Thurl Ravenscroft
Also Known As: Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft, The Mellomen
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (February 6, 1914 – May 22, 2005) was an American voice actor and bass singer known as the booming voice behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades. He was also the uncredited vocalist for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the classic Christmas television special Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! His voice acting career began in 1940 and lasted until his death in 2005 at age 91.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Norfolk, Nebraska, USA
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Birthday: February 06, 1914
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 22, 2005
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The Aristocats
Overview: When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-24
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The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
Overview: Based on the book by Thomas M. Disch and intended as the third film in the series, this sequel was finished and released prior to 'The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue'. Whilst trying to protect their new "Little Master" the anthropomorphic appliances set off on an epic adventure and make many new friends along the way.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-19
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Lady and the Tramp
Overview: Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady's home make her decide to travel with him for a while.
Genres: Family Animation Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-22
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Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
Overview: Professor Owl gives a lecture on the evolution of Western musical instruments, starting with the advent of rudimentary brass, woodwind, string and percussion instruments by ancient cave dwellers at the dawn of history.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-25
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Sioux Me
Overview: When there is a drought on an Indian reservation, everyone is in desperate need of water so that they can quench their thirst, their crops can grow, the animals will provide them food, etc. But rather than having to wait for the rain to come the old-fashioned way, a weather pill pertaining to that is used to bring instant showers.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-08
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Jingle Belles
Overview: Gloria Jean sings two songs in the Universal musical short, which also features The Sportsman Quartette, the Milt Herth Trio, the singing trio of Lee, Lyn and Lou, and the Schuplatter Dancers
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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Paul Bunyan
Overview: A retelling of the classic Canadian / American tall tale of the enormous lumberjack and his loyal companion, an equally huge blue ox.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Snoopy, Come Home
Overview: When Snoopy receives a letter from his original owner Lila, he goes to visit her in the hospital while Charlie Brown and the gang are on the lookout for him. Suddenly, Snoopy feels that he must go live with Lila, but must say goodbye to all his friends. In his adventure to the hospital, he encounters numerous "No Dogs Allowed" signs, an annoying little girl who desires to keep him, and more!
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-09
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The Lorax
Overview: The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax about the environmental destruction caused by his greed.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-14
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Trick or Treat
Overview: When the nephews come to Donald's house in their Halloween costumes he dumps water on them and laughs at his trick. A witch sees this and decides to help the kids. By magic she gives Donald a bad time and the kids finally get their treats.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Overview: Whether we’re young or forever young at heart, the Hundred Acre Wood calls to that place in each of us that still believes in magic. Join pals Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger and Christopher Robin as they enjoy their days together and sing their way through adventures.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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Donald and the Wheel
Overview: A father tells his son the invention of the wheel was most important; to prove it, the two hipsters visit the inventor caveman Donald Duck. There follows a survey of the progress of transportation, a digression into the basics of gear ratios, a series of live-action dancers to various styles of music inside a giant jukebox, an illustration of the use of wheels in power generation and space satellites, etc. Ultimately, Donald decides he doesn't want the responsibility, but certainly someone else would take on the task.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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Pigs Is Pigs
Overview: Flannery, a railway agent does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer, McMorehouse, who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs which he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them pigs (freight 48 cents), a decision he begins to regret when the animals begin to reproduce.
Genres: Animation Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-21
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Noah's Ark
Overview: The Biblical story of Noah's ark full of animals gets the Disney treatment in this animated short.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-10
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The Story of Anyburg U.S.A.
Overview: The city of Anyburg decides its traffic situation has gotten out of hand, so it puts the automobile on trial. The trial (conducted in rhyme) starts with a car that was in a hit-and-run accident, followed by a sports car whose sins are peeling rubber and general hot-rodding, followed by a heap, on trial for lack of safety. Next, a number of safety equipment designers testify that, despite their best efforts, the accident rate keeps rising. Through all this, the defense lawyer declines to ask questions. A highway designer bemoans the problems on his beautiful roads. At last, defense. He shows a number of scenarios, pointing out that the real problem isn't the car but the driver. Everyone left the courtroom, declaring the car not guilty, and drove politely again, for a little while.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-19
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Babes in Toyland
Overview: All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses! The "March Of The Wooden Soldiers" helps put Barnaby in his place, and ensures a "happily ever after" for Tom and Mary!
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-14
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Rooty Toot Toot
Overview: Frankie walks into a bar, where she catches her boyfriend Johnny with the sensuous Nellie Bly and kills him in a fit of jealousy.
Genres: Animation Music Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Superior Duck
Overview: Daffy is supposedly a super hero and tries to show off his "super powers."
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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EPCOT Center: A Souvenir Program
Overview: Welcome to this very special place, EPCOT Center, Walt Disney’s dream is now a reality. Epcot Center has two major themed areas, Future World, A showplace for new ideas, and new technologies. World Showcase presents a colorful array of architectural styles and landmarks, a true community of nations. In this Souvenir VHS Cassette, we get a look at EPCOT Center as it appeared in 1983.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-02
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We'll Slap the Japs (Right into the Laps of the Nazis)
Overview: A Soundie with The Four Sportsmen.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-05
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition
Overview: Phil Hartman hosts this retrospective look back at the legacy and making of the classic 1966 holiday special 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-19
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The Hobbit
Overview: 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...
