnival Barker (voice, uncredited)
    - Magoo's Western Exposure (1960) ... Blackie Bart / The Masked Hombre / Hotfoot (voice, uncredited)
    - Cyrano Magoo (1960) ... Cyrano de Bergerac (voice, uncredited)
    - Yachtsman Magoo (1960) ... Yachtsman / Captain / Col. Bottomley (voice, uncredited)
    - Magoo and the Medium (1960) ... Assistant / Police Officer (voice, uncredited)
    - The Vacuum Caper (1960) ... Big Jack (voice, uncredited)
    - Double Trouble Double Trouble (1960) ... Director (voice, uncredited)
    - Maestro Magoo (1960) ... Prof. Von Schtooker (voice, uncredited)
    - Tycoonland (1960) ... Director (voice, uncredited)
    - Dangerous Dan Magoo (1960) ... Narrator / Big Ben (voice, uncredited)


    The Best of Mr. Peabody & Sherman (TV Series)
    - Benjamin Franklin/Pancho Villa/Christopher Columbus (1959) ... (voice)


    Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Funeral Director / Speakeasy Waiter (voice, uncredited)


    The Shaggy Dog (1959)
    Narrator / J.W. Galvin, Psychiatrist (uncredited)

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)
    Off-Screen Announcer / Train Station Announcer / Swanson / ...
    - The Crooked Road (1958) ... Off-Screen Announcer (voice, uncredited)
    - The Manacled (1957) ... Train Station Announcer (voice, uncredited)
    - De Mortuis (1956) ... Swanson (voice, uncredited)
    - Fog Closing In (1956) ... Mary's Father (voice, uncredited)
    - Momentum (1956) ... Radio Announcer (uncredited)

    A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
    Several Characters (voice, uncredited)

    The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
    Innkeeper (voice, uncredited) (This was also William Shatner's first film)

    Dragnet (TV Series)
    - The Big Dip (1957)
    - The Big Fall Guy (1956)

    The Woody Woodpecker Show (TV Series)
    Wally Walrus (1953-1961) / Charlie / Doc (voice)

    Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
    Alien (voice, uncredited)

    Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
    Unidentified Character (voice, uncredited)

    Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
    Voice (English version, voice, uncredited)

    The Thing from Another World (1951)
    Dr. Vorhees (uncredited)

    When Worlds Collide (1951)
    Narrator / U.S. President (voice, uncredited)


and:

  • In the early 1970s, he was reportedly making $50,000 a year just for doing the voice work of the Pillsbury Doughboy.

    His early radio career was cut short when he was drafted into World War II. He was at Normandy on D-Day. He was wounded in action and was returned to the United States for a year of recuperation.

    He attended the Chouinard Art Institute under the G.I. Bill. His first wife's failing health forced him to drop out and return to radio work.

    It was common for voice artists to do multiple roles when dubbing foreign-language films into English. There are a number of examples in which he also did multiple roles when replacing the dialogue (looping) in Hollywood films.

    He became so experienced at doing multiple characters on radio shows that in 1948 he was given his own show, "The Player" in which he would do all of the characters.

    Provides multiple voices in Flight from Ashiya (1964), getting into three- and four-way conversations with himself.

    Is heard as at least four different voices in Spartacus (1960), including the guard whom Kirk Douglas hamstrung in the opening sequence.

    He is the Ghost Host or narrator at the Haunted Mansion Attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.


A very familiar voice indeed!