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-27
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Overview: A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-16
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Jack Benny Christmas Show
Overview: It's the week before Christmas and Jack drops by Edgar Bergen's house to go over the upcoming show's script with his guest star. When Edgar is detained rehearsing his radio show, his wife Frances entertains Jack. Jack is amazed when Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd walk into the room and are introduced. Jack always assumed they were merely ventriloquist's dummies. Edgar finally returns and is ready to present his ideas for a sketch to Jack, but insists on Jack sitting on his knee to hear them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-18
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Prehistoric Porky
Overview: Caveman Porky awakens and plays with his pet Rover, a massive dinosaur. After Rover's playfulness causes a disruption to the prehistoric peace and quiet, Porky's copy of "Expire" magazine arrives in the mail, filled with ads for fashionable new bearskins. Porky decides to go out and get himself a new suit, and sets off with his trusty club.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-12
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Pilgrim Porky
Overview: The Pilgrims, led by captain Porky Pig, set sail from Plymouth for America. We get a series of ocean sailing blackout gags, including a running bit between our narrator and the cook, looking for a fish suitable for dinner, a singing trio interrupted by seasickness, flying fish (in airplanes). Then, The Rains Came. A collision with an iceberg is narrowly averted. Land is sighted. The pilgrims are welcomed by Chief Sitting Bull.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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The Cat in the Hat
Overview: In a marvelously animated version of one of the most beloved of all Dr. Seuss tales, two youngsters find themselves at home with nothing to do on a rainy afternoon. But when the magical, mischievous Cat in the Hat arrives on the scene, they're all cat-apulted into a day of rousing, romping, outlandish antics they - and you - will never forget!
Genres: TV Movie Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-04
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Rose Marie
Overview: Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The feeling is mutual. But, when she leaves to learn proper etiquette, Rose Marie meets a trapper named James Duval, who also falls for her. Further complications arise when Native American Chief Black Eagle -- a rival of Duval's -- is murdered.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-03
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Design for Dreaming
Overview: Over-the-top 1950s “Populuxe” advertisement for General Motors. A woman falls asleep and dreams of a glorious future of perfect products, including a variety of shiny futuristic dream cars and Frigidaire’s fully automated “Kitchen of the Future.” The film debuted at the 1956 General Motors "Motorama" event in New York City.
Genres: Music Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-31
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The Brave Little Toaster
Overview: A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-09
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Springtime for Pluto
Overview: Seduced by a satyr, Pluto celebrates spring. He goes around enjoying the scents, then imitating various animals. But when he imitates the butterfly (that transformed from a caterpillar before our eyes), he gets in trouble. The butterfly had done a little dance with a water droplet; Pluto picks a beehive as his "ball". The bees, of course, attack, and Pluto escapes by diving into some bushes of poison ivy. Then the "gentle" rains of spring come, along with the hail ("hail, hail the rains"), making a mess of Pluto's house. When the rains end and the satyr returns, Pluto gives him the greeting he deserves.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-23
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It's Always Fair Weather
Overview: Three World War II buddies promise to meet at a specified place and time 10 years after the war. They keep their word only to discover how far apart they've grown. But the reunion sparks memories of youthful dreams that haven't been fulfilled -- and slowly, the three men reevaluate their lives and try to find a way to renew their friendship.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-30
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Pacifically Peeking
Overview: Moby Duck leads a study of life on several South Pacific islands, including Pitcairn, Fiji, and Hawaii.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-06
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Isle Of Destiny
Overview: A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Edgar Bergen with Charlie McCarthy
Overview: In his first appearance on network television, Edgar Bergen hosts a Thanksgiving Day special featuring three of his partners in ventriloquism - Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and the lesser known Podine Puffington (a life-size doll that Bergen would use as a comedy dancing partner). Orchestra leader Ray Noble becomes upset when Charlie tells him that Edgar has hired someone else as a pianist (who turns out to be the beautiful Diana Lynn) to perform a solo. In the last scene, Edgar and Charlie are the put on trial for witchcraft in Colonial Salem, Massachusetts and sentenced to be burned at the stake before escaping with the help of a fetching Indian maid.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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Extinct Attractions Club Presents: The Haunted Mansion Story
Overview: Through painstaking research, the torrid saga of the dearly beloved attraction is now revealed. Witness rare unearthed footage, superlative imagery and vicious interrogation of the guilty parties.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Little Blabbermouse
Overview: A mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads a nighttime tour of a closed drugstore for other mice, that include a very inquisitive little boy.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-06
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Lost Canyon
Overview: Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
Overview: When Toaster and the gang spark friendships with the playful animals at the veterinary hospital, they soon discover their new pals are about to be sent to a testing laboratory.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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Horton Hears a Who!
Overview: In this story, Horton discovers there is a microscopic community of intelligent beings called the Who's living on a plant that only he can hear. Recognising the dangers they face, he resolves to keep them safe. However, the other animals around him think Horton has gone crazy thinking that there are such beings.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-18
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The Sword in the Stone
Overview: Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give him an education, believing that once one has an education, one can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
Overview: Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Elmer Fudd have all been captured, and badly animated pod-people versions have taken their places. Is Bugs next?
Genres: Animation Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-27
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Cinderella
Overview: Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!
Genres: Family Fantasy Animation Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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Pinocchio
Overview: A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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The Glenn Miller Story
Overview: A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-04
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The Night Before Christmas
Overview: Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's music and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir.
Genres: Animation Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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Alice in Wonderland
Overview: On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-28
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It Happened at the World's Fair
Overview: Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-03
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Overview: Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-18
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Gay Purr-ee
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Music Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